Southwestern dealer for large Winexpert order?

I'd have thought that a town as big as Las Vegas would have at least one decent winemaking supply store. A couple minutes on Google failed to turn one up, though. Seems to me you have a couple options -- one, find a mail-order supplier that doesn't charge so much for shipping. Shipping policies do differ a lot between vendors. Two, find a supplier not too far away (Los Angeles area, maybe) and persuade someone who will be driving to Las Vegas anyway to haul the kits along as a favor. (Maybe promise them a bottle or two from each kit?)

Doug

One would think that, yes :)

It seems that there's slightly less business in beer & wine making here than it takes to keep a store open, so they keep failing . . .

Yeah, but they're stuck from the start with over $40 with UPS . . . but it looks like that can drop to about $78 for a 150 pound shipment (which could hold three) with DHL, and that it drops almost that low when doing a multi-package shipment with UPS.

I can come up with excuses to go there or San Diego occasionally :) Tuscon & Phoenix, too, for that matter.

In the meantime, I've found $168 for the crushendos and $139 for the other estate reds from High Gravity out of OK, shipping included (and a little less for most of the whites).

hawk, who wouldn't be adverse to a one-time direct contact on this from a store, but would become hostile if added to a mailing list

hawk;

If you care to beat the heat, drive up to my local store in flagstaff, homebrewers outpost. They carry the full range. Only about five hours from vegas really...well worth it for that much kit, nice drive too

Sean

Homebrewer's Outpost in Flagstaff turned out to be the solution. Their shipping caps at $20.

Leisuretime's prices were almost $30 less, and "hundredweight" shipping drops the cost to $67/hundred pounds, but I went with the (relatively) close place--If I cross a 100 lb point, I could get hit with another, and there isn't exact enough shipping weight available.

So I now have 10 kits on the way. Eight for me, and two for the banquets.

hawk, down to his last two cases

:)

I just found this today. That order was indeed me :)

The drop-shipped boxes arrived yesterday.

hawk