CellarTracker Main Site
Register for Forum | Login | My Profile | Member List | Search

Winery swag

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [Cellar Talk] >> General Discussion >> Winery swag Page: [1] 2   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Winery swag - 8/9/2023 11:24:32 AM   
ChrisinCowiche

 

Posts: 7845
Joined: 12/16/2009
From: Cowiche, WA
Status: offline 		What is the neatest swag you have gotten from a winery as part of a purchase/allocation/club?

My favorites through years have been...

Pencils! Erica Orr includes High quality pencils with erasers like you used in elementary school or lab work. It's her nod to her lab background taking notes and do lab recordkeeping.

Sweatshirt - Kobayashi just offered/included these so I haven't seen it yet, but looking forward to it.

Ball Cap - Weathereye included that out of the blue a while back. Nice hat that I enjoy wearing.

Barrels - Not exactly "included" but I have sourced empty, usable wine barrels from both (Neil) Cooper and JB Neufeld at below market pricing. Most of my fleet, maybe 4-6 still usable, say JBN so they have Justin's good mojo goin on. .

Jelly -

Ok what else is out there?


_____________________________

http://www.cellartracker.com/new/user.asp?iUserOverride=102173
Post #: 1
RE: Winery swag - 8/9/2023 12:11:16 PM   
wineismylife

 

Posts: 6491
Joined: 11/7/2006
From: Arlington, TX
Status: offline 		Tablas Creek usually sends something out to members every August. This year I got an Ah So with their name on it. Last year was a metal water bottle. Year before was a package of wildflower seeds that are pollinators when fully grown.

_____________________________

Joe

Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone.

MyBlog @ http://www.wineismylife.net/

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 2
RE: Winery swag - 8/9/2023 12:27:05 PM   
DoubleD1969

 

Posts: 3595
Joined: 8/19/2008
From: New Jersey
Status: offline 		Macdonald baseball cap

(in reply to wineismylife)
Post #: 3
RE: Winery swag - 8/9/2023 12:37:43 PM   
BornToRhone

 

Posts: 3131
Joined: 2/14/2012
From: The Big D, Texas
Status: offline 		Liquid Farm twice provided a reusable logo bag. After 8 yrs I still use them.
Realm sent me a very nice decanter - I have not yet used it. (I already have 4 decanters.)


_____________________________

-- The answer may not lie at the bottom of a bottle of wine, but you should at least check. --

(in reply to DoubleD1969)
Post #: 4
RE: Winery swag - 8/9/2023 12:55:28 PM   
Blue Shorts

 

Posts: 2775
Joined: 2/5/2008
From: Santa Cruz
Status: offline 		Ball cap - Still wear it
Ah So cork puller
Pewter wine bottle coaster
Calendar

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 5
RE: Winery swag - 8/9/2023 1:19:58 PM   
S1

 

Posts: 14826
Joined: 11/12/2011
From: Wandering between Coastal SC and South FL
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BornToRhone

Liquid Farm twice provided a reusable logo bag. After 8 yrs I still use them.



Holy crap, a BtR sighting!!
How y'all doin?

I love those logo bags.
I also received a Liquid Farm corkscrew and a set of blind tasting bags, numbered 1-6.

_____________________________

Tous les chemins mènent à la Bourgogne!
"One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and -- one talks about it!" (in memory of drycab)

(in reply to BornToRhone)
Post #: 6
RE: Winery swag - 8/9/2023 1:32:41 PM   
motoring

 

Posts: 200
Joined: 6/23/2008
From: Des Moines, WA
Status: offline 		Barlow cellars in Calistoga. over time with the club we received a decanter, a cool art print, and on the 10th anniversary of joining the club an etched magnum from that vintage.

(in reply to S1)
Post #: 7
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 7:40:32 AM   
Hollowine

 

Posts: 7251
Joined: 7/25/2008
From: Hood River, OR
Status: offline 		WeatherEye sent out an unexpected box a few months back. Had a nice ball cap, a hydroflask coffee cup, and a note pad.

(in reply to motoring)
Post #: 8
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 9:14:43 AM   
ChrisinCowiche

 

Posts: 7845
Joined: 12/16/2009
From: Cowiche, WA
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Hollowine

WeatherEye sent out an unexpected box a few months back. Had a nice ball cap, a hydroflask coffee cup, and a note pad.

I had forgotten the stuff besides the hat, but yes, a nice gift!

On reusable wine tote bags, those are always nice and sometimes I intentionally ask for one or buy the 4 or 6 pack needed to get one. Had an odd experience a couple years ago at a wine dinner on Bainbridge Island. The Restaurant hosting was including nice 6 pack wine bags with their logo for customers adding extra wine to take home. I added a full case of 12 bottles and got a cardboard box. I asked about getting a bag and was told those were for 6-packs only. Hunh? She saw the look on my face and "found" one to include with my case. I would have expected 2, but I left it at that. Math is hard!

