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I spent time Sunday just fixing the data entry errors in Cellartracker that were easy to find - like the 27 different individual slots that claimed...

How long should I expect to be in the Macdonald waitlist before being offered?

Just published a free-to-read Tuesday morning provocation on The Wine Advocate site. Would be interested to hear everyone's thought!

The précis is...

Could a $55 dollar bottle of Grand Cru red Burgundy actually be good? Answer: YES! I realize Corton-Renardes is no Richebourg, Delarche is no DRC,...

In honor of Mike P. I opened the village wine about an hour after taking delivery.

ripe melony slate. Citrussy sea foam on the nose. Medium length...

all of us occasionally pass on “deals” and sometimes post them. Let’s have a thread that does so . . . JJ Buckley has a Bitouzet-Prieur Volnay...

Hoping to see min 3 packs I have a few 2 pack shippers available as of now. Priority give to orders near 6 bottles

Quantity Vintage Wine Price per...

I can't find ANY reviews on CT or elsewhere. The website for the winery given in the WTSO blurb doesn't even appear to be the right winery!
But I...

Food & Wine: Fake Bottles of Yellow Tail Wine Are Popping Up in the U.K..

WB 21 purchase - cannot recommend ithis new winery highly enough. The service of the owners was exemplary and the wine is superb. Lovely legs, dark...

Hello and Wow!

Here we are for our 4th WB Day and we’re super excited once again! I’m happy to see many of my friends participating this year....

Just got the email that after years of waiting, I'm in. Any predictions on pricing?

Tried these three whilst I was back in KansasCity last week:
1. StonePillar Favorita Kansas WW (Vintner's Collection; Vermentino;...

My sweetie and I enjoyed a Valentine dinner at our favorite local restaurant, The Stonehouse. Our MO is to take a good champagne and a Burt Williams...

...of your wine collection? I do! In 1992 fresh out of college...wasn't into drinking wine, just drinking...and when your ex college roommate owns a...

I've been expanding my Brunello knowledge with the great 2015 and 2016 vintages. In the past I've bought a few from the better vintages, but am...

Anybody have success locating Jasper Morris' book 'Inside Burgundy'? Have been lurking for a copy in the US, but to no avail.

2008 Rhys Pinot Noir Alpine Vineyard - USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains (2/23/2021)
Getting on towards thirteen years from...

Jancis has come out with her own wine glass!

Oh happy day.

Just like Rachel Ray!

Interestingly, it's for both reds and whites and it's not...

Happy Wednesday everyone!
I really didn't know what to open this evening so i closed my eyes ( after I was in my cellar) and blindly pulled out a...

My Bedrock shipment arrived today, and it’s an unholy mess of broken bits of styrofoam. The spring Bedrock shipment was the same way. Bits of styro...

Been noticing a lot more bidding, and less bottles offered on WB of late. A year or so ago there would be 3-4 pages of items listed and languishing....

anybody order from this place? Allegedly they hook us up directly with domaines and offers come directly from those domaines with which one signs up...

2014 Domaine Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Brézé - France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Saumur (1/27/2021)
-- popped and poured --
-- tasted non-blind...

1991 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (2/24/2021)
This the oldest Kabinett I’ve...

I was checking Realm Cellars website, and I found the release is coming soon

Our 2021 Spring Release begins on February 9, 2021 and will showcase...

Tried these two last night:
1. Drew PinotNoir MorningDewRanch/AndersonVlly (13.3%) 2013 : Med.dark color w/ little bricking; strong black cherry...

I'm sure this question can be best answered by Jim, Marcus, and Todd, but I'd love to hear any other thoughts, and I look forward to other random...

Every so often I see corked bottle notes on CellarTracker about Franny Beck wines. Sometimes I’m able to figure out who the note taker is based off...

Weve all come to accept it as an amusing little minor frustration with a super reliable store.

My question is simply why? Why do they take 6 months...

I've become a creature of habit. I have been mostly buying, cellaring, and drinking the same varietals for decades. That's fine because I love my...

I've been slowly upping my California cab game over the last few years but I have no idea where to start with French wines. I was thinking that if I...

List your wine and where to purchase. If anything those in the local area will benefit if they don't ship.

