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No complaints about order processing and delivery
Good but packaging not so good ripped cardboard and visible bottles
Good for the site / superb for the delivery time: but the carrier only delivers when we're working! so it's impossible to get delivery: I have to collect my parcel from the carrier / only 6 bottles per parcel, whereas other sites offer delivery by the unit / a shame because the winemakers and wines on offer are excellent.
Wines sometimes disappointing and far from the site's tasting notes. Reliable order dispatch
The wines on offer are interesting and ordering is very easy. Unfortunately, the delivery went badly: it took a week to get the carrier on the phone; no flxibility from him until I told him that if he didn't adapt he'd better send the parcel back; in the meantime a company in Chalon contacted me but when I asked them to help me well they told me there was nothing they could do.... With all this I hope at least that the wine hasn't been touched during transport and storage I don't know where.
Grossly inadequate packaging! lousy transport!
Good wine but catastrophic delivery .
Despite an order of eight cartons, there was no packaging and the cartons, given their condition, were tossed around in the truck the whole way! As for the tasting, the Vire Clissé is satisfactory, but the Syrah is certainly a bottom of the vat that we wanted to get rid of...... it was a first order to test your site, so you be the judge.
No, the fact that we paid less was not due to "tank bottlings", it was simply a question of non-rare wines, with recurrent success, which allow us once a year to give our customers very good deals on everyday wines, our regular customers being quite often frustrated by the too limited quantities of our winemakers' superior cuvées. We're sorry you didn't like Yves Cuilleron's Syrah. You rated it 1*/5 and commented "mediocre". On the other hand, you didn't bother to rate the Viré Clessé (which you consider "satisfactory" in this review of our site in general). Admittedly, this Syrah is not the wine of the century, but many of our customers are "afficionados" of it and enjoy it on a daily basis, precisely for its lightness and simplicity, without expecting too much complexity. We're sorry to say you won't be one of them. We sell several thousand bottles of this cuvée every year, and have never had any negative feedback, only the occasional disappointment from customers who were used to the estate's superior cuvées, we admit. Having said that, tastes and colors are not up for discussion, and you can of course, like all our customers who don't like a wine, return it to us (71 rue mermet, 69160 tassin) and we'll refund you for the wines received as soon as we receive them. Regarding the condition of the boxes when they arrived at your home in Quiberon three days after they left our Burgundy cellars (they left the day after we received your check in the mail), we're sorry that they weren't visually correct. We don't understand your remark: "no packaging". We only sell whole cartons purchased directly from the estates, and simply deliver these cartons. In fact, some winegrowers use flimsy cartons, and when we suggest they use sturdier ones, they usually point out that it's expensive and that as long as the bottle isn't damaged, that's the main thing... and sometimes add that they reserve the sturdier cartons (and sometimes wooden crates) for the "superior" vintages of their production. Of course, the cartons are always a little "shaken up" during transport, whether to France or the other side of the world, and everyone knows that it's enough to wait two or three days for the wines to rest for the quality of the bottles to be irreproachable.
Once again, please accept our apologies for having failed to satisfy you, both in terms of the quality of the Syrah (we have of course passed on your comment to the winemaker, who is very open to compliments but also to criticism), and the condition of the boxes when they arrived. Yours sincerely, Tristan Depauw
Easy-to-navigate site. Large selection of wines Prices are far from being the tightest on the market. We buy blind the dythirambic prose sent each week by the owner. In short, I live in Brittany. 8 days for delivery is crazy. Our delivery times are identical to those offered for shipments to Greenland.
As well as being the author of the dithyrambic prose on Thursdays, I'm also responsible for wine selection and customer satisfaction (which I regret I can't deliver all over France myself!). I think I have always satisfied you since our first contact in November 2016 (reservations of rare wines, grouping of several orders to benefit from free delivery, etc. I counted 20 email exchanges between us for 9 orders), so I find you quite harsh to only note THE bad experience - which is obviously one too many - without taking into account the previous good ones. I hope that when you uncork a bottle, those first 8 deliveries will come back to you... and that time will diminish the bad experience of this 9th delayed delivery... so that you can then call on our services again, and verify that it was indeed an isolated error. Enjoy your tastings! Sincerely, Tristan Depauw "le patron" 😉
Welcoming site, well presented, good selection of wines, but comments a little self-indulgent.
I ordered some wine but the transporter arrived without calling me, luckily I was there. This transporter was annoyed by a short wait because I was on the phone with a customer. In short, not great.
Very good advice on wines that are not necessarily well known, and good value for money. Last order arrived a little later than expected.
Impeccable from every point of view (very nice selections of both winegrowers and bottles) The only downside: for my last order you hadn't received the order form;] perhaps the Post Office?...]. I had to repeat the order. Once I found it, everything was back in order.
I've just received the catalog and leafed through it. I plan to consult it later.
Delivery charges too high for the service. 20€ for 6 bottles = 1 week's delay between the date of departure from the winemaker and the date of home delivery. In difficult weather conditions (e.g. hot weather), organic and natural wines (with little or no sulfur) may not recover.
Having said that, it's true that delivery is a real concern for all wine sellers, and that the ideal solution doesn't exist... or else it's too expensive, and no customer would agree to pay the price, which you already find too high: €16.6 ex VAT, or €20 incl. VAT, is what it actually costs to deliver a case of 6 bottles in France. It costs much more when we deliver several cartons. But we only charge this flat rate of €20, whatever the quantity ordered, and offer it for orders of €400 or more. That's why our customers sometimes get together several people to reach the "franco" rate. You're right, we may seem expensive, and other sites charge less, but lose money on this service. We can't afford this luxury if we want to keep our prices competitive and, above all, keep doing what we do for the long term. At least, to make these invoicing conditions clear, we "show our colors" on the home page of our site and in all our Thursday newsletters...
On the subject of "natural" wines, you're absolutely right there too: unsulphured wines run a high risk of not being able to withstand temperatures >14°C, which is why we don't offer them, apart from one exception out of our 750 references: JC Lapalu's "tentation" cuvée, which I adore... (He's such a master of winemaking that there's virtually no risk, and we've never had a problem). Well-made, "low-sulphite" wines are "low-sulphite" precisely so that they can be transported at normal temperatures and not suffer any deviations in the event of less-than-optimal storage conditions. In fact, most of our cuvées have very little sulfur, but our very elitist selection at least has this merit: all the wines are well made and present little risk of deviations, thanks to the great mastery of their makers from vine to bottle. Of course, there's always a risk, like cork taint... and many other lesser-known risks, too. In short, we do our best... and try as far as possible to deliver wines without the slightest shock. We keep deliveries to a minimum in hot weather, and so on. But it's true, it's not easy! In any case, I want you to know that we do everything we can to deliver faster when our customers ask us to, and to satisfy them whatever the request. I'm sure we'll manage to lower our delivery costs and improve our lead times over time... Thank you again for your trust and understanding, and I hope to see you soon! Tristan Depauw, founder.
The wine is good but....
I was very disappointed by patrick bauduin's wines
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Unacceptable packaging. A 6-bottle box that was too large and had no wedges between the bottles, which collided and bumped into each other ...Miracle that nothing was broken . Not at all professional .
Unpleasant delivery, no warning, delivery notice inviting you to drive 30 km to pick up the parcel at the depot .....
I regret that I was unable to enclose a card with my shipment, which was a gift. I can't answer your second question as I haven't tasted your wine. Yours sincerely. Th L
Everything would have been fine, except that I didn't receive the wine I'd ordered, but another from the same estate, so there was an inversion. Your Customer Service department noticed this and contacted me (a good point) and I chose to keep the one I received.