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There's an over the phone deal for those that may be interested. Reschke Armenta Museum Release 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon was $99.00, now $29.70 per bottle $356.40 or 61,920 Qantas Points per case of 12 (96 points Sam Kim)...

That's a puzzler... I just created a regular account last year, no association. Perhaps it's a temp exclusion to prevent new accounts reaping any future price error disasters 🤔 Nevermind, got reminded it was through one of their tastings.

Decent pricing on some generic champagne @ Henry&Paul (Pernod Ricard) Stacks with the Spend & Save Promo (5% off 300+, 10% off 750+, 15% off $1500) https://www.henryandpaul.com.au/shop/champagne.html No premium pricing on the larger formats make it somewhat attractive for Christmas events.

Looks to be coming back soon, with case limits. Guessing some retailers/resellers bulk bought.

Some okay-ish priced champagne at boozebud via ebay with the 20/22% off: https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/258852/i.html?_dcat=258852&_dmd=2&_fsrp=1&_ssn=boozebud_au&_sacat=258852&store_name=boozebudaustralia&_oac=1&Region=Champagne%252C%2520France&_sop=16

Damn, I read this as "20k Bonus points for 6 pack of wynns" and began warming up the amex. Sadly not so :(

Heavy dose of Laithwaites spam mail. Here's the only one that "could" be of somewhat use... maybe...

Sounds like a push from accounting department. Covid = too many points accrued = increased liabilities = not very pretty financials.

Looks like a generic code, not as good as the $75 one, but still a freebie if already purchasing. *Didn't manage to get the code to stick when trying it out. I suspect these were printed before their website overhaul, which seem to have invalidated all prior codes. So might have to ask them...

That's just complete and utter baloonery. It's a phrase that gets repeated over and over in the industry to validate some coughty move they're doing to their wines, and honestly paints a terrible picture of the overall Chinese consumer. Yes, they do heavily favour icon brands, mainly because...

Was it a big order? They held mine up and did security check, found the voice message in spam box.

Cellarone account came preloaded with gold tier... was that the same for everyone?

Over the phone offers have: Yarra Yering LDR Pinot Shiraz 2021 was $95.00, now $59.85 per bottle $359.10 or 62,483 Qantas Points per case of 6 If that's your style. 10% less with PC+

*2.5% on penfolds

Brought some sleeping beauties out for the public holiday. Poured right from the bottle, undecanted. Took about 4 hours to blossom. Fantastic aromatics, slightly grainy tannins and very much brooding. Review scores slightly overrated? - I think so.