Poll: What % of wine purchases are winery direct?

WINE TALK
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What % of your wine purchases are winery-direct (including either lists or wine clubs)?

  • 90%-100%
  • 70%-89%
  • 50%-69%
  • 35%-49%
  • Under 35%
  • All of my wine is from Wine Stores
  • Brett Favre

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The Total Wine post lead me to thinking that the majority of my wine purchases are winery direct, either through lists or a couple of clubs. According to CT, in 2011, winery-direct was at 90%, up from about 75% in 2009.

Curious if that is universal around here? Wine stores, to me, are for fill-ins, Bourbon or other spirits, and QPR wines. How about you?

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On the shores of Lake Wobegone all the children may be above average but the variety of wines offered by the local distribution system is most clearly not. Very, very little of wine off the beaten track arrives in our stores so you have to go get it yourself.

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I’d imagine there would be a big difference here between the people who buy mainly domestic and people who buy mainly imported. If 90% of your purchases are European wine, and you’re not going traveling to Europe regularly … hardly any of your purchases are going to be winery direct. Miason Ilan might be the one exception.

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Anybody know how to summarize by “Store” in Cellar Tracker?

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Almost entirely from retailers because I mostly buy European wines. The only producer that I see myself buying regularly from direct is Clos Saron.

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You will probably need a much more precise breakdown on the lower end for this to be meaningful.

While once I lived in the bay area and bought mainly CA wines, my 2011 number is about 12% and I expect that to probably go below 5% in 2012. These days I buy European and Oregon wines and they are pretty much all through resellers.

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I would agree on how I use wine stores, and my instinct told me my number would be just like yours (90%) but to my surprise I’m 64% winery direct all-time and 70% for 2011. It’s actually slightly lower since most QPR daily drinkers from retail never get logged.

Looks like I’m more hooked on the PCP from JJB than I realized.

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When we lived in SoCal, I purchased most of my wines from the wineries. Now that we live in Santa Fe, most of my wines come from Casa del Vino. I had to stop most direct winery shipments since they didn’t pay attention to temperatures before shipping.

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Oops! I answered for wine club / allocation list wines. (that’s roughly 1/4) But, if I add in wine purchased at tasting rooms, it would be more like 60% or a bit higher. [oops.gif]

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Thanks for the link!

Winery/Clubs - 1126

Retail Stores - 211

Wow, pretty one sided! There are probably a few more that came from stores that never got entered in CT but overall I prefer the provenance of buying direct. Also, living in CA makes it a lot easier.

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4% winery direct for me.

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Pretty much 100%. Unless I do something foolish and buy some over-hyped, over-priced French wine.

Like I did today. blush

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Deserves its own thread [stirthepothal.gif]

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Larry, I bought a wine I used to like a lot. An old vine, 100% Grenache (60-80 year old vines).

Janasse Chaupin.

After drinking old vine California wine extensively this year (at about 1/4 to 1/2 the price of the Janasse) … this wine had better rock! [wink.gif]

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Over time, my direct from winery purchases have grown each subsequent year. Now they account for almost 60%.

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I voted Brett Favre because I seriously have no idea what that is supposed to mean. newhere

Here is my real answer: since all I buy is European, it is all wine store/wine website. (Sorry, Left Coast, you just don’t do it for me.)

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Hate to be the one to break it to you Mike … you don’t do it for us either! [wink.gif]

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Don’t bring me into it. I don’t make wine, I just drink it. neener