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- December 10th, 2019, 7:08 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1461
Re: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
No doubt many unsulfured wines were sold mainly at home because importers were afraid of dealing with them, and yes Overnoy has been unsulfured forever. Lapierre of course made both the S and N cuvees - it's only recently the latter goes into the supply chain here in any quantity; it used to be the ...
- December 9th, 2019, 4:41 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 4082
Re: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
Drinking now
- December 9th, 2019, 2:23 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 4082
Re: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
Alfert doesn't have to cover the Montrachet, he just has to start complying with the subpoenas to show up
- December 9th, 2019, 2:13 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1461
Re: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
If you will take my magic carpet ride for just a moment, as a style , Lapierre is structured much like a conventional Morgon. If no one told you, you would not likely suddenly say, "ya know, I bet this is one of them done dair natural wines everyone in tarnation is jabbering on about". Yeah, but mo...
- December 9th, 2019, 11:33 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 4082
Re: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
Grange des Peres
- December 9th, 2019, 11:08 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 4082
Re: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
This thread is so surreal. It's like my high school art history exams, but actually knowing the answers. I dunno, Keith, haven’t seen you answering Post 50. ;) Granted, you are only rich, not snobby and pretentious. Well, at least not pretentious. If you answer within 15 minutes, next Bern’s dinner...
- December 9th, 2019, 10:03 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 4082
Re: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
This thread is so surreal. It's like my high school art history exams, but actually knowing the answers.
- December 9th, 2019, 8:06 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Dunnuck Top 100 2019
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4435
Re: Dunnuck Top 100 2019
All of their 91-point winesPaul Jaouen wrote: ↑December 5th, 2019, 7:54 amI think one of the reviewers should post their Bottom 100 list. We could have a lot of fun with that.
- December 9th, 2019, 8:02 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wine Games: Who’s the producer?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 4082
- December 9th, 2019, 7:58 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1461
Re: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
Pretty much all of them! It just wasn't the thing people were fixated on. I think the main issue is that the people who first developed and championed these wines were trying to distinguish themselves from overly processed/treated wines - they weren't trying to out-natural each other . So the focus ...
- December 6th, 2019, 1:02 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1461
Re: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
Natural wine jumped the shark when it became all about sulfur. It didn't used to be that way! Some wines age fine without sulfur, some don't, and I'm not aware of any way of telling which is which on release just by tasting. I am getting a bit tired of pouring once-great wines down the sink, so I'm...
- December 6th, 2019, 6:57 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1461
Re: Natural Wines with age - a tasting (Leroy, Anglore, Ganevat, Lapierre,...)
Natural wine jumped the shark when it became all about sulfur. It didn't used to be that way! Some wines age fine without sulfur, some don't, and I'm not aware of any way of telling which is which on release just by tasting. I am getting a bit tired of pouring once-great wines down the sink, so I'm ...
- November 27th, 2019, 12:51 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Mark Squires' BB to close for good - UPDATED (WA sold to Michelin)
- Replies: 319
- Views: 20818
Re: Mark Squires' BB to close for good - UPDATED (WA sold to Michelin)
Given their insistence on repeating the (grammatically horrendous) brand name "Robert Parker Wine Advocate" a thousand times, I'm surmising Parker's brand value is still pretty strong.
- November 25th, 2019, 11:06 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: 15 vs 16 barton
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1109
Re: 15 vs 16 barton
I hedged! Too soon to tell whether it will beat out the 1926.Robert.A.Jr. wrote: ↑November 23rd, 2019, 3:16 pmKeith Levenberg wrote: ↑November 23rd, 2019, 2:59 pmCurrent price of the 2016 Barton can also get you the 2000 Barton, which is one of the best the chateau ever made.
I just popped the 2000 a couple weeks ago. While I will not call it best ever,
- November 23rd, 2019, 2:59 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: 15 vs 16 barton
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1109
Re: 15 vs 16 barton
Current price of the 2016 Barton can also get you the 2000 Barton, which is one of the best the chateau ever made.
- November 22nd, 2019, 6:57 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Chateau Palmer 2016 for $274, what the what?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 11884
Re: Chateau Palmer 2016 for $274, what the what?
2010 La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza gets pretty cheap with the $50 or $100 codes, depending how many you want
- November 22nd, 2019, 6:44 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Barolo: no more need to wait forever and a day
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4032
Re: Barolo: no more need to wait forever and a day
Possibly nebbiolo is more of a crapshoot in the cellar than other major wines, but I suspect at least part of the variability of old Barolo is not on account of the crapshoot but on account of those older wines just having been flawed from birth - too much unattended time in cask indifferent to intr...
- November 21st, 2019, 2:02 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Barolo: no more need to wait forever and a day
- Replies: 86
- Views: 4032
Re: Barolo: no more need to wait forever and a day
There's more to "approachable" than not having sandbags of tannin. 10-year-old Barolo may be less aggressively tannic than it used to be, but they are still in the same not-fun-to-drink, in-between period where the initial primary fruit appeal is gone (if it was ever there in the first place) and no...
