Its Bearwallow Vineyard pinot noir is superb, but its retail price, at least in New York, was beyond the wine panel's $100-a-bottle 100-a-bottle 100-a-bottle limit
Ripe Northwest Pippins are superb, but in a final indignity retail chains have persuaded growers to harvest too early, to compete with Grannys, alienating many Newtown lovers.
Compared with many retail stores, they had superb customer service, a valuable database of their consumers and had developed order fulfillment and shipping into a fine art.
This is the city's retail and entertainment heart and the superb BTS Skytrain runs overhead along much of this route.
Not ordinary Champagne either, but superb, hard-to-find bottles like Selosse Brut Initiale, which retails for about $125 but was on the list for $165, or Jérôme Prévost for $140, or maybe both.
The list is not long, but it is full of gems like 2002 Zind-Humbrecht riesling Herrenweg, from one of the best producers in Alsace, for $63, and 1993 Volnay Santenots from Robert Ampeau for $96 — superb red Burgundy, superb year, superb grower, at only about twice the retail price.
Burt Flickinger 3rd, a managing director of Reach Marketing, a retail consulting firm based in Westport, Conn., called the purchase by Philip Morris "a superb strategic acquisition".
Focusing on acquiring retail properties that have long-term leases, Mr. Dash said, Lightstone has been getting "fantastic value, and superb return -- 10percentt plus" and is closing on several properties each week, many of them in New Jersey.
