WTN: Bottom Feeding @ Total Wine...(short/boring)

Tried these two last night:
1. Ewald Gruber Roschitz GrunerVeltliner Ried Hundspoint (50 yr old vines; 13.0%; Organic Grapes; SarantyImports/Stamford) Roschitz/Weinviertel 2016: Light gold color; pleasant light GV/floral/bitspicy rather simple nose; bit disolved CO2 light off-dry (0.7%?) fairly soft light pleasant GV/floral/bit pineapple rather simple/dull/bit vapid flavor; short soft slightly tangy/CO2 light GV/floral/pineapple slight metallic/tinny pretty dull/vapid finish; speaks of GV w/ a whisper but a dull/vapid GV on the palate and overpriced at $18.00 (TW&M)
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2. Anne de K GWT AC: Alsace (13%; SarantyImports; EB) Bestheim/Bennwihr 2016: Light gold color; pleasant GWT/lychee/cheap hair oil rather quiet/low-key simple nose; very soft/fat/porky light cheap hair oil/GWT/lychee somewhat sweet (1%?) rather simple/vapid/dull flavor; short very soft/flabby somewhat sweet light lychee/GWT/cheap hair oil dull/vapid finish; a dull as dishwater Alsace GWT w/ utterly vapid character and way overpriced at $19.00 (TW&M)
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A wee BloodyPulpit:
1. The new TotalWines & More opened in SantaFe on Thurs, so I had to go in ystrday & check it out. Pretty much the standard TotalWines. An astonishing selection of commodity/meh wines. Didn't see anything that really compelled me to buy. Lot's of no-name wines that are TW exclusive so you can't find out what they really are.
These two dull-as-dishwater wines are TW direct imports, so I thought I'd give them a shot. They supposedly represent real values in the TW portfolio. These two were not that.
They both come thru SarantyImports, which is an offshoot or part of WJ Deutsch imports. So that's a good clue to look for on the label for wines to avoid.
Ewald Gruber is located in the Weinviertel NW of Wien near the Czech border. This area can grow great wines, as illustrated by IngridGroiss.
So...based an this vast sampling of two data points, bottom feeding at TW is more expensive and less likely of success than at TraderJoe's.
TW is going to have zero impact on any decent wine shop in Northern NM. Their wines selection of commodity wines is nothing that interests me. It will/may have an impact on grocery store wine sales, where commodity wines are the standard fare. But, for me, the store pretty much has zero interest. Though, I did see on their shelves, BlueNun Liebfraumilch. Haven't seen that, free-range, in yrs. I listened to my inner child and eschewed buying a btl.
Tom

[James Roscoe]

The Total Wine near us is decent enough, but there is so much better stuff at other stores. I also think the Trone Brothers are a bunch of jerks to their employees,

I'm not sure I consider it bottom-feeding at those prices. Couldn't you get an established producer's wines at those prices? We are lucky in California that prices are pretty much at the bottom, but around here Trimbach Gewurz is $17 and you can get Zind-Humbrecht (which was a heavy, alcoholic mess, but still a "name" producer) for $15 at Costco. I was reasonably impressed with the direct imports that I tasted at the Total Wine that opened near me, but I doubt I would have taken a flyer on something I hadn't tried.