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- January 26th, 2021, 4:44 pm
- Forum: Commerce Corner - Wine Classifieds
- Topic: Burgundy for sale
- Replies: 3
- Views: 373
Re: Burgundy for sale
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- January 26th, 2021, 7:04 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON NEW WB GROUP - MONOPOLE CRU
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3239
- January 24th, 2021, 5:54 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2017 Burgs at Home via Coravin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 737
Re: TN: 2017 Burgs at Home via Coravin
Finished up the guillemot tonight, showed a bit more fruit sweetness than the first time around. Really delicious.
- January 23rd, 2021, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Magdelaine 1998
- Replies: 15
- Views: 792
Re: Magdelaine 1998
Grabbed a half case of this earlier this year from auction...hope they show well!
- January 21st, 2021, 1:43 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2010 Bernard Boisson-Vadot Meursault Les Chevalières
- Replies: 13
- Views: 640
Re: TN: 2010 Bernard Boisson-Vadot Meursault Les Chevalières
I believe that starting in 2018 vintage they are all labelled Pierre or Anne, no more Boisson-Vadot
- January 21st, 2021, 4:48 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2010 Bernard Boisson-Vadot Meursault Les Chevalières
- Replies: 13
- Views: 640
Re: TN: 2010 Bernard Boisson-Vadot Meursault Les Chevalières
We unfortunately had an advanced bottle of this over the summer. Haven't heard of too many issues with this producer in general though.
- January 20th, 2021, 4:12 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Top Red Burgundy vintage of the 21st century so far
- Replies: 189
- Views: 8411
Re: Top Red Burgundy vintage of the 21st century so far
A nice illustration of why rank order voting is important.Jay Miller wrote: ↑January 20th, 2021, 3:49 amAll the people who prefer 2016 to 2015 are voting 2010 instead. At least I did.
- January 17th, 2021, 11:03 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Your Birth Year Buying Philosophy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 3857
Re: Your Birth Year Buying Philosophy
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.
- January 11th, 2021, 6:16 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: 2 Questions about aging rosé
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1671
Re: 2 Questions about aging rosé
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.
- January 10th, 2021, 7:49 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Wines with damaged labels...should they sell for a discount?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1727
Re: Wines with damaged labels...should they sell for a discount?
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&...
- January 9th, 2021, 5:11 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: What bottle of wine did you open today?
- Replies: 12689
- Views: 510149
Re: What bottle of wine did you open today?
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.
- January 8th, 2021, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2017 Burgs at Home via Coravin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 737
TN: 2017 Burgs at Home via Coravin
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 ...
- January 1st, 2021, 4:35 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: What are you opening for NYE 2021?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 3689
Re: What are you opening for NYE 2020?
2008 Cristal. Went great with linguini with clams and some broiled lobster. Richer and darker than the first time I had it, so delicious.
- January 1st, 2021, 4:25 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2014 Schäfer-Fröhlich „Felsenberg“ GG - open 2014 now!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 639
Re: TN: 2014 Schäfer-Fröhlich „Felsenberg“ GG - open 2014 now!
Just don't mention the spatlese gk and we'll be ok...
- December 28th, 2020, 5:02 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: What is YOUR most recent wine purchase?
- Replies: 15348
- Views: 786536
Re: What is YOUR most recent wine purchase?
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...
- December 25th, 2020, 11:41 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Embrace your cellar diversity
- Replies: 114
- Views: 4812
Re: Embrace your cellar diversity
France 50%
Germany 23%
USA 13%
Italy 11%
Germany mostly white, Italy all red, US and France probably 60/40 red/white.
Germany 23%
USA 13%
Italy 11%
Germany mostly white, Italy all red, US and France probably 60/40 red/white.
- December 24th, 2020, 8:06 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Envoyer Thread #2: Everything else
- Replies: 1526
- Views: 96761
Re: Envoyer Thread #2: Everything else
Wow this must explain why I was able to get all that Allemand at $150 a bottle even when I responded pretty late.
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- December 24th, 2020, 4:40 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Envoyer Thread #2: Everything else
- Replies: 1526
- Views: 96761
Re: Envoyer Thread #2: Everything else
Got 4 offers yesterday. Must be email problem
- December 22nd, 2020, 3:52 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: What is YOUR most recent wine purchase?
- Replies: 15348
- Views: 786536
Re: What is YOUR most recent wine purchase?
Sort of a hodgepodge in what may be my last purchases of the year, depending on how Zachys resolves the auction that got hijacked over the weekend. 2016 Elio Grasso Gavarini Chiniera 2016 Lail J Daniel Cuvee 2017 Cheval des Andes 2019 Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Spatlese 2012 Delamotte BdB ...
- December 20th, 2020, 5:25 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Côte-Rôtie under 100$.
- Replies: 110
- Views: 6974
Re: Côte-Rôtie under 100$.
I got one each of 16 and 17 gallet...so tempting to pop one rather than send into deep deep storage.
- December 19th, 2020, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Private Cellar of Joseph Phelps to be Sold
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6213
Re: Private Cellar of Joseph Phelps to be Sold
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.
- December 15th, 2020, 4:22 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Alcohol Law Newsletter - free subscriptions and solicitation of articles
- Replies: 21
- Views: 931
Re: Alcohol Law Newsletter - free subscriptions and solicitation of articles
Can you email.me, first.last@gmail
- December 12th, 2020, 5:14 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Walter Scott has raised the bar for how wineries interact with their clients during Covid with their 2019 barrel tasting
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4560
Re: Walter Scott has raised the bar for how wineries interact with their clients during Covid with their 2019 barrel tas
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.
