For The Love Of Port

We've all seen bottles with silly prices before. I know a while back I visited my local Bevmo only to find a 10y tawny at an ... ambitious price, shall we say. Andy suggested it must have been an error, so the last time I returned, I asked the sales clerk to check the price and snapped a photo. No error. Here it is:

Have you seen similarly outrageous pricing? Name and shame the gougers!


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Why Bevmo sucks! Their pricing is super high and their .01 cent sales are yucky wines. Total Wines and More is a far better place to shop between the two

What I love best is that you can see the first descriptor is "A great value"


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There's a very nice B&M shop in New Jersey--the owner is a super wine geek and always has a wonderful selection. His pricing is on the high side for port but one bottle always makes me laugh--a 1966 Fonseca priced at $450 for the past 20 years. Even just now, it can be acquired per wine-searcher for $225. So far out of bounds.

Did you happen to notice what the 2011 Pocas Vintage Port was marked down to, orig. @ $74.95 ?

Roy Hersh wrote:Did you happen to notice what the 2011 Pocas Vintage Port was marked down to, orig. @ $74.95 ?

$69.99 or 69.95. Not a big markdown, or I probably would have been tempted.

I don't know what it is about port, but it has to be one of the most inefficiently priced wines out there. Plenty of overpriced bottles, and a fair amount of underpriced bottles if you look hard enough, and not nearly as much stuff priced at fair value.

As for BevMo and Total Wine, that's the Phoenix wine market for you. Imagine if that's what you get to choose from in a metropolitan area of that size. Very few independent players in town, and given the environment, hardly worth it to distribute more off the beaten path wines. If I lived there still, I'd be ordering from out of state a lot (weather permitting, of course).

Bradley Bogdan wrote:

Roy Hersh wrote:Did you happen to notice what the 2011 Pocas Vintage Port was marked down to, orig. @ $74.95 ?

$69.99 or 69.95. Not a big markdown, or I probably would have been tempted.

That one is $54 at my local Costco

Moses Botbol wrote:

Bradley Bogdan wrote:

Roy Hersh wrote:Did you happen to notice what the 2011 Pocas Vintage Port was marked down to, orig. @ $74.95 ?

$69.99 or 69.95. Not a big markdown, or I probably would have been tempted.

That one is $54 at my local Costco

At that price, I'd probably have bought a test bottle. There doesn't seem to be a lot in 2011 that wasn't great, and if the '07 Pocas is anything to go by, the 2011 will be silly delicious and drinkable in the first decade.


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