Wines you would buy regularly if the prices came down 25%

[AAgrawal]

Yquem. I have enough and stopped buying at $200/half bottle, but would probably still buy at $150.
Vilmart Coeur du Cuvee
Brovia (now above $100, I was buying at $75-80)
H. Boillot Clos de Moucheres
Hudelot Noellat Murgers
Jerome Chezeaux Suchots
Lopez de Heredia blanco reserva (escalating in price quickly, but was delicious at $50)
Montevertine Pergole Torte
Stella di Campalto (again escalating rapidly)

[Adam_Frisch]

Failla
Kelley Fox
Ceritas (although I do suffer through pricing there as they’re just so good, but I’d buy more if they were a bit cheaper)
Someone mentioned Tyler and although have never been a regular, love the wines and would buy a lot more if they were a bit lower priced.

[Bryan_Price]

For me, I’ve liked Rhys, but between accumulating a lot of it and the prices getting up there, I’m down to very little or no activity. Yet if the price dropped 25% ($79 Alpine Chardonnay at $59.25), I’d still be buying a decent amount.

I’ve been buying Sea Smoke Southing every year since the 2002 vintage, but they bumped the price way up to $80 last year, and I’m right on the edge. I’ll maybe buy a couple bottles a year, but I’d be happily buying 6+ a year if the price were $60.

How about you?

Especially the fact that the Sea Smoke Southing is priced the same as the Ten, which I tend to prefer for its dark fruited profile.

Most of the California wineries I love now price their single vineyard bottlings in the $80s or more, which is now out of my comfort zone for somewhat regular consumption. I stopped buying the Williams Selyem SVDs for this reason. I’ll continue to try to split allocations with friends to still be offered most of the wines on the mailing list.

I’m very happy with the Scherrer appelation wines in the $25-40 range which scratch the lush fruit forward California pinot itch for me. I have young kids and most of my wine is consumed between 6 and 10 pm at home and it feels wasteful to crack open a +$60 wine when sometimes I just want to relax and feel a nice buzz if I’m being honest with myself.

[Joseph_Grassa]

Francis Ford Coppola Eleanor Red

And a bunch of dessert wines in general
Recioto della Valpolicella
Barolo Chinato
Picolit
Taylor Fladgate (40 year)

Maybe champagne in general too. I still don’t drink much, but nothing I have tried under $50 has even been slightly enjoyable for me.

[Ravi_Raju]

Sea Smoke Southing
Beaux Freres Beaux Freres/Upper Terrace
Domaine Jamet Cote Rotie
Bryant DB4
Don Melchor

I still buy these on a occasion, but I would buy a lot more at a 25% price reduction.

[John_Glas]

What wines do you like and would regularly buy, or stopped buying but would restart, if the prices dropped 25%?

I think most of us had wines we bought for some time, but then the prices moved up to where they weren’t affordable, become more expensive than other alternatives, or otherwise just stopped being a buy, and we all or mostly fell away.

And there were other wines we tried, liked them and were interested in starting to buy, but saw the prices were just a little higher than what would get you started being a customer

To be clear, the point of this question is not to criticize wineries and/or the retail chain for pricing wines too high, to tell anyone they ought to sell their wines for less, or anything like that. And if you’re answering the question correctly, it should be wines you like very much that are in your answer – if it’s a wine you don’t like, then the price coming down 25% shouldn’t be of interest to you. So this isn’t the thread for tirades about overpriced vodka blueberry milkshakes and other things you don’t like.

This also doesn’t have to be just new world mailing list wines, it can be any kinds of wines that you like but whose price has crept above (but not too far above) your “buy” point.

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For me, I’ve liked Rhys, but between accumulating a lot of it and the prices getting up there, I’m down to very little or no activity. Yet if the price dropped 25% ($79 Alpine Chardonnay at $59.25), I’d still be buying a decent amount.

Tyler is a winery I really like, but I look at the email releases wistfully, and the pricing is just a little high for me to click buy. Plus, they usually sell for under, and sometimes well under, release at retail.

I’ve been buying Sea Smoke Southing every year since the 2002 vintage, but they bumped the price way up to $80 last year, and I’m right on the edge. I’ll maybe buy a couple bottles a year, but I’d be happily buying 6+ a year if the price were $60.

A number of Barolo producers have shot out of my price range, particularly G Mascarello, yet I’m not even sure 25% would bring them back to where I’d buy more than a bottle or two on a rare occasion.

I’ve accumulated a decent amount of PYCM (mostly the lesser appellation ones) the last several years, but I think I’m just about out now and looking for a next PYCM. 25% lower prices would still have me buying it regularly.

How about you?

Not sure I would buy Sea Smoke at 50%. Too big in style for me.

[John_Glas]

Vilmart is probably another. I love the Grand Cellier d’Or and Couer de Cuvee, but the prices are just about to rise out of my “other than occasional splurge” range.

Agree on the Vilmart.

[Alan_Rath]

25% might get me to buy some mid-range wines I like, because they typically haven’t gone up in price as much. But most of the higher tier wines I used to buy, or would like to buy now, particularly burgs and northern rhones, have increased far more than a 25% reduction from current prices could rescue. I have mostly switched to buying Bourgogne level wines from producers I like, and have bought a very few Rhones in the past few years. It’s just too ridiculous to be spending $100-200+ on a significant number of wines.

[Scott_Brunson]

I have mostly not kept track of their prices so I’m not sure if any of these are still within 25%, but these are wines I used to buy and stopped buying when they went over $100 that I would gladly buy again if they were still double digits -

Chave Hermitage
Back vintages of Gentaz (yes, it was so)
Chevillon Vaucrains and LSG
d’Angerville 1ers
Mugnier 1ers (and even, briefly, Moose)
Giacosa B & B
Monprivato
Sass/Orn/Sol aias
Ridge Montebello
LMHB
PLL
Montrose

Probably others but that’s what comes to mind.

