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My order in for my favorite producer. Although I don't take my full allocation anymore it is still my biggest buy each year. My cellar is deep and wide with vintages back to '05.

Knock on wood... In all my years of handling bottles in and out of a crawl space cellar I have only broken two bottles of relatively inexpensive zin when I dropped a case. I take it as proof the God approves of wine as the chosen beverage.

Chris H. wrote: ↑
July 15th, 2019, 3:17 pm
Great notes!! Much appreciated.

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Misleading information is common. Your merchants actions uncommon and commendable.

A '13 Carlisle Dupratt Zin went well with July 4th picnic fare. Also opened a '17 Tablas Creek Patelin de Tablas Blanc because it was 90 F%^*#g degrees in Anchorage, AK.

If you like Syrah I would certainly get on the Carlisle waiting list. It will take a while but you will be rewarded with a long list of fairly priced premium wines.

Another good month for me: Consumed 32 and only purchased 3 for a reduction of 29. My year to date reduction is 78 and I am down about 600 bottles since beginning this "rightsizing" effort about 5 years ago.

etomasi wrote: ↑
June 28th, 2019, 9:20 am
Given there are 5 people my initial thoughts are .. bring 2 bottles, a red and a white.

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Congratulations to your son.

I have enjoyed the Ramey Cabs that I have drank but I too normally take my own bottles to restaurants. Wine list rarely have the aged wines that I prefer. And if they do they are usually expensive.

The wife and I normally share a bottle with dinner. However in the summer we frequently pop a white wine in the late afternoon to enjoy on the deck. This is usually a second bottle.

I drank one of my 4 LB's in '11 and it was way too young. Hopefully your bottle was an exception.

No budget just realistic limits on the size cellar I want (current target is 2000 bottles); how much I am willing to pay for any given wine (this number has continually crept up over the past 20 years); and the "deals" that keep popping up in my inbox. My peak buying years were 2007-2010 and I am cu...

I am a big fan of this producer, especially some of their very affordable Rhone white wines.

I am with James, it appears that your cellar is preforming admirably. My passive cellar is in my crawl space in Alaska and I get approximately the same temperature ranges that you are seeing. I have had my cellar for 20 years and I have noticed no ill effects from small daily fluctuation in temperat...

I have very much enjoyed the few Pisoni pinots that i have had. So many good pinots out there.

So many great Syrah's out there. It's hard to narrow to only five. I list the ones I have most experience with. I factor in value in my list. Carlisle Betz Dehlinger Lagier Meridith Cayuse As an aside I had a bottle of '05 Carlisle Sonoma a few weeks ago that was amazing. This was a $20 bottle that ...

I actually had a bottle of '04 Carlisle Mondeuse Noir that I drank in 2017. I enjoyed the bottle but it is something you rarely see. Yup....that was a year that Mike was able to make a barrel of Mondeuse off of TwoAcres. I thought it spoke more of Mike's winemaking and only quietly of Mondeuse vari...

Bud Carey wrote: ↑
June 16th, 2019, 11:03 am
2014 Compagni Portis... stunningly good.

I've liked each vintage but I believe that the '12 Compagni Portis was my favorite Carlisle white wine to date.

I have a few in the cellar and have noticed that the '15 and '16's seem to get nearly universal rave reviews. Have not drunk any of mine yet.

I actually had a bottle of '04 Carlisle Mondeuse Noir that I drank in 2017. I enjoyed the bottle but it is something you rarely see.

2016 Pegau Reservee. Not buying much these days but I really like this producer and have several vintages in the cellar.

Brian Tuite wrote: ↑
June 7th, 2019, 10:00 am

Anton D wrote: ↑
June 7th, 2019, 9:44 am
Vintage of the century!
This

This is like the 4th one in the last 5 years right

Welcome aboard. Lots to be learned here. Lots of knowledgeable posters with diverse interests and tastes.

My pick at $25 would be the Walter Hansel Estate Chard.

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
June 1st, 2019, 8:43 am

I take solace in that I have made no June purchases.

Amazing willpower!

May was good. Consumed 25 and bought 5 for a net of -20. My purchases this year have swung dramatically toward White wine and Champagne.

Don't have a lot of experience with Sonoma Cabs but I have had exceptional bottles of aged Dehlinger and Audelssa Cabs.

i have visited Windward several times over the years and have enjoyed numerous bottlings of their Pinot. I especially enjoyed the small, family run atmosphere of the winery. Very nice people and fun stories.

Carlisle Sonoma Zin and Syrah
Beaucastel Coudoulet
Hansel Estate Chard
Le Clos du Caillou Caillou Les Quartz CdR

Love Geyserville. Had an '09 several months ago with similar impressions. It was my first of 5 since I especially like them with some cellar time.

A. So wrote: ↑
May 24th, 2019, 11:31 am
Because it sucks

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I believe that the primary benefit of Biodynamic farming practices is sustainability. I think it would be difficult to attribute changes in taste to these techniques.

2001 Seavey Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon - USA, California, Napa Valley (5/23/2019) Drank this beautiful mature Cab last evening with grilled beef tenderloin. Delicious mature dark fruit, earth and graphite. Amazingly, this 18 year old Cab still has some unresolved tannin. Drink now or hold for furt...

I had a bottle of the 2006 Domaine Louis Michel Chablis 1er Cru Fourchaume last night that was delicious, I was surprised to see in Cellar Tracker that there were only a total of 20 bottles owned and guilty that I hogged 10 of them.

Picked up a few more '08 Cristal at the South Anchorage Costco. They had three remaining.

Best in Retirement to Robert Parker Jr. He certainly was my go to critic when I started enjoying wine and up until his semi retirement several years ago. I appreciate that taste preferences for wine are extremely diverse but consider myself fortunate that my preferences have always aligned well with...

Even though I stopped buying White burgs several years ago because of premox issues I have drunk and enjoyed quite a bit of Chablis from Louis Michel. Mostly from the '05-'07 vintages. I found the wines very good to excellent and did not see as much premox as some other producers. I bought all of mi...

In my years of tastings I have never done it and never felt that it was customary or expected.

Happy 50th. Not many could come up with such a delightful line up.

2006 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Pommard Les Vignots - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Pommard (5/5/2019) Very nice drunk with salmon sushi. This wine was loaded with cranberry / current fruit. For me good alone but really stood out with the food. Still plenty of tannin to go more years. (9...

Just bought an '08 Cristal for $199 at the South Anchorage Costco. It was their last bottle.

Quit buying White Burg several years ago. Wy to expensive when premox factored in.

CA, WA, and OP.

A few Gruet bubblies from NM.

April not so good for me. Consumed 20 and bought 43 for a net of +23.

I have excuses of course. Bought two cases of rhone white summer sippers and we were out of town for a week.

Our tasting group (four couples) has bought several expensive bottles together. I allows us to experience wines that we would likely never buy individually.

J a y H a c k wrote: ↑
April 27th, 2019, 6:32 am

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I stage about 40 bottles in my garage for near term drinking. If I start seeing a lot of CT notes saying that the wine ins entering a dumb phase or needs more cellar time I will return them.

Trying to identify different varietals and their variations blind is always fun and humbling.

Eric, Congratulations on your success and thank you for developing this wonderful tool. I can't remember exactly where or when I heard about Cellar tracker. I think there was a thread on the old Squires BB about a new Cellar Tracking App. I signed up on 3/6/04 and never looked back. I was and is the...

Daou has a killer view from the winery but in general their wines are pretty expensive.

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