I’ve always taken off the price sticker on bottles purchased that had them, before putting in the cellar. More prevalent back in the day, and I didn’t want them on the bottles. Now looking back, I think it would be cool to have some of those older bottles with the original price tag paid? If I purchase older wines at auction or retail that have original stickers, I leave them on. Might start doing that with new purchases too?
What do you do if you receive bottles with price tags on them? On or Off?
I prefer to take them off. I can always check the purchased price in CT or receipts/email. I dont want to be reminded of how much cheaper the wines were.
I leave (left? - don’t see them much anymore) mine on going into the cellar. I will take them off before serving now and again depending on this or that. Just opened one on Thursday night that still had the price on it from 1999 or 2000 when I bought it.
I purchase very few bottles that have price stickers. I leave on when I do. Recently attended a wine dinner and a sticker revealed that the 1978 Heitz Martha’s (delicious and my WOTY) was purchased at Surdyk’s for…$29.97.
Most of my cellar-worthy wine is purchased online (retail or mailing list) or allocated from wine stores (I.e. never on the shelf), so there are no price stickers. If there were stickers, I’d leave them and probably only remove them if I planned to serve them young to company.
When I buy wine at auction, I enjoy seeing what the original retail price was in the rare occasions they still have price stickers on them.
It’s very rare there’s one on the bottle, as the places I buy from locally generally don’t put stickers on. For those bought remotely, I presume most come from the stockroom rather than the shop shelves, or if the latter, they also don’t use stickers (or remove them at the till).
On the rare occasion there is one on the bottle, invariably I can’t be bothered to remove it, be it a price sticker or an auction lot sticker.
Precisely for tasting occasions such as this, I wash I had more bottles with price tags…the Jaboulet Clos de Vougeot simply reared up on this Tuesday and blew everything else away.
I save my email receipts for every list and online retailer I’ve purchased from and store them in email folders named of the winery. It’s also a good way to get a general reminder of what time of the year they do their releases, price increases, etc.
I used to take them off as well but now leave em on. I feel like it will be fun to see those prices down the road and i can reminisce about ‘the good old days’
I bought a pricing gun, so now when serving an older bottle to my wino friends, I just make up a price and impress them with my shopping acumen. That bottle of 1990 Rayas? $49.99 on release. 1961 La Chapelle? $6.99