_____________________________

http://www.cellartracker.com/new/user.asp?iUserOverride=102173

(in reply to Hollowine)
Post #: 9
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 9:31:07 AM   
mtpisgah

 

Posts: 3570
Joined: 6/7/2012
From: South Carolina
Status: offline 		I received three of the Liquid Farm corkscrews, they are my favorite. No other swag that I can think of.

_____________________________

Paul

I read books to pass the time until the next bottle of wine.

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 10
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 11:42:15 AM   
fingers

 

Posts: 8242
Joined: 8/26/2006
From: Santa Ana, CA
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: ChrisinCowiche

Jelly -




BSE - Best Swag Ever

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 11
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 1:47:32 PM   
daviladc

 

Posts: 1698
Joined: 3/3/2019
From: Myrtle Beach SC
Status: offline 		Some nice logo engraved wine glasses from Caldwell, a decanter and special bottle of wine from Moone-Tsai, beautiful wine key from Acumen, and Christmas food gifts from Fairchild.

One of the best "gifts" ever was a text message after a hurricane that hit Myrtle Beach. Larry Tsai let us know he would send replacement bottles if our cellar was damaged in the storm.

Really thankful for the gifts.

_____________________________

Wine is not furniture. Drink it!

(in reply to fingers)
Post #: 12
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 2:07:20 PM   
Blue Shorts

 

Posts: 2775
Joined: 2/5/2008
From: Santa Cruz
Status: offline
quote:

Larry Tsai let us know he would send replacement bottles if our cellar was damaged in the storm.


Wow. That is exceptionally caring. Makes me want to purchase their wines.

(in reply to daviladc)
Post #: 13
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 3:15:10 PM   
KPB

 

Posts: 4649
Joined: 11/25/2012
From: Ithaca, New York
Status: offline 		I've received gifts of wine a few times from winemakers I know pretty well. But not sure those count as swag. And olive oil -- I received some great Napa olive oil totally out of the blue once. The only issue being that while I loved it, my wife thought it was way too peppery. So when they started to offer it for sale a year later, I wasn't a buyer... I still regret that, actually. But on the other hand, an olive oil my wife finds unacceptable just isn't a very useful thing to have in the kitchen!

_____________________________

Ken Birman
The Professor of Brettology

(in reply to Blue Shorts)
Post #: 14
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 5:27:11 PM   
S1

 

Posts: 14826
Joined: 11/12/2011
From: Wandering between Coastal SC and South FL
Status: offline 		@KPB

Like button!

_____________________________

Tous les chemins mènent à la Bourgogne!
"One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and -- one talks about it!" (in memory of drycab)

(in reply to KPB)
Post #: 15
RE: Winery swag - 8/10/2023 7:46:41 PM   
ImUrHuckleberry

 

Posts: 678
Joined: 11/17/2018
Status: offline 		Never anything from a winery, but Ansonia has given me bottles of wine, Champagne, and 2 Grassl Cru stems.

(in reply to S1)
Post #: 16
RE: Winery swag - 8/11/2023 10:42:36 AM   
Sourdough

 

Posts: 1883
Joined: 12/23/2013
From: Austin, Texas
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: fingers


quote:

ORIGINAL: ChrisinCowiche

Jelly -




BSE - Best Swag Ever



++++1

(in reply to fingers)
Post #: 17
RE: Winery swag - 8/12/2023 1:32:40 PM   
lockestep

 

Posts: 1964
Joined: 2/12/2012
From: Unionville, PA
Status: offline 		Images are the bane of my posting.

< Message edited by lockestep -- 8/12/2023 1:33:31 PM >

_____________________________

My Wine of the Month (2/24)
2016 Vincent Pinot Noir Bjornson Vineyard

(in reply to Sourdough)
Post #: 18
RE: Winery swag - 8/13/2023 12:05:26 PM   
recotte

 

Posts: 6867
Joined: 1/19/2011
Status: offline 		Gee, I guess I'm not a good enough customer to merit the Weathereye swag!

Let's see, Reynvaan once sent a particularly nice waiter's corkscrew, there's a Tablas Creek tote bag that I use for the beach, a sweet tie-dye bandana from Goat Rocks, and, of course, JELLY!

_____________________________

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

(in reply to lockestep)
Post #: 19
RE: Winery swag - 8/13/2023 5:17:16 PM   
KPB

 

Posts: 4649
Joined: 11/25/2012
From: Ithaca, New York
Status: offline 		Recotte, even one of those would be beyond awesome. As a guy with nothing, gosh, a corkscrew would be cool…

I do have lots of wood cases. But I guess they don’t count. I burn them. Cranburgundy used his wood cases to build a fence to protect his stash of the wine that must never be named. But you can actually read the name of that wine off his fence, as it turns out.

