Tuesday, 29 December 2015

An unexpected vinous windfall


A large local branch of one of the big two supermarkets was closing and re-opening as a small branch elsewhere in the same shopping complex. Unbeknownst to me, what had once started off as one of the largest shops on Hong Kong Island, became in the various previous downsizing exercising, a hub for processing various Internet orders, and so had a large stock of different merchandises which we actually do not regularly see on the shelves. that was the reason why some of the soon to  expire food items on special for clearance never seemed to have graced the shelves in their heyday.

As part of the closing down exercise, a number of bottles from their Internet order "bin end" stock appeared on special offer on increasing depleted shelves. These included bottles of Chateau Camensac, La Fleur de Bouard as well as the second wine of La Tour Carnet, none of which I had seen on sale ever in that shop. Of course, I got a few bottles.

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