- December 6th, 2020, 1:20 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Grassl Glassware
- Replies: 321
- Views: 23031
Re: Grassl Glassware
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).
- December 5th, 2020, 9:48 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Software Update Mobile View
- Replies: 12
- Views: 611
Re: Software Update Mobile View
No worries! Just trying to be a helpful bug reporter.Todd F r e n c h wrote: ↑December 5th, 2020, 9:42 amGive us a chance to work through it - figuring it all outEthan 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!
- December 5th, 2020, 9:38 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Software Update Mobile View
- Replies: 12
- Views: 611
Re: Software Update Mobile View
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!
- December 4th, 2020, 2:30 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: What 2018 Red Burgundies are you Buying?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 7972
Re: What 2018 Red Burgundies are you Buying?
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.
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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!
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- December 1st, 2020, 3:46 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: What is YOUR most recent wine purchase?
- Replies: 15348
- Views: 786536
Re: What is YOUR most recent wine purchase?
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.
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.
- November 30th, 2020, 4:07 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Monthly check-in: Cellar inventory reduction plan
- Replies: 1047
- Views: 54885
Re: Monthly check-in: Cellar inventory reduction plan
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!)
7 in, 13 out. (or 10 in if you count by invoice date rather than request date, but still good!)
- November 30th, 2020, 9:40 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Non-wine wine related gifts for the seasons
- Replies: 7
- Views: 557
- November 29th, 2020, 2:08 pm
- Forum: Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
- Topic: Forgive me WB...for I have sinned. I'm mailing it in for Thanksgiving
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2140
Re: Forgive me WB...for I have sinned. I'm mailing it in for Thanksgiving
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...
- November 28th, 2020, 11:09 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN - 2017 Bouchard Père et Fils Chambertin-Clos de Bèze - a real wow wine
- Replies: 13
- Views: 989
Re: TN - 2017 Bouchard Père et Fils Chambertin-Clos de Bèze - a real wow wine
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...
- November 27th, 2020, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Black Friday Sales
- Replies: 134
- Views: 12679
Re: Black Friday Sales
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...
- November 27th, 2020, 11:26 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Black Friday Sales
- Replies: 134
- Views: 12679
Re: Black Friday Sales
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.
- November 27th, 2020, 9:16 am
- Forum: Travel and Restaurants Forum
- Topic: Black friday deals?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 762
Black friday deals?
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...
- November 27th, 2020, 4:01 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: WOTYs 2020 Edition -- and your Discovery of the Year
- Replies: 181
- Views: 14316
Re: WOTYs 2020 Edition -- and your Discovery of the Year
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)...
- November 25th, 2020, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Great California Chardonnay - old enough to vote
- Replies: 3
- Views: 446
Re: Great California Chardonnay - old enough to vote
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.
- November 25th, 2020, 1:49 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Most impractical wine in the cellar?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 3683
Re: Most impractical wine in the cellar?
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.
- November 25th, 2020, 3:45 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Jadot 2019's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1139
Re: Jadot 2019's
Fared very well in some of Don Cornwall's recent tastings after they switched to diam.
- November 24th, 2020, 9:01 am
- Forum: Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
- Topic: Truffles 2020
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2920
Re: Truffles 2020
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.
- November 22nd, 2020, 10:53 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: RUDY KURNIAWAN & GLOBAL WINE AUCTION FRAUD THREAD (MERGED)
- Replies: 8975
- Views: 1378361
Re: RUDY KURNIAWAN & GLOBAL WINE AUCTION FRAUD THREAD (MERGED)
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...
- November 22nd, 2020, 4:22 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: The Garagiste Thread (The Great Enabler) Back to Life
- Replies: 4096
- Views: 431434
Re: The Garagiste Thread (The Great Enabler) Back to Life
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 ...
- November 19th, 2020, 1:57 pm
- Forum: Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
- Topic: MUSSELS with CHORIZO
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2039
Re: MUSSELS with CHORIZO
Delicious. I like to add cannellini or any other good white bean to make it a bit more filling, and they taste great too.
- November 13th, 2020, 5:05 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Somethings gotta go- Carlisle, Bedrock, O and F?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2874
Re: Somethings gotta go- Carlisle, Bedrock, O and F?
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...
- November 12th, 2020, 1:53 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: TN: 2018 Willi Schaefer Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spätlese #8
- Replies: 10
- Views: 406
Re: TN: 2018 Willi Schaefer Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spätlese #8
Sounds great. I don't buy much of their Graacher Himmelreich but maybe I should! Their wines really show well young.
- November 12th, 2020, 9:23 am
- Forum: Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
- Topic: Truffles 2020
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2920
Re: Truffles 2020
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?
- November 9th, 2020, 5:34 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Ravenswood library offer
- Replies: 581
- Views: 37267
Re: Ravenswood library offer
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.
- November 5th, 2020, 10:52 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: If only one village/town/city in Italy...
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1899
Re: If only one village/town/city in Italy...
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?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).
- November 4th, 2020, 5:53 pm
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: Levet Cote Rotie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1324
Re: Levet Cote Rotie
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...
- November 2nd, 2020, 6:13 am
- Forum: Wine Talk
- Topic: An Interview with Kevin Zraly
- Replies: 5
- Views: 585
Re: An Interview with Kevin Zraly
Really enjoyed the recent IDTT with him as well.