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That was fun. I was blanked on all my lowball bids, and some of my more aggressive bids (Willi especially and most disappointingly, but good for them that it went for more than I'm willing to pay), but looks like I should end up with 6 of the Clemens-Busch Kabi, 3 each of the Lauer Kabi and Fritz Sp...

At least I'm learning some more German. For example, I now know the German words for "internet" and "YouTube," along with the phrase "No Willi for you!"

Yow. No Willi for me...

Rob_S wrote: ↑
September 18th, 2020, 5:34 am
Looks like I should hopefully be getting some Lauer Kabinett

Same here! No dice on my other bids so far, though. I thought I'd get some Lauer 23, but no go. And my lowball on the MaxGrun 3L was blown away...

cjsadler wrote: ↑
September 17th, 2020, 2:57 pm
Holding/setting aside your bottles seemed to be how it was done in the past.

I'm glad to hear they at least seem(ed) to understand how it is supposed to work.

Hopefully I don't need to call Jerry in to give them the lecture.

I should add that I was contacted by their CS once or maybe twice within 2-3 days after placing an order to let me know that an item I had ordered was in fact unavailable, and to work out a replacement. Always mildly disappointing of course, but rare, prompt, professional, and easy to deal with. Thi...

I've also received the update on my outstanding orders that were being held for November shipment: 29 of 33 wines (68 of 74 bottles) that I ordered are no longer available. I told them to cancel anything remaining (all 6 bottles ha ha). This is truly stunning. If this is a widespread problem, and I...

I can't believe they left out the real Original Ray's pizza - the one on 11th. [wink.gif] Only one local place on the list (many deserving of consideration), and it's one I've been to dozens of times over the years, yet I've never had their pizza - everyone knows that the thing to get at Frank & Hel...

FWIW, I’ve had better luck with 1997s from Northern Rhone and Burgundy. Further to this comment, 1997 La Chapelle isn't one of the all-time great La Chapelles, but it's an excellent wine and was delicious when I opened a bottle a couple of years ago. I would certainly include it in any 1997 anniver...

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September 14th, 2020, 3:29 pm

Brian S t o t t e r wrote: ↑
September 14th, 2020, 3:24 pm
Trying to explain to my wife why I want to be up at 6am to watch the livecast of the VDP Grosser auction was fun
Ooof I missed that. And I have to tune in early because Muller is near the top.

Luckily it's 7am for you.

KyleC wrote: ↑
September 11th, 2020, 3:51 pm
So cool Carole Meredith is on WB dropping knowledge!

I agree completely!

And it's consistent with our motto around here:

What a great resource this site is for publishing "archaeology" - better than Amazon, that's for sure! OK, so three editions of "The Wines of the Rhône" (1978, 1983, 1992) and one edition of "The Wines of the Northern Rhône" (2005) are now accounted for. If anyone has info on any others, please let ...

Thanks for the tip on the dupe charges - a bunch hit my card this morning, but all showing as "auth-pending." Crazy.

Thanks, Arv. So "Wines of the Rhône" has two editions and "Wines of the Northern Rhône" just the one. I wasn't aware of the second edition of the former. Thanks for clarifying. On the one hand, I'm glad I hadn't missed something, on the other I wish there were a more recent edition to miss. It's a g...

See the last week or so of posts in the "best coupons/deals" thread. Apparently they are in the midst of a botched software upgrade that is causing any number of delayed shipments to go out in the midst of the current heat, though you appear to be the first person reporting a box arriving while the ...

No, but I keep a variety of wood chips on hand to use with different meats on the grill, and the mesquite chips always give off a corked odor. It doesn't seem to carry through to the smoke or the meat, but when I smell just the chips, I don't even want to bring them into the same room where I have a...

These are a couple I've read. I've also read the (better) 2nd edition of Lermouth's NoRho book. The newest 3rd edition is still available on Amazon (I have not read that yet) I wanted to follow up here, because either this is incorrect or I'm missing something. From what I know, JLL wrote a book ca...

Rob - you checked your Domaine account or your wine.com account? I have checked my wine.com account and it still shows all my orders as placed but not yet shipped. Daniel - I do normally get FedEx alerts for wine.com shipments but was wondering if they weren’t going out in these cases since it all s...

Those of you getting premature shipments from wine.com, are you getting shipping notices or other indications at the time of shipment, or at lest before delivery? Or are the boxes just showing up? I have several orders set for October and November and I’m crossing my fingers that none of them showin...

This is where I hit the “like/I agree” button.

Also what kind of English is this? "ALL HAVE (NOT) ARRIVED and (will not do so) shortly" I have been judiciously buying Garagiste offers for several years, but this line is a major pet peeve of mine. I have no idea what he is talking about, and it is in every email. Is it there, or not? If not, whe...

Brian S t o t t e r wrote: ↑
September 4th, 2020, 4:48 pm

"I like Chave."

Was I too obvious?

Expanding on changing tastes, that has also played a role in my cellar. Initially, my cellar was almost all Napa cab because, as everyone knew, Napa cab and Bordeaux were the only wines worth pursuing, and Bordeaux was in the midst of a string of mediocre vintages, remedied when the ‘95s were releas...

Likewise I've seen far more producers "rotate off" due to price than stay on the list. Even within producers, where Ridge Geyserville has stayed on, but Montebello has rotated off. Beaucastel, Felsina Rancia, Ridge Geyserville, Leoville Barton. That's about it for producers/wines I was buying 20+ ye...

Just bought some 2019, and was amazed at the restraint on prices. All Auslese in the high fifties, the gold caps were just north of a hundred. And the wines are always excellent, often sublime. Trying to think of another estate at the top of their peer group that is as well priced. The only other o...

