Seeing an obscure staff favorite labor-of-love wine get good press is kind of like when your favorite garage band blows up. Well, kind of. Except when the band hits the big time, no one says you can’t listen to them anymore because there’s not enough of their music to go around.

So we come to the sad tale of our 2007 Gemischter Satz white from Stefan Hajszan ($20.50). Eric Asimov in this morning’s NY Times picked it as his “favorite” of a portfolio of “exquisite” wines as “a gorgeous wine that is both delicate and intense” with such “lacy lightness” of flavors that he “could not help imagining myself at a Viennese café, watching the city go by.” With such enthusiasm, it appears that even an unpronounceable winery, obscure origin (Vienna) and odd method of production (gemischter satz is mixed grapes all harvested and vinified at the same time, a process Asimov felt compelled to mention produces “particularly noteworthy” wines with “unusual complexity”) doesn’t inoculate a wine from a depression era style run on the banks.

We called (last night, thank you twitter and the internet) to make sure we had a supply of the Hajszan and the importers said they MIGHT be able to reserve 5 cases for us. And if we got them, they’d be doing us a solid because we were true fans who carried the wine long before it was famous. Apparently their phones have been ringing off the hook since the article appeared online (damn you, twitter and the internet).

As of now, we only have a case. Limit 2 per customer, first come, first served with an email to mrobertson@greenegrape.com.

UPDATE! We got the extra cases! We’re thrilled to be able to offer them to Greene Grape customers. Enjoy!