For you wine and chocolate lovers - do you know about these websites? WTSO and Chocosphere...

[NRaleighLiberal]

First, wine -

http://wtso.com/

They don't ship to all states - I am sure you can find out from the website where they do ship.

I've been tracking them for over a year now - they put maybe 3-4 wines per day at really significant savings - typically if you purchase 4 there is no shipping fee. We tend to stick to the cheapies (such as a killer Rose prosecco for less than 10$) - a few times a year they have a marathon where they put new wines up every 15 minutes.

Being on a fixed income now, this provides an alternative to our trips to Trader Joe for really cheap (but good!) stuff - like the less than 4.00 Vinho Verde, and 6.00 Prosecco with the cork sticking slightly out of the top...

Now chocolate -

http://chocosphere.com/

We are not using them much these days (due to high cost of some of them - plus shipping costs) - but it is an amazing collection of hard to get chocolate - including many European dark chocolates (we are addicted to good dark chocolate).

Anyway - enjoy!

[Graybeard]

1. Thanks. Chocosphere is fabulous.

I just e-mailed it to my brother who is a chocolate fanatic.

The Bargain Basement section is interesting. Selling items

that are just a little past their "best by" date.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. we've tried some of those. well stored chocolate has no issues with the use by date.

and the price reduction makes them well worth the risk!