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For your needs as you describe them, you can get by without temp control. The question, IMO, is what are you trying to achieve by aging this type of wine, even if more short or medium term aging? They aren’t magically going to turn into 20-30 year old Grand Crus or First Growths by aging in less tha...

To be clear, if I am reading Steve correctly, he didn’t get wine coverage for $19/yr. He has sufficient blanket coverage from his homeowner’s policy. The $19 is only covering the $500 deductible. Still seems reasonable.

San Sebastián area ... the food, the surf, the lifestyle This. Really anywhere on the northern coast of Spain. Visited 4 times in the last 10 years, at different months of the year. Terrific foodie place. But, the frequent rain, in that part of Spain, is always a pain. But doesn’t it fall mainly on...

Give it a rest, guys.

If you use CellarTracker, they have an easy tie in to Benchmark as well.

Doesn’t exactly qualify as essential travel.

How much for the vertical of rice puffs?

Grass-fed NY strip steak sous vide at 114°F x 60min + 129°F x 60min in homemade "teppanyaki" sauce (butter, shallots, shiitake mushrooms, ginger, shaohshing rice wine, soy sauce, liquid smoke, white wine vinegar, veal demi-glace, sugar, xanthan gum, lemon juice, sesame seeds) Kevin, what’s your thi...

It’s not ready to drink yet.

Jefery- You've made a strong argument based on the label, primarily, that HDH should have been suspicious. The one part I don’t think supports your argument is the fact that you paid half of what the wine went for at Acker. (You didn’t say how either price compared to other bottles at auction in re...

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May 1st, 2020, 1:58 pm

dteng wrote: ↑
May 1st, 2020, 1:02 pm
So I guess no difference in cooking Flannery tri tips versus others...
Flannery has less moisture so they cook faster. Be careful.

The tri tip is not dry aged, so I don’t see why it would have less moisture. It is prime vs. your typical supermarket cut.

Is the bag sealed? If so, where does the moisture go? Seems like a cross between wet and dry aging.

I’m in the camp that the bottles could have been affected by low level, below threshold TCA. As painful as it might be, when you have a lot of a particular wine and you have an off bottle, open a second bottle of the same wine side by side. Most often the second bottle will be much better, and you c...

First, clean your eyeglasses...

I’ve popped one of each over the last few days, and while both are excellent, the Cinsault rose was simply delightful. The rest of my Mourvedre will be consumed later this summer, but the Cinsault will disappear fast.

Is this 2016 or 2017? Title says one thing, body of post says another.

I guess my experience is different from yours, John. I have never seen anyone claim an 8-12% TCA taint, even in the old days. My experience was 3-5% back then, less now for current releases. Regarding sensitivity, yes it varies dramatically, but some can detect at the 2-3 parts per trillion, I pers...

Were these current releases? I ask because TCA taint used to be in the 8-12% range, but the rate is far, far lower in the last 10-12 years. I host regular tasting groups, and it’s pretty rare now that we have a corked current-release wine. We used to average one in every tasting of eight wines. Als...

For my money, the best maker and blender of Bordeaux varietals in the state is Chris Camarda at Andrew Will, and his son, Will Camarda.

If (as?) the general market and economy continue to worsen, eventually a large amount of wine in private cellars will be puked to auction. There is, however, a delay due to the time necessary to select wines to sell, get auction estimates, ship the wine, and then have the auction company inspect and...

Mark Stevens wrote: ↑
March 9th, 2020, 7:54 pm
Cancelled due to Covis9- sigh....

Oh shoot, I thought COVID-19 was bad enough. Now we have another new virus?

I understand that. It’s a good price. So why does a merchant need to blatantly lie?

Such BS - the merchant claims it is 75% off THE ORIGINAL RELEASE PRICE. Yeah right.

It’s just you. Clear your cache, reboot, whatever you need to do.

Unless you are only DTC, you are selling a $50 retail wine to a wholesaler for let’s say $25. Let’s assume you are making a profit at that price. Now you want to charge your high margin DTC client a surcharge instead of eating that cost. Sorry, you just lost me as a customer.

Don’t take it personally, Blake (not that you are). I recall a story from what was likely the early ‘90s from a fellow AOL wine board member, Gerry Dawson. He was the first person outside the estate/employees to taste the then unreleased 1970 Unico, some 20+ years after vintage. They have always bee...

