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July 18 Vintages Catalogue

SUMMARY 122 NEW JULY 18 RELEASES
see our linked Agent Summary with cases
See our July 18 Buyers Guide
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Vintages & Classics "Secret" 20%-off Sale
It started on July 8. Unfortunately the LCBO did not provide the public with the huge list of 200+ items (Classics & Vintages) being discounted by 20%. In fact, when I searched two items that are discounted (see below), but only the regular price comes up. You have to actually go to the store and see if a RED hand-written discount price appears on the display bin tag at that store. No LCBO stores with discounts are revealed online or anywhere. Here is an example from Flagship store #149 at Bloor West & Royal York from July 9th. Note that this store was still in the lengthy process of posting all the discounted prices. Also, none of the dozens of CLASSICS items being discounted are on display - there is no shelf space available. Only the insiders can track these buys down, the average consumer is left in the dark. More to come.

Click here to see my recent Hidden Bench GAMAY 2023 recommendation that is now on sale at store 149 for only $24 vs $29.95. Note that the discounted in-store $24 price does not appear anywhere on the LCBO website. In fact, the LCBO website has it as $29.95 & as of today (July 17) 6 bottles (not 2) are available. Also note that next Friday the discount increases to 30%.| This applies to the two wines above as well as all 200+ hand-discounted wines in the store. Meanwhile the enomatic wine tasting bar at #149 is now out of commission until July 23. (posted Friday, July 17)

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A Tasty Suave Italian White
Pieropan Soave Classico 2023
Fresh, Bright, Pear-Citrus-Melon ** (90-points)
$16.95 - July 18 Vintages #946848
Bright medium straw colour. Fresh, slightly spicy, minerally, lemon-melon-apple nose. Dry, medium bodied, gently spicy, faintly honeyed, minerally, melon-apple-pear flavours with a lively, unoaked, faintly savoury finish. This well balanced ready-to-enjoy Venetian summer refresher is a lees-aged blend of 90% Garganega and 10% Trebbiano di Soave with only 12% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar.

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