- November 18th, 2019, 1:28 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Are there objectively good and bad wines?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 3290
- November 18th, 2019, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Are there objectively good and bad wines?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 3290
Re: Are there objectively good and bad wines?
Besides, what good is it to me if a wine somehow "objectively" is a 95 point wine and I think subjectively it deserves 75 points. For example, how does one rate SQN or Truchot objectively? Say there is a wine from both that somehow are objectively rated 92.5. Many, many tasters will find that one d...
- November 18th, 2019, 1:11 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Is Corton-Charlemagne as grand a Grand Cru as the others? Please discuss!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2019
Re: Is Corton-Charlemagne as grand a Grand Cru as the others? Please discuss!
As others have said, Corton-Charlemagne is more chiseled and mineral, and pulls off that style better than any other site in the Cote - clearly a top grand cru. If you like Chevalier better than Batard, then Corton-Charlemagne is for you. (If you'd probably rather be drinking riesling, then Corton-C...
- November 14th, 2019, 9:01 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: Eight 2016 Barbarescos tasted blind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1991
Re: TN: Eight 2016 Barbarescos tasted blind
John, what do you mean by quinine aroma? To my understanding, quinine is a completely odorless compound and hasn't got really any taste of its own, besides the noticeable bitterness. Perhaps that's true, but this smelled like tonic water. Not sure what else is in tonic other than quinine. I get wha...
- November 13th, 2019, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: The Insider: Inside New York’s Exclusive Billionaire Wine Tastings
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2601
Re: The Insider: Inside New York’s Exclusive Billionaire Wine Tastings
Shame the video cut off right before she tears off that fake mustache and he exclaims, "and I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you!..."
- October 25th, 2019, 9:43 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Can any glass geeks identify this glass?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 763
Re: Can any glass geeks identify this glass?
Hm. Can't decide whether I like it. Handy for the dishwasher but looks almost more like a beer glass.
- October 25th, 2019, 9:36 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wineries please note - I am sick of styro shippers
- Replies: 163
- Views: 6426
Re: Wineries please note - I am sick of styro shippers
I agree that my preference would be for styrofoam especially when I hear someone like Morgan worry about heat issues with the alternatives. I get plenty of shipments in styrofoam that are not filled with little pieces. Ship in the right weather, and styro does not matter. Ship in the wrong weather,...
- October 25th, 2019, 9:33 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wineries please note - I am sick of styro shippers
- Replies: 163
- Views: 6426
Re: Wineries please note - I am sick of styro shippers
Hi Aaron and all- all great points here. At WineBid, we're acutely aware of the styro issue. We are looking into alternative packaging that will work as well and be as cost effective, and we are actively attempting to recycle all the styro we can for multiple uses, where appropriate. I guess the qu...
- October 24th, 2019, 9:17 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wineries please note - I am sick of styro shippers
- Replies: 163
- Views: 6426
Re: Wineries please note - I am sick of styro shippers
Hi Aaron and all- all great points here. At WineBid, we're acutely aware of the styro issue. We are looking into alternative packaging that will work as well and be as cost effective, and we are actively attempting to recycle all the styro we can for multiple uses, where appropriate. I guess the qu...
- October 23rd, 2019, 7:52 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Upright or on its side: A Theory
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2415
Re: Upright or on its side: A Theory
Try storing some wine long term standing up and you'll see the corks dry out. I can't argue the science but I've seen enough data with my own stuff not to let it happen anymore. I suppose it's something one could do a scientific study on, but it would be better if the wineries mooted the need to car...
- October 19th, 2019, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: juge hunter: astor wines edition
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1201
Re: juge hunter: astor wines edition
Even Verset isn't getting Gentaz prices.
- October 18th, 2019, 8:10 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Zalto Universal vs. Gabriel Gold
- Replies: 174
- Views: 14503
Re: Zalto Universal vs. Gabriel Gold
I never liked Zalto's angular design. I'm intrigued by the Jancis glass, which basically looks like a Zalto Universal but with a round bowl. Anyone tried it?
Re: Aglianico
Many call aglianico the nebbiolo of the south. Very different profile but the complexity can reach highs. There are aglianico from various southern regions but I find those from Campania to be my preferred. Mastroberardino Radici and Feudi de San Gregario's various offerings. The Vulture are very c...
- October 17th, 2019, 9:05 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: John Fox (PC) Update
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3659
Re: John Fox (PC) Update
No conjugal visits either
- September 30th, 2019, 9:35 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Lots of good, not so much great
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1957
Re: Lots of good, not so much great
I think I found the problem
- September 29th, 2019, 3:18 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Barolo Sediment
- Replies: 113
- Views: 4768
Re: Barolo Sediment
You don't have to keep a bottle upright to decant off its sediment. As soon as you start pouring the bottle, you've just put the thing on its side anyway, so what was the point of standing it up for a month? Just take the bottle from the cellar, decant slowly and carefully, and you'll get it off th...
- September 24th, 2019, 7:41 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Do I need to be drinking my Bordeauxs younger?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2420
Re: Do I need to be drinking my Bordeauxs younger?
