NYTimes: Flash Wine Marketing

New term to me. Interesting article by JordanMacKay (never done see'd an article of his in the NYTimes) in today's NYTimes:
NYTimes:FlashWineMarketing

Tom

I can't help but wonder if some of the high end wines from these sites are counterfeit.

I'd doubt there's counterfeiting, it, it's too public. I;m certain that distributors for Cristal or Petrus were very aware when those wines were offered.
Because that's who needed to dump them in most cases.

I don't know wine.woot, but most WTSO offerings are not the kind of thing that are counterfeited. And lots aren't really such huge deals.
I'd say with WTSO about 50% of the time you can find offerings at similar prices elsewhere.
About 20% of the time they are truly unknown wines (Newman picks!) that are hard to comparison shop
about 25% of the time it might be lowest price, but not some great steal, the equivalent of a sale price elsewhere
I'd say 5% of the time it's legitimately a significant discount. But.....only about 10% of wines they offer overall are things I'd be interested in. So the intersection of the deal and the wine I'm interested in is quite rare. But the good thing is that the wine is in the email title. So 90+% of time I can just delete. And once a month or so I buy- 2006 Cantemerle for $19.99 with free shipping yesterday, 85 Champagne Charlie for $100, 04 Trotanoy for $75, Mumm Cramant for $40. Bottles have been in good shape

Cinderella (WineLibrary) had cool stuff at first, but now seems to be 90% supermodern Italians, Cali, etc that aren't my interest. It's less interesting because you have to take time to visit site. If I had to actually even read email to see WTSO offering I'd just get off list/

I'd say 5% of the time it's legitimately a significant discount

Agree. And the real deals are gone quick. I have purchased wine from WTSO and have been very happy with them but to get the best deals you have to monitor closely and move fast. I did not move fast enough on some Arroyo PS at $15/btl the other day and by the time I place the order it was gone.

apparently the Cantemerle last night went in less than an hour, I just happened to be online when offer came

apparently the Cantemerle last night went in less than an hour, I just happened to be online when offer came

Beat me to it, Dale !#@* ... just kidding, of course

[Jenise]

Though I've heard of WTSO, I've avoided finding out more about it. Seriously, I'm turning down so many good deals these days that more would just be too much to bear.

Does yesterday's offer from Crush for 01 CFE at $33 count as flash marketing.

Does yesterday's offer from Crush for 01 CFE at $33 count as flash marketing.

Per my opinion of said wine, it counts as robbery.