Dan Murphy's and Other Wine Deals

beefarmer said:
The variety here is supurb for something a "bit different", which is what you can also say about the seventy dollar grenache's website. Very odd indeed. Seventy bucks a bottle ''hmm. Maybe the original author of the WD title will be correct.
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Picked up a case of Zontes Malbec Beauregard for $2.40 a bottle from liquorland two years ago. Was good for something different.
 
Just received this from the Wynns Gables club​
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prozac said:
Don't want to dis your post, but was $77.10 last week at "some" DM less the amex $15 less the usual.

For those without a user-friendly DM nearby this is a good deal.
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Yes - fair point - I hadn't seen that offer. Hopefully when DM open a store in my state their freight charges will improve.

The $84 is a delivered price to Tas, the Wynns site asks for your state before listing prices so others may be able to get them for a little less? I have never played around to find out
 
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Steady said:
Yes - fair point - I hadn't seen that offer. Hopefully when DM open a store in my state their freight charges will improve.

The $84 is a delivered price to Tas, the Wynns site asks for your state before listing prices so others may be able to get them for a little less? I have never played around to find out
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$84 is the price to VIC as well. $14/bottle delivered and from the winery isn't terrible, but as noted it can be had cheaper in some areas.
 
Steady said:
Yes - fair point - I hadn't seen that offer. Hopefully when DM open a store in my state their freight charges will improve.

The $84 is a delivered price to Tas, the Wynns site asks for your state before listing prices so others may be able to get them for a little less? I have never played around to find out
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That is so sad Steady...:(
Do you have to pay import duties?

I enjoyed one of these 2 nights ago. Most acceptable.
 
Used them a couple of times 6-7 years back.....West coast. Preferred going through "old" Langtons as I used to save the bottles , through multiple Melb/Sydney auctions,till I had a case for shipping..........and they didn't charge for storage
 
prozac said:
That is so sad Steady...:(
Do you have to pay import duties?

I enjoyed one of these 2 nights ago. Most acceptable.
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We also pay fines for living in Darwin, so as much as I love this thread, very few Dan's deals work out for me once you add freight.

<start of rant>
What most annoys me is that Darwin is a metro area. A small one, but still a metro. But whenever Dan's do a free metro delivery deal Darwin is excluded. Heck, we don't even meet their criteria for regional. Not happy Dan.
<end of rant>
 
Captain Halliday said:
We also pay fines for living in Darwin, so as much as I love this thread, very few Dan's deals work out for me once you add freight.

<start of rant>
What most annoys me is that Darwin is a metro area. A small one, but still a metro. But whenever Dan's do a free metro delivery deal Darwin is excluded. Heck, we don't even meet their criteria for regional. Not happy Dan.
<end of rant>
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I hear you - I see epiQure exclude DRW on some items now - has that always been the case? (I noticed it on some glassware)
 
Steady said:
Does anyone use Sterling Wine Auctions or know much about them?
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TL;DR. I won't use them again.

Yes. Quite extensively in the past actually, but not sure I'll ever use them again. Let me explain...

Perhaps six or so years ago I was keen to buy some wine on the secondary market. Sterling based in Perth was really advantageous as their office was one suburb away. This meant I could pick up directly any wine I purchased from auction. Be it just a bottle or two. Saved me having to pay the minimum amount postage and also meant I didn't have to worry about shoddy transport of the wine.

Back then there were some great bargains and reserves were realistic. As time went on I found there were fewer bargains and the reserves for wines of unknown provenance was simply not worth the risk for the asking price. I still purchased a few bottles here and there. Never really had provenance issues which was a good result.

Then they changed and decided no more pick-up. Wine had to be mailed out. However, they offered free postage for Perth. I thought that's reasonable still. Then they started charging for local postage which meant buying just one or two bottles at an auction just didn't make sense. I still got the emails and had the odd browse, but noticed reserves were high and the same wines were being passed in, auction after auction.

A good friend of mine has been buying from Sterling for a very long time. He too was disappointed with the changes but kept buying, until after one auction the wine posted to him just didn't turn up. Australia Post were useless. Sterling was not interested and essentially blamed my friend for not taking out the optional insurance on delivery.

Now my view and my friends is insurance isn't there for tracking down stolen/lost wine deliveries. It would be to deal with a bottle breaking in transit. My friend again approached Sterling and their attitude just stunk. Something along the lines of he is wasting too much of his time chasing up the issue and bad luck. My friend wasn't aware of credit card charge backs until I told him. He contacted his card provided and the charge back was completed. Sterling have lost a long term customer who has easily spent over $10k with them.

After that story, I don't think I'll touch them again either.

I've heard many good things about https://www.wickman.net.au/ but not yet purchased there myself. I do like how they give some provenance information, which is more than Sterling do. I've had contact with the owner about holding wine for me should I buy and he seemed very accommodating.

Sorry for the lengthy response to what was originally a simple question.
 
Daver6 said:
TL;DR. I won't use them again.

Yes. Quite extensively in the past actually, but not sure I'll ever use them again. Let me explain...

Perhaps six or so years ago I was keen to buy some wine on the secondary market. Sterling based in Perth was really advantageous as their office was one suburb away. This meant I could pick up directly any wine I purchased from auction. Be it just a bottle or two. Saved me having to pay the minimum amount postage and also meant I didn't have to worry about shoddy transport of the wine.

Back then there were some great bargains and reserves were realistic. As time went on I found there were fewer bargains and the reserves for wines of unknown provenance was simply not worth the risk for the asking price. I still purchased a few bottles here and there. Never really had provenance issues which was a good result.

Then they changed and decided no more pick-up. Wine had to be mailed out. However, they offered free postage for Perth. I thought that's reasonable still. Then they started charging for local postage which meant buying just one or two bottles at an auction just didn't make sense. I still got the emails and had the odd browse, but noticed reserves were high and the same wines were being passed in, auction after auction.

A good friend of mine has been buying from Sterling for a very long time. He too was disappointed with the changes but kept buying, until after one auction the wine posted to him just didn't turn up. Australia Post were useless. Sterling was not interested and essentially blamed my friend for not taking out the optional insurance on delivery.

Now my view and my friends is insurance isn't there for tracking down stolen/lost wine deliveries. It would be to deal with a bottle breaking in transit. My friend again approached Sterling and their attitude just stunk. Something along the lines of he is wasting too much of his time chasing up the issue and bad luck. My friend wasn't aware of credit card charge backs until I told him. He contacted his card provided and the charge back was completed. Sterling have lost a long term customer who has easily spent over $10k with them.

After that story, I don't think I'll touch them again either.

I've heard many good things about https://www.wickman.net.au/ but not yet purchased there myself. I do like how they give some provenance information, which is more than Sterling do. I've had contact with the owner about holding wine for me should I buy and he seemed very accommodating.

Sorry for the lengthy response to what was originally a simple question.
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Thanks That's the perfect answer. I signed up a month or two ago and have been watching some of the offerings and they keep showing up and the reserves on these wines seem high.
 

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