Nah...just had a wonderful ‘62 Latour today. One wine (and a Latour, which has the reputation (deservedly so IMHO) of being the longest lived wine in Bordeaux) proves exactly what? Not much less than the four wines you mentioned. Why would you expect a '79 Bordeaux to be better now than, say, 10 or...
- September 21st, 2019, 5:25 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Burgundy 2019 report
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3959
Re: Burgundy 2019 report
The grape cluster pics growers have been posting on Facebook this year have been super-porny.
- September 17th, 2019, 8:30 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: A Humble Evening at Bern's, Some Observations, and the Omnipresence of Rolland in My Life
- Replies: 72
- Views: 5118
Re: A Humble Evening at Bern's, Some Observations, and the Omnipresence of Rolland in My Life
I am pretty sure there are no 1918s left, and the '20s-'40s are now mostly reduced to off-vintages. But some of those off-vintages are still great bottles because the provenance is so good. Note that there are still some wines on the printed list which are no longer available (they can only print th...
- September 15th, 2019, 10:01 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Barolo Sediment
- Replies: 113
- Views: 4768
Re: Barolo Sediment
Doesn't matter how fine the sediment is, if gravity is capable of settling it on the bottom of the bottle, it's also capable of keeping it on the underside of the bottle when the bottle is in a sideways position being poured. By contrast, if you're worried about disturbing fine sediment, what do you...
- September 15th, 2019, 8:44 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Barolo Sediment
- Replies: 113
- Views: 4768
Re: Barolo Sediment
Anywhere from zero to a hundred years old or so
- September 15th, 2019, 7:39 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Barolo Sediment
- Replies: 113
- Views: 4768
Re: Barolo Sediment
Works with any wine. The sediment is perfectly settled on the side of the bottle, which is the bottom of the bottle when the bottle is on its side, which is the position you're pouring from.
- September 15th, 2019, 6:19 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Any recs for lunch in or around Beaune?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1245
Re: Any recs for lunch in or around Beaune?
Saturday is market day in Beaune - skip the restaurants and put together some cheese, sausage, pate, etc. for a picnic you'll never forget.
- September 15th, 2019, 5:25 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Barolo Sediment
- Replies: 113
- Views: 4768
Re: Barolo Sediment
You don't have to keep a bottle upright to decant off its sediment. As soon as you start pouring the bottle, you've just put the thing on its side anyway, so what was the point of standing it up for a month? Just take the bottle from the cellar, decant slowly and carefully, and you'll get it off the...
- September 15th, 2019, 11:08 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: More Bottom Feeding @ Total Wine...(short/boring)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1745
Re: TN: More Bottom Feeding @ Total Wine...(short/boring)
These are terroir wines, you know! They're unique to its appellations! "Crafted by multi-talented winemaker, Allison Crowe for Plata Wine Partners, she has crafted a long-term relationship with the vineyards to craft wines that are unique to its appellations." - https://www.totalwine.com/wine/brand/...
- September 15th, 2019, 11:04 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: More Bottom Feeding @ Total Wine...(short/boring)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1745
Re: TN: More Bottom Feeding @ Total Wine...(short/boring)
Maybe it just needs more time in the cellar. ![rofl [rofl.gif]](./images/smilies/rofl.gif)
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- September 15th, 2019, 11:02 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: For BAMA fans...
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2672
Re: For BAMA fans...
I haven't had enough of these to get a handle on what kind of bottle variation there is, which doesn't bother me in itself but can be a dealbreaker depending on the cause of the variation - so what's the cause here? Low tech or low sulfur? Makes a big difference. It's the difference between some lot...
- September 6th, 2019, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Underrated burgundy vintages
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3740
Re: Underrated burgundy vintages
in. I still have a handful of the good '04s
- September 6th, 2019, 6:38 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Underrated burgundy vintages
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3740
Re: Underrated burgundy vintages
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all vintages are above average. If one looks at vintages of the last 10-15 years only in comparison with each other, of course all of the vintages cannot be above average. But, if one looks at the vintages of even the last 20 years in comparison with other vintages ov...
- September 6th, 2019, 6:32 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Underrated burgundy vintages
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3740
Re: Underrated burgundy vintages
Personally I think 2010 is underrated. Of course, everyone loves it, but it may well be the greatest vintage of my lifetime, and I am not sure it is being recognized as such. I totally agree and almost wrote that. 2010's are pretty expensive, and not too easy to find, and pretty universally lauded....
- September 6th, 2019, 6:24 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Underrated burgundy vintages
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3740
Re: Underrated burgundy vintages
Personally I think 2010 is underrated. Of course, everyone loves it, but it may well be the greatest vintage of my lifetime, and I am not sure it is being recognized as such. So what are the pros/cons for 2005 and 2010? Well, 2005 is a dense beast of a vintage, and I am not sure when if ever the wi...
- September 5th, 2019, 6:19 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: The Brian Devine Cellar
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3731
Re: The Brian Devine Cellar
Boomers' actuarial tablesWilliam Kelley wrote: ↑August 30th, 2019, 6:57 pmMakes one wonder, what exactly is wrong with the 2005 vintage?