I need to get moving on getting some more wine going. I generally
prefer the
Winexpert Estate series. Since returning to Las Vegas, however, I
haven't
found a dealer. (The Vegas dealer listed on Winexpert's page is long
gone, and the
indoor organic shop that has what's left isn't ordering anymore).

Ordering from leisure-time will kill me on the shipping--these things
are about
$50 each to ship from Ohio to Vegas, weighing ~50 pounds.

I need at least a half dozen to get going again, and would really like
to find someplace
that will discount/bulk ship/something an order this large.

I'm assuming that the shop would be in Arizona, Utah, or Southern
California.

Thanks

hawk

I'd have thought that a town as big as Las Vegas would have at least
one decent winemaking supply store. A couple minutes on Google failed
to turn one up, though. Seems to me you have a couple options -- one,
find a mail-order supplier that doesn't charge so much for shipping.
Shipping policies do differ a lot between vendors. Two, find a
supplier not too far away (Los Angeles area, maybe) and persuade
someone who will be driving to Las Vegas anyway to haul the kits along
as a favor. (Maybe promise them a bottle or two from each kit?)

Doug

On Jun 27, 11:37 am, Doug > wrote:
> I'd have thought that a town as big as Las Vegas would have at least
> one decent winemaking supply store.

One would think that, yes

It seems that there's slightly less business in beer & wine making
here than it takes to
keep a store open, so they keep failing . . .

> A couple minutes on Google failed
> to turn one up, though. Seems to me you have a couple options -- one,
> find a mail-order supplier that doesn't charge so much for shipping.
> Shipping policies do differ a lot between vendors.

Yeah, but they're stuck from the start with over $40 with UPS . . .
but it looks like that can
drop to about $78 for a 150 pound shipment (which could hold three)
with DHL, and that it
drops almost that low when doing a multi-package shipment with UPS.

> Two, find a
> supplier not too far away (Los Angeles area, maybe) and persuade
> someone who will be driving to Las Vegas anyway to haul the kits along
> as a favor. (Maybe promise them a bottle or two from each kit?)

I can come up with excuses to go there or San Diego occasionally
Tuscon & Phoenix,
too, for that matter.

In the meantime, I've found $168 for the crushendos and $139 for the
other estate reds from High Gravity out of OK, shipping included (and
a little less for most of the whites).

hawk, who wouldn't be adverse to a one-time direct contact on this
from a store, but would become hostile if added to a mailing list

wrote:
> On Jun 27, 11:37 am, Doug > wrote:
> I can come up with excuses to go there or San Diego occasionally
> Tuscon & Phoenix,
> too, for that matter.
>
> In the meantime, I've found $168 for the crushendos and $139 for the
> other estate reds from High Gravity out of OK, shipping included (and
> a little less for most of the whites).

Homebrewer's Outpost in Flagstaff turned out to be the solution. Their
shipping caps at $20.

Leisuretime's prices were almost $30 less, and "hundredweight" shipping
drops the cost to $67/hundred pounds, but I went with the (relatively)
close place--If I cross a 100 lb point, I could get hit with another,
and there isn't exact enough shipping weight available.

So I now have 10 kits on the way. Eight for me, and two for the banquets.

hawk, down to his last two cases

hawk;

If you care to beat the heat, drive up to my local store in flagstaff,
homebrewers outpost. They carry the full range. Only about five hours
from vegas really...well worth it for that much kit, nice drive too

Sean



On Jun 27, 10:50 am, " > wrote:
> I need to get moving on getting some more wine going. I generally
> prefer the
> Winexpert Estate series. Since returning to Las Vegas, however, I
> haven't
> found a dealer. (The Vegas dealer listed on Winexpert's page is long
> gone, and the
> indoor organic shop that has what's left isn't ordering anymore).
>
> Ordering from leisure-time will kill me on the shipping--these things
> are about
> $50 each to ship from Ohio to Vegas, weighing ~50 pounds.
>
> I need at least a half dozen to get going again, and would really like
> to find someplace
> that will discount/bulk ship/something an order this large.
>
> I'm assuming that the shop would be in Arizona, Utah, or Southern
> California.
>
> Thanks
>
> hawk

On Jun 28, 2:58 am, snpm > wrote:
> hawk;
>
> If you care to beat the heat, drive up to my local store in flagstaff,
> homebrewers outpost. They carry the full range. Only about five hours
> from vegas really...well worth it for that much kit, nice drive too




I just found this today. That order was indeed me

The drop-shipped boxes arrived yesterday.

hawk