2015 Davenport Cellars Patch - USA,...

Looking for the best online vendors that ship Conus. I am in Wisconsin
I am specifically interested in French wines.
Suggestions?

What an awesome Sunday we had at Frog's Leap. We tasted on the back porch of the Vineyard house on a beautiful day. I highly recommend visiting. I'll...

Has anyone had any recent experience with this outfit? I did a search in this forum and found an old thread about an arrogant reply that they sent to...

Great seller, excellent communication, safe packing.

Don't feel like pricing these out, so let's try this, if you're interested just make an offer. Free delivery in the greater DC area and will ship...

Wine Consigners, Inc. Anyone used this place in 2018 or this year? Has some interesting stuff but no address and no info about who owns it.

2019 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (2/24/2021)
First look at the 2019s from Richter,...

I think it would be interesting to see what others are buying these days.

This week, I found 2 bottles of Hanzell Chardonnay from 1997 and a 3 pack...

I'll be doing another live zoom tasting featuring 5 of my current and future releases as follows:

2020 Clairette Blanche
2020 Mourvedre Rose
2017...

Given all the threads on German wines lately, I thought it might be interesting to see everyone's top holdings in German wines by producer. I know we...

Going for first time - would like some input.

Thx

I did a search and a thread didn’t come up, but I did see a few posts where a few of you have mentioned being on the Keto diet.

Ive been thinking...

This seems a bit off to me. Does anyone know this store?

Is it a big Coravin dealer or something?

Plus wine/liquor stores were one of better...

Ideally looking for a local trade, or sale, in the Boston area:

1982 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac (1x)
1999 Chave Hermitage (1x)
2009 Marchand...

In efforts to help keep the Advanced Search button from overload, I would like there to be a thread devoted to the unique winemaking and grape...

Good morning WBs,

Anyone have advice or knowledge re: where to sell some of your collection? .....aside from the forum on WB.....and auction...

I've always enjoyed his posts here but he hasn't posted in three weeks. I hope he is ok.

Just backfilled some red burg from nice sites from this producer. I have never heard of them before and the usual suspects give no background, though...

EDIT: For those new to this post — my use of the word criminal is hyperbolic. While I didn’t imagine that would require clarification, I don’t want...

Figured I would try to get another chain going but with dessert wines specifically.

Shouldn't be a surprise but here it is (a bit late).

What are you drinking, what do you like? Oh, and let me clarify - it doesn't have to just be the legal definition of bourbon, but the style. I'd like...

Since the 2020 vintage will bring 1er Cru to Pouilly-Fuissé, I think we can expect that to some level, prices and scarcity will rise. I think it...

2008 Evesham Wood Pinot Noir Cuvee J
Somewhat reminiscent of the 2008 Illahe....except with more of everything. It starts out fairly tight and...

Only $120 case for Napa fruit plus shipping? I'm in for a case...not much risk....

7 bottles mine since release currently at Domaine NJ.

$110 per local pickup or domaine pickup etc.

email please.

thanks for looking.

Seems like this might be a good thread for the bubbleheads here.

I'll start it with three

2004 Jacquesson Champ Cain - love this, deep Chardonnay...

A fresh nose of honeysuckle, green apple and mint. It is direct and super-intense. There's razor sharp cut and a finish loaded with chalky dry...

I was on vacation last week in Oahu. Close to our hotel I found this small store/market (City Island Market, I believe) which had a deli, sold...

I first read about claudine in the de negoce/ wine access threads some time ago and then completely forgot about it until I listened to the xchateau...

Anyone else get this e-mail? A pleasant surprise for sure:

'All the great No Girls Wine in the world can’t obscure how challenging 2020 has been....

Leaving on Monday, 3/28 for Paris, Sicily, Tuscany. Any thoughts on the current state of affairs besides the obvious ones? Obviously everyone is on...

I know nothing about this particular category of Champagne. I have experienced and enjoyed what I will label a demi-sec style in still white wines...

Popped this in honor of La Festa del Piemonte a few weeks ago. A true wow wine and an example of why I love this hobby - the insatiable, neverending...

Tried these two back in KansasCity, prompting my grandson Caleb (a good Kansas plow-boy name if there ever was one) to ask me why I was always...

