Comments on: Direct Imports: A Wine Geek’s Best Friend http://www.wineoffensive.com/blog/the-gluttons-manifesto/direct-imports-wine-geeks-best/ anecdotes for the gourmet proletariat Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:18:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Taj http://www.wineoffensive.com/blog/the-gluttons-manifesto/direct-imports-wine-geeks-best/#comment-9 Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:34:17 +0000 http://www.wineoffensive.com/blog/the-gluttons-manifesto/direct-imports-wine-geeks-best/#comment-9 Man, I'm glad you have pleasant associations with DI wines. I work at a wine department in a large food-lovers grocery store and DI is the bane of our existance. You see, DI wines are only as good as the Procurement manager who buys them. Ours seems to be getting kickbacks from a number of French plonkmasters. And, truly, I love a good cheap bottle as much as anyone, and I'm not the most experienced taster on the planet, but I know stemmy, rough juice when I taste it. To be fair, there have been several wines we've gotten that were quite decent for the price. But more often than not, we'll get BURIED in palates of overpriced shite we can't get rid of fast enough to make room for the good stuff. Wine comes in at a price we're already laughing at, and when we taste it...our hearts sink as we realize that it's gonna have to take up valuable real estate until corporate realizes they'll have to drop the price. You have inspired me, though, just by mentioning it, to list some of the better bottles on my own site. Cheap French vin de pays is a beautiful thing indeed. Clinkies. Man, I’m glad you have pleasant associations with DI wines. I work at a wine department in a large food-lovers grocery store and DI is the bane of our existance. You see, DI wines are only as good as the Procurement manager who buys them. Ours seems to be getting kickbacks from a number of French plonkmasters. And, truly, I love a good cheap bottle as much as anyone, and I’m not the most experienced taster on the planet, but I know stemmy, rough juice when I taste it. To be fair, there have been several wines we’ve gotten that were quite decent for the price. But more often than not, we’ll get BURIED in palates of overpriced shite we can’t get rid of fast enough to make room for the good stuff. Wine comes in at a price we’re already laughing at, and when we taste it…our hearts sink as we realize that it’s gonna have to take up valuable real estate until corporate realizes they’ll have to drop the price.

You have inspired me, though, just by mentioning it, to list some of the better bottles on my own site. Cheap French vin de pays is a beautiful thing indeed.

Clinkies.

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