Random vs. Mystery
1This has to stop. Unless there is a flood of people chiming in from the Anne Amie thread that they got anything less than 6 bottles of M-T, it can be assumed that there is no randomness to cases, rather they are predetermined.
Call me a pedant. Whatever. The powerball is worth a 250 million. From the reported cases, we are approaching those levels of “randomness” of having 4 (when I posted) have the exact same case.
If this is random, I want to see WD at a craps table. Can we just all agree to disclose the predetermined amounts?
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Needed to think and research a bit about this answer.
First off, totally agree we should have mixed up the 2nd case. 2 case buyers should have more variety. They’ve earned it. Historically, we’ve mixed up the 2nd case. We did not this time. One factor was that we happened to get the wine in well in advance this particular time. That means that cases were built in advance. So, finished cases were just grabbed regardless of the mix. We’ll do better next time.
Secondly, we did know that one particular varietal had more of the overall quantities than the others and cases would be heavier weighted. In hindsight, we should have emphasized this ahead of time as suggested. We stand by the wines and the (very) competitive QPR for this offer. I hope you agree. The small lot nature helped us achieve better negotiations. We agree there’ll be some changes on such offers moving forward.
Thanks for the feedback.
WD
Random means one thing. Wines “randomly” selected from a stock, sometimes with more randomness than other times.
Mystery means another. Usually a pre-determined breakdown, but not always.
The Casemates offers are usually pretty clear on that.