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WTG fellas, take a great one for the team

I am not on any line, yet.

Well, you went out on a great vintage!

Thankfully I have had a stomach virus the past two days so my per diem COVID drinking has reduced to fuctional alcoholic. What is this fuctional of which you speak? Right now, much of my consumption is fvck-it-all. Not more but much better - why save? Two steps below raging, which I was flirting wi...

Thankfully I have had a stomach virus the past two days so my per diem COVID drinking has reduced to fuctional alcoholic.

I bailed on my 750s this morning. I’m 375s only going forward.

Like Gerry I’m 59.

The Bedrock 13s are just ridiculous.

Dale - I just bought 17s. Wine kicks wholesale azz. Oregon fruit too.

We had the 10 Echo earlier this year and adored the wine. All you could want from young Chinon. A kaleidoscope of delight on day 2.

In an effort to try and drink the wines I really ought to have tried before I get planted or burned I pulled the cork on the 13 Kirshenmann tonight. I wasn’t even into drinking wine today, I was a bit wined-out after these past two days. In all honesty, when I'm not at work I'm pulling corks. Eff th...

Like Mont I'm out everyday and seeing patients most days. Once weekly I bring in take out, trying to amp that up to twice weekly. S-I-P ain't going away and 100K or more restaurants will close.

We opened our bottles at 10 AM and had 1/2 of each with dinner last night, homemade pasta noodles with ground buffalo ragu. We all much preferred Enz by dinner. Thinking OL is the early drinker.

Joseph - I pilfered a case of their 92 Merlot maybe a decade ago at auction. One of my best wine buys ever.

Right? Nowhere near enough press either. We had this with a huge hunk of choice rib roast we will eating for days. I can see opening another bottle of this real soon.

Eff me nekkid this is good. Right out of the bottle it’s blue fruit and subtle oak. It’s cellar temp so cool, but also nervy. No aged characteristics yet, good length on finish and not tannic at all. Makes me think of winter, that Robert Frost poem. Washington wine folks should clamor to this wine. ...

I am Zoom ready. This is literally the highlight of my week.

I'm in and opening an early 00 Rouge for the event. So download Zoom now?

Re: Sandlands 3/31/15 I bet the wine is still kick ass in a decade.

I bet the wine is still kick ass in a decade.

If the 2012 carignan is anything like the 2011 (open, juicy, not at all what I would call highly structured), I wouldn't worry about popping one now. Five years later it’s still rockin’ solid. Amazing freshness with plenty of tannin still. High delicious factor. 7269851E-1964-442F-BEC3-ADA09A0009FA...

I have enjoyed the 02 before, which stunned me.

This was just stunning. So fragrant, bracing and tannic the first hour it was open. One of the 1/2 dozen best aged Zinfandels I’ve ever had, rivals Ridge 87 Trentadue as the best Ridge Zin I’ve enjoyed.

This was pretty fair last evening. Check out the wine’s color in the Zalto.

It’s being widely reported people, no joke. All I do is communicate with docs overseas and watch webinars.

Consider getting tested. Changes in smell and ability to taste have been associated with coronavirus.

Yeah, listening to Coolsville again. Best Tom Waits song he didn’t write? Or did he?

Goodness gracious this is crazy fresh and bracing. House full of chicken frying, sun shining, and Rickie Lee Jones on the turntable.

We did not have to sign for Enfield yesterday. UPS honked and dropped the box.

2011 Enfield Heron Lake Chardonnay begins as joyous study of The Jura by one of California’s hand crafters, John Lockwood. Pie, some kind of chemical ‘ane, pineapple & flowers. Even better after an hour open but not a wine to hand someone who needs a glass of wine, I’m listening to The Brandenburg ...

None, unless you take a social distancing drive.

Put ‘em upright today.

I watch one more COVID webinar I’m corkscrewing out one of my eyeballs.

11 Paderewski and Hangers tonight.

Just had the 16 River Block and really enjoyed this bottle.

We just tried the 2016 and I found the wine very enjoyable and classy. For a Wente clone this is very tame and balanced. There’s ripe fruit but minerals too, I didn’t think it was overly buttery but the sensitive might disagree.

Episode four is very poignant, in addition to the fun parts.

I particularly enjoyed the terroir or winemaker technique discussion. Been pondering this since the late 70s.

That’s like a single meal, a weekend, or a vacation report?

Jeremy ain’t getting COVID-19. NFW.

All of my professional domestic travel was canceled today so I’m not getting on a flight to DC in 18 days.

Hurrah!

Peter Shurman wrote: ↑
March 3rd, 2020, 2:36 pm
Sunday night
2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Kamen Vineyard

drinking well

I have been eyeballin' this wine.

I think not going to work is going to be 7/8ths of the fun.

Whoa.

American College of Surgeons suspended all planned international meetings the rest of 2020, with the exception of Clinical Congress in Chicago in early October.

Will know more about domestic meetings shortly. I’ll be in DC three weeks from right now unless the summit I’m attending is shut down.

I imagine it’s going to be rescheduled. Betz release and Taste Washington both cancelled already.

I’m not talking down the producer. I’m guessing they don’t handle their shipping in-house.

Getting on in years and starting to plan a life without clinic and the OR means wine purchasing has begun its inevitable slowdown. A bigtime Napa producer took my reduced purchase this year to heart as they sent me the few bottles I purchased in a package that was barely held together by Scotch tape...

Hard to know, guessed corked + some other chemistry run amuck.

Drain-poured an 09 Sweetwater two weeks ago and tonight an 09 Little Hill is glorious.

Coos Bay but in PDX not infrequently.

I've got a work trip to DC March 27 and it's day-to-day for me now.

Saxum 11s all great to date.

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