If you can’t summer hold with Vivino, do they just make money cooking a bunch of wine in the summer? Make it make sense.
It doesn’t seem to make a tremendous amount of sense. Occasionally, they will offer a promotion of a one or two dollar ice pack over the summer months, but even then it is shipping at your own peril.
I will likely drop my premium membership until October
If anyone wants a free month of Vivino Premium, DM me and I’ll send you the link. They gave it to me for a cancelled order and I won’t use it. This is not a referral offer or anything like that.
For anyone that uses Vivino often, can you confirm that all the real deals seem to come from one merchant?
What I’ve seen so far is some deals aren’t real and again today I received an email offer for Melka that when you click the link doesn’t work (I tried within 7 minutes of the email). They don’t seem to be a serious retailer. Deals can definitely be had but it requires WAY too much work. They are convenient if you are a lazy shopper but I wouldn’t recommend them to someone who really collects and cellars wine.
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World of wine is the main source for deals.
Yianniswinery occasionally has deals, but never purchased from them.
Schneider of capital hill and capital fine wine occasionally have deals.
If you use the “offers” filter you can also filter by merchant, although its easier in the app compared to the website.
Generally “only show offers” is the deal filter and almost all will be WOW
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Yeah i couldnt get that work either, i think the vendor has to submit a change to the vivino platform and the platform can be slow to update. Usually it takes like 4hrs, hut not sure whats going on today.
That Melka wine has been on sale for a few weeks. There is a chance that it sold out before the email hit, but you think they would check to see how much is left before sending an email.
I think it has been at 89 since the mystery offer of 59. The other le chatelet majestique sold out i think was also at 89 after initial mystery offer.
The Schweiger deal from WoW was killer, I guess Ill keep an eye on this thread for more deals
I paid $65 per bottle on April 30, no mystery. Same “Melka” coupon code. A few days later, they had the Padrewaki Syrah for $40 that I snatched up as well.
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I think the interesting thing about world of wine is they are supposedly the marketing middle man. I dont think they hold inventory on their books. So they help wineries liquidate their inventory at a given price, take their cut, plus vivino takes their platform fee. They arent the middle man inventory wise, but they get their middleman cut without the inventory risk. So i’m not sure where wow sets the price or the winery sets the price. Could also be distributor liquidation to WoW instead if winery direct and wow sets the price on behalf of a distributor.
Yeah i remember that now they came off mystery very quickly and sat at the same price for a bit, then jumped back up.
Have you had any of them yet?
Weirdly still isn’t working in my app. I’m kind of over it though. Ha. Been really enjoying these archival wines at like half the price.
Seems like an issue with the app - I couldn’t get it working on the app as well
When I use my desktop, it works fine though. Go figure.
Nope, it didn’t work for me in the app or on my desktop. And now this darn Black Cat offer is not working either…frustrating.
FYI, I just chatted with a human via the chat feature on the app. He was absolutely no help.
Thoughts on the 2012 Howell Mountain ‘mystery’ (2012 Fleury BDX)? Can anyone vouch for this wine? Appears they previously offered the 2014…did anyone pull the trigger on that one and want to offer commentary? Curious minds (mine) want to know…
Damn it, where are you seeing that wine?
I bought the 2014 BDX when it was on sale a while back, but have not tried it. I’ve also collected a bunch of Fleury from WTSO as they have sold a bunch over the past year. Have not tired a lot of it, but I remember a 2012 Rutherford Cab being past its prime.
It’s in the reds on offer filter as a mystery item. Probably will be advertised tomorrow.