The New & Improved Underground Cellar
0Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Wine Country Connect has resurrected Underground Cellar. @Winedavid59 and his brother are bringing two decades of wine fulfillment experience to the Underground Cellar bottle “upgrade” model.
Previous discussion of the original UC’s bankruptcy and subsequent sell-off of bottles (as well as initial conversations about the New UC) located HERE.
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And another snippet of early conversation starts here. Includes a helpful refresher from a vol mod on inserting block quotes.
One thing I am not a big fan of… <1% allocations of the “base” bottle. This is a trend that I noticed in the last couple years of the old UC. As opposed to having a fairly sizeable number of base bottles. I used to buy a lot from deals where I liked and wanted the base bottle, because I knew that I would be getting several of them in my order.
Current example, the bubbly offer for $42 with a Schramsberg BdN as the base bottle, allocated at <1%. So, same odds as scoring the top bottle in the offer. I am a fan of this wine and would have gone in for a case purchase if I knew that 3 or 4 of them were the Schramsberg.
On the flipside, I would often stay away from offers where I didn’t really want the base bottle. With the current setup, virtually every single bottle is an upgrade.
Now, I just look to see which bottles are allocated at the highest % and assume I am getting one or more of them, then decide if I will be ok with them as opposed to the ones I am hoping to score.
@chipgreen
On a recent, actually my only, I did a three bottle purchase of the ‘Celebrate with French Champagne featuring 2009 Cristal MAGNUM! × 3’ offer. Don’t recall the base bottle but the confirmation showed
Champagne Philippe Dechelle Cuvée Terrienne Brut NV 750ML × 1 ~
$70~ upgradedand
Champagne Victor Charlot Les Terres de la Grève Brut NV 750ML × 2 ~
$200~ upgradedwhere I received three of the Victor Charlot.
CS made it good with a refund; not sure how that was calculated but the whole order is a bit of a crap shoot imo. Haven’t tried one yet, but I guess I’m good with the outcome, if not optimal.
@chipgreen @rjquillin
How much did you pay for those bottles? And what was the supposed retail/MSRP?
@chipgreen @ScottW58
Taxed and delivered $51.23/btl with a $47.70 one bottle refund and $30 credit for future orders.
Like I said, CS made it good.
CT value listed at $50 with purchases from UC, Last Bottle and Last Bubbles totaling 64 bottles.
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@chipgreen @rjquillin
The old UC’s supposed msrps or whatever you want to call it used to make WTSO’s msrps look like child’s play. From what I see at the new UC not much has changed? woof I hope they are great bottles! https://undergroundcellar.com/products/champagne-victor-charlot-les-terres-de-la-greve-brut-nv-750ml
@rjquillin
They gave you a refund for the additionally upgraded upgrade?
One of my three bottles from the magnum offer was also incorrect and they gave me a refund but I don’t know if the “Value” was listed as higher or lower than the bottle I was supposed to receive.
Packing errors continue to plague WCC.
@rjquillin
Just noticed the $30 credit from your previous post. While I was refunded for the incorrect bottle, I did not get any credits towards future purchase.