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Finished up the guillemot tonight, showed a bit more fruit sweetness than the first time around. Really delicious.

Grabbed a half case of this earlier this year from auction...hope they show well!

I believe that starting in 2018 vintage they are all labelled Pierre or Anne, no more Boisson-Vadot

We unfortunately had an advanced bottle of this over the summer. Haven't heard of too many issues with this producer in general though.

Jay Miller wrote: ↑January 20th, 2021, 3:49 am
J. Galang wrote: ↑January 19th, 2021, 8:44 pm I know it is a very small sample size, but I am a tad surprised that 2015 is higher than 2016 in terms of votes.
All the people who prefer 2016 to 2015 are voting 2010 instead. At least I did.

A nice illustration of why rank order voting is important.

My waaaay below drinking age daughter already gets a kick out if when we open her year, even though she's still years ago from even being given a sip.

Strangest rose aging experience I had was a sandlands one that got lost in the fridge. After a bunch of years it just tasted like...nothing.

I'd be curious if auction houses have any good data about label condition vs sale price. Tough to have a ton of data, but perhaps interesting. For small lots I would think the biggest effect would be the end buyer. I imagine a consultant or retailer would be less willing to pay the "going rate&...

2016 Fevre MdT - not surprisingly given the vintage this resembles a cdb more than a chablis (esp with some reduction on night 1) but it's still very delicious.

Ordered some wines from a new store and already over the free shipping, so figured I'd add some 2017 burgs to give them a go. Both showed well, and reminded me why it's so fun to do side by side tastings. 2017 Domaine Joseph Roty Marsannay Ouzeloy - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Marsannay Darker ...

2008 Cristal. Went great with linguini with clams and some broiled lobster. Richer and darker than the first time I had it, so delicious.

Just don't mention the spatlese gk and we'll be ok...

2015 Ramonet Clos de la Boudriotte rouge x 4 Still a bunch at benchmark I think Yes. I was tempted again by those in the Unsold Lots email. I bought the ‘16 that way for a good price a couple months ago. There were a lot of tempting things in that email. Than I realized 15% commission, CA tax (I as...

France 50%
Germany 23%
USA 13%
Italy 11%
Germany mostly white, Italy all red, US and France probably 60/40 red/white.

Wow this must explain why I was able to get all that Allemand at $150 a bottle even when I responded pretty late.

Got 4 offers yesterday. Must be email problem

Sort of a hodgepodge in what may be my last purchases of the year, depending on how Zachys resolves the auction that got hijacked over the weekend. 2016 Elio Grasso Gavarini Chiniera 2016 Lail J Daniel Cuvee 2017 Cheval des Andes 2019 Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Spatlese 2012 Delamotte BdB ...

I got one each of 16 and 17 gallet...so tempting to pop one rather than send into deep deep storage.

Prices seemed fairly in line today, though no longer the Phelps cellar. Lost a few lots that I prebid in line but not aggressively by one increment.

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It's too bad none of the "festivals" (la fiesta, le paulee) could do something like this, though understandably it's much harder to do with already bottled wines.

Love our grassles. Hoping for a berserkerday offer so I can refresh my stock as we've broken a bunch through general misuse. Never broken in the dishwasher (again, absent misuse/stupidity).

Todd F r e n c h wrote: ↑December 5th, 2020, 9:42 am
Ethan Abraham wrote: ↑December 5th, 2020, 9:38 am You changed something in the last hour to get rid of the large frame of the name of the poster, but now I don't see the name at all!
Give us a chance to work through it - figuring it all out

No worries! Just trying to be a helpful bug reporter.

You changed something in the last hour to get rid of the large frame of the name of the poster, but now I don't see the name at all!

The only producers I bought more than a couple bottles so far were
D'angerville
Barthod
Dujac
Fourrier
M-G
Jadot
Definitely a bunch that I skipped or just bought a couple bottles.
Happy to take anyone's Roumier or Mugnier allocation who wants to skip the vintage!

2000 Girardin Batard
1999 Lafarge Beaune Greves
Had that 2010 barthod in my cart but looks like warren got to it first! The 2010 bertheau Chambolle 1er was also a nice grab whoever got it.

