Wellington Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon 4-Pack
$59.99 (Normally $84.00) 29% off List Price
2 2007 Merlot, Sonoma Valley
2 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County
CT links above
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Wellington Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon 4-Pack
$59.99 $84.00 29% off List Price
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You guys are getting carried away with the pricing. I love Wellington but I have seen the prices get hiked beyond reality. Check out Bottle Barn pricing first folks.
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I’m embarrassed about this but need to be humble. I made an enormous mistake guy’s. I didn’t initially see that this was for 4 bottles. Of course I’m so wrong, this is a wonderful deal, blush, blush. I will be adding a few more Wellingtons to my cellar.
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Wellington Rhone whites and I’m in for the max.
I have had both of these on more than one occasion and can remember them both being very solid well made wines but I did not take any formal notes to help jog my memory on the details.
$16.25 a bottle seems fair for this and is inline with past wellington deals. Check out the Syrah deal from a few months back.
Edit: I was going to add that this cheaper than I can order it directly as a member of wellington.
This has got to be the slowest I’ve ever seen for a PW offering. Then again, price is about $4 above CT average that typically is higher than WW pricing. Still, less than club pricing.
The prices are based on winery retail prices.
Good evening / good morning. I’ll be in the house for the next hour or so. My apologies for not recording a vintner voice mail.
I am very happy with both of these wines from the (for us, at least) absolutely outstanding 2007 vintage. I believe this is the best Sonoma County Cabernet we have yet bottled, and the Merlot is one of our best ever as well. 2007 gave us full flavor and tannin ripeness at moderate sugar levels with low pH and good acid levels. The alcohol levels are lower than previous vintages, and these wines have it all - richness, balance, depth and elegance.
Yeah, these are decent prices. Luckily, I have a couple of each already (haven’t tasted either yet to offer an opinion, though), so resisting is quite a bit easier.
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Good evening / good morning. I’ll be in the house for the next hour or so. My apologies for not recording a vintner voice mail.
I am very happy with both of these wines from the (for us, at least) absolutely outstanding 2007 vintage. I believe this is the best Sonoma County Cabernet we have yet bottled, and the Merlot is one of our best ever as well. 2007 gave us full flavor and tannin ripeness at moderate sugar levels with low pH and good acid levels. The alcohol levels are lower than previous vintages, and these wines have it all - richness, balance, depth and elegance.
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Good Evening sir,
Which vineyards comprise the blend for each wine?
I’m a club member and don’t wish to take anything away but I’m personally dissapointed to see the hikes taking place, probably due to the deserved popularity.
Enjoyed a bottle of Victory this evening. I just feel that Woot isn’t about average deals, rather, cracking good deals.
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The math (retaip price) doesn’t work out. The Cab is listed on their website for $20. The Merlot is not listed, but the estate bottled 2007 Merlot is $20.
Since the Cab is $20, that means based on wine.woot math, the Merlot would be $22, higher than the estate bottled.
Either way, at $16.25 a bottle there is a built in Amazon tax. The Syrahs were $15/bottle when offered.
And while the value on CT doesn’t mean that much, the value on both of these is sub $13 while the Syrahs were just under $15.
There’s no question the pricing structures have changed. The vineyards are making less, WCC isn’t getting the same shipping support and Amazon is making more. No matter how you look at it, that ads up to lower QPR for us and fewer offers from the smaller vineyards. Let’s hope this trend changes. If they continue to have offers like yesterdays where only ~10% are sold, Amazon will hopefully see that overall they are losing business. If nothing else, if I don’t check wine.woot, I won’t see things on their other sites that I don’t need but buy anyway…
I’m embarrassed about this but need to be humble. I made an enormous mistake guy’s. I didn’t initially see that this was for 4 bottles. Of course I’m so wrong, this is a wonderful deal, blush, blush. I will be adding a few more Wellingtons to my cellar.
Where? Where??? 
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Good Evening sir,
Which vineyards comprise the blend for each wine?
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The Merlot is Estate Vineyard Merlot with about 6% Cabernet Franc from the Baron Vineyard (in Sonoma Valley, adjacent to Barricia Vineyard and near Serres, Bedrock, Little and B.R. Cohn.
The Cabernet has a larger portion of Mohrhardt Ridge Cabernet sauvignon (42%) than anything else, with significant proportionss from Handal-Denier, F.R Maestas and Karren Vineyards. It has 5% Baron Cabernet Franc and 2% J&J Petit Verdot.
I’m trying to hold out buying more wine and then you have to pop in here and tell us this. I may have to drink 4 bottles (to make room for this order) in the next 12 hours!!!
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The math (retaip price) doesn’t work out. The Cab is listed on their website for $20. The Merlot is not listed, but the estate bottled 2007 Merlot is $20.
Since the Cab is $20, that means based on wine.woot math, the Merlot would be $22, higher than the estate bottled.
Either way, at $16.25 a bottle there is a built in Amazon tax. The Syrahs were $15/bottle when offered.
And while the value on CT doesn’t mean that much, the value on both of these is sub $13 while the Syrahs were just under $15.
There’s no question the pricing structures have changed. The vineyards are making less, WCC isn’t getting the same shipping support and Amazon is making more. No matter how you look at it, that ads up to lower QPR for us and fewer offers from the smaller vineyards. Let’s hope this trend changes. If they continue to have offers like yesterdays where only ~10% are sold, Amazon will hopefully see that overall they are losing business. If nothing else, if I don’t check wine.woot, I won’t see things on their other sites that I don’t need but buy anyway…
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Sorry. The web-site needs updating.
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The math (retaip price) doesn’t work out. The Cab is listed on their website for $20. The Merlot is not listed, but the estate bottled 2007 Merlot is $20.
Since the Cab is $20, that means based on wine.woot math, the Merlot would be $22, higher than the estate bottled.
Either way, at $16.25 a bottle there is a built in Amazon tax. The Syrahs were $15/bottle when offered.
And while the value on CT doesn’t mean that much, the value on both of these is sub $13 while the Syrahs were just under $15.
There’s no question the pricing structures have changed. The vineyards are making less, WCC isn’t getting the same shipping support and Amazon is making more. No matter how you look at it, that ads up to lower QPR for us and fewer offers from the smaller vineyards. Let’s hope this trend changes. If they continue to have offers like yesterdays where only ~10% are sold, Amazon will hopefully see that overall they are losing business. If nothing else, if I don’t check wine.woot, I won’t see things on their other sites that I don’t need but buy anyway…
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Here’s a thought.
Summer shipping in the past has been $7 dollars and included fridge trucks to your local hubs and sometimes ice packs and usually Styrofoam packing. Based on recent comments it seems that in order to improve their already excellent summer shipping they are now using 2 day air. Maybe, just maybe the cost of that two day air has made the $7 dollar shipping more like $10 shipping, (i know in reality it costs them considerably more than this.) Rather than raising the base shipping in summer to $10 they decided to fold more of the cost into the offer price and leave shipping as $5.
Now, lower most of the recent deals where you feel the price has been hiked by $5 and reconsider them.
Let me know if your following with me.