Wineries PLEASE!!!

WINE TALK
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Can you all not release your wine in January?

I might be tempted to buy more domestic wine and actually be on more mailing list but I just had the 1000th winery email saying release is by the end of the month. I certainly won’t have any money for berserker day and at this rate will probably only be buying off of 1 list, Dirty and Rowdy. Isn’t Sandlands coming as well…

I would love to try Halcon wines but here is what I have been alerted to:
Kutch
Dirty and Rowdy
Horse power
no girls
Rhys
Halcon

And this is off the top of my head.

I know this has been covered in various other threads, just needed to vent…

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I’m 100 points on this.

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They need money so they can buy on Berserkerday.

4

Myriad and Quivet syrah this month too. I will order some Myriad but will limit it to save money for Beserker Day (mainly OR pinot and EMH) and Sandlands.

5

Quilceda (passed) was earlier this week…but Turley is later this month and I believe Saxum as well.

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Turley too.

My monthly budget, no matter what i do, will be busted. Plus i still wont buy all the wine i want to. Is anybody selling wine in february? Anybody?

Buehler?

7

How about Schrader on 1/20?

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I believe Bressler, Outpost, Sojourn, and Rivers-Marie (the pinots) are all still to come this month, as well.

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By the way, Joe, Drinkward Peschon should be sometime in February.

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Just the opposite. I wish they all sent their mailers on the exact same day. That way I get everything in front of me at once, and I can easily make my choices for the season. By spreading it out, I’m finding I buy more wine than I really need or should.

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It’s easy to solve the timing problem. Figure out your desired annual budget, set up an account or put money in a cookie jar and spend whenever the mailers arrive. But, I think the real problem is that the mailer system encourages us to buy too much wine. There will always be good wines to buy and you can’t buy them all.

-Al

12

And Seaver 2012 on January 20th, too.

13

add: Ceritas and Anthill early Feb

14

Carlisle & Saxum soon too.

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It’s not us - it’s Mother Nature. In order to get wine to places like FL, TX, AZ, etc we need to get orders in and shipped before it starts to get hot - which can be early March in some places.

So… add us to the list as well [berserker.gif]

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At least there is no Bedrock !!

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Its -11 in Chicago, hard to comprehend ordering now to beat the heat !!!

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Release in feb/mar/apr/may/june/july/aug/sept… boom ship oct/nov… problem solved.

why the rush to ship? no like people drink current releases around here!
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Edit: well, except maybe Pobega… :wink:

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Aubert next week as well

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I can think of two main factors for all the January releases

1 - The wineries want your money before it runs out and the budget is maxed on the latest new wines

2 - The wineries just want your money !! cash flow is a major problem for a small winery so im sure this plays into it