So here is my safely guarded secret. I buy wines on WineBid.com. Okay, so not that big a secret, an easily Googled website. But it is a site where for $5 you can get a perfect bottle of Hanna 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon, properly stored in a wine cellar, and in excellent condition. I know because that's one I bought. (It was so heavenly, and if you've read even one post you know I don't grab for Cab often.) Wine Bid has realistic prices on iconic wines, and you run the same risk with Wine Bid that you do with any other wine purchase, maybe even less because dusty bottles at a bottle shop may not have been stored as well as you'd hope. Yes I had a corked bottle, one leaked in transit once, and sometimes the wines are too old. But I have dumped more expensive bottles from bottle shops and wineries for the same reasons. I have accumulated several bottles from my birth year and even my siblings birth years. It's fun to see the wine produced in the year I was born, some of us are aging very nicely I might add.
You can access Harlan, Sin Qua Non, Screaming Eagle and other cult wines here, but I find the "$25 and less category" to be a more realisticly priced treasure hunt.
So, now that I have shared my WineBid.com secret with you, I hope you check it out. And if you see someone has bid on the item by the name of "NatyE" DON'T BID, THAT'S ME!! !