Bought from Flannery, Tercero and Veleta on a Visa. No fraud.

Hi William, A new one from California is called vinousreverie.com. They have interesting wines, mostly International. The prices are very reasonable. Take a look, you might like it. Since you appear to be associated with the store, being upfront about it will help you to establish credibility on th...

The company in Utah is most likely Advantage Transportation, who will be far less expensive than the full service movers like The Wine Movers or Western Carriers, but it depends on what services you want. Advantage will only pick up and deliver an already palletized shipment, and there must be a loa...

With all the money you saved, you can afford a neurologist.

Debbie, welcome. A couple of thoughts. First, a Eurocave where the ‘wine portion’ (whatever that means) only gets down to 50 degrees is perfect. For most people, serving temp should be warmer than that, the only possible exceptions are Champagne and wines that are too bad to drink without chilling t...

My order just arrived, porterhouse, ribeyes & hangar, which is on the menu for tonight.

McCormick & Schmick’s.

John, my experience with very old, shrunken corks is that they shrink from the inside (wet) end of the cork, not the end exposed to the air. This would imply that something in the wine (acid?) gradually eats at the cork. I have never seen a cork shrivel up on the outside while maintaining a good sea...

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January 17th, 2020, 8:18 pm
I live in Seattle and haven't heard of them, their LLC is DDF Wines which is a residence in Capitol Hill.

Let us know how a transaction goes.

Ditto

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January 16th, 2020, 5:55 pm
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LOL my friggin’ ass off! Better than Gary Larson’s boneless chicken ranch.

Opened a 2007 Charvin tonight. Initially pretty chunky on the palate, but with 30 minutes or so of air time, the nose started showing kirsch and the palate softened somewhat. Labeled as 15%, alcohol in balance.

Sales tax has nothing to do with it, although WA does have a high sales tax rate (due to no income tax). Troy, the excise tax is not added at the retail level, but at an earlier tier, raising the cost at each tier, and getting marked up at each subsequent tier. The net effect might be more like 40-5...

Chuck, WA may have high taxes, but when it comes to Champagne pricing, they are a small pimple on the ass of Godzilla, ie, irrelevant. Dan Kravitz Not following the logic here. Yes, we are a pimple, but whatever amount of Champagne we sell here in WA, no matter how small, is taxed at a fairly high ...

Maybe because they are in WA state, home of some of the highest alcohol taxes in the nation. On wine? I thought I was told WA had high spirit/liquor taxes , but not wine. If there is a high wine excise how does Garagiste exist- they are in WA I thinK? Yes, still high. More than 4 times the rate of ...

Why not? I searched and found a thread on the topic I wanted to discuss. Damned if you search, damned if you don't. :) I ordered from them once because I wanted to try a wine that only they were importing. I found their customer service, packaging and accompanying materials really well done. That s...

James Billy wrote: ↑
December 30th, 2019, 4:58 am
How about if we just whisper?

Maybe just speak easy.

Because it's very cheap to grow corn and wheat and you can grow them almost everywhere, have you ever been to midwest? Grapes require much much more TLC and better the land higher the prices. 1 acre of land in midwest is from $5k to $10K for prime land. Prime land of vineyard costs you upwards of 5...

Interesting that the paperwork says ‘Not For Retail Sale’. I wonder why that would be.

Wow! Even for 12, that’s too much A5 for one meal, IMO. I would cut it in half while frozen and keep half frozen. That way you get 2 shots at it, and can learn from the first time if the method isn’t perfect. I have no suggestions to help you prepare it, having never done anything like that.

The Costco in Redmond, WA is selling the Covap Bellota Iberico for $350 thru 12/31. Not sure about other locations.

Bill, glad it was a great bottle. About 10 years ago, I was given a magnum of ‘70 Latour as a Christmas gift by a very generous client. I decided to open it for my blind tasting group, where the custom is to bring 2 bottles each, usually with a theme. I opened it mid afternoon and decanted into 2 se...

Not really thought of as a mid/high end winery, but V. Sattui is set up for this. They are a tourist-centric winery that I believe only sells wine at the winery itself, which appeals to some more novice people. Tour bus stop, which is a negative for most experienced winos. They also have a wide vari...

Greg, my apology. I thought you had referred to gazillions, not just zillions. Zillions is extremely precise, while gazillion and bazillion have a more nebulous meaning. A gazillion apologies to you.

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