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Erica Landon wrote: ↑January 21st, 2021, 11:36 am
James Lyon wrote: ↑January 20th, 2021, 7:59 pm
Nope and I recall something about a potential Walter Scott Berserker Cuvee that day.
We shall see....

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Todd F r e n c h wrote: ↑January 20th, 2021, 7:34 pm Yeah, not exactly fair to call them a 'newbie' when they did THIS

Nope and I recall something about a potential Walter Scott Berserker Cuvee that day.

With the influx of orders, the code was probably flagged by the system. I'll be surprised if they honor the orders. Similar issue a few months ago and the orders were refunded.

Interesting. I haven't noticed this before. We opened a 2012 Arterberry Maresh Maresh Chardonnay on Saturday night and perhaps I noted a little sweetness on the back end. The wine was fantastic.

Dang, I forgot to post last week to this thread, but we enjoyed a 2013 Walter Scott X-Novo Chardonnay over the holidays with no sign of decline.

I would consider utilizing bottlebluebook as a baseline for your valuations.

Any practical difference in value between bottles from the last 5 years? Without knowing what you have exactly, I'll say probably not much difference in value from the last 5 years. With the exception of the ultra limited Pappy 25 release in 2017, I think that Pappy exhausted most of the Stitzel-We...

And I would highly suggest the library offering at Patricia Green Cellars. They are the next door neighbor to Beaux Freres, so you will get that Ribbon Ridge profile from the PGC Estate wines. Check the PGC website.

Beaux Freres has back vintages available through the winery. You will have to call the winery directly, but the price will be current retail plus $10 for each year. At least this was the policy a few years ago.

Great notes and thanks for sharing. The 2013 Walter Scott X-Novo Chardonnay was excellent over the holidays. No sign of decline.

James

Really cool, but kinda overwhelming with my limited experience with Jim's wines, anyone want to pm me with some suggestions? Thanks Several older Patricia Green tasting notes were provided in the Week 3 Tasting for Charity Oregon Wines thread from a few weeks ago. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed a 2006 ...

2017 Cameron Pinot Noir Silvestre Clos Electrique How was this? I have two bottles but wasn't planning on opening one for five years. Thanks It is wonderful, and we all enjoyed it. However, I would wait 5 years or longer if I were back to only having my 2 bottles knowing what I know now. Sorry for ...

Michae1 P0wers wrote: ↑December 19th, 2020, 7:49 am Currently have an order in my cart where stewardship discount shows as less than the shipping total, leaving a shipping balance. Has anyone had this happen? Is there an obvious reason I'm not considering?

Yeah, I noticed it with magnums last week.

Oregon Wine Week, December 9 - 16 So, I was able to retaste most of the wines that had been opened within the last week last night. All were still very good. The old Torii Mor's were still singing. The 1994 TM Reserve showed no fatigue for being open since Sunday afternoon. Thanks again for everyone...

I'm pretty sure John replaced all his Nebbiolo vines years ago. I remember him cursing John Paul (with a laugh) for talking him into it. To my knowledge, he never vinified it separately. His decision to not harvest was indeed because of heavy smoke, mostly from the Bald Peak fire. I visited him in ...

Interesting. I always hoped that when the Pinot was off that he would harvest his Nebbiolo for a wine. Something must have been way off. Ahhhh, the Thomas Nebbiolo. If I'm not mistaken John does harvest and bottle the Nebbiolo for personal consumption during most years. Sorry, many favorites from t...

Thanks again to David for his contributions. I was tied up with work on Monday night and a softball game last night, but I opened another Patty Green and Jim Anderson vinified wine tonight. 1999 Torii Mor Olson Vineyard Pinot Noir Slight bricking on the edges with the first pour the most prominent b...

Any idea why Willett isn’t producing quantities of older bourbon yet? It seems like I was buying two and 3 year 8 years ago. Shouldn’t they have a stash of approaching 10 yr now? We don’t get it at all in Ohio, so I’m not in that loop but my stash of those early releases is now down to 1/2 bottle s...

!994 Torii Mor Reserve Pinot Noir 1994. I graduated high school and entered UTK as a college freshman. The basketball GOAT (always and forever) had retired the 1st time and decided to play baseball. Baseball decided to strike before Gwynn could hit .400, Knoblauch could break the doubles record, the...

