would you pay for wood?

[p_raghib]

I got an email today from a california winery, it sounds like they had some problems sourcing their wood boxes for the magnums. So if I pass on the wood I can have my wine now and get a $25 credit which is the easiest wine choice I’ve made in years.

I would love to see more wineries offer wine with or without wood. Wood costs $$, costs $$ to ship etc. I can understand some folks wanting wood, but for me there ain’t no way I’d pay $25 for a wooden magnum box.

any thoughts?

-paul

[Corey_N]

@p. raghib

I got an email today from a california winery, it sounds like they had some problems sourcing their wood boxes for the magnums. So if I pass on the wood I can have my wine now and get a $25 credit which is the easiest wine choice I’ve made in years.

I would love to see more wineries offer wine with or without wood. Wood costs $$, costs $$ to ship etc. I can understand some folks wanting wood, but for me there ain’t no way I’d pay $25 for a wooden magnum box.

any thoughts?

-paul

I’d pay for wood.

[David_Cohen]

I have paid for wood in the past and I’d pay for wood again. I am man enough and modern enough to admit this.

[Mark_Y]

[Nathan_Smyth]

If it’s something like DRC, then “OWC” = “Original Wooden Case” adds to the resale value.

In Cali, if it were someone like SQN or Screagle or whomever is the Hot-Wine-du-Jour [Ghost Horse?], then it might be worth paying for.

At least if you think you might ever want [or need] to flip the wine at auction.

But most Cali wines have no resale value whatsoever. Where “most” = 99.9999999999% of them.

[mike_pobega]

Sounds like a good choice.
Tell Chris to skip the wood. $25 refund and you will be saving a tree.

[Chris_Seiber]

@Nathan Smyth

But most Cali wines have no resale value whatsoever. Where “most” = 99.9999999999% of them.

If you mean most don’t appreciate significantly in value from their initial purchase price, I agree. But most have resale value.

[Scott_G_r_u_n_e_r]

With my first case lot bordeaux pre-arrivals (v. 2000) I paid $10 extra to have the wood boxes shipped (K&L, Winex, WineClub packed the wine in Styro and shipped the wood box empty)

That was just because I wanted the boxes for storage. Now in general I would prefer no wood (and no styro for that matter- prefer the new fangled recyclable shippers.)

[Nathan_Smyth]

@Chris Seiber

@Nathan Smyth

But most Cali wines have no resale value whatsoever. Where “most” = 99.9999999999% of them.

If you mean most don’t appreciate significantly in value from their initial purchase price, I agree. But most have resale value.

Right.

There’s basically three categories of wine which have some hope of appreciating: Burgundy with points, Champagne with points, and old Bordeaux with points [but recent vintages of Bordeaux are already coming with “built-in” appreciation].

In the last five or ten years, there’s been some signs that fine Nebbiolo can appreciate. And there’s older Screagle and 1960’s Martha’s Vineyards on upscale restaurant lists.

And that’s about it.

[Ledwards]

@Nathan Smyth

@Chris Seiber

@Nathan Smyth

But most Cali wines have no resale value whatsoever. Where “most” = 99.9999999999% of them.

If you mean most don’t appreciate significantly in value from their initial purchase price, I agree. But most have resale value.

Right.

There’s basically three categories of wine which have some hope of appreciating: Burgundy with points, Champagne with points, and old Bordeaux with points [but recent vintages of Bordeaux are already coming with “built-in” appreciation].

In the last five or ten years, there’s been some signs that fine Nebbiolo can appreciate. And there’s older Screagle and 1960’s Martha’s Vineyards on upscale restaurant lists.

And that’s about it.

You may be right but hasn’t Burgundy by (the right) producer been what has been appreciating?

Champagne either by classic vintage or producer again over points?

and ofcourse, the grand-daddy of them all… SQN

[Robert.A.Jr]

I’d pay more for less wood “in” the wine itself!

[Neal.Mollen]

SQN doesn’t ship in wood, so far as I know.

[Neal.Mollen]

and the answer is no

[ybarselah]

@Neal.Mollen

SQN doesn’t ship in wood, so far as I know.

SQN ships in wood every year.

[Tim_Heaton]

@Robert Alfert

I’d pay more for less wood “in” the wine itself!

[Steve_Pohlman]

Don’t like wood as my cellar does not accommodate cases at all.

Don’t like styro. Just goes to land fill.

Prefer the pressed cardboard shippers which I can recycle.

[Oliver_McCrum]

@Robert Alfert

I’d pay more for less wood “in” the wine itself!

+1.

Plus the winery saves $1,000 or whatever per barrique…

[A_So]

@Robert Alfert

I’d pay more for less wood “in” the wine itself!

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[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

Would I pay more for wood? Unfortunately, I already do, as this is the option that is forced upon many wineries’ customers. Would I be interested in paying less in order to not get the wood case? Yes; absolutely and without hesitation, yes.

[Anton_D]

I’d only pay for wood if I got to swing it.