Quality control at the wine store? Retailers please.?!
Quality control at the wine store? Retailers please.?
If there are any wine retailers out there, I'm wondering if your staff examine the wine bottles as you are putting them out on the shelves. If there are bottles that clearly have evidence of damage or ill treatment, do you have the ability to pull them before shelving and send them back to the warehouse? I've often seen leaky or stained bottles on the shelves.
Answers:
I work in a wine shop and have years of experience in food and retail. There is no excuse to put out a bottle that has any sign of damage or ill treatment. The bad bottles would be picked up and replaced by any reputable distributor. Leaky or stained bottles would never make it to the shelf in the store I work at.
Keep in mind that mistreatment such as temperature abuse is not always visable. Also, corked wine has no outward appearance.
I have worked in a liquor store for year's, When I stock the shelf's I can tell if a wine is bad just by looking at it. And yes I send it back to the wholesaler for credit.