Scarecrow 2006 Offering....

WINE TALK
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No specific date for release:

Dear Friends,

We continue to be grateful for and delighted by your strong support of Scarecrow. Once again, written invitations to purchase our 2006 vintage will be mailed in phases based on list seniority. The invitation includes your user ID and password. If you do not receive an offer to purchase Scarecrow this year, rest assured your position on our waiting list remains secure.

We respectfully remind you that declining a written offer shifts you to the end of our waiting list, allowing others the opportunity to purchase.

We thank you and send our warmest regards.

Yours sincerely,

I only have gotten the 2005. Not sure if I will be offered any 06 or not.

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Just received. No amount or allocations just the usual warning about falling to the back of the list if you pass. [foilhat.gif]

Dear Friends,

We continue to be grateful for and delighted by your strong support of Scarecrow. Once again, written invitations to purchase our 2006 vintage will be mailed in phases based on list seniority. The invitation includes your user ID and password. If you do not receive an offer to purchase Scarecrow this year, rest assured your position on our waiting list remains secure.

We respectfully remind you that declining a written offer shifts you to the end of our waiting list, allowing others the opportunity to purchase.

We thank you and send our warmest regards.

Yours sincerely,

MIMI DEBLASIO and BRET LOPEZ

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I got the no soup for you email.

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I’m been waitlisted that last two vintages. No reason to believe this vintage will be anything different.

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Bill, did your email look different than that one above?

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Same with me. I somehow doubt that this will be like other wineries, with people falling off the mailing list left and right. I still think people will buy this.

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I thought it was kind of weird that they offered wine to new people for the 2005 when production was high. There had to be a chance some of those folks would get dropped if production fell. I think it would feel worse to get the wine and then be dropped than to be on the waitlist the entire time.

If I were in their shoes and faced with a year where production was unusually high, I would have offered more to old customers. Of course (I’m arguing with myself here), the flippers on the list would cut against that instinct.

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Yoni you are correct. I am now down to Scarecrow, Maybach, Lewelling and Schrader. The other twenty and I are no longer an item. [beatoff.gif] [beatoff.gif] [beatoff.gif] [stop.gif]

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Well maybe someone will be willing to sell their allocation at cost to someone who will NOT be attempting to flip it. [beg.gif]

10

I accidentally logged into Jeb’s account and posted this. If anyone sees this, please direct all inquiries towards me. Thank you.

Maybe one of the moderators can change that post to have my name on it and Jeb can get whatever’s left over… [dance.gif] [dance2.gif]

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I received the email above and translated it to mean…no wine for me.

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man, I’m going to have to change my password instead of leaving it as Yoni’s wife’s name. It’s too easy for him to hack in and see what trouble I’m up to.

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We > respectfully > remind you that > declining > a written offer shifts you to the > end > of our waiting list, allowing others the opportunity to purchase.

We thank you and send our > warmest regards> .

Yours > sincerely> ,

Man, IMHO…as great as this wine might be, and as nice as the people might be, I think that they should have thought this e-mail out just a little bit more before sending as is. [shrug.gif]

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Really? My wife’s name? When did she change her name to ‘Jeb Loves Lance Bass?’ That’s the password I used… [berserker.gif]

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And here I though it would either be Ovid, Seven Stones or Jeb signs up for every mailing list in America.

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All VERY VERY good guesses, but they are all incorrect.

Yoni, I have a great zinger for your comment, but it crosses the line, so I can’t do it… even to you. [dash1.gif]

Bill, you might be right… I think I have signed up for every mailer. In the actual mailbox yesterday was Sojourn, Flowers, Bond, and a Merus correction mailer. Emails today from… Scarecrow, Auteur, Vineyard 29, Loring, and Copain.

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I got the Merus correction letter as well…need to invest in that email list someday to save dollars.

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At least they tell you what’s what. Sometimes you don’t know the consequences ahead of time.

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I like how they worded it by saying “can you go ahead and fax your order again, but to this number?” I’m just sitting there thinking that for $405, my “order” never came close to seeing a fax machine, mailbox, or anything that resembles a delivery device.

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What’s the release price on Scarecrow these days?