Your latest great wine bargain?

[Jenise]

I'm always so jealous of you guys who wax triumphant after fishing good things out of remainder bins--jealous often of the wine itself but more fundamentally jealous of you who have retailers that actually have remainder bins. But hey, I finally scored something worth crowing about! Six bottles of 2010 Novy Syrah Garys' Vineyard priced $14.95! What's more, the night before I tasted it in a blind line-up of Northern Rhones, and it did not stand out as a New World ringer. In fact, it just stood out period as being one of the better wines of the night.

Your latest?

[David M. Bueker]

2012 J. J. Prum Bernkasteler Badstube Auslese: $22.99

Six bottles of 2010 Novy Syrah Garys' Vineyard priced $14.95!

Wow!

My astute wife came home with two Ch. La Foncalpre, (Monbazillac) @ $8.99/btl a while ago. She loves any sweetie, but particularly Sauternes. She wasn't familiar with Monbazillac, but loved the color and thought it might be semillon. We opened one at a tasting class I held for her friends, and it was terrific - particularly for the price. Looking forward to the other soon.

2010 Ridge Lytton Springs for $21.99. I bought the two remaining bottles. The 2012 Lytton was $39. I'm not sure why the 2010 was so cheap. Sub-par vintage? I do not recall ever having a Ridge that I considered a poor value so I had not problem taking the risk.

I'm rather proud of some 96 Rene Engel Grand Crus I scored for about 130 USD. One out of the four was corked, but the others rocked!

A couple of months ago I snagged four bottles of 2001 Trimbach CFE for $25 each in the 50% closeout section

[David M. Bueker]

Great fine Bill!

Alas, no deals in this town or region. Have to go to big cities for that.

A couple of months ago I snagged four bottles of 2001 Trimbach CFE for $25 each in the 50% closeout section

Hi Bill!
Nice score.
I'm certainly no stranger to closeouts but I've never seen a CFE there.
it was the 375me Anniversaire I assume

Ha! Charles, nope 750s of the regular CFE.

I'm constantly amazed by how few people out here have even heard of Trimbach.

[Jenise]

Alas, no deals in this town or region. Have to go to big cities for that.

Basically the case here--there's very little competition and almost no independent sellers. I just happened to have been shopping at the local Food Co-op where the wine guy sometimes takes prudent chances on distributor close-outs--he probably picked up the Novy for $10.

Delamotte Blanc de Blancs 2002 for 40 GBP.

I posted on this wine a few months ago but it is worth repeating. 2011 Pfeffingen Dry Riesling was purchased at the Party Source in Newport Ky. for $4.00. I only bought 2 bottles but after trying one I should have bought 2 cases. Excellent wine with lots of white fruit flavors, great acidity and dry or almost dry. 12% abv and from the Pfalz. imported by Rudi Wiest lots of tartrate crystals

In about 1984, I bought six cases of 1977 Croft Vintage Port for $5 a bottle in a wine shop on a strip mall in Savannah. Georgia. I was there to visit my wife's family, wandered into the store by accident, bought a bottle to make sure it was real, went back and bought all they had. It turned out that the store had bought 10 cases on a deep, deep discount close-out and a military guy and I bought all of it between us. It was (and probably still is) extremely good, if not quite to the level of Taylors and Fonseca 1977.

[Jenise]

Robert, that beats the rest of us hands-down. I remember being pretty proud of finding the Fonseca 77's circa 1991-2 for $60 at a Liquor Store That Time Forgot kind of place in remote Alaska. Of course, the price wasn't so remarkable as just stumbling over such a wine for sale. They knew not what they had.