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Thank you for your post and happy to help with the purchases where I can. Doing my bit…
Here’s a suggestion with which you can increase my (and possibly others) monthly spend.
I think I’d be happy paying a premium to put less than a case quantity in reserves (the support for this exists at cases of 1 and cases of 3). When this happens the cost is borne by TWS currently. Usually happens when the wine is in demand / short supply. So the facility is there in some regard.
I’d pay for the additional warehouse costs as part of the transaction to place non-case quantities in reserves. £1-2 per bottle?
I’d probably purchase more at the high end than I currently do. The facility would make TWS and fine wine more accessible to a larger portion of it’s base.
Currently wines like this, you need 3, 6 or 12 bottle capital to stick it in reserves, which will only apply to a very small portion of TWS members.
https://www.thewinesociety.com/product/domaine-drouhin-laroze-bonnes-mares-gc-2019
Drinking window wise, it shouldn’t be touched until 2030 earliest. So if you want to buy one bottle you have to store it at home and at some point, I know I’ll access it early and it’ll be a waste. I could develop better patience, but a payment at source for the additional overheads at the warehouse would help me age higher end wine and make buying it and storing it more accessible to a wider portion of the base?
Apologies if this is too niche! Very happy with TWS. Thanks for running a great organisation.