Update Monday night 9/21: EVERYONE who said they’d like to come from this board and elsewhere is IN! If you did not get a PM tonight please PM me! We have 14 people and minus the inevitable last minute dropouts that is perfect! Oops plus me. I hope two poeple total bring hors d’oeuvres but not a lot I bet we’ll have more than we need. Because wine people are cool. Well… Burgundy people are cool.
I have a set of Dominique Laurent 1996 Vosne Romanee, Serie Rare. Let’s do a VR offline, any vintage but one hopes not too young.
His Serie Rare sixpacks are unusual:
Six bottles, each from a different vineyard, same vintage, same commune; here, VR in 1996
One barrel made of each of the six wines, none of these is a regular bottling for Laurent
Therefore maybe 300 sixpacks were produced total
Quality? I’d expect a range of 91-93 points
Where, when:
A Sunday afternoon in SF, I already know where (near the Marina), OR
Potsticker King in Cupertino, flexible on days of the week
September unless everyone wants October
What should you bring? A VR, ANY VINTAGE but err on the side of fully expressed; or a white; or nothing (if you come empty handed bring two the next event LOL or chip in more for food).
No sweet wines please, six bottles from one attendee means a lot of alcohol already.
No domestic pinot please, you’re wrong about your bottle LOL it’s not “just like a Burg,” I’ll ask you not to open it, all the red wines should be VR or on the borders of VR if you must
PM only please, please do not respond here
UPDATE on responses:
as of 8/14:
there are openings…six want SF, one Cupertino, plus Gene and CG willing to go to either location…this will max out at 10 or 12 for the Laurents
… but maybe a few others can come, just have to share, or forgo, pours of the Laurents (which might be the worst wines there LOL)
note: there are always dropouts when we try to agree on a date