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I have a 1.5l of port. It will never be ready, I’ll never know enough folks to open it.

JeremyMullman wrote: ↑
January 15th, 2020, 1:21 pm
Will, any chance you can post TRB's notes early so we can plot out purchases?

If permissible, I'll post them when I get them. That said, to the best of my knowledge, they haven't yet been started so we might all see them around the same time Tuesday AM.

Order in. Love these wines.

John Telford wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2020, 9:11 am
Has anyone seen a date for Rivers Marie release? I have not! Thanks

For at least as long as I have been here, it is always the third Tuesday in January.

Mich@el Ch@ng wrote: ↑
December 20th, 2019, 5:50 am
Yeah I think it’s the best deal I posted since the 14 jadot CSJ for 90; that sold out like 10 seconds after I posted it haha

I was quick to that one (thank you!), looks like too slow on the Dom.

Last year I thought the network did pretty well. This year by all accounts seems awful.

1971 Bartolo Mascarello, 1.9L - In a night of great wines, this ruled them all.

Had heard that Grapefruit Sculpin was a shadow of its former self. Can confirm. Sad as this was great

somehow only had a 2016 Papa's Block at home, so I opened it against my better judgement. I had a glass the first night and put it away - was fantastic the next day. I knew better but sometimes I need to touch a hot stove to remember that it's hot.

Great story, I wish him the best. Thanks for sharing

No clue what your bottle looks like, but I use MA Silva for glass & cork. I have found them to be incredibly helpful and competitively priced. https://www.masilva.com/#glassCatalog

Power out here for the third time in two months. This is getting incredibly tiresome

In for 6

It's really hard to make exceptional beer on an industrial scale. First, you need to find and train people that are passionate about beer so that you can produce something consistently. Then you need to figure out how to keep the accountants from f*ck up the beer. Then you need to find a nationwide...

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.

Filed Under: Things I did not expect to see

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

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