< Message edited by KPB -- 8/14/2023 4:31:47 AM >

_____________________________

Ken Birman
The Professor of Brettology

(in reply to recotte)
Post #: 20
RE: Winery swag - 8/13/2023 5:26:29 PM   
bradbobaggins

 

Posts: 8
Joined: 4/24/2010
Status: offline 		Back when I had a bunch of extras coming from a local shop who just tossed them, I'd use wood cases for kindling. They're really the best for getting the fire pit going on a Friday evening!

(in reply to KPB)
Post #: 21
RE: Winery swag - 8/14/2023 4:15:51 AM   
ImUrHuckleberry

 

Posts: 678
Joined: 11/17/2018
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: KPB
Cranburgundy used his wood cases to build a fence to protect his stash of the wine that must never be named. But you can actually read the name of that wine off his fence, as it turns out.


This reminded me of that old Steve Martin skit about penis enlargement cream shipped discretely in a package labeled "not penis enlargement cream".

(in reply to KPB)
Post #: 22
RE: Winery swag - 8/14/2023 8:32:32 AM   
BobInNH

 

Posts: 59
Joined: 4/9/2022
Status: offline 		Windward, in Paso Robles, when we signed up for their wine club after a tasting they gave us two beautiful logo wine glasses and a great book on wines. Not sure if they do that for everyone but we struck up a nice rapport with the owner's son. BTW, a boutique winery, about 1500 cases/yr, only Pinot. Fabulous wines.


(in reply to ImUrHuckleberry)
Post #: 23
RE: Winery swag - 10/9/2023 11:28:18 AM   
ChrisinCowiche

 

Posts: 7845
Joined: 12/16/2009
From: Cowiche, WA
Status: offline 		Sorry for the scare, but got this nice hat over the weekend from my friends at JB Neufeld...






_____________________________

http://www.cellartracker.com/new/user.asp?iUserOverride=102173

(in reply to BobInNH)
Post #: 24
RE: Winery swag - 10/11/2023 10:17:32 AM   
BenNoir

 

Posts: 921
Joined: 7/9/2014
From: Snoqualmie River Valley, WA
Status: offline 		Nice hat

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 25
RE: Winery swag - 11/2/2023 2:51:13 PM   
ChrisinCowiche

 

Posts: 7845
Joined: 12/16/2009
From: Cowiche, WA
Status: offline 		I met Travis and Mario in Yakima's Target parking lot today and scored the Kobayashi sweatshirt (along with the wines). I got Barbilocks' size since she likes black and zipper sweatshirts. Very Nice!!!!





< Message edited by ChrisinCowiche -- 11/2/2023 3:42:07 PM >

_____________________________

http://www.cellartracker.com/new/user.asp?iUserOverride=102173

(in reply to BenNoir)
Post #: 26
RE: Winery swag - 11/2/2023 3:29:10 PM   
Blue Shorts

 

Posts: 2775
Joined: 2/5/2008
From: Santa Cruz
Status: offline
quote:

got this nice hat over the weekend from my friends at JB Neufeld...


I got a very similar hat from Tablas Creek a few years back. Nice swag.

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 27
RE: Winery swag - 11/4/2023 3:29:27 PM   
wadcorp

 

Posts: 9330
Joined: 10/29/2008
From: Kansas City, MO
Status: offline 		Didn't pick up any winery swag while in the Santa Barbara / Los Olivos area.

Did pick up wine.

I need to add a post to that thread I created…

.

_____________________________

"Wine is light held together by moisture."
— Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

(in reply to Blue Shorts)
Post #: 28
RE: Winery swag - 11/12/2023 11:10:09 AM   
ChrisinCowiche

 

Posts: 7845
Joined: 12/16/2009
From: Cowiche, WA
Status: offline 		Not sure if this counts as swag. We drank a 2012 JB Neufeld Artz Cab last week during an on-line harvest update tasting. A few days later Justin shows up at our house with a case of wine we had ordered, plus a Bonus Bottle. A library 1.5L of the 2012 Artz! I stole the label off the empty 750 and added it to the bigger bottle.




_____________________________

http://www.cellartracker.com/new/user.asp?iUserOverride=102173

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 29
RE: Winery swag - 11/12/2023 11:37:00 AM   
recotte

 

Posts: 6867
Joined: 1/19/2011
Status: offline 		Definitely a nice freebie!

_____________________________

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

(in reply to ChrisinCowiche)
Post #: 30
Page:   [1] 2   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Cellar Talk] >> General Discussion >> Winery swag Page: [1] 2   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.188