German Catalog 2006 USE THIS ONE.qxp - Michael Skurnik Wines

special offering on half-bottles
I’m talking not about the usual half-bottles of expensive dessert wines, but half-bottles of
normal, everyday wines. The industry cliché was always “Everyone asks for halves and
no one buys them” but this appears to be changing. Retailers like having an interesting
array of halves for people who need them (he likes white, she likes red f’rinstance) and
sommelieres tell me that halves are starting to supplant wines by the glass. The diner gets
a closed container of wine that’s “his” alone, and the house has less spoilage and waste.
Not to mention, what if it’s a deuce and they only need a small amount of a particular
kind of wine. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been unable to finish the red I ordered and
which only partnered one course. A half-bottle would have been perfect.
So, we wish to offer you a reasonable array of
unexceptional (i.e. Kabinett and Spätlese) wines in
halves. Because no one knows how many are
needed, and because growers have a hard time
selling what we don’t deplete, quantities will be
limited. I can’t ask a grower to bottle 100 cases and
then buy 32 of them. So they bottle what we know
we’ll need, which at this point isn’t a ton. But it’s
more all the time!
HALF-BOTTLES AVAILABLE:
GSO-244H 2004 Selbach Oster Riesling Kabinett, 12/375ml
GSO-265H 2005 Selbach-Oster Riesling Kabinett, 12/375ml
GSO-262H 2005 Selbach-Oster Riesling Spätlese, 12/375ml
GKE-098H 2005 Kerpen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett, 12/375ml
GKE-100H 2005 Kerpen Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spätlese, 12/375ml
GST-130H 2005 J.u.H.A. Strub Niersteiner Brückchen Riesling Kabinett, 12/375ml
GST-120H 2004 J.u.H.A. Strub Niersteiner Paterberg Riesling Spätlese, 12/375ml
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