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Buy your champagne now!

Sounds great.

Grapes is 20% off with a case (15% otherwise). If you didn't get enough 16 bdx before tariffs bumped up prices there's a big selection and lots of 375s. Other stuff too...

Flatiron sale, 17 roumier boussiere, 18 gramenon meme and 18 dutraive fleurie.

Awesome! Ended up with a lot of the merlot on the offer (a few of this one I think) so glad to hear it was good!

$30 I think

Barry L i p t o n wrote: ↑
November 25th, 2019, 7:09 am
which did you have?

I was in Tomita Saturday and loved it. Very impressive.

We were at Tomita too, you must have been at the later seating...no other wine geeks at the 6pm!

Another great dinner at Cagen. They've been adjusting the format a bit. Currently they are doing the classic omakase with Chef Tomita in the back room for $180 ("Tomita" on Resy) and a $90-100 (I think) omakase/keiseki with Chef Hiromi ("Cagen" on Resy) in the front room. Small plate menu also avail...

They had the mikulskis at the skurnik tasting in NYC, no Charmes but everything I tried was great, ordered some tillets.

By dessert nobody wants to wait for more flights...just give everyone a few glasses and put them all out!

Lee Barnard wrote: ↑
November 19th, 2019, 12:35 pm
Case of the 2014 Chevillon Vaucrains
6x 2015 HN Murgers

Some nice deals to be had on that one...I picked up a case of 16 chevillon cailles.

We did a little snorkeling near stingray city, it was a blast.

Just got back from our trip to Cayman (ok I know this is a Turks thread but it seemed to end up being a discussion of both). We stayed at a condo called the beachcomber which is in the same stretch of beach as the Ritz and the Caribbean club mentioned above. No amenities (ie food onsite, concierge) ...

2009 Rhys Alpine chard. Hot damn was this good. Big and rich with definite aged notes (but not oxidized at all) and zero heat or oak bitterness. Not a ton of acidity but manages not to be flabby at all. Just great.

2008 Mugneret-Gibourg Vosne-Romanee. Not bought on release as didn't start drinking burgundy at all until a few years later, but this bottle made me very happy that I've been buying and cellaring M-G and other good producers, even at the "lowly" village level, for the past few years.

Scarecrow is another obvious choice.

Story about a.company importing wine in bulk and bottling it here.

Yes. They went quickly!

2005 barthod chatelots. Someone beat me to the Cras...

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑
October 22nd, 2019, 10:10 am
Jasper Hill Farms - Harbison

Drops mic...walks off stage

That is the correct answer (not counting rush creek since you can only get it for a short period)

Jardiniere got a star but not Shun, likely timing as I think jardiniere opened a month earlier.

Someone paid over 400 a bottle each for 09, 10, and 14 at hdh this week.....

Italliene (w 24th St) has no corkage Mondays. Anyone been?

In my belly.

Happy to set up an offline in NY and split a few bottles that I purchased/have others bring theirs. Would have to be an odd time around the holidays, unless we pushed to Jan/Feb. I couldn’t do the holidays. Could maybe do Jan, and would happily contribute some bottles. Could be fun and also throw i...

A lot of those chevillons went for much cheaper in Mark's auction (the quantities don't quite match though so I don't think they are reselling those)

A bunch of Willi Schaefer back vintages. But fess up, who took all the spat #5s?

Man I started this thread a long time ago. Drank a lot of 09 Beaujolais with burgers and short ribs at Nicolas Robert. I gather that and le farm are both closed....haven't lived in CT since 2012 though I do work in greenwich occasionally.

Has anyone been to Reverence yet? Been open a few months and I've heard zero buzz about it.

A 25% increase in price due to tariffs will result in a 25% increase in retail price, sometimes somewhat modified by producers and importers (but not wholesalers and retailers) tightening their belts. Wholesalers and retailers, rather than cut margins, will simply steer their customers to wines not...

Happens all the time with German wine....

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑
October 6th, 2019, 5:33 pm
FWIW, the 2015 was quite electric, if completely primary.

Ditto for. 15 spat I had a few weeks ago

Doug, That is a great note. Really makes me want to try another soon. I have a couple left from a pack I bought on release...for around $60! Wish I had that chance again. Cheers. To be fair one of the few top tier burgs that really hasn't had awful inflation! Its three figures fairly regularly now,...

Dennis Atick wrote: ↑
October 5th, 2019, 8:36 am
Doug,
That is a great note. Really makes me want to try another soon. I have a couple left from a pack I bought on release...for around $60! Wish I had that chance again. Cheers.

To be fair one of the few top tier burgs that really hasn't had awful inflation!

Seems like a nutty price.

Also, wrong subforum.

JYoung wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2019, 7:24 pm

Ethan Abraham wrote: ↑
October 3rd, 2019, 7:56 am
They've confirmed the timing will not be in the middle of the night!
Did this go out in an email? I got the first email, but never any follow up about a change to the timing.

I emailed Erika, She said plan is 9am Pacific. I imagine they will send something out.

They've confirmed the timing will not be in the middle of the night!

Going to be some complicated situations with the likes of Envoyer. They have multiple shipments of some champagnes and provisionally allocate them. Difficult conversation to say “well you had your wine but you didn’t pick it up, so we gave it to someone else and now you need to pay 25% more when th...

Any suggestions for somewhere in Manhattan for a BYO dinner midweek with reasonable (say, $25) corkage appropriate for an Italian red wine dinner? (Besides Marta, which does fit the bill)

Given that constellation had it all marked at zero I imagine the prices will be good. This is very exciting.

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑
October 2nd, 2019, 3:50 pm

Alan Rath wrote: ↑
October 2nd, 2019, 3:49 pm
Does anyone know how the tariffs kick in? Like wines already contracted/purchased but not shipped?
If the wines have not been accepted through US Customs prior to the date then the tariffs kick in.

So what happens to retailers that have sold millions of dollars of bordeaux futures...

In that spirit, my local nice store has a semi annual 30% off everything sale. They have a few bottles of 2014 Roumier sitting on the shelf for a while so picked up the last bottle of the 2014 Roumier Les Cras for under $300... I can't say the store is kept as cool as one would hope so will probably...

Picked up some drouhin chambertin beze from the famous golodetz cellar.

R@y.Tupp@+sch wrote: ↑
September 26th, 2019, 12:58 pm

B. Buzzini wrote: ↑
September 26th, 2019, 11:30 am
Since there will be no 2008 Krug...maybe people can justify their Krug $ going for this?
Where did you hear that?

Been discussed a bit on vinous and I've seen elsewhere too. Apparently LVMH didn't want to buy the fruit in 08 in the midst of the crisis.

Russell Faulkner wrote: ↑
September 22nd, 2019, 12:11 pm
260 I think.

Way over estimate. I guess not surprising if there was in general low excitement for 2018.

Anyone know what the schafer frohlich ba went for (17)?

Picked up a few lots yesterday at reasonable prices. Got outbid in the last day or two on all the chevillon and birthyear Bordeaux I was bidding for.

Sad to report Bar Uchu (not the Sushi part) has closed. I LOVED that place. So bummed. These small restaurants open with great young chefs and it works for awhile because they do not need to do much business to avoid losing money but then they realize you can never make money with an 8-12 seat rest...

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