Don Day: The greatest wine sale in history!

Published February 9, 2024

That’s right, in history. Well in my history anyway. And I’ve had a lot of history.

It started with an email in Don Day’s Wife’s in-box: “Looks like Costco has a sale on wine and liquor. We’re getting low. Might be worth checking out.”

“I will honey”, I mumbled and, when True Detective was three quarters over and still wasn’t getting me any closer to finding out how the eight scientists ended up as popsicles, I picked up the iPad to check out the deal.

“Can’t find a whisper about it, zero on the website”, I told her and was quite ready to give up and head back to shivery Alaska and the icy character played by Jodie Foster.

“Try this in the search”, she said and gave me six letters to put in the box, then gave them to me again when I could only remember four of them.

Sure enough, up popped a bunch of wines, six pages of them actually. On the first page was one the more regular visitors to my little cubby hole under the stairs, Kirkland Signature Rioja Reserva. It looked like they were going to give me $150 off the $229 price if I bought six (my usual quantity). I put the order in, went to the CARRITO and hit the PAGAR button. Sure enough, I was getting them for $79 a bottle. Extraordinary! I hadn’t payed so little for a wine since the days of chugging Two Buck Chuck.

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