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Small Business Saturday Sale

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I love to cook turkey and stuffing and everything that goes with the meal.  For years now we’ve hosted what we call ‘refuge’ Thanksgiving and invite over anyone who is far from family (or looking to avoid family).  It’s always a great time.  I also have always loved the day after.  There’s nothing better than leftover turkey and college football and hockey are on from 7 AM until 10 PM.  I look forward to that lazy Friday.

One of the things I’ve loved the most about Thanksgiving is it’s avoided the commercialism that takes over every other holiday.  There are no gifts to buy, or dinners to book or really any excuse to spend money on things we don’t really need, so I’ve hated the ‘Black Friday’ curse that’s gotten worse and worse over the past 10 years.  I boycott Black Friday and don’t spend any money at all, especially at retailers who force their employees to come in at 3 or 4 AM or even worse on Thanksgiving day.

There has been a response to this though called Small Business Saturday, and I like that idea.  We usually go to an arts and crafts show on that Saturday and support people making things by hand themselves.  This year we thought we’d participate too.  Running Saturday through Monday we will offer 25% off all our Library wines.  I’ve dug through the inventory report and pulled everything we have enough of to offer for sales.  In some instances there are just 2-3 cases of a wine left so things may not last.  We’ll have three wines from 2006:  Eaglepoint Ranch Syrah, Uvas Creek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, and Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon.  From 2007: Eaglepoint Ranch Syrah, Uvas Creek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon and from 2009 Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon.

To get the 25% off enter the code SBS  (for Small Business Saturday) at check out.  I’ve entered exact inventory numbers into the system so as soon as a wine sells out it will stop showing on the website.  Happy Thanksgiving!

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End Bin Blowout Next Week

Another picture of boxes.  These are in our cellar at home so you get a little peak inside our collection.   The boxes though won’t be going into our cellar we’ll be having a End Bin sale next week.  Figuring out allocations is always hard but we usually do pretty well in selling just about everything with just a little left.  It’s a hard thing to figure out but we have a few good brokers who are willing to wait for direct sales to end and then step in and take what ever is left over.

I try to leave just two cases of each wine.  One for us that will go into our collection and personal cellar and one that will go into our library to replace any problem bottles that might be reported in the future.  On a few occasions I’ve been down to just a few bottles we end up keeping but usually I can get us at least a case for our use.

When ordering season is over and we’re down to just a few cases of something I send a note to our storage facility to send everything they have left of that wine.  I always say ‘everything’, because it’s a good way to match up inventory.  It also cuts down on phone tag with the warehouse: “You said send 3 but there are only two here, what do we do?”. “Send everything.”

On some items we will have more than two cases left and when that happens I have a blow out sale.  I’ll do that next week on a few items.  I reduce prices 25-50% and we sell them off by the case, shipping included, first come first serve.  We’ll have about 5 cases of Sessen to sell as well as two cases of Harvest Moon Special Reserve and two cases of Split Rail Syrah.  Not a ton of stuff but great for bargain hunters.  I’ll post the sales here and on Facebook.  Usually the people on Facebook get the update faster so if you’re not a friend or fan there, do it now!