Do you think this is a good deal?

[differentdave]

Do you think this is a good deal
2003 Croft- 2 bottles
2000 Dow- 3 bottles
1997 Dow- 2 bottles
1997 Fonseca- 1 bottle
2003 Gould Campbell- 2 bottles
2000 Graham- 1 bottle
1997 Graham- 2 bottles
1997 Taylor- 1 bottle

All of them are 375's in size 400 for all 14 bottles.

[DRT]

I haven't checked specific prices but an average of $28.57 for half bottles seems a little high to me, particularly with 6 of them being 1997s which tend to be priced failry well these days.

As a comparison, I recently bought some Graham's 85 halves retail in the UK at <$40 each and have seen some Quarles Harris 1985s for around $20. I think that makes these younger wines look a bit expensive. But we know that anyway so maybe it is an OK deal.

I don't think I've helped

[g-man]

Like derek said, the younger wines are high..
and it looks to be you'll pay a premium for half bottles.
for retail, it's an okay deal, definitely no bargain

[uncle tom]

If you don't mind paying a premium for half bottles than maybe worth a punt - but as others have said, no bargain.

Tom

[differentdave]

Told the guy 400 was little high, he dropped price on his listing to 350, I just asked him if he would take 280 for them. Hopefully...

[Glenn E.]

Be careful listening to guys in the UK - their sense of price is distorted.

$400 for the lot isn't a great deal, but it's also not bad. That looks like a pretty normal retail price for a bunch of 375s to me.

$350 for the lot looks more like a nice - but still not great - price for that batch of bottles. I haven't checked, but you can probably do better by piecing out the order on wine-searcher.com. But of course then you'd be paying more for shipping from multiple stores.

If he'll sell for $280 you'd be getting a great deal.

[differentdave]

I puchased the 14 bottles for 300 (plus shipping) Thought this was a good deal and the 375's will provide a nice window to what their bigger brothers and sisters will be like.

[SushiNorth]

That seems fair, you essentially got regular bottles of 97/00/03 at $43 each, but they'll age a little faster and you can explore their youth, guiltfree. If you ever need company in that exploration...