Cellar Rat Garage sale
Day: Saturday
Date: July 19th, 2008
Time: 11:00am until sold out
Location:
Cellar Rat Wine Merchants
1701 Baltimore
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 221-9463
Call it what you will…an ‘End of Bin’, ‘Closeout’, ‘Inventory Reduction’ or ‘Discontinued Item’ sale, this is where you will find some amazing values. Each year our distributors feel the pressure to clean out their warehouses to make room for new arrivals. Funny thing about agricultural products such as wine - each year there is a new ‘crop’ of wines and each year the wineries need to sell the wine, the distributors bring in the new vintages and whatever older vintages are still there tend to get somewhat forgotten about. The distributors (just like retailers) are not in the business of ageing wine - they are in the ’selling’ business and need to get rid of the old to make room for the new.
So, once a year, they closeout some of the stuff that has been sitting in their temperature controlled warehouses for a couple of years (or more) and this year we were offered a chance to get in on the closeout madness. Who knows why the wines are still there and haven’t yet sold? There is so much freaking wine out there and it all has to be sold but not all of it does as quickly as it should. When the deals are this good sometimes it is just plain smart not to ask too many questions - just grab it and run. So that’s what we did! We grabbed around 100 cases of wine at prices that make us feel like we just robbed the bank.
Keep in mind that many of these wines have already done their ’short-term’ cellaring in the warehouses and are now at PEAK drinking. For example, while doing research on one of the wines I was reading a review from Robert Parker and in his review (which he scored a 92 point rating) he gave the wine an anticipated maturity of 2007-2012. Plain and simple…these wines are ready to go and many of them are in the ’sweet spot’ of their maturity and evolution. This is a rare opportunity to get wines with a little bit of bottle age - a completely different drinking experience.
We can’t give you the names of the actual wines here but can give you an idea of some of the savings you can expect to find:
2004 Sonoma County Reserve Chardonnay
retail price: $25 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $8
2001 Paso Robles Syrah (92 points Wine Enthusiast)
retail price: $42 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $12
2005 Spanish Grenache
retail price: $12 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $5
2002 Rosso di Montalcino
retail price: $22 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $4
1998 Napa Valley Reserve Red Meritage
retail price: $70 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $15
2003 Chateauneuf du Pape
retail price: $45 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $14
2002 Washington Claret (94 pts Wine Enthusiast)
retail price: $50 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $10
2001 Cotes du Rhone (90 pts Wine Advocate)
retail price: $18 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $7
1999 Seleccion Toro (Spain)
retail price: $30 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $9
2001 Super Tuscan (92 pts Wine Advocate)
retail price: $72 GARAGE SALE PRICE: $22
Those are just a few of the insane bargains you will find as we celebrate summer with the biggest wine sale in our history.
Quantities on many of the wines will be limited and in some cases very limited.