Jim A., if you are doing some light reading this afternoon, do you have a tasting note preference between 1994 Torii Mor Reserve Pinot, 2000 PGC Estate Pinot or 2000 PGC Balcombe Pinot. Perhaps the 2000 PGC Balcombe as a comparison to the 1999 Torii Mor Balcombe that was rocking last Sunday night. ...

Jim A., if you are doing some light reading this afternoon, do you have a tasting note preference between 1994 Torii Mor Reserve Pinot, 2000 PGC Estate Pinot or 2000 PGC Balcombe Pinot. Perhaps the 2000 PGC Balcombe as a comparison to the 1999 Torii Mor Balcombe that was rocking last Sunday night.

2002 Patricia Green Cellars Goldschmidt Pinot The color is still vibrant with no sign of bricking. Nose is earthy, mushroom, forest floor. Still very acidic, so a great pairing with dinner. Darker fruit profile. Very intense. Look forward to trying again tomorrow. Wonderful example of aged Oregon Pi...

So, I was kinda drifting between the tasting and watching UNC versus Miami and UTK versus Vandy, but did I hear something about a Berserker Cuvee at the end of the tasting?

Max S. wrote: ↑December 12th, 2020, 9:21 am
James Lyon wrote: ↑December 12th, 2020, 9:20 am
Go the very bottom of the website and it's on the right hand side next to contact us and trade.
That is awesome. I wish everyone did this, I feel like I don't need CT's BS anymore...

Goodfellow, Belle Pente, St. Innocent offer a similar feature on their websites that I reference frequently.

Max S. wrote: ↑December 12th, 2020, 9:18 am
James Lyon wrote: ↑December 12th, 2020, 9:15 am Jim A. and the fine folks at PGC do a wonderful job with the drinkability chart on the website.
I looked around a bit, but can't seem to find this...

Go the very bottom of the website and it's on the right hand side next to contact us and trade.

2014 Patricia Green Cellars Freedom Hill Dijon 115 Pinot Noir Alright, I tried to locate a 2012 Balcombe or Durant Madrone, but I was unsuccessful in my search. Hence, the 2014 Freedom Hill Dijon 115 Pinot to compare with the 2014 Balcombe Pinot from last night. The 2014 FH D115 maybe a little dark...

2014 Patricia Green Cellars Freedom Hill Dijon 115 Pinot Noir Alright, I tried to locate a 2012 Balcombe or Durant Madrone, but I was unsuccessful in my search. Hence, the 2014 Freedom Hill Dijon 115 Pinot to compare with the 2014 Balcombe Pinot from last night. The 2014 FH D115 maybe a little darke...

Brent C l a y t o n wrote: ↑December 11th, 2020, 10:43 am Thanks for the reminder about Old Forester. That's another good one.

You're welcome.

The Mecklenburg County ABC received 7,300 entries into the lottery. I'm guessing that there are 100-200 bottles of allocated items in the lottery, so chances are highly unlikely that I will get the opportunity to purchase a bottle. Time will tell.

2014 Patricia Green Cellars Balcombe Pinot Noir A little darker than the 2013 PGC BC. Nose is more expressive. Darker fruited, more blueberry notes than anything to me. Not a lot of spice or volcanic soil notes for the Dundee Hills to my taste. Perhaps a little on the nose and some spice on the back...

Patricia Green Cellars 2013 Berserkers' Cuvee The OG BC. Lighter in color than I remembered. Perfumed nose with some cedar and evergreen. Burnt cherry with cranberry notes. Still very youthful. I imagine this will gain weight overnight. I will report back tomorrow. In lieu of a holiday luncheon, my ...

Eagle Rare also!!!! 10? 10 bottles? Hell yeah! The regular ER is a 10 year old bourbon. That's the one. I would kill for the 17. It's in the lottery. But it's Eagle Rare Rare Eagle Rare is available online from reputable retailers, so I would avoid purchasing from Mecklenburg County or any NC ABC. ...

Leonard, I will keep an eye out at Southern in Indian Land. I will snarf up for you any they have when I am there. Tuesday morning is when they put out the small allocation stuff including Blanton's. Kelly, I'm on the Southern Spirits mailing list and I think that Keith mentioned a few weeks ago th...

