Hay Shed Hill Four Seasons Club
I like it when someone delivers you a ready made, straightforward but still rather elegant to a potentially thorny problem.
We weren't long back from Western Australia and I was trying to figure out how to include the wineries we'd visited over there into a purchasing schedule that didn't have much room for manoeuvre when the flier about the Hay Shed Hill Four Seasons Club arrived in the P.O. Box.
The beauty of we'll send you a specified number of bottles at prescribed intervals wine clubs is it saves the buyer the effort of deciding what he or she wants to buy. Someone else makes the decisions, but you've probably got the chance to try what you would have ordered in the first place and, most importantly, it takes the when out of the ordering equation.
In the end it depends on whether you're interested in what’s on offer.
An arrangement where you receive the Semillon Sauvignon Blanc in summer, their Sangiovese and Tempranillo in the autumn, Cabernet Sauvignon in the winter and Chardonnay in the spring looked attractive, though the $180 a throw for half a dozen wines seemed rather steep, so I did a bit of research, and a bit was all that was needed.
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