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It is known to happen to everyone for some unexplained reason ;) In the entire course of human history, there are no known or reliably reported instances if me dying. Not a single one. I'd say that is a good reason for optimism. I like your approach! Mine: 'The fact of having been born is a bad aug...

I'm having a hard time envisioning your crawl space Kelly. Gotta pic?

First-ever tasting note posted here, so please be gentle. [thankyou.gif] 2000 Ducru-Beaucaillou, St. Julien I was sworn into the Washington State Bar Association yesterday, so my wife and I pulled this out to celebrate. Decanted for a little over two hours and enjoyed for another two, this wine was...

Brian S t o t t e r wrote: ↑
January 18th, 2020, 9:37 am

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
January 18th, 2020, 8:52 am
Not sure I own it yet
Just saw K&L sold out of 2015 Sociando-Mallet, do you own it now?

LOL, I suspect Alfert

2010 Montrose? I may be dead before it’s ready. Neal will for sure. ;) I have no intention of dying. It is known to happen to everyone for some unexplained reason ;) In the entire course of human history, there are no known or reliably reported instances if me dying. Not a single one. I'd say that ...

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
January 18th, 2020, 8:55 am
2010 Montrose?

I may be dead before it’s ready. Neal will for sure.

I have no intention of dying.

Not sure I own it yet

Sounds like an awesome tasting! Thanks for the notes Pat

jordan jacobs wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 6:22 pm

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 5:58 pm

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 5:41 pm

Awesome!
tcwc has them for $80.
Thanks Neal, just emailed simon to grab one. Probably should have grabbed two. Oh well. If they are still there when I pick up my recent orders I’ll grab some more.

I have one more and hope it (and yours) delivers like this one

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 5:41 pm

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 4:55 pm
1988 Domaine de Chevalier. Man what a nose. This wine smells so good if you never drank any having the bottle would be worthwhile. Just intoxicating. Not too shabby on the palate either. Just a delightful bottle
Awesome!

tcwc has them for $80.

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 5:44 pm

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 4:53 pm
half a dozen half bottles of the 2016 Fontalloro offered by envoyer today. Can't have enough halves.
I bought in 750, then WineBid had 375s that I drooled over but for $30 sans vig, ugh. How much?

$28

1988 Domaine de Chevalier. Man what a nose. This wine smells so good if you never drank any having the bottle would be worthwhile. Just intoxicating. Not too shabby on the palate either. Just a delightful bottle

half a dozen half bottles of the 2016 Fontalloro offered by envoyer today. Can't have enough halves.

Sounds like a delight. That's a pretty fresh looking cork too!

I think all wine should be evaluated using the binary system. I like it or I don't like it. Of course, you can then expound on why you like it or you don't like it if you care to. This is nearly perfect. The only change I'd make is that the only relevant question is whether I like it, not whether P...

Happy anniversary Noel! A lovely occasion to share with your family, even if one son was "in Ho Chi Minh on a short vacation" -- a phrase that brought me up short as a man of a certain age who finds it jarring. Happy that things have changed for the better since the days of my youth

Nope! Silt is a rock particle in which the grain size is smaller than sand but larger than clay. When doing fieldwork, geologists have sometimes been known to put a small sample in their mouth. If they can feel the gritty particles; it is a siltstone, if not then it is a claystone (which may later ...

No clue. Maybe 100-125 bottles.

An inexpensive Cru. Twenty years old. Perfectly stored. Firing on all four cylinders. This ain’t an eight cylinder beast, never meant to be more than it is. But it delivers With aplomb. Cigar box, leather, dried red fruits and camp fire on the nose. Impeccable balance on a mid-weight frame. Sous bo...

Just got a shipping notice from Applejack, so they apparently got their refreshed supply.

BTW, do I want my tannins to be silt-like? Asking for a vigneron friend.

Glen Gold wrote: ↑
January 13th, 2020, 11:02 am
Where are you seeing the price? I tried to look it up on Sokolin and didn't find it.

email offer. You can have mine.

"This is the first vintage off this estate following the purchase of the old Robin Williams vineyard and house by Chateau Pontet-Canet proprietor Alfred Tesseron back in 2016...Now officially dubbed “Pym-Rae,” in respect for the original name given to the vineyard by Robin Williams (Pym and Rae are...

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
January 12th, 2020, 7:36 am
A smattering of 2016 Chasse Spleen in 375.

Was just chatting with Corey and MarcF about how much we love this format, and I stumbled across these. Leve rated it 88, so I know I will love it! I kid, in part, as his note clearly describes what I like in a Cru Bdx.

B-21?

Michael S. Monie wrote: ↑
January 11th, 2020, 9:47 am

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
January 11th, 2020, 7:50 am
Against better judgement, in violations of house rules, I bought ONE bottle of 2008 Bollinger GA. ALL future 2008 champagne offers are invisible to me.
This has probably already been asked and answered, but does this mean no 2008 Comtes for you?

Logic says yes.

Neal.Mollen wrote: Most of their Bordeaux portfolio is Winery direct. Before their anticipatory price hikes, the 20% off coupons made them very good buys. I have also noticed an increase in pricing for in-stock Bordeaux. For example, in our local store, the 2015 Domaine de Chevalier went from $79.9...

