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C. Mc Cart wrote: ↑
November 18th, 2019, 1:20 pm
I'll be taking photos of bottles anytime my kids have friends over and we're not going to be home.

till you realize the kids added water to the bottles they drank out of.

I was waiting for Maris Piper but not to be. Any of these worth trying: https://www.marxfoods.com/f/Heirloom/p/Root-Vegetables

I respect the opinions herein but this bottle was average.

opened eagerly with hopes for a 2014-like experience, but this bottle, delicious though it was, didn’t have the depth or acidity of its older brethren. A nice bottle of young white Burgundy, it will hopefully pick up some thickness and depth. It’s perhaps a bit dilute compared to 14.

Kris Patten wrote: ↑
November 16th, 2019, 12:27 pm
Different strokes, CC is more mineral from my experience, but has palate weight to carry GC status.

+1, g cru w many producers.

Buzz is just trying to scare off competitive bidders.

Shitty in past but allegedly improving. Be careful of the cheap old stuff. Same w Camus.

nice snag! Welcome.

Sanjay Nandurkar wrote: ↑
November 15th, 2019, 12:25 pm
A friend from my wine group opened a 1985 Clos de la Roche two weeks ago. Auction buy. Showed mild funk . acceptable to me. Nice wine. But I would not call it spectacular

it used to be spectacular. And $100.

love the Brana wines since a visit there a few years ago.

Mont Stern wrote: ↑
November 11th, 2019, 6:42 pm
No buyers remorse in June and hopefully I can wait out the tarriffs or rethink my original bottling plan.

sell the bottles to yourself at $1 each and pay the 25 cent tariff.

Alan Rath wrote: ↑
November 14th, 2019, 8:29 am
Anyone had the 2010?

had it at Trimbach 1 1/2 years ago. Solid, not at the 08 level, IMO.

one word for us geezers to live by: backfill!

Peter Panzica wrote: ↑
November 14th, 2019, 6:07 pm
I bit.....delivered today and set it up on the kitchen counter. Can't wait to see my wife's face tomorrow when she returns from her business trip.....think she's going to love it....hopefully will get get my share.

if she doesn’t beat you over the head with it. My wife would.

is he still using his white dot on the bottle to evaluate whether the bottle got hot? I once baked an empty bottle at 350 degrees and the temp dot didn’t change.

80, 85, 99 all great. With the new plastic closure I have stopped buying. Didn’t like 97. Passing on Ponsot.

B. Buzzini wrote: ↑
November 13th, 2019, 9:44 pm

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
November 13th, 2019, 7:19 pm
love this wine. Haven’t had 08 yet. Thanks.
Doc...wtf?

whoops—my bad. I have had 08 a bunch. Got confused there. Thanks, Buzz. (7 times so far)

Craig G wrote: ↑
November 13th, 2019, 7:37 pm

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑
November 13th, 2019, 2:49 pm
Yup. Best CFE in a long time.
Best since 2007 for me!

you sound like a wine salesman! Hahah, 07 does rock.

I think it is going to be pretty price sensitive. I will be buying from Europe, and the pricing needs to be sub $120 to be of interest. Why sub $120? What better Champagne buys are out there for $120? I cannot speak to European pricing on Comtes, but I can tell you that here in Texas the same store...

love this wine. Haven’t had 08 yet. Thanks.

I always enjoy your posts. Nice story.

anyone buying or trying 07 Taittinger CdC? Thoughts?

back in the day, one could and would. Wines were on the shelf a long time. Fewer reviewers existed to hype the wine pre-release. There weren’t back room one bottle now or never decisions to be made. I remember 96 Raveneau. I bought a couple b, took them home and, a couple weeks later, bought more af...

I don't get it. Their job is to deliver packages. You get one, your neighbor gets one, and three other neighbors get one each. How is that better or worse than delivering five to you? You're providing a job for the guy. As far as tipping, he's doing his job. He gets paid for it. He should be tippin...

Mich@el Ch@ng wrote: ↑
November 8th, 2019, 12:10 pm
They wanted like 200 to ship it to PA so I put it in my luggage.

good price for shipping a pallet.

Victor Hong wrote: ↑
November 8th, 2019, 4:54 am
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/c ... auts-drink

Bordeaux sent to the international space station.