Might be my one and only time posting here, but I was pleased with myself for consuming more than I purchased for the first time in years.
7 in, 13 out. (or 10 in if you count by invoice date rather than request date, but still good!)

Truffles!

We did takeout too! I've probably cooked more this year than the past 3 years combined, cooking on Thanksgiving would have been just another chore. Plus cooking 6-8 dishes for 6 people seemed like overkill. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/kitchen-notes/the-joylessness-of-cooking - not a bad descri...

Just opened a brilliant 2012 Trapet. Trapet are really doing exciting things in the vineyards. Jean-Louis children are getting more and more involved and he himself seems to have more energy every time I visit. Time to stock up! In the US at least the price for the Chambertin has exactly doubled fr...

I have to say this is the worst Black Friday sales I have ever seen locally and nationwide. Minneapolis had zero deals and you would think this year it would be the opposite. Not sure why you would think it would be the opposite. Everything shows that people are buying way more alcohol this year th...

Wally's has a random selection on sale with free shipping on half case. The only thing of interest I saw was 2017 graillot crozes for $30. Lots of very old (and pricey) Riesling too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/travel/black-friday-deals-virus.html Rosewood 40% is nice, though only through June 2021. Explora has a nice discount through March 2022. Seven Stars in turks has 50-60% off, pretty nice, also through 2021. Anyone find anything else? Especially with booking through...

Bubbles - 2009 Agrapart Avizoise and 2010 Ultramarine Heintz. White - 2011 Lafon Charmes 2018 bachelet-monnot puligny (value/discovery) 2017 Falkenstein KE spatlese AP 14 (though tbh you could probably substitute quite a few Riesling from Falkenstein, Schafer-Frohlich, willi schaefer or Keller here)...

I grabbed two 98 mags on last bottle (I think that's also from BP), $39!!! They were great, had em maybe 5 years ago.

The only thing I could think of that beats that is an even larger bottle of desert wine. I bought a 3L of Lauer barrel x but I figure that will make a great bottle to bring to a summer party.

Fared very well in some of Don Cornwall's recent tastings after they switched to diam.

Had a great 1oz from regalis, they have 15% off first time purchase and free shipping over $250. Filled out the order with some nice cheeses, the one item with reasonable prices.

Not questioning Don's great work on this at all, but is it always the case that mismatched bottles from the same producer/vintage of older wines always indicate counterfeits? I thought that before say the 1960s or 1970s (not sure when), it was sometimes the case that merchants bottled the wine from...

Opened an old Garagiste wine that I must have bought about 10 years ago but forgot about. 2009 Francois Blanchard Le Grand Clere. The wine itself was fine, sort of generic reductive raspberry natural wine (you would never peg this is cab franc!). But the interest part, the closure was A WAXED CROWN ...

Delicious. I like to add cannellini or any other good white bean to make it a bit more filling, and they taste great too.

Just skip some releases. I used to order a lot from both Bedrock and Carlisle but just had too much and didn't drink them often . FWIW Carlisle stopped offering me wines after a skipped two years, but Bedrock kept sending me offers and I ordered again this year after a 5 year break. (No issue with t...

Sounds great. I don't buy much of their Graacher Himmelreich but maybe I should! Their wines really show well young.

Any updates? Quality? Coupon codes? Seems like sabatini a few dollars less than urbani right now (though i don't know where shipping shakes out). Also for a first-time truffle orderer, if the plan is maybe one dinner for 2 with a little left for some eggs, is 1 oz enough?

Opened an 88 Dickerson Zin tonight, excellent. The color was crazy, you would have no idea of its age from looking at it. The wine was great too, properly showing its age.

Josh Grossman wrote: ↑November 5th, 2020, 8:18 am Bolzano. The Dolomites are the most beautiful mountains in the world. It's surrounded by vineyards. They speak German (I speak German and not Italian).

Never been but currently very near the top of my list of places to visit. Quite warm as well despite being in the mountains, right?

Most vintages need age to show well but there tends to be a good supply of back vintages out there. Where? I think the oldest vintage I saw was '13 on wine searcher's regular version. All the usual cellar resellers. Chambers, benchmark, sometimes they show up at auction. Lots of fans and still reas...

Really enjoyed the recent IDTT with him as well.

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