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Post Subject: The SpreadPosted by Paul S on: 8/15/2013
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The "minimum purchase of lesser wines" requirement is not just a French custom, of course, but has also long been practiced in California, Douro, etc., etc., etc. for many, many years, wherever top appellations are to be found. As for purchasing "connections", some of the CA connections go back over 50 years, and some of the French "relationships" go back for many generations, so getting "in" can take "quite a while", indeed. When considering wines that are consistently favored by the critics, basically, none of that wine is just "up for grabs", ever. Hell, I'd love to pick up a "leftover case" of a any number of top wines; but it's never going to happen as long as that vineyard/winemaker delivers "the goods", and the "system" remains in place.
Germane to "availability", is it still possible to get and follow up on "underground" information about "secret seconds"? I've had a few pretty good wines that supposedly came from "overage" that was not destroyed. I've also had some wines that obviously capitalized on people's tendencies to petty larceny...
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