Against better judgement, in violations of house rules, I bought ONE bottle of 2008 Bollinger GA. ALL future 2008 champagne offers are invisible to me.

John Glas wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2020, 6:34 pm
I can never find any winery direct wines I want to purchase in the Minneapolis Market. Most are their corporate swill with goofy labels.

Most of their Bordeaux portfolio is Winery direct. Before their anticipatory price hikes, the 20% off coupons made them very good buys.

The 20% coupons come out intermittently and can’t be applied to wines priced with a 7 as the last digit. Pricing varies from store to store. The local TW has 2008 Cristal for $259.99, which works out to $208 with the coupon. I think the 20% only works on "winery direct" wines; is Roederer/Cristal o...

ykwon wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2020, 1:36 pm

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2020, 12:23 pm

A G Aguirre wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2020, 11:54 am
Thoughts on the Bollinger?
which?
Grande Annee

Even though I promised I wouldn't, I bought. Love this wine

A G Aguirre wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2020, 11:54 am
Thoughts on the Bollinger?

which?

Greg K wrote: ↑
January 9th, 2020, 12:24 pm
In Napa? My first question is usually how many of your bottles does Alfert's wife buy every year? And how many for the poolboy?

Where's the heliport?

Ron Erickson wrote: ↑
January 6th, 2020, 3:51 pm
500 respondents will give you 500 different answers.

+1

I didn´t read all postings carefully, but if I´m not mistaken a certain point is missing here: Champagne/sparkling glasses always have a "pin point" at the bottom where the bubbles start to origine - wine glasses usually don´t have any - and therefore Champagne drunk out of wine (or brandy or whate...

Sounds pretty consistent with the conventional berserkers wisdom

2012 was quite a low-yielding vintage in Champagne, for similar reasons to why it was a low yielding vintage in Burgundy (frost, Spring disease pressure). The wines are deep, concentrated and muscular, and though the acids are racy, they are not such tensile wines as the 2008s. Rather than being bu...

I am not sure I have ever bought a bottle of bourbon for myself. I know I don't own any now and haven't at any time in memory. So no.

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
January 4th, 2020, 10:12 am

YLee wrote: ↑
January 4th, 2020, 10:11 am

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
January 4th, 2020, 10:06 am
More 2016 Chateau Sociando Mallet. I had intended not to buy more new releases, but . . . .
You should just buy the Chateau.

Casa Sociando de Alfert has a nice ring to it.

Cuvee Cubana

I spoke with the folks at Applejack about the Dom. They sold out but expect more on Tuesday and I am slated to ship a week from Monday if things go as expected

Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑
December 30th, 2019, 5:01 pm
So perfect, like an old pair of jeans with rips in the knees, fitting so well.

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2000 Chateau Lanessan, Haut-Medoc

Cradle-robber! Nice wine.

Just popped a 1981 Montrose. Smells good!

CJ Beazley wrote: ↑
January 3rd, 2020, 8:47 am

YLee wrote: ↑
January 3rd, 2020, 8:45 am
Thanks but still only seeing halves not splits.
I think by ‘splits’ he did mean .375’s
*I know there’s two schools of thought about this-

Correct. At some point, people started referring to .187s as splits, just to f*ck everyone up. I blame Obamacare

YLee wrote: ↑
January 3rd, 2020, 11:02 am

Mike S. wrote: ↑
January 3rd, 2020, 10:51 am
Greg, can you please translate for me. Thanks
I think he's talking about Beaujolais.

Not Greg, but yes this borders on gamay flavors, a border on which we really DO need a wall

Mich@el Ch@ng wrote: ↑
January 2nd, 2020, 9:35 am
jose michel from envoyer

yup. Immediately came to mind. Also bought a bunch of the Roederer Estate wine from K&L for $10/per some time ago

The last week of the year resulted in more purchases than the prior couple of months combined. A few more 2008 Dom (I think; we'll see after the holiday whether they honor the sale), a bunch of Jose Michel rosè 375s, and a few 2014 Vilmart & Cie Cellier Brut at a price I couldn't pass up. Back on th...

2004 Taittinger Comtes (1/1/2020) This was a conversation stopper, a gorgeous bottle of wine. Dense and viscous yet lithe and spry. Creamy lemon mousse, stone fruit; moderately autolytic. Riper than most 2004's; this has entered the zone. They have the constitution to go the distance, but there's n...

1999 Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Grand Cellier d'Or instead of the Winnie. Nearly still, oxidative, apricots and yeast. Very nice in a particular style

YLee wrote: ↑
December 31st, 2019, 5:04 pm

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
December 31st, 2019, 4:01 pm

John Glas wrote: ↑
December 31st, 2019, 2:18 pm
Hopefully holding those until better shipping weather.
They ship to DC!

But they're sold out.
I was able to place an order just now

Search function didn't work (much like WB) but I did find it and placed an order. We'll see

Pat Martin wrote: ↑
December 31st, 2019, 4:38 pm
Just bought a 6 pack, at $136 each. Last purchase of the year!

where?

Found some on WS for $136 at Applejack Wine outside of Denver. Shipping to east coast only added $3/btl so a great deal. After my order I think they may still have another 50 or so in inventory. Yes I was tempted to buy them out. Hopefully holding those until better shipping weather. They ship to D...

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