This came in today and popped one about an hour ago and poured into a decanter.
Sipping now and wow what a nice wine! Surprised nobody is talking about it.
Trying to explore Super Tuscans a bit more and this La Massa Giorgio Primo Toscana 2021 is spectacular. A couple 97 and 96 point scores and I would lean more to 95+.
60% cab, 35% merlot, and 5% petit verdot. Beautiful and robust nose of plum and boysenberry. Strong dark fruit up front with some cherries and reds mixed in. The finish is complex enough to keep things interesting throughout with a bit of tartness but it is the mid-palate transition that really catches your attention as the wine seems to just spring forward.
Anyone else on the east coast receive tracking notices for shipments in the last day or two? I received notice last night for two shipments, one arriving Wednesday and the other on Thursday. It is not supposed to be above freezing the entire week in the mid -Atlantic, let alone the pending ice/snow storm. Do they not pay attention to the weather at all?
Yup, just got the emails this morning about shipment. Temps are going to be in the single digits (Fahrenheit) here in the east coast next week and below freezing throughout the mid-Atlantic. The ETA is Thursday and it seems FEDEX is already in possession. Really disappointed that they sent these out now and hoping for the best. I really hope they donât ship anymore of my other orders any time soon.
Iâve logged 271 bottles over 88 purchases from Last Bottle, and not once have I had an issue relating to shipping. My SOP is to add âhold pending weatherâ in the shipping notes box, and then I reach out to schedule shipping at a later date. Not once has this failed me- theyâve never shipped without my request- and I have placed orders at all times throughout the year. Iâve got one order from November, and another from the marathon, still sitting there, and theyâll sit all winter long until I reach out to authorize shipping this spring. It takes less than five seconds to add the note.
Would it be nice if you could always rely on someone else to check the weather? Sure, but Iâll take responsibility too, and five secondsâ worth of my time, to know that I wonât have to worry about it.
The only- and I mean only- issue I have had with Last Bottle was something they couldnât even control. It was a corked bottle which I opened about 14 months after the order. They gave me a credit for the bottle. Theyâre top notch in my experience.
I donât disagree with you Chris, Iâve had multiple shipments held over the summer in the past. I guess the old adage is true, âIf you want something done right just do it yourselfâ. While they did say their shipping has massively improved, I think I kind of got passively trained to wait multiple months on these marathon shipments. Iâll wish for the best and hope the insurance they charge will cover any slushy bottles of Elivette if that happens.
You have more experience than me, and your advice is sound. That said, I requested shipping, at which they created a label. It took another month to ship, after the label was created. The weather, over the span of a month, can be highly variable.
Iâll continue to buy daily deals but am all but done with their âmarathonââŚabsent an Elivette type opportunity.
My orders are from the recent Marathon where in some cases you have seconds to place the order before it sells out. I donât think itâs too much too ask for a little COMMON sense from them to not have wines shipped when there is a prolonged deep freeze in the Northeast.
Câmon. The only stuff that regularly moves that quickly is the power hour stuff, and if those are the wines youâre buying (a) I hope youâre also adding the 1% insurance, and (b) for those types of bottles I am making damn sure I add the note to protect myself and my purchase. Itâs literally five secondsâŚ.and Iâm a relatively old fart who canât type that fast.
I bought various Rose & Arrow pinots which were gone pretty fast. I do have the insurance which for the marathon I believe was the default setting unless you unchecked the box. I also am an old fart/curmudgeon who canât type fast either LOL- but I do expect common sense from LB who sells lots of wine.
So I ordered 6-bottles of Gary Farrell Chard from LB back in mid-December, totally forgot about it until just now, as this morning I get an email from LB that my wine has shipped and is on the way here to me in NJ, during the coldest stretch of weather the country has seen in years. The entire route between CA and NJ will basically be below 10â, and in many places below zero. I have been impressed with LB customer service in the past, and have ordered from them dozens of times, but this is ridiculous. Even if I didnât ask for a âweather holdâ (which I may have just missed when I placed the order), I would have thought that someone at LB would be paying enough attention not to ship wine during this weather event. Well, in any event, Iâm glad I used my Amex for the charge, because if the wine is damaged I can always just challenge the paymentâŚâŚ.
Yea, that is the case sometimes, but this shipment is currently in CA, and when I called FedEx to ask them to hold it there, they told me that only the original shipper could make that requestâŚ..
It was the same for a lot of us during the pre-holiday polar vortex. Summer hold went out during deep freeze. I had a few bottles where the cork was slightly raised. Customer service didnât care because they werenât pushed out too far. Didnât order at the last marathon. Wonât order until those stories stop. Or might never order again. Pissed enough and offers have not been great anyway outside Elivette.
Very interesting. I had this wine today at a tasting at the Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens in Coral Gables FL. It was introduced as Fourth Act and even though I took a picture, I did not notice the Label error. I was wondering why it was under $30. I enjoyed it!
