I'll get to the "Price is right later but first some wines consumed. During Thanksgiving I opened a Cal. sparkler from Last Bottle, 2012 Halyard from Sonoma, 2/3 P.N. and 1/3 Chardonnay. Very nice fine bead with pear fruit and some small touch of fresh baked bread. Then opened a 2013 LaFollette Sonoma Coast chard. with great acidity and lots of minerality. Then opened a Bugay 2006 "The Empress" Cabernet from Napa. Tannins mostly resolved with nice cherry and plum fruit. Near peak but with 8-10 years of enjoyment ahead. We sipped the sparkler while waiting of the turkey and had the chard. and cab. with the meal. With a great small town pizza the next nite we had a 2014 Justin Paso Robles Cab. which is becoming my house red, easy drinking but lots of intense cassis and black cherry fruit. abv of 15.2 but not hot at all. On Sat, while watching the Buckeye football game (Go Bucks) I opened a Leitz 2012 Riesling called "Leitz Out" and a Lingenfelder 2011 Bird label Riesling, both qba wines but almost outstanding for their spritzness and nice peach flavors and slate in the background. Also opened a 2009 BV BeauRouge I bought the previous day and had never seen before. It had a wonderful complex nose and palate of earth, leather, herbs, cigar smoke and sweet cherry. It had all 5 Bordeaux grapes in it with a bit of syrah also. Just lovely to sniff and sip. It was 1/2 price from a discount bin in a Ft. Wayne wine shop for 14$ and the two German Rieslings were same deal and 7-8$ or there about.
At another Ft. Wayne wine shop they still had 3 2004 Staglin Cabernets, one of which I had previously bought for $50 from their discounted price of $85.99 and have posted about. I again asked the manager , since they still had 3 bottles sitting on the floor with great fills, if he would honor that deal again. Sure he would. The young clerk had to figure out what the before-tax price would be so the out-the-door price would end up at 50$. I got that bottle for $45.40 before tax and I don't usually consider tax in the cost of wine, so felt I got a great deal. I'll probably end up buying those last two Staglins at that price. Overall an excellent wine shopping experience and holiday!