Some wine merchants seem to be a little confused

Some wine merchants seem to be a little confused

The other day I opened a bottle of a lovely Pinot Blanc from Markus Molitor's winery. After a little search online I found two wine merchants who have this wine in their online catalogue. One of them was the Alpe Adria Weindepot in Austria.

I emailed them, only to get a reply saying that it was a) too difficult to deliver wine to the UK; b) too expensive (even though that should be the customer's decision, I think); and that c) they specialised in Austrian and Italian wine and could therefore not offer this one.

Strangely though, they still have it in their catalogue (with other German wine, btw.). My follow-up email was never answered...