There’s never been a better time to break out that bottle you’ve been saving.
. “A ’79 Hanzell Pinot on a Tuesday with grilled pork tenderloin? Sure, why not. An ’81 Hanzell chard while watchingHis friend Walker Strangis, who sources and sells older wines, says that his clients and wine buddies aren’t merely drinking because they think they’re in an episode of. It’s that there’s no school tomorrow. Every day is a weekend. “There’s no rush. You don’t have to go pick up the kids or run out to a dinner or drive anywhere,” Strangis says.
Not yet. Nielsen reports that wine sales, which had been flat for the 13 weeks leading up to the end of January, were up 27.6 percent over last year for the week ending March 14; spirits were up 26.4 percent . While I gaze at my magnums sadly, imagining the parties they were meant to go to, I am apparently looking at them incorrectly. Magnum sales are up nearly 20 percent, and three-liter boxes are up 53 percent. Big bottles are now merely ways to avoid all that cork-opening effort.
David Duncan, who runs Silver Oak, Twomey and Ovid wineries in Napa and Sonoma, says that the bulk wine market, where he sells juice he decides not to use for his blends, has suddenly gotten hot. “It went from $5 to $25 a gallon. The wineries that make those kinds of manufactured wines are seeing a huge demand. They’re trying to make wine and get it into bottles quickly so they can get them in Costco.
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