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lessi.jenni wrote: ↑
July 13th, 2020, 1:11 am
Got some great coupon codes from coupon websites b y searching it on google!

She keeps trying!

Brian S t o t t e r wrote: ↑
July 10th, 2020, 5:39 pm

Glenn L e v i n e wrote: ↑
July 10th, 2020, 5:36 pm
I am keeping this to 12 bottles, I am keeping this to 12 bottles, I am keeping this to 12 bottles...
FTFY (or rather, FTFM).

Or - I keeping this to 6 bottles per wine, I keeping this to 6 bottles per wine . . .

A member alerted me that John Gilman, from the wine letter View From The Cellar has given the wines pretty good reviews: Mission 92pts. Alicante Bouschet 91+pts. Marsanne 90pts. Flame Tokay 88pts. Can't be anything but very thankful for that as a debutante! [cheers.gif] flirtysmile Congrats Adam

Dan - Is this Wild Iris? From Last Bottle? I picked up a few if yes to both. Thought it was worth a chance at $16. Oh well.

I haven’t had one of these in a few years and I have a lot left. Need to open one soon.

County by county basis continues. Philadelphia just announced that they will delay the opening of indoor dining and gyms until August 1st instead of this Friday. They also put in a 14 day quarantine if coming from 15 states. That will unfortunately just cause some city residents to come eat in the s...

I was actually surprised that Pennsylvania didn’t do the 14 day quarantine when New Jersey, New York and Connecticut did it since Pennsylvania was originally in the same regional coalition with them.

2012 Papa’s Block - wonderful

Sssshhhh! I'm Tier One, not Tier Awesome, but was just able to place my order. I'm completely out of storage space and don't drink much Cabernet (I'm on the list mainly for the Syrahs at Myriad and Quivet) but I always try to pick up a few of these because they're so good and reasonably priced in r...

CJ Beazley wrote: ↑
June 23rd, 2020, 8:05 am

Philip G wrote: ↑
June 21st, 2020, 9:41 pm

Amazing!
Can you explain the potato thing? Are they sliced then baked?

Look like Hasselback potatoes to me. Lots of recipes online

Brian S t o t t e r wrote: ↑
June 20th, 2020, 7:25 am
Wedding anniversary weekend. Opened a 1993 Domaine Serene Pinot Noir Evenstad Reserve (posted a TN separately, what a wine!) and a 2015 Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden Spatlese.

Tonight, 2008 Dom Perignon and a 2016 Chateau Beaucastel CdP with a Flannery Jorge.

Happy anniversary!

brigcampbell wrote: ↑
June 19th, 2020, 5:49 pm

Steve Gautier wrote: ↑
June 19th, 2020, 5:07 pm
Looks like they made their cellar private.
I knew that was going to happen if it was real so I downloaded it to pdf.

It's actually a tragic story. Eric pinged me.

That is a legit cellar and that person was a victim of Rudy. There are more than 1,200 bottles.

Oh my

Looks like they made their cellar private.

AIG, ixnay. At present, they are reacting very poorly to getting slammed with COVID claims. I broke my shoulder in Madrid in mid-December, and they have completely stalled out on doing anything other than repeatedly requesting the same documentary evidence I’ve sent multiple times since I originall...

David Baum wrote: ↑
June 17th, 2020, 11:40 pm

Anton D wrote: ↑
June 17th, 2020, 10:14 pm

David Baum wrote: ↑
June 17th, 2020, 9:24 pm
My goal is to boycott all of them this month
Hell, you guys attacked Santa.
He had it comin'

They will never let us forget that!

I just check the comparison sites. www.squaremouth.com and https://www.insuremytrip.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoamIk-qJ6gIVjobACh0i1QA0EAAYASAAEgJ0aPD_BwE seem to represent the most insurers. I have used www.squaremouth.com many, many times. You can compare the cost of the policies with cancel for any ...

Victor Hong wrote: ↑
March 15th, 2018, 3:29 am
We bought AIG Travel Guard for our upcoming trip to Paris and Normandy.

Reviving this old thread. We are thinking about buying a policy with Cancel for any Reason protection for a condo rental next February. I just spoke with AIG Travel Guard. Any other recommendations?

In Chester County, we have one magnolia tree with a lot of nymphs. Haven’t seen them anywhere else. Killed the ones on lower branches and leaves but many more up high.

Agree with Michael. Maybe by late summer we will make it to the green phase of reopening.

2013 was the first vintage of Rancia I bought. Glad to hear positive things about it. Haven’t had De Lorenzo’s pizza in a long time.

How was it? Reading some recent notes saying its really starting to come around. Soft, mellow palate. Some sweet butter and caramel notes. Some green fruit and grapefruit. Golden color. Enjoyed, but not my favorite white. I haven’t seen any past notes, so not sure how to respond to “coming around.”...

2016 Andrew Geoffrey Cabernet Franc Diamond Mountain After reading the what is the most bottles of a Specific wine do you have thread, I went to CellarTracker and this was one of my top two. My first reaction was - did I get caught up at a winemaker dinner and buy too much. Good news is that this wi...

