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Thursday 1 May 2008:
Recent information is now only available to
Subscribers
Access to the most recent 2-4 weeks
of content (and some other useful bits and pieces)
requires you to sign-on with a user name and password.
With all the price rises happening this year, joining up gives you the
best chance to save money on your red wine purchases. See below
and check out the Archives for prior months and see what you are
missing out on. (Links in right panel)►►►
To get your personal user name and password, you must pay a Subscription
fee via PayPal. The annual fee is now $18 and will be fixed at
that rate as long as you remain a member.
You can save more than the membership fee on a single purchase from the
many special deals listed in the members area.
Click here for the Members RBG page:
New information available only to members:
- Best prices on many JH 96/95 point
reds from the 2009 Wine Companion
- Elderton Command Shiraz 2004 @ $69.99
(in 6-packs)
- August daily updates
- Kemeny's RBG member offers, some very
sharp prices.
- List of Australian Wine E-tail Sites
(new update)
- What I'm buying and where I'm buying
- Priority response to emails or
requests for a wine availability/price search.
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About this page
The secret of getting the
wine you are after at the right price is Research.
The research is to decide what
to buy and where to buy it.
How you decide what to buy is up to each individual, but where you buy
can make a BIG difference to the price. This page is
designed to help you buy (mostly red) wines at good prices, not
necessarily the absolute best (as there are sometimes super-specials not
widely advertised), but prices that on average will save you heaps of
money without much effort.
Since all the wine
(excluding direct winery orders) I buy is not available from any one
merchant I do a fair bit of research on a weekly basis via the internet
and newspaper or e-mail advertisements from online and traditional wine
merchants.
Wine Robot (www.winerobot.com.au)
has had some upgrades and lists a number of new merchants and many more
wines (10,000 up from 4,000) but it still does not cover any of the
merchants that appear here frequently because they offer the best buys.
A much more comprehensive search site is
Wine-Searcher.com, it covers most Australian wine sites but paid
subscription is required to get full results.
I'm based in Canberra
and despite a plethora of chain outlets and local merchants I buy wine
mainly via the internet or mail order direct from wineries. I buy from
e-tailers in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne that offer 'free' freight
(i.e. freight-inclusive) prices or have reasonable delivery charges to
go with good prices.
This page may be
useful to you if you have any overlap in red-wine (or Champagne)
preferences with mine, however the price comparisons between merchants
are not consistent over time or for different brands and types of wine,
so be careful in drawing any general conclusions from the
information listed here. The wines listed will be mostly
restricted to currently available wines from reputable wine merchants.
I have no financial interest in any of these merchants and seek no
favours in return for information published here (I do accept occasional
sample bottles), also please read the Disclaimer.
Here is an
interesting site, it's been around since 1999 and many of you may
have seen it already, if not take a look as it's a background to
what I'm trying to encourage here in a very specific market segment,
communication amongst consumers in the internet age:
Cluetrain Manifesto
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Disclaimer: T he
information on this page is based on publicly available information gleaned from
wine-merchant web sites, advertisements, email and paper mailing lists and every
effort is made to keep it current and accurate. Any transcription errors
or other errors will be promptly fixed on notification or on notification of
correction of errors in published advertisements. The publisher accepts no
liability for any purchasing decisions you make based on the material displayed
here. The publisher has no financial arrangement with any of the listed
merchants other than as a normal retail purchaser of wine.
(Hits since 27-Jan-2004)
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