UPS will screw up that delivery, for sure.

sounds excellent and approachable.

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑
November 5th, 2019, 6:41 pm
Nathan just needed to inject his usual Debbie Downer attitude.

I found his comment funny this time. And true.

a Buzz 89? Pour that crap down the drain!

dcornutt wrote: ↑
November 5th, 2019, 1:23 pm
One of my greatest experiences was a pristine bottle of 1971 Musigny from Vogue. The 1993 is DELICIOUS! Always loved the 2001. The wines from Francois Millet take some time to round out. I think this is an excellent address.

didn’t Christophe Roumier’s dad make the 71?

yes, I keep buying. It’s an illness. I’ll be interrupting last rites on myself to get one more good deal six pack . . .

Beaunehead: You are aptly named. The cork industry is not perfect but I don't think they are to blame here. Are we to say that those producers who have escaped this issue have selected better corks than those who have made mistakes?? That Americans get better corks than Burgundians?? I still think ...

wow, that was a long time ago that we all did that!

opening the 2000 of this tonight, as a matter of fact. Paid $36.99.

two greatest red Burgs of my life are Vogüé 1929 and 1945. Like 78 and 85. I didn’t like 1990, too Cabernet-like and haven’t drunk many since, as I believe they need 30+ years. Pricing has turned me off, though.

B. Buzzini wrote: ↑
November 4th, 2019, 12:57 pm

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
November 3rd, 2019, 8:19 pm
B3E4DE34-3E10-4478-A075-D00A40EECEA6.jpegbetter picture. Corners hold magnums. Double deep on left, single deep on right above bins to give some counter space.
68 degrees Doc???

No. My cellar has been 50. It’s off now, house being tented today. That was humidity—68%, not temp

From what I've been told a cellar is unlikely to increase the value of the home, and it could well eliminate some prospective buyers who don't want the expense/work necessary to tear it all out. agree. Kidding oneself that home value is increased by a cellar. I just sold my home—the buyer will be r...

scamhi wrote: ↑
November 4th, 2019, 5:54 am
I don't see too many or any empty slots, Alan

completely empty today—spent the weekend (with help) moving the wine out, almost 350 cases, as we are moving. New cellar is bigger and being built. Every muscle and joint hurts today.

better picture. Corners hold magnums. Double deep on left, single deep on right above bins to give some counter space.

display racks waste space. Double deep bins below and bins above. Whoops—picture went sideways.

good to see you posting. Many of us miss you and our vocabulary lessons.

Will the fruit outlast the tannins?

Thank you ! My friend has sent me pictures of bottles from 3 periods : 1700 - 1720 / 1720 - 1740 / 1740 - 1760. And the most probable date for the bottle of Madeira is 1740. This is 30 years younger than my estimation and correspond to the French King Louis XV. If you are interested the bottles can...

Don Cornwell deserves mention in this thread. On two fronts, he has helped tremendously with the issue. He started the oxidized burg wiki and his yearly white Burg dinners are very comprehensive and published on this site, affording much valuable information. He also works behind the scene with conv...

Not a great, nor a very representative, October. We were dry for the first two weeks, then out of the country for the next two weeks, just home last night. Bought: 8 Drank: 2 Net: +6 I didn't count wine purchased and consumed on our travels as it never hit our cellar. Now, if you were to ask me abo...

Dan Kravitz wrote: ↑
October 31st, 2019, 4:00 pm
I'm dropping all of my other Spanish wines 14% or lower.

Dan Kravitz

I thought the % listed on a label only had to be within 1.5% of actual. If that is true, can’t you label wines that are 12.5% and higher (up to 15.5%) as 14% and legally sell them, avoiding tariff?

where does 09 Cristal fit in this hierarchy.

scamhi wrote: ↑
October 28th, 2019, 1:29 pm
my first 2018 white burgundy Henri Boillot Clos Mouchere

me, too!

pretty good scores for not great wines. I’ve avoided Bernstein due to exorbitant pricing. Like Prieur-Roch.

Sarah Kirschbaum wrote: ↑
October 25th, 2019, 3:31 pm
The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare broke the record for most expensive scotch whisky at £1.5M. That was an amazing moment.

hope it is fine and rare—that’s about $1.8M, or $75,000 an ounce.

14 Chablis are so good, can’t imagine chez Raveneau. Thanks.

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