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LET US WRITE YOUR ORDER FOR YOU!
It’s easy! We write the order, you take the wine, we cash the check.
What’s not to like?
In all seriousness, I have spent the past several years actually writing about
15% of all the D.I. orders I receive, so I thought I’d formalize it. This is for people
who want the wines but don’t have the time to hack through my
Amazonian jungle of quivering prose. Here’s what you do:
• Give me a budget, and/or the number of cases you wish to receive.
• Tell me how to proportion the order; Rhines vs. Mosels, what proportions at
which price points, how much Kabinett vs. Spätlese vs. Auslese, etc.
• Tell me if you want any Liter wines for floor-stack, any sparkling wines, in
fact tell me generally if you want a conservative order or a high-wire order
filled with lots of weirdo wines.
• Tell me if there are wineries which have done well for you in the past, or
which have not.
And away I go. I will create an order proposal for you, you’ll look it over and
tweak and twiddle it, and send it back in the form that you wish . . .
I promise this: knowing that you’ve bought on trust from me, I will make
DAMN sure that every wine I send to you is KILLER WINE. I can’t risk your
being anything less than really impressed with every cork you pull. The last
thing I want is for you to think I fobbed something off on you. I will write the
HIPPEST possible order within your guidelines.
We call this the E-Z method of flash-buying. It works. If you’d like my help,
I’m standing by to give it. If not, I shall pout, and taunt you for the pitiable
order you wrote yourself. Who needs that kind of trouble?