One of my favorites with an excellent QPR - plus launching two new labels this release

Save this date for our 2019 vintage wine release.

Crazier...

Tried these two GWTs back in KansasCity last week:
1. ElenaWalch GWT Doc: AltoAdige (14%; www.ElenaWalch.com) Tramin 2019 : Med.light gold color;...

Looking to thin my cellar of the following:

---2006 Opus One---$300
---2010 Sea Smoke Southing---$95.00
---2011 Sea Smoke Southing---$95.00/each...

I bought a few Cogno Barolo Riserva Bricco Elena 2010 a while back, which I understand is all Nebbiolo Rose. I've never actually had the wine, but...

Do you all have a favorite wine that is not traditionally expensive, but find increasingly hard to get?

My examples are:

Graillot—get offered about...

Hi, first post here. I find the annual weather thread to be an excellent source of knowledge and news. We will be picking a small amount of Pinot...

Although it's still early-ish, I've noticed that nearly 100% of harvest internship postings include something like prior work in wine production,...

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1971 Jos. Christoffel jr.: Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Beerenauslese Riesling (Mosel, Germany).

I purchased this rare German Riesling some years ago as a...

Happy New Year, everyone! We made it to 2021 and are excited to share that the first Bedrock release of the year will be coming up the morning of...

Surprised I haven't seen a post on this. Whose looking forward to this ? We sure are. For one reason he's a tremendous talent and have high hopes for...

Delved deeper into my recent Solminer shipment:
1. Solminer Dry Riesling CoquelicotVnyd/LosOlivosDist (12.6%; www.Solminer.com; 144 cs) 2019 : Pale...

Happy Holidays everyone.

I'd like to buy some caviar - probably 100-200g range and likely Ossetra or similar. I want the real stuff and good quality...

2 bottles of the '14 Dujac Les Beaumonts $795 with ground shipping included(lower 48 only).

Looking to trade 2008-2011 Verite La Muse, for some comparable Napa Cabs. I've got and am willing to trade multiples of most of the vintages.

I am...

I'm seeking two bottles of this cuvee for my wife and my 40ths next year.

I have been busy collecting some 82 specimens for this occasion, but this...

2015 Domaine du Collier Saumur Blanc - France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Saumur (1/3/2021)
-- popped and poured --
-- tasted non-blind over 2 to 3...

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If you can, please post as much as you are willing about the background of the # wine you are drinking. Most don't know what the #s are so...

I've been using Lao Gan Ma's classic Chili Crisp a lot, but as much as I love the stuff I don't love MSG or preservatives. I prefer naturally...

Did anyone else get the Total Wine Pappy Offer yesterday?

For anyone interested: the offer is for one bottle only out of the list below, online, on...

I have four bottles of 2013 Brovia Barolo Rocche di Castiglione for sale. Asking $465 for the 4-pack. Do not want to split up. Can ship or hold at...

Looking for wines that show significant graphite under $50? Any suggestions? We can go over by a reasonable amount...

anybody own one? Been on wait list five years and just ordered/confirmed for KD-30L. Stoked.

Any experience buying from them? Apologies if this thread already exists somewhere--it's impossible to search a string consisting of only first , the...

Just got a rather schmaltzy mailer akin to the letter I received from Promontory saying I was still not on their list. This letter though, was an...

Tried this back in KansasCity last week:
1. Angelo Negro Brachetto Birbet Sweet RW Parzialmente Fermentato Mosto d'Uva (5%; PiedmonteGuy/Shafer/MN)...

I purchased some Agrapart Blanc de Blanc Terroirs, and I am trying to decipher the lot information. It says: Lot October 2012 and immediately after...

***Closing Sunday!***
GRILL & CHILL with Morgan Ranch Wagyu

Thank you for welcoming Morgan Ranch to your community - We are beyond excited to be a...

Some interesting stuff in here from Will, including Constellation doing what it does, Carlisle getting its hands on Old Hill Ranch fruit and more....

Back in December, I got an email from Schrader saying that their latest offer would start today, January 26, at 9am PST. I'm having no luck on their...

My wife is the foodie between us, and I have traditionally gotten her various books over the years. I’m looking for something to give her (among...