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Casey Hartlip wrote: ↑
November 17th, 2019, 6:06 am
after getting zapped with 27 degrees I figured why bother. Going to be interesting to see how the vineyard reacts next season. Will there be damage?

Casey -- Could you expand on this? Why is 27 degrees at this point a concern and how does it potentially impact next year? Thanks!

No major holdings of any, but I have a few bottles of: Pierre Peters Chetillions, Vilmart Coeur de Cuvee, Cristal, Dom, La Grande Annee, Diebolt-Vallois Fleur de Passion & Delamotte. And a few Krug 164, if that counts. The only thing I'm waiting for is Comtes, sad to see the price on Egly - not goin...

Love me some offsite.

Objectively, 2001 Beaucastel Hommage a Jacque Perrin. The surprise would be 2004 Etude St. Helena (scarecrow). Although I’ve had so many great glasses/bottles with friends new & old, it is impossible to pick one.

William Kelley wrote: ↑
October 28th, 2019, 11:05 am
It's really good! Very worthy successor to the 2008.

If you were able to pick up 07 or 12 for the same price, which would you choose?

Sunday looks scary, be safe everyone

Anyone else notice the waygu has dropped off the site? The dry aged waygu rib cap was amazing.

I don't remember the exact figures but a friend of mine that worked for PG&E told me their internal calcs had undergrounding every line in CA at 100 years & a trillion dollars.

All three associated wineries have generators. We designed a full time, permanent generator for the new facility. This is the new reality. I even have a small generator at home that *should* power my chest freezer & wine fridge. Buying ice today to get the insulated cooler cold enough to keep milk &...

96 Salon
08 Cristal

They are closing two elementary schools & the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken youth baseball leagues just folded after 50 years of continuous play for lack of players.

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2016 Leroy Bourgogne Blanc - $58.99, Santa Rosa

I grabbed the last three, no idea if they have more.

mark rudner wrote: ↑
September 27th, 2019, 2:43 pm

dougwilder wrote: ↑
September 27th, 2019, 2:35 pm
Full review just published. Graeme and Alex are on a roll.
where?

Doug is Purely Domestic Wine Report (PDWR). http://www.purelydomesticwinereport.com/ (CA-OR-WA)

Does anyone know when their tasting room will be up and running? Sadly the answer here is no. We hit some delays late last year that were then compounded by the winter storms pushing the completion date back a few months. We were all hopeful that we were going to make the 8/1 date that was original...

A very nice wine at a great price point, count me as a fan

I’m curious for the first few Napa picks to roll in. We thought we were in for another large 2018-ish sized crop. Then it ripped through veraison, which I took to be an indicator of something normal or slightly less. Cluster counts are good but cluster weights seem light, so as always, I know absolu...

Do I have to have the coupon or can they just look up my account? That is crazy good

I eat them professionally. My son recreationally.

first red in the house, here we go. best of luck y'all!

The pinots are very good, but for me, the Chards are the star and where my money goes here.

14 day forecast looks fantastic. Cooler temps, slow some things down

Not sure about the large format, but I ran through most of the lineup with Roy awhile back and the 14 (like most Napa Cabs I’ve had recently) was on point.

I’ve looked into it and haven’t pursued it further. The chain ends at the last major hub. From there it is Priority Overnight. Which isn’t perfect but first attempt before 10 AM is pretty good. And critical. If that first attempt is missed.... It is also a bit of logistical nightmare as they only pi...

Sarah Kirschbaum wrote: ↑
July 28th, 2019, 9:47 am
1997 Diebolt-Vallois Fleur de Passion - Scrumptious, mature and nutty, a perfect caviar pairing and utterly satisfying.

Great note. Bought a few 08’s on reputation, promptly took them to offsite. Will have to look around for some aged expressions.

Find a local storage place that also ships, drop them into storage right before you leave then ship in December when the temps are right. Although 4-6 cs would just fly with me

Board Man Gets Paid

There is a note on his FB from someone that seems to confirm this

The cleaning is never ending but there can be some zen like moments. There is nothing but awful in compliance.

I love these wines. So much good.

JeremyMullman wrote: ↑
July 16th, 2019, 10:27 am
I believe Rivers-Marie was building a winery/tasting room in Calistoga. Did it open yet? If not, anyone know the status?

We are vertical but not going to hit the Aug/Sept opening. Looking more like end of the year.

2017 Rivers-Marie Lore Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville—110 cases, 14.8% alcohol, 80% new oak Coming in at 2.25 tons off of two acres, there isn’t much of this to go around. That fact plus the recent track record of this bottling leads us to expect the 2017 Lore to sell out faster than any Caber...

Anybody else notice that in the release letter, their description for the Lore cab seemed to be describing one of their past Chardonnays? That is a good one. I have a template that I copy & paste into. Looks like I missed this one (likely didn't save the last update). The note on the website looks ...

Unless there is a marked difference between sun grown weed & indoor grown weed, I fail to see why anyone would pay up for vineyard quality land when there are plenty of warehouse or like equivalent places that are far cheaper.

Lucked into these. Checked availability at other Costcos in the region, and the few places with them left had 1 or 2........ 8135102D-1B31-43EA-B6C6-845B1CE73C7D.jpeg I knew they were going to hit the .97, was hoping to be lucky and be there when they did. Nice score! (have you tried one? I have on...

Todd F r e n c h wrote: ↑
July 10th, 2019, 9:16 am
I blame Frank Murray

there are few inalienable truths in this world, but this is one.

at least I got some 08 Delamotte

David Baum wrote: ↑
June 21st, 2019, 3:01 pm
I don't believe HL was sold but rather leased out to TRB for RM going forward.

^this

I’m a 75, on my 40th I had Yquem, Diamond Creek & Phelps Eislele. All very good.

Pretty wide spread here, but if my schedule allows - I'm in.

Big time thunder and lightning in Lake county this afternoon. There were warnings on the local radio of possible flash flooding in SE Lake county. I did hear areas of Lake county had over an inch in a very short time period. I'm guessing they are likely deep into bloom, but that's just a guess. Wis...

Costco has Instacrates on sale for $6/ea, pretty much the same thing w/o the end accessibility. I’m not going more than two high and they work really well. YMMV

Found 3 btls of 08 Dom at the Fairfield Costco over the weekend, $149.99/ea. Bought them.

Awesome. Thank you

Been raining here all day

Kind of fun to look at the same place using both models. There’s certain wineries that are going to turn out top tier juice from any of their sites (or combination of). To take this one step further, when you remove the estate component from a winery, what are we really talking about? The winemaker...

The OP uses Classified Growths (Bordeaux) but then lists them by vineyard a la Burgundy. I think the Burgundian model works better here (ie: many folks make great wine from ToKalon, like many folks make great wine from Clos de la Roche)

*I also sense a 10,000 word Piper post coming soon!

Dead at retail?

The craft beer market seems to have gone the way of baseball - more locally/regionally v. nationally. I'm fortunate here in Napa to have a handful of high quality, local producers that scratch most beer itches I have. I keep a growler in my car and all my locals will fill it.

I’ve always been a fan of Cristal, but 09 was the first that made me reach for my wallet. 08 made me empty it. My frustration has been the price. Had to scour all of DFW and harangue sales folk to find 08 Cristal for under $200 after applying a massive sale discount. Shit KL has it for $269 a pop. ...

I’ve always been a fan of Cristal, but 09 was the first that made me reach for my wallet. 08 made me empty it.

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