Wine bounty helps with tracking offers, and provides quick links to the relevant sites.
Just tap on the current offer to get to the collated page for the wine.
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Does it auto refresh? Ive use in past to look up offers ive missed (to email and ask if they have any left of ones i would be interested in), but never tried to watch live
The challenge is by the time you look something up and determine that itās a real deal, thereās a good chance itāll be gone. Hence, it pays to try to be prepared. It does help to know regions if at all possible just to have a sense of what might be a deal or not (i.e. a random Chablis at $35 is probably not the best deal, but a Sauternes at $14 might be).
A lot of times the same wines/producers come up over and over, plus thereās often stuff that was similar to things available at FirstBottle. The Wine Bounty suggestion is a very good one too just to get a sense of what might show up.
thereās a plugin you can add to your browser that you can set the refresh rate
For the most part, itāll keep up. Thereās a lag when things get hot and heavy. Deals come back around so itās helpful to have the research.
Youāll want to be logged in on the site to purchase anyway. Itās easy to miss fast moving deals with the extra step through checkout.
I havenāt used the auto-refesh tool mentioned above but can see the value of you have the means.
Itās your call, but Iāve gotten some good stuff by taking a chance on stuff I knew nothing about. Some clunkers too. If the price is low enough that youāre ok giving it a shot, maybe go for it.
The āreputable brandsā are where I am actually more reticent to buy. Why are reputable labels selling for a discount? Bad vintage? Underwhelming wine from a generally good producer? You wonāt necessarily know.
I would say for this year its more of a market issue with wine slowing down and producers sitting on inventory that they need to move at a discount, certain products will only have diminishing marginal returns while holding. The top producers can sit on inventory to hold as library releases at a premium when things rebound, but that is the exception to the rule Iād guess.
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My experience has been similar. Iāve bought marathon wine I thought was a good deal and find out that it was the same price elsewhere. I also wonder about $120 wines with 91 or 92 scores from the wine mags going for $35. To me those scores are good, but not for a $120 wine, so the price must come down to its real QPR. My strategy is to just have fun and not go overboard like I did before, once buying 6 - 8 bottles a day. I did take advantage of the Petroni and Conn Creek business failures/ sales though and am pleased with what I got.
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Here in Santa Rosa, CA, the local news is running reports on the bidding for wineries and assets of bankrupt Vintage Wine Estates which is located here. They own a lot of top names. Once the new owners take over, Iām hoping a surge of wine inventory being liquidated will hit the market at 70%+ off.
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My word of advice: donāt buy a 6L Imperial.
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And weāre off! Good luck everyone! 
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They ARE going to kill the marathon announcement pop up from blocking screen every time we refresh, arenāt they? Grrrr.
Edit: and they did!
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Has it been this same Pinot for the last 10 minutes for everyone else?
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yes
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First time Iāve ever seen a āsalted bar peanutsā descriptor!
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Boring!!!
I 2nd that. When we have a party, even a magnum doesnāt empty. Iād have to host a Charlie Sheen type of party to use up a 6L.
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Reynvaanā¦ā¦not boring!!!
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Worth giving it a try?
I have somehow accumulated 8 bottles the last 30 days because of huge price slashes on these, worth a gamble if you know you the style is in your wheelhouse.
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