I’m with you.

There are quite a few producers that fit this criteria for me.

Vilmart
Cedric Bouchard
Ghislaine Barthod
Chevillon
De Montille
Dujac(I wouldn’t buy a lot, but at least a few bottles)
Fourrier
Jobard
Carillon

I would also buy a lot more wines from Piedmont.

I’m with you too.

[David_Bu3ker]

Putting aside Champagne where Laura and I are backing up the truck regardless of pricing, I am pretty much done with expensive wine. The amount of delicious wine that costs less than $50 (or thereabouts) is beyond belief. No more Burgs? Whatever. No more Rhys Pinots? Whatever. There is so much good stuff out there!

[Troy_Morris]

A lot, but I don’t sweat it. When my favorites shoot up, I generally move on. There’s just so much good wine out there.

I’m in this camp.

[Mattstolz]

I would like to add a couple to my initial Rinaldi and La Mission post: Mugneret Gibourg and Dujac. at the current prices the lowest tiers are all I can splurge buy (If I ever find them) and even the next tiers up are out of reach. I notice a lot of Bouchard on here, but I agree with people saying it is still worth it in my mind. I think it competes with and beats champagne that is priced pretty far above it at the current price (but again, I’m talking about the wines at the lowest price point)

[Kirk.Grant]

I bought a couple of bottles of Taittinger CdC 2008 at about $200. If the price were to come down 25% to about $150, I would buy a bunch more. More likely, the price will go up. This is a fabulous wine.

I was planning to buy a case of '08, if the pricing stayed the same. So far, I’ve bought none.

That is a shame, it was available at $165 on Black Friday in 2020, the lowest I saw it for…but even at $200 the 2008 is worth it. I’m not buying the 2011 unless it drops down to $129. It’s not that great a vintage and I’m not comfortable buying the wine “regularly” it is in the $200 ball park. That’s a splurge (1-2 bottles max)

[Kirk.Grant]

Paolo Bea
Valentini
Brovia

Do you think Brovia is over priced? Or has it just gone out of your price comfort range?

[Bryan_Price]

Putting aside Champagne where Laura and I are backing up the truck regardless of pricing, I am pretty much done with expensive wine. The amount of delicious wine that costs less than $50 (or thereabouts) is beyond belief. No more Burgs? Whatever. No more Rhys Pinots? Whatever. There is so much good stuff out there!

You’re saying champagne pricing is about to 2x!!!

[David_Bu3ker]

Putting aside Champagne where Laura and I are backing up the truck regardless of pricing, I am pretty much done with expensive wine. The amount of delicious wine that costs less than $50 (or thereabouts) is beyond belief. No more Burgs? Whatever. No more Rhys Pinots? Whatever. There is so much good stuff out there!

You’re saying champagne pricing is about to 2x!!!

3X!!

[Markus_S]

Paolo Bea
Valentini
Brovia

Do you think Brovia is over priced? Or has it just gone out of your price comfort range?

Not overpriced for it’s quality level, but most of mine were bought at less expensive levels. Because of their longevity and at my age, I probably have enough of them, but at a 25% clip I might be a buyer again.

[Fred_Davis]

Produttori

[JeremyMullman]

Auteur immediately came to mind.

[k_i_r_k_crow]

What wines do you like and would regularly buy, or stopped buying but would restart, if the prices dropped 25%?

I think most of us had wines we bought for some time, but then the prices moved up to where they weren’t affordable, become more expensive than other alternatives, or otherwise just stopped being a buy, and we all or mostly fell away.

And there were other wines we tried, liked them and were interested in starting to buy, but saw the prices were just a little higher than what would get you started being a customer

To be clear, the point of this question is not to criticize wineries and/or the retail chain for pricing wines too high, to tell anyone they ought to sell their wines for less, or anything like that. And if you’re answering the question correctly, it should be wines you like very much that are in your answer – if it’s a wine you don’t like, then the price coming down 25% shouldn’t be of interest to you. So this isn’t the thread for tirades about overpriced vodka blueberry milkshakes and other things you don’t like.

This also doesn’t have to be just new world mailing list wines, it can be any kinds of wines that you like but whose price has crept above (but not too far above) your “buy” point.

++++++++++++

For me, I’ve liked Rhys, but between accumulating a lot of it and the prices getting up there, I’m down to very little or no activity. Yet if the price dropped 25% ($79 Alpine Chardonnay at $59.25), I’d still be buying a decent amount.

Tyler is a winery I really like, but I look at the email releases wistfully, and the pricing is just a little high for me to click buy. Plus, they usually sell for under, and sometimes well under, release at retail.

I’ve been buying Sea Smoke Southing every year since the 2002 vintage, but they bumped the price way up to $80 last year, and I’m right on the edge. I’ll maybe buy a couple bottles a year, but I’d be happily buying 6+ a year if the price were $60.

A number of Barolo producers have shot out of my price range, particularly G Mascarello, yet I’m not even sure 25% would bring them back to where I’d buy more than a bottle or two on a rare occasion.

I’ve accumulated a decent amount of PYCM (mostly the lesser appellation ones) the last several years, but I think I’m just about out now and looking for a next PYCM. 25% lower prices would still have me buying it regularly.

How about you?

I’m a huge Tyler Winery fan, love all of their stuff but particularly the Chardonnay range. I was only on the club list for 2 years and just dropped due to being priced out. Now I hunt auctions to get them for cheaper, but I’d rather buy direct.

Tyler is the first thing I thought of, as I enjoy their wines but not quite enough to purchase regularly. Reynvaan in Washington is another one for me.