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As others have noted, Shun has fantastic food. The duck seems to be getting a lot of attention but the Wagyu ribcap from Snake River Farms did it for me. You know a meal is good when the perfectly cooked lobster is the worst course (not that it was bad at all!). OK, actually the amuse of tofu and cu...

Sutton Inn is closed.

97 jadot grands ech
83 l trapet chambertin
And boo to whoever swiped the heitz lochardet Chevy out of my cart as I was checking out!

Looking forward to it!

Shun quoted $75, one bottle max. Wine list seems to have huge variation in markups (anywhere from the usual 2.5-3x to much higher. Some bargains at the super high end below auction prices).

I am curious what a lot of fourriers would taste like together....I've had a few Gevrey and 1ers and I'm not convinced if the 1er are that different.

My wife and I will be in New York for a semi-impromptu one night trip in two weeks. Too late to get reservations at the big name places but we're really not looking for a pricey multi-course extravaganza. We're really just looking for a good dinner and a nice night out. Any suggestions, preferably ...

Hudelot 16
Pycm 17 (though Le banc is worth the small upcharge - small at my local store at least)
08 leroy Blanc

Based on recent news reports you might be able to make a deal with the winery!

Do you have to present the bottle at the airport to get the vat back?

A few 2017 white burgs Bouchard Perrieres Niellon chevalier-montrachet I bought quite a lot of the Niellon Chevalier as it's my daughter's birth year. Very happy with how the lower appellations from Niellon are showing in bottle so far. Tightening up in a way that bodes well for the long haul. Exac...

A few 2017 white burgs
Bouchard Perrieres
Niellon chevalier-montrachet

Had another amazing meal at Atomix. Even with the chef and GM out of town everything was perfect, I think the best meal we've had there so far. As a wine note, although it's Korean food that you might think would need a white wine (and the pairing tasting is mostly white) there's so much umami and e...

This is a sad thread. Reflects how quickly Burgundy prices have been going up, basically doubling in the last five years. I looked up a few wines which I figured should be on this list, and was shocked at what they were fetching. Left me with a couple of Chevillons, Caille and Vaucrains, as well as...

The pictures they've put on Instagram so far look good. Hope it works out! Some of the small plates appear to be sashimi.

I've you like Haag, Schaefer, lieser, etc (presumably the non dry as that's most/all of what they make) I don't find it surprising that you didn't like the donnhoff basic trocken. I like those producers as well and I generally find basic trockens too harsh as they have neither the body/extract or re...

R@y.Tupp@+sch wrote: ↑
July 22nd, 2019, 2:22 pm
I used to see him regularly at my gym up until a few years ago.

His brother is an excellent chef and a very nice guy, who is a co-owner at a restaurant in Bridgehampton I used to eat at regularly.

Ate there this weekend. Very wine friendly, didn't charge me any corkage. Great food.

Markus S wrote: ↑
July 17th, 2019, 6:27 pm

Ethan Abraham wrote: ↑
July 17th, 2019, 5:16 pm
...the 99 Gallet at hdh today...
The Cote Rotie producer? How much did that go for?

About 90 a bottle all in

Recent pickups:
14 Lafon Barre
11 Lafon charmes
Various 14 and 15 chevillons
16 pichon lalande

Mazel tov to whoever won the 99 Gallet at hdh today. Please give me a call if you need help drinking it.

[*] I haven’t broken too many, but I did find out once that a bottle of Chevillon will win in a fight with a bottle of Bertheau. Well NSG is more muscular than Chambolle... Managed once to allow a bottle of Ezio Voyat fall all of 3 inches (the danger of using storage boxes as racking) and the base o...

2014 Lafon Clos de la Barre meursault. Somehow I've never had a Lafon white before. Damn is this good.

03 tickled pink? Wow. I've only had a 14 and that was definitely quirky but also very good. Nothing like any other rose I've had!

Can't wait til the stews in nj opens.

Lived near the one on Madison for a while. They made a good iced mocha. Besides that and pints of Jeni's ice cream never found anything else to buy there.

Fleet issue def seems real though. Tracked a couple flights y'day and one was a 363 so must be a wet lease or something if one of the new planes is not in yet.

I'm doing the opposite! Trying a few "new" producers who I haven't bought in a while if ever (Adam, selbach) but smaller quantities even of Mainstays.

