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Victor Hong

Doctor Big Jay Miller and Sierra CarCrash deserve some back-handed credit.

Victor Hong

Enjoy.

Victor Hong

Bevan wines are REALLY good, obtain very high scores, age well, and are top tier. The wines are similarly priced to other top tier SVDs and his blend is well below. Why don’t they sell out like other similar producers? This is not meant to be offensive to Russell as I and many others would have a B...

Victor Hong

Not even watching HDH today ... dont want to get mad. I don't get mad; I just shrug and move on with life. 1996 Krug just went for $720. There's a wine I'm not going to get to drink. Whatever. My income is not keeping up with asset inflation. The best hedge for asset inflation is to own assets.

Victor Hong

So blame yourself!

Victor Hong

https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/7761612/1995-Liparita-Cellars-Cabernet-Sauvignon Within one year, this wine has increased in price by at least two and a half times. The 1992 Merlot has tripled. I 100% blame this increase on you Victor! [wink.gif] Why? I paid only the old prices. Unlike all the...

Victor Hong

Avoid wine auction sites.

Victor Hong

https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/77 ... -Sauvignon

Within one year, this wine has increased in price by at least two and a half times. The 1992 Merlot has tripled.

Victor Hong

https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/77 ... oclimate-2

To the moon, Alice.

Victor Hong

Your birthday?

Victor Hong

Dennis Atick wrote: ↑February 25th, 2021, 4:54 pm I want to play along. How are you guys creating these lists?

You can PDF all your WB purchases.

Victor Hong

I have begun to drink my lesser ones, like Chateau Jean Gue, especially to keep my hands off my early-1990's California reds.

Still young but finally settled into a nice broad maturity plateau.

Victor Hong

You can still find cheap stuff very much but not entirely like this, but elsewhere.

Victor Hong

Jorge Henriquez wrote: ↑November 7th, 2017, 3:38 pm Can the OP please correct the typo in the title from $100 to $10. Otherwise the Admin can do it.

Kthanxbye.

What difference does that make? This board is full of rich people.

Victor Hong

Your Yellow Tail collection was always suspect. hitsfan If it were +80% of your cellar you'd be worried too [pwn.gif] Victor has plenty of old world classics in his cellar too. https://www.grapewallofchina.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fake-wine-leiftie.jpg We Chinese are terrible.

Victor Hong

When James Gillerman kept hemming and hawing about some wines which took too long to deliver, despite being available on its site, I bailed.

Victor Hong

My collection now seems suspect.

Victor Hong

First wine I bought to put away was 1994 Taylor Fladgate. I was still a kid and was coming back from a track week-end and my dad had said to stop at a big Penn liquor store on the way home and if I saw any to buy all of them (the 100 point scores had just been released) and he'd pay me back. I thin...

Victor Hong

Long gone. The '94 vintage in Napa had gotten rave reviews, and I was indiscriminately grabbing whatever Cabs I saw in SF shops that were 94s and from Napa or Sonoma. I don't think I started properly cellaring wine until 1999 or so...but I might have a 94 Monte Bello from that early scattershot buy...

Victor Hong

Mix with soy sauce, sesame oil, molasses, and fish sauce. Great for dipping anything.

Victor Hong

1985 Guiseppi Quintarelli Amarone Riserva, $80.

Victor Hong

Bdklein wrote: ↑February 11th, 2019, 7:19 am
PaulMills wrote: ↑February 10th, 2019, 4:04 am Lewelling Cabernet.

I’ve seen them at multiple retail stores . Maybe unique to the NY area ?

I just bought a bunch of the 1993 vintage for $39 per bottle, at a suburban retailer. I do not know much about this estate.

Victor Hong

Arv R wrote: ↑February 4th, 2021, 10:27 am What really is amazing is how shitty people who had insights were treated, and how completely unapologetic/unrepentant those who threw rocks at them remain, even years later, when perhaps passions should have calmed down.

So, let me tell you a story......

Victor Hong

Bdklein wrote: ↑February 23rd, 2021, 1:42 pm Beautiful house . Do birds fly into it often??

Dinner!

Victor Hong

K_F_o_l_e_y wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2021, 6:49 pm I use them for cheesecake, since "Duck Egg Cheesecake" sounds way cooler to "Cheesecake" to my guests. But it doesn't make much of any difference.