I am sure you take this for granted and I'm happy for you. In NC you never see this. Or unless you are at the store when the delivery truck comes you never get a chance. State run stores. Leonard, where are you located in NC? If I run across a few bottles of EHTSMB, I'll let you know. I received th...

Rittenhouse and Sazerac would be my choices. I've heard good things about Old Forester Rye.

Can't help myself - when at Target, I have to pick up at least on E.H. Taylor Small Batch at $42.99. Good bourbon at a great price. I am sure you take this for granted and I'm happy for you. In NC you never see this. Or unless you are at the store when the delivery truck comes you never get a chanc...

Yeah, a huge thank you to David and everyone else for their contributions and donations over the years including this crazy 2020. My SO is on the board at The Humane Society of Charlotte, so I'm grateful for your continued support of all the furry friends. We recently donated a tasting of Oregon win...

If anyone’s looking for a deal the 18 seven springs Chardonnay is on wine.com right now for $65. Lots of coupons In the deals Thread to take Almost 33% off. They had more vineyards last week but I snoozed. Looks like they have 10 cases of this one now so we should probably get to milking those coup...

Thanks to Marcus and Ken for the thoughtful and informative posts. Like CFU, my apologies for adding to the no 2019 Cuvee Anne hysteria. Glad to see that it will be released in 2021. Be well and keep up the good work.

James

If prices went up due to lower yields, do you think they will go down when yields increase?? Todd, I don't know. I'm sure that there were a myriad of factors associated with the modest price increases of which the X Novo Chardonnay was the greatest. Yeah, one would think that if a price goes up, it...

Charlie, I hadn't realized they had eliminated the Cuvee Anne - I kind of liked that as a nice intermediate step between the Le Combe Verte and the SVD Chardonnays. What did they do, just include the grapes in Le Combe Verte? Sorry, I'm not Chuck (Daly) Fu, but I've been a Walter Scott supporter fo...

Jeff Wilkinson wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2020, 12:20 pm
Sean_S wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2020, 10:42 am Great Library offer from Goodfellow this morning. You might want to investigate before the limited stash disapears...

Sean
Agreed! Just spoke to Megan and got the order in.

I know a guy with a few of those older bottles from the library bottles section.

James

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Quick update, I received my replacement bottles yesterday. As Nikki promised, the replacement bottles were the 2014 Qupe Bien Nacido Hillside Estate and Estate Bottled Syrah. I'm happy, and yes, I'll plan to donate the 2018 Qupe Central Coast to charity. My SO is on the board at the Humane Society o...

I've had every offering from Van Winkle including Pappy's 20+ year old Bourbon. I've also had a boat load of other Kentucky boutique label Bourbon's. I recently bought a bottle of Weller's 12 year old and am hard pressed to identify something I like better. Unfortunately, it's super hard to find. N...

James, it is actually from store in midtown, Manhattan, not Chattanooga, not much demand for imperials around these parts. Unfortunately, without taking off the bottle holder "wings", the diameter of the bottle neck prevents me from using the coravin. I know it will work with mags, I thin...

Anyone try Act 8 Midwinter Night Dram? I've only been able to get one bottle and gifted it to a friend. Local place still has Act 6 bottles for $170, which is what they sold them for at release, and they wonder why they didn't get any new allocation. I was fortunate to enjoy a few pours of the earl...

Willett. Talk to Jason Bray re: Willett. 185 bottles is a lot of bottles ... Late to reply, but yeah Willett ain’t never gonna happen. Sorry all. Yeah, perhaps not for the wineberserker pick, but single barrel picks are available through Willett. My best buddy back home in TN was able to get a Will...

Yeah, the wine should be fine. I just wanted to comment that you should post this picture over in the bourbon thread. I'm assuming that the picture is recent and taken at a package store in TN. If so, there's clearly a plethora of fine bourbon selections in TN as I have attested to others over the y...

I received a full case of the 2018 Qupe Central Coast Syrah. Weird. Did you specifically ask for a replacement instead of a refund? I requested replacement bottles or a full refund. Looking at the Qupe website, something seems off with the labels of the suggested replacement bottle. The label doesn...

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