All business class from EWR to ORY. They recently upgraded their planes to flatbed business. ~$1400 round trip. Really tempted for next spring break...

Wow! I just figured out how to bookmark threads for this one.

I just cooked the best thing I've ever cooked. Short ribs marinated overnight in Roy choi's kalbi marinaded (food & wine mag has it online) then smoked at about 240 for 6 hours. A little OJ + cider vinegar on it a few hours in, water+oj in the drip pan, a handful of cherry wood chips.

Winner winner chicken dinner. 7-2 with gorsuch and Thomas dissenting.

Boillot volnay

Haha! Yes fair enough there is a big difference between aged/rare burgs and dozens of cases of recent bdx.

Pingus flew under the radar today... 6xbottles of the 2005 sold for $3,200 plus 20% BP comes to $640/bottle. Currently lowest WS is $925, $1,300. Crazy. Can we please make a pledge on this board (that goes for you, people who post on commerce corner, as well!) to stop quoting WS for older wines? It...

PLL was 150 including commish before tax on the later lots. I think they sold about 40 cases. The 20% vig at hdh makes it very easy to calculate prices for full cases!

I'm ignoring tax as pretty much all retailers charge tax these days. But yes, reasonable point that possibly people were not paying tax on EP purchases made 2 years ago.

Mouton under 600, Margaux under 500, PLL for 150....I think those all 10% below ep?

2016 bdx going for well below EP pricing.

Zilliken did well too. The one producer where I put in multiple above lower est bids and didn't win any (thought I had the 01 auction spats but I guess someone else bid the same...disadvantage of absentee).

I think rieslingfeier is going to be a lot of fun this year!

So far results are interesting. Prum predictably doing well but secondary producers aren't getting much traction.

George Hejna wrote: ↑
June 17th, 2019, 2:20 pm
If budget allows look at. http://www.caribclub.com

Really phenomenal, great location.

George

That's the other one we are looking at. Price isn't too bad, exactly the same as the similar setup we were looking at in Turks. Under 1k a night before tax for a 2 bed.

I realize my.comments above are a bit off as there definitely seem to be a lot of condos available in GC at reasonable prices. Hotels seem pricey to me if you need suites. Of course I realize this as flights to GC are 1/2 that of Turks for my next trip, so I think we might give Cayman a try! Looking...

Sorry meant about 3500 not 1500. But ballpark 10 and 15 are similar

There are lots of other interesting things to see though, for example how much various bdx is sitting in negociant warehouses or in chateau cellars. For example 2010 vs 2015 PLL has about 1500 bottles each on CT. For Cos, otoh, there are about 1000 bottles of 15 but 5000 of 10.

Is that a different fallot? I think most in this thread are referring to Edmund fallot, which seem to have different labels.

Maybe it's the negotiant.

By the way another thing to note is that each of the 3 credit card companies fixes their exchange rate overnight. Lately it appears that visa has had the better rates but don't know if that's consistent. Also means that if you have a bill to pay in a foreign currency (say, a hotel prepay or wine) yo...

The Bryant thread got me thinking...has anyone ever tried to figure out what percent of wine makes it to cellar tracker? For example screagle has reported annual production of 5-9k bottles (not sure if that includes the second), and I see consistently about 1500 bottles on CT per vintage, indicating...

I recently had an 08 bourgogne Blanc that was also in excellent shape. Picked up a few bottles of the 16 from garagiste, I think around $50 as well.

Lots and lots of chicken thighs. Usually one 2-lb pack of skinless and 2 packs of bone-in. Use the bone-in for a one-pan or one-pot meal of some sort, the skinless are panko-ed and baked usually. The only chicken white meat in our house is attached to whole chickens for roasting. Some other meat - p...

The nice thing about Turks is that almost all of the hotels are actually privately-owned condos with a hotel company that runs services, takes care of renting the rooms, etc. So finding a multi-bedroom suite with a kitchen, etc is very easy and the upcharge is not as bad as at a normal hotel chain. ...

A quibble that I have (that pales in comparison to said larger issue) is that I find it a bit poor form for a professional to be already auctioning the 2017 Keller GGs that are just barely now hitting stateside. Publicly profiting from an arbitrage between where he gets it from KP and the highest b...

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