"Mark Lipton" > wrote in message
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> Dee Dee wrote:
>
>> What I find more bizarre is that it tasted as good as the du Pape that I
>> paid $20 for. I just can't understand that. If it were just me, I'd
>> chalk
>> it up to 'my taster," but DH felt the same way. Perhaps the du Pape
>> wasn't
>> as good as it should have been.
>
> Dee,
> There's plenty of swill that comes from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, just as
> there is from any other area. Likewise, there's plenty of great wine
> made in areas that aren't entitled to any name other than "Cotes du
> Rhone." In this case, Dom. de Nalys actually has a decent reputation,
> but you have to wonder why they decided to sell it to Costco in the
> first place. For Costco to market it at $20, they probably can't pay
> Nalys any more than $10 per bottle, which is probably 50% less than
> they'd get selling it under their own name (their '04 is selling for
> $25-30 retail). In fact, their '05 white is being sold under their
> name, which makes me wonder again about the decision to sell it to
> Costco. I suspect that they weren't happy with what they had on their
> hands and chose to "declassify" the wine by selling it to Costco for
> marketing under their own name. Perhaps the most surprising thing is
> that Nalys agreed to have their name appear on the wine! ;-)
>
> Mark Lipton
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Good post reply. I enjoyed reading it a lot.
Dee Dee