Order in - excited to try these Sparklers from Westborn Wines.
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Release is live. Love the amount of time it has been post disgorgement.
Holy cheap shipping! Excited to try a 3 pack.
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Iām in for a sampler pack (thanks to whomever suggested that above 
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@Jidhin_R brought one of these to dinner the other night. A touch leesy and nutty on the nose. Good creamy texture, stone fruit and citrus. Round mouthfeel, decent acidity, solid domestic sparkler.
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Have really enjoyed these and impressed with the final blends. The Rose is my favorite; itās approachable now but Iām also interested to see how it develops. Itās been a minute since I had the Brut so looking forward to grabbing some!
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fast shipping, just delivered!
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Even better, $68/btl with free shipping and no sales tax: https://www.saratogawine.com/product/westborn-sparkling-wine-perpetual-reserve-nv-750ml/
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I live in CA, everything is taxed here.
I live in CA too
Good to know Saratoga is tax inclusive. At $69 the QPR is decent.
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Cellar dāOr in NY also has it for $68.
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Oof. Another sign of how tough the market is.
And how aggressively new high end wine projects come out of the gate with their pricing in recent years.
Itās easy for me to say as someone on the consumer side, and I know how much costs have gone up this decade. But I still think if a new project has the financial means to overdeliver for its price the first couple years and slowly ramp up, they would end up with more buzz, customer loyalty and enduring success, rather than trying to hit the highest price point they can in year one.
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I wish they had the roseā¦
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I think itās harder for sparkling producers to resist aggressive pricing in this economy since they have to recoup the cost and the extra en tirage time already stretches their budget thin. Loans and interest rates really kill the wineries. I try to support small sparkling projects over champagne but sometimes the pricing is just too much for the quality they deliver. For the same price I can get Vilmart Emotion over Westborn RosĆ©.
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On the plus side, I may consider buying at few at the retail pricing; where I was not going to at the direct price.
(Not as some matter of principle; just in terms of what price is low enough to make me want to make a purchase)
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Personally I think itās bad to have retail sells your wine at, idk, 25-30% off the price you charge your mailing list. Why would I buy from the list when I can just camp for a year or two and buy at a better price. If I found my allocated bottle discounted at a brick n mortar Iām dropping off that list.
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Just speaking for myself, in the context of a longer happy relationship buying direct from a winery, if one or two times I saw their wine on clearance somewhere, I wouldnāt be put off by it at all.
Like say K&L were clearing out a couple bottlings of Kutch for cheap next month, it wouldnāt upset me at all.
But if itās often available for less at retail, I would drop off. And actually, many big wineries sell direct to their mailing list and out of their tasting rooms for above retail. Often quite a bit above retail, and even after supposed discounts offered to their mailing list.
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