If you’re a wine enthusiast and haven’t sampled wine.woot yet, you definitely ought to check it out. Brought to you by those wonderfully wacky folks from woot.com, wine.woot features one wine deal (usually two or three bottles) per week at very attractive pricing - until it sells out. Shipping is a flat $5 during most of the year, but $7 during the summer to expedite things a bit during the warmer months. You can buy up to three of whatever’s offered each week, and the shipping remains the flat $5 or $7, regardless of your order quantity.
The wineries featured are usually smaller California operations. Here’s wine.woot’s description of what they’re about:
If you’re just getting hip to the whole wine trip, we’ll be offering a variety of premium, ultra-premium, and mega-super-premium wines from known wineries. Most of the time, anyway. On the rare occasion that we uncork some off-brand rotgut, we’ll tell you. And we just might throw the odd wine accessory at you, if we’re feeling puckish.
The prices are generally quite attractive - but be warned, once they’re out of stock, they’re out. And you can’t go back after the woot and buy more.
This week’s offering is from Brian Benson: a Syrah two pack priced at $41.99 + the $7 for shipping. The wines are the Denner Vineyard 2004 and 2005 Syrah, and they sell for $22 and $35 respectively on the Benson website… so the savings are substantial.
I’ve ordered from wine.woot several times and have never had an issue with delivery or quality.
Part of the wine.woot fun is the irreverent descriptions of the wines, wine.woot customers, and wine.woot itself. Customers and browsers are active participants in a lively forum - which is usually joined by the winemaker or one of his/her representatives.
Go ahead if you’re even a little adventurous - visit the site and join the fun. Sign up as a “labrat” and in addition to your order (you have to order by 10AM on Tuesday to qualify) and you may be selected to receive an additional free bottle overnighted to you - with the expectation that you’ll review the wine in the forum. Check it out - just make sure you bring a credit card and your sense of humor! Click on the button below to go directly to wine.woot:
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