The cheese may hide the extra richness of the eggs.

Victor Hong

Are going to re-name this as the Main Thread?

Victor Hong

The all-in tariff matters, not its underlying bits.

Victor Hong

This is forcing me back to the retail world. I just grabbed some Lewelling 1993 CS at Blacksmith Wines in NY, for $39 per bottle, plus others. https://www.blacksmithfinewines.com/product/lewelling-cabernet-1993/8208 https://www.blacksmithfinewines.com/product/girard-napa-cabernet-1990/8122 https://w...

Victor Hong

Kyle Whitney wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2021, 2:31 am I use them to make ducks.

Which came first, the ducks or the eggs?

Victor Hong

I was surprised that the Beringer Merlot Bancroft Ranch 1993 and 1994 did not jump so much from initial pricing. I just bid for this, but another person topped me. https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/7756481/1994-Chateau-Souverain-Alexander-Valley-Cabernet-Sauvignon Signs of past seepage though? [...

Victor Hong

I was surprised that the Beringer Merlot Bancroft Ranch 1993 and 1994 did not jump so much from initial pricing. I just bid for this, but another person topped me. https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/7756481/1994-Chateau-Souverain-Alexander-Valley-Cabernet-Sauvignon Wow. Somehow I missed that one....

Victor Hong

I was surprised that the Beringer Merlot Bancroft Ranch 1993 and 1994 did not jump so much from initial pricing.

I just bid for this, but another person topped me.
https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/77 ... -Sauvignon

Victor Hong

It is kind of odd to worry that prices are skyrocketing on gems that could formerly be had for a song and then broadcast about them on the most widely read forum about wine. Maybe you're actually also the seller for these and things like Liparita? [stirthepothal.gif] [wink.gif] I have been posting ...

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AD Northup wrote: ↑February 21st, 2021, 6:18 am The one nice thing is that the Lemoyne state store, not terribly far away is actually one of the best in the state

Was it voted securely so?

Victor Hong

Perfect for this winter.

Victor Hong

Food fight, en route. https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/7751730/1994-Beringer-Bancroft-Ranch-Howell-Mountain-Merlo~ It is kind of odd to worry that prices are skyrocketing on gems that could formerly be had for a song and then broadcast about them on the most widely read forum about wine. Maybe ...

Victor Hong

Food fight, en route.

https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/77 ... tain-Merlo~

Victor Hong

Chris just topped me on the 1994 Beringer Merlot Reserves.

Victor Hong

$25 has been my focus. No mas.

Victor Hong

Make this game please stop!

Oh, wait.....

Victor Hong

https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/77 ... -Sauvignon

I started a mess.

Victor Hong

I use a sundial.

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Posted exactly at same time.

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Helicopter cocktails.

Victor Hong

MikeL238 wrote: ↑February 16th, 2021, 9:04 am It's only Tuesday and I'm already getting bumped aside!

Go here, to bulk up on bidding power.

Victor Hong

Pre-1997 Liparita wines on Winebid.
They were unrecognized but well-worthy cousins to La Jota.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=167337
viewtopic.php?t=167803

Victor Hong

Even the retail stores which had been my back-up source for older California reds were recently cleared of inventory.

I demand an investigation.

Victor Hong

MattYackel wrote: ↑February 14th, 2021, 7:55 pm
Victor Hong wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2021, 10:26 am
Mark Golodetz wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2021, 10:25 am

Uhm, 5 Trackers and no Bidders. It may end up selling, but...
Bidder tag is "delod".
This bidder was on at least 15 different wines I was looking at this week.

This sounds like a conspiracy.

Victor Hong

M. Meer wrote: ↑February 14th, 2021, 7:23 pm $90 still not too bad for 26+ year old wine in the grand scheme of things.
Thankfully, the low bidder has no need for any more wine

I am sure.

Victor Hong

Cris Whetstone wrote: ↑February 14th, 2021, 7:08 pm
Victor Hong wrote: ↑February 14th, 2021, 7:07 pm I kept buying this unopposed for $35 until recently.
I can think of many wines with very similar ratios of past and current bidding.

But I do not buy DRC or Chave. Not a baller.

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