| ▲ | toomuchtodo 2 hours ago |
| If you’re a domestic US wine lover, now is a great time to be buying if you have the space to store it. |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| :D That said, American wine—and California wine in particular—has a bit of an IPA problem inasmuch as there is a lot of overpriced, overproduced swill being priced exceptionally high by international standards. |
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| ▲ | alistairSH an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Not just American wine... wines from any region have always been more expensive in the US. Quick poking around Google... Italy, France, and Germany all have mid-tier bottles of their own domestic wine for far less than we (in the US) get any wine, domestic or import. | |
| ▲ | toomuchtodo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I get the swill at a discount :) "The best wine is the wine you like best." Best deal I recently got was a few hundred bottles for under $1k, <$5/bottle. Easier than the trek to a Trader Joe's or Costco, ymmv (and I don't feel bad throwing a bottle out if it isn't for me, versus a $100+ bottle). | | |
| ▲ | nkrisc an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Sounds like a great deal, but that’s quite a lot of space required to store them, no? | | |
| ▲ | harvey9 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 'a lot' depends on how much you had to begin with. | |
| ▲ | toomuchtodo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not really, takes up a large wall in a residential detached single family home basement somewhere in the Midwest. Everything is relative. | | |
| ▲ | vehemenz 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Don’t even need that. If they’re packed in wine boxes they take up hardly any space. |
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| ▲ | Ancalagon an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Do you just buy barrels at that point? | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Large-format bottles are criminally underappreciated this side of the Atlantic. | |
| ▲ | toomuchtodo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Only one so far, I'm willing to take more but not a lot on offer. Maybe I'm talking to the wrong suppliers. There's a right price for everything, but I am looking for fire sale|"going out of business" prices. Replies with leads welcome! |
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| ▲ | EPWN3D 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I haven't noticed any retail wine prices stabilizing or decreasing, at least in the Bay Area. Napa wines are still exorbitantly priced, and imports are way the fuck more expensive due to tariffs. |
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| ▲ | vrosas an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I feel for the wine growers, but as an avid wine consumer I'm looking forward to better deals. |
