Question about SAQ

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originally posted by Joe_Perry:
Question about SAQI'll be going up to the Eastern Townships in two weeks and I'd like to be more strategic in my purchases than I have in the past. Usually, I just go to the Signature SAQ and hope that they have what I am looking for. This year, I'd like to plan things out a little better and have the wines listed on the website be the wines I buy. Is there a way that I can order the wines online and have them available for pickup from a single SAQ (Signature or otherwise) or my hotel?

TIA,
Joe
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Not at all cute, but perhaps helpful:
I'm told that a wine available anywhere in the system (there is a search function) can be delivered to a store where you plan to pick it up, given some lead time. So, if you locate a bottle of, say, 1847 Tondonia Blanco, in a SAQ outlet north of the arctic circle where nobody knows what a find it is, you could pick it up in Montreal.
Or not.
Charles
 
originally posted by Jake Parrott:
However you sort out your SAQ acquisitions, an SAQ store in Montreal (not the main one) is the only place in North America I've ever seen a bottle of AOC Chateau-Chalon.
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Stop looking over my shoulder.
 
originally posted by Charles Weiss:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
Question about SAQI'll be going up to the Eastern Townships in two weeks and I'd like to be more strategic in my purchases than I have in the past. Usually, I just go to the Signature SAQ and hope that they have what I am looking for. This year, I'd like to plan things out a little better and have the wines listed on the website be the wines I buy. Is there a way that I can order the wines online and have them available for pickup from a single SAQ (Signature or otherwise) or my hotel?

TIA,
Joe
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Not at all cute, but perhaps helpful:
I'm told that a wine available anywhere in the system (there is a search function) can be delivered to a store where you plan to pick it up, given some lead time. So, if you locate a bottle of, say, 1847 Tondonia Blanco, in a SAQ outlet north of the arctic circle where nobody knows what a find it is, you could pick it up in Montreal.
Or not.
Charles
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I'll try it... will report results. Despite my four years of french in High School -which should make me almost native in any French speaking country- I have never been comfortable with any ordering instructions beyond "Je voudrai..."

Best,
Joe
 
originally posted by Thor:
Actually, the line (at least as recorded on "The Song Remains The Same") was "does anybody remember... trees?"
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I think your memory has failed you here. On that album/video, it's "laughter." "Forests" came from an MSG show in 1977, though it's possible I'm forgetting some additional instances from that tour.
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Quite right, as I recalled while putting my son to bed tonight. Yes, the original ad-lib was "laughter," as recorded on TSRTS; the version I heard in concert was "trees," but I am more than willing to concede that elsewhere on the '77 tour Plant may have used other lines, with other responses from the audience. Sorry for the brain glitch.

while Bonzo and Peter Grant administered a beating to several BGP employees.
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Bonham kicked the guard that struck Grant's son during the acoustic set, but he then went back onstage and the beating was administered by Grant and John Bindon.
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The story resembles the plot of Rashomon. Every eyewitness account is unreliable for one reason or another, but I can correct you on one point: the whole fracas happened before Led Zep ever took to the set. The bill that day was the atrociously bad Judas Priest (!!!) opening, followed by the All-American boy Rick Derringer. After Derringer's set was complete, the audience at the Oakland Coliseum waited for well over an hour before Led Zep took the stage. At that point, Grant and Bindon may very well have continued beating the security guard, but the band played a full set that day, including an acoustic set. There was no appreciable hiatus that I can recall between the electric and acoustic sets. Whether the guard actually struck Grant's son is also open to question, as Grant and Zep's drugged-out manager were the only people to claim that he did and Grant at least had plenty of motive for doing so after the lawsuit was filed.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
originally posted by Charles Weiss:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
Question about SAQI'll be going up to the Eastern Townships in two weeks and I'd like to be more strategic in my purchases than I have in the past. Usually, I just go to the Signature SAQ and hope that they have what I am looking for. This year, I'd like to plan things out a little better and have the wines listed on the website be the wines I buy. Is there a way that I can order the wines online and have them available for pickup from a single SAQ (Signature or otherwise) or my hotel?

TIA,
Joe
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Not at all cute, but perhaps helpful:
I'm told that a wine available anywhere in the system (there is a search function) can be delivered to a store where you plan to pick it up, given some lead time. So, if you locate a bottle of, say, 1847 Tondonia Blanco, in a SAQ outlet north of the arctic circle where nobody knows what a find it is, you could pick it up in Montreal.
Or not.
Charles
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I'll try it... will report results. Despite my four years of french in High School -which should make me almost native in any French speaking country- I have never been comfortable with any ordering instructions beyond "Je voudrai..."

Best,
Joe
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s.
 
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
BTW, saw elsewhere that you ride a Fat City. Isn't the frame about as old as you are? I've got a Yo Eddy hardtail that's still a better bike than I am a rider. It was among the last non-ti frames they built before shutting down and replaced a Wicked that didn't fit properly.

-Eden (and people think that the SAQ posts were obtuse)
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When I was a kid, I rode a P.O.S. Ross Mnt. Bike. I promised myself that I would buy a Fat City bike when I had the means. When I turned 21, I was able to fulfill that promise and buy a 1994 Fat Chance "Yo Eddy" produced at the Saratoga factory. I rode this bike with pride off-road for five years. I have since outfitted it as a commuter bike and switched to a Independent Fabrication for XC. The bikes both climb like mountain goats, but the modern headtube of the IF (giving me more choices for suspension) and different geometry which doesn't stretch me out like taffy, make the IF the better choice for my riding style.

Great bikes, either way. The guys at the Summerville factory have always been good to me. I used to take my adventure camp kids to the IF (original Fat) factory on rainy days. Most of them are the same guys from the Chris Chance days. I even have a color change Frisbee from 15 years ago that came from them (long before I owned one of their bikes).

Long live the little guy.

Best,
Joe
 
Every eyewitness account is unreliable for one reason or another
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I can't possibly imagine why.

Anyway, thanks for the eyewitness account. It's true, though, that reports on the timing and people involved are wildly different.
 
originally posted by Charles Weiss:
So, if you locate a bottle of, say, 1847 Tondonia Blanco
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P.S. What have you seen?

Are you sure it wasn't a 1964 which was Rotisserie'd?
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
originally posted by Charles Weiss:
So, if you locate a bottle of, say, 1847 Tondonia Blanco
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P.S. What have you seen?

Are you sure it wasn't a 1964 which was Rotisserie'd?
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Just trying to think of something that might pique your interest.
Besides, the 1847 probably hasn't been released yet; still being oxidized at the winery.

BTW, there's a button to toggle to english language on the SAQ website.

Charles
 
I am going to call tomorrow. Most of the wines I want are available to buy online, but I want to get a bottle of Lornet which is only available from the Signature store. I'll be in Montreal for New Year's Eve (celebrating at the four year anniversary of "Le Club Chasse et Peche") but I'm not sure if I will be in Montreal before that. I'd love to secure the wines at a SAQ in Magog a few days earlier.

Best,
Joe
 
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