Pound Ridge Wines & Spirits now up and running in the same location, not the store Max put together, which I miss, as I do Max.
NB they have no idea what happened to the wines in storage which is a shame, I assume no one can re-sell a technically already sold bottle?
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Sorry just wanted to correct my earlier post the new store in pound ridge is not in the same location. Maxâs store is still sadly empty.
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I just drank a couple of bottles I bought from Max back in 2018 and it made me reminisce a bit. He could be difficult at times, but he really loved wine and cared deeply about it. RIP.
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Store is still emptyâŚ
Did you every hear anything on your 18K or just wrote it off?
Hi,
No, never got a phone call or reply from the family. Just a shame!
I am a very big collector of wines all over the world, and buy an enormous amount every year from hundreds of retails/distributors/Chateauâs and have never had this happen to me. There was a ponzi retailer in SF (Premier Cru)that I was lucky to pulled out before it all went down many years ago.
My wine storage facility in NY would tell me a year before he passed , that customers were angry because he would not deliver on paid wines. I believe Max knew what he was doing, because for over a year I tried to get my wines from him.
Did you also lose money?
I knew Max, and he was actually a super super nice guy, I hate asking about wine when he lost his life at such an early age, in my mind I firmly believe he was always going to honor the deliveries (something he wasnât the best at organizing during the best of times), but it just wasnât a priority given what he was going through and how he wanted to spend his last days. I just wanted to understand what happened to the wine, it was in his basement, and the store sold but remains empty⌠(pretty sure we wont see it, and given what happened thatâs something in the grand scheme of things that I am OK with, still wouldnât mind finding out what happened though, I am hoping it was sold to help his family).