RIP to a true gentleman of Cornas. A friend and I visited the winery in 2006, when we were in the area to ride l’Étape du Tour. Albéric Mazoyer gave us a tour of both the vineyards and the cellar and of course a tasting, but M. Voge also came out to greet us and chat for a bit. As we were preparing ...

No CT integration Mywines will be along any day now. What is "Mywines"??? The often promised but never delivered eBob alternative to CT. One of the publicly cited reasons they never agreed to CT integration was their own “almost there” competing product. As relevant these days as MySpace, except th...

Nothing worse than living next to home brew guy, (who only drinks his own) I hadn’t considered basement wine guy could be worse actually. We sold our first house to home brew guy. He was very excited that it had an actively cooled wine cellar (room/closet) in the basement - "Now I can finally try m...

I must be doing something wrong. I opened an Amex Blue Cash Preferred, and my wife opened a Hilton Honors Amex, and after a month - still no WineAccess offer. I've had Wine Country Gift Baskets, Benchmark, and now Stags' Leap Winery, but bupkis for Wine Access.

A few excellent bottles, but the one that stands out so far is 1991 Mount Eden "Old Vine Reserve" cabernet.

Maybe those of us who were drinking age back when normal winos could still scrimp and save for a bottle or three of First Growths, Chave, Rayas, Monfortino, Rousseau, etc. every now and again should print up our own version of the music t-shirts:

I may be old, but I got to drink all the best wines...

LOL, exactly. Maybe we should start a feature where all threads disappear within an hour of starting them. Or where all posts have to be in the form of videos with a three-minute time limit. When FB went public, I bought into the notion that the teens had already moved on and “only the old folks use...

c fu wrote: ↑
August 21st, 2020, 3:15 pm

I have never been to a lunch with 10 bottles of DRC. That is excessible ballaness

Now, breakfast on the other hand...

I voted no on both. It would like "agree/disagree" on posts though. Might save all the +1 posts. I don't really get the need to like or need to be liked for a specific post. Also, the simpler you make it the less it really means. I agree with Siun's comments above. The changes would likely alter th...

84A046D4-507E-4E99-8E59-E98F9F29BB7F.jpeg Last night we opened the 1990 Felsina Rancia - a bottle that has probably been in our cellar for as long as anything else in there. With our daughter visiting and my wife being one of the most wonderful women alive, we decided to extend her birthday celebra...

I buy Rancia in most vintages, and generally drink it 15-20 years after the vintage. But I decided to save my last bottle of the 1990 to see how the wine would show as a 30-year-old. (As an aside, this has to have been one of the bottles I've had in my cellar the longest as I know I bought this on r...

It looks like wineaccess has Ridge Lytton Springs available for 40 per bottle right now. I know that Ridge popped up for some folks on the west coast last week, but this is the first I've seen it in the midwest. Stacking with the Amex offers or first order offers, one can get this down to 5 bottles...

You get to pick your delivery date on wine.com. If you pick one that is in summer and it ends up being hot, it’s your fault. Plenty of people who buy wine (especially off wine.com) are not thinking about shipping temps and just want their wine as soon as possible. I have seen wine.com enact a "weat...

You're going to drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop Lincoln (so many threads together).

We don't want to get too gar afield.

I know this was brought up earlier, but I can't remember if there was an answer, or if so what it was. I have to assume that wine.com's Napa (or Bay area?) warehouse is appropriately cooled to protect all that valuable inventory. But in light of the crazy heat wave and rolling power blackouts I'm re...

Be prepared for a Polk in the kisser. Well, to do that you’d have to ford the river, then take a carter to my place and then you’d still have to get past Ken n Edy! That would take a lot of will, son. I like that you keep throwing puns out there, Anton, but with the gems I-sent-how-are you going to...

I would tell that owner, “You don’t know Jack, son.” Be prepared for a Polk in the kisser. Well, to do that you’d have to ford the river, then take a carter to my place and then you’d still have to get past Ken n Edy! That would take a lot of will, son. Some of these are getting a little hairy, son...

The wines were indeed the 2016 Fontalloro, Maestro Raro, and Rancia, so if I were putting money on this I'd say it's the 2017 this time around. Either way, I haven't been disappointed with the Italian mysteries from Jon (the California/Oregon Pinot Noirs are a different story, but I digress.....) B...

'17 Rancia has just been released, if that's one of them. Like Peter, I have no memory of this being an "annual" offer, at least in this format. He certainly offers Felsina wines quite frequently, and often as mysteries. I'm going to resist on this offer, though. I'll be curious to see what it was.

Todd can delete this, but I’m laughing at the idea that we’re seriously worried that our worst ethics problems are that a Vice President might have an assistant pick up wine for her [wow.gif] What if the aide was also a wine club member, picking up his or her own allocation, and just offered to pic...

Earning some geek cred there, for sure. But prices are bad enough when all we have to compete with is Alf money and Fu money. When we have to compete with NBA money even on the obscure geeky stuff, watch out...

California oak?

I hope that is a misquote of the wine bar owner.

Alan Rath wrote: ↑
August 14th, 2020, 6:20 pm
Heck with who picks up wine. If I’m VP, I’m getting myself on the direct list for Coche, Roumier, Chave and Allemand

Sorry, you CANNOT issue an executive order placing yourself on the Wilson-Daniels private client list for DRC! Kennedy v. DeVillaine, US Supreme Court, 1962.

Can't have a gov't ee pick personal things up for you. That's a no-no Would that apply even to someone who is subject to Secret Service protection? Seems like it would cost the taxpayers less to have an aide pick up her wine than require her to do it herself, which means we have to pay for the armo...

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