Winery is about 15 minutes from my house but I haven't had one in a number of years. The Trump brand took over a label that had sunk a ton of money into the project and had a decent sparkling program. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a wine person/somm who would be excited about any of the win...

No offer here either

Jason - My daughter has been in the U.K. for almost three years. I would be happy to chat about everything we have learned related to this. Send me a PM if you want to chat. Steve

2013 Dolinsek - Seemed a bit out of balance to my palate, with strong peppery notes on the front end and a gush of acidity taking over on the back end. Not really in my wheelhouse, either alone or with food. Followed over almost 5 hours; it held up just fine but didn’t improve. I had this the last ...

Happy to report that the FedEx update was wrong and the wine was just delivered. Much better than Tuesday afternoon! Sunday delivery. That’s nice. One of my boxes says Thursday even though it is less than 50 miles away. Good news is that it came today. Bad news is that the bottles were very hot to ...

Scott Brunson wrote: ↑
May 25th, 2020, 6:26 am
I posted this in the chat on Sat, but Brian and Katie said they would need at least 20 participants in the BBBB.
lol

I’m happy to be one of those 20!

Andrew Demaree wrote: ↑
May 24th, 2020, 7:50 am
Happy to report that the FedEx update was wrong and the wine was just delivered. Much better than Tuesday afternoon!

Sunday delivery. That’s nice. One of my boxes says Thursday even though it is less than 50 miles away.

Brian S t o t t e r wrote: ↑
May 22nd, 2020, 6:41 pm
Envious of everyone's cases arriving, damn weather!

I wish mine had been held. Shipping in a pandemic to a stay at home region over Memorial Day weekend with the hot temps predicted this week would not have been my choice and I should have insisted they be held.

Nicolas G. wrote: ↑
May 17th, 2020, 5:03 pm
Matthiasson and Ehlers are 2 good choices.

Had an Ehlers tonight and they definitely belong on this list.

My Bedrock cellar project has commenced. By the end of the weekend I’ll have 216 bottles of Bedrock in one new, double-deep, wood rack! The largest holding in my cellar getting a bit organized, finally. I used to have my Bedrock and its capsule less bottles all organized on one side of the cellar. ...

Unfortunate that wine access doesn't have a policy of holding wines through the summer. Way too hot to be shipping now for me and a lot of other parts of the country. This is not correct. I placed an order around Labor Day last September. It was held and shipped towards the end of October. Directly...

Mine ships out of NY too. Have it in hand within 3 business days to PA. Mine ships out of ny also. The free ground shipping takes 1 day. Pretty awesome Same here. I always check that I can get one day delivery. Otherwise, I get concerned this time of year that it may be coming from somewhere else.

2013 Bedrock North Coast Syrah..I am an old Bedrock drinker, (in more ways than one,) going back, as far as I can tell to Morgan's 2008 vintage..having consumed all too many Bedrocks before their time, I have come to the hard learned conclusion that Bedrocks need at least 4-5 yrs to show their best...

AD Northup wrote: ↑
May 8th, 2020, 6:41 pm

Steve Gautier wrote: ↑
May 8th, 2020, 6:25 pm

AD Northup wrote: ↑
May 8th, 2020, 6:09 pm
2003 Musar
How was it?
Great after 6 hours in a decanter!

Thanks. I have one I was thinking of drinking soon.

AD Northup wrote: ↑
May 8th, 2020, 6:09 pm
2003 Musar

How was it?

I had the ‘13 Home Ranch Cab the other night. Home Ranch is the best Sojourn value

2016 Sandler Pinot Noir Peterson Vineyard - Ed’s Pinot always hits the spot. The fact that it is a great value only makes it better.

2015 North Coast Syrah. I can’t imagine a better QPR wine.

Decided to dig back in time and go for a 10 year old Bedrock; the Hudson Vineyard North "Pleine de Chêne" syrah from 2010. This to celebrate the occasion of the Bedrock Supplemental 2020 release earlier today. Holy cow is this still a baby and drinking extremely well! Color is deep blackberry purpl...

A friend of mine had to call almost 100 times today before he got through to do an alcohol order.

Congrats Morgan on the upcoming addition to the family!

2008 Congruence Cabernet Sauvignon. Originally had this pulled out to drink during NCAA Wrestling Championships which of course never happen. I’m sure Steve would have been there.

Kevin Harvey wrote: ↑
April 14th, 2020, 8:47 pm

Steve Gautier wrote: ↑
April 14th, 2020, 5:05 pm
I am planning on opening a 2012 Alpine Pinot. Any suggestions on whether I should give it any air.
Steve,
I think some air would be great for that wine. Either Jeff or I will open this one too.

Thanks Kevin

I am planning on opening a 2012 Alpine Pinot. Any suggestions on whether I should give it any air.

I have two of the '09 Phelps Freestone left. It was not a wine I liked. Not even sure who to give it to.

Thanks Thomas, Will, Frank, Todd and Charlie.

I’ll open a 2012 Rivers-Marie Pinot Noir Occidental Ridge Vineyard

I have shared the link already with about 10 of you. For those reading this message and if you are one of those with the link, just do me one sanity check: click on the link and then ensure that a Zoom event opens that has the date and time of the event. I sent the link to myself, and it worked as ...

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