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A somewhat interesting article in Punch by John McCarroll:

and the legacy of Robert Parker & his (continuing) impact on wine. A fairly balanced &...

I am moving up $5.00 whole dollars this year for the new value wine thread. We had a lot of good wines last year:

and I don't think anyone...

There are many times when I would go out to eat at a restaurant or to a friends' place and wish I would have brought my wines from home. So I started...

You tasted the wine, liked it and brought it home. What happened to it after that? Many of us here use CellarTracker to track our wines. Great idea!...

Loved the trip so much last summer, repeating it now. Just arrived Madrid

3nt Madrid
4nt San Sebastián
4nt Bordeaux
1nt London on the way back...

Seeing the thread about Saxum’s price increase got me thinking.

Would you rather a winery keep their prices flat for five years and then have a 30%...

I know there are a few previous and related threads, but it seemed to make sense to start this one.

I am looking to get into the wine business in...

Pity the poor wine critic. So many wines, so few words.

The problem was brought home by this blurb in one of those e-mails:

The 2012 Barolo...

Wondering if any berserkers based in/around the Bay Area might be interested in doing fantasy football. Would love to organize something with a...

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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...

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Visiting the Great Tom Hill here in Los Alamos NM for a couple of days. Pretty epic tasting of wines from my collection...

Heading to Mallorca in September/October. Sailing around the island.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Open to any suggestions - restaurants, wines of...

As some of you may know, the Governor of Texas has decided to share the burden of dealing with Asylum seekers but putting them on buses and dropping...

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...

If someone sells wines at auction, what is the tax rate on those gains? From what I see on the internet 28% seems to apply to collectables. CPAs out...

I’ve received several requests for higher end Burgundy and Champagne mixed cases.

I spent a couple hours organizing in the cellar this week and...

Served single blind. I had no problem identifying the wines. For me there is always a mulberry note in VCC, and it was here in spades. More depth,...

Just got my first offer of Saxum...I have been on the waiting list for a while now.

4 x 2020 Broken Stones @$132

Worth the purchase? I cannot...

Anyone know the price on release this go around? I imagine it being higher around $300+/btl.

Thank you

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While not quite a, “made you look!” it is a little bit of one. Yes, those are bins of Oregon Blue Jay...

WTSO and Last Bottle have their threads, so time to put one up for Costco. Varies from location to location and in SF we are lucky to have the Mtn...

I just got an impressively-fancy piece of snail mail from Bella Oaks, announcing that their inaugural offering would be going out on September 21 of...

My wife and I were looking forward to trying Boulevard restaurant in San Francisco as part of our trip to wine country in late October....

Nothing in the wine world fascinates me like California’s heritage vineyards. These vineyards have it all – history, romance and most of all, they...

Anyone else jumping on this release from Jake of Bedrock? Morgan and Chris have definitely been excited about it for a long time it seems like if the...

I drove my daughter to Fort Worth for her 2nd year at TCU (then flew home, so she could have her car there at school) and convinced Robert.A.Jr. to...

I thought I would start a thread dedicated to NYC restaurants.

2013 has been the best year for restaurant openings since 2004. And this expansion...

Eagle Rare 17 year. Make offer.

I have spammed various QPR threads about Balthazar’s Crozes. So I guess it was fitting to actually post a tasting note on it. I opened my last bottle...

My wife and I are planning our first trip to Willamette Valley this fall. We’re planning to stay in McMinnville for three days. No tastings have been...

Burgundy and Rhone white and red

Last Friday I was invited by my good friend to his home in Northern Styria for a tasting with exceptional...

I knew that La Porte Saint Jean produces great Cabernet Francs but was yet to try a white from them. This is a bit of a head scratcher - it drank...

Here are our thoughts on our dining, lodging, and a few other hopefully relevant experiences during our recent more than five-week (April-May 2022)...

Our Monday night dinner group has been doing all wines blind almost exclusively for the past few outings and we just enjoyed another humbling,...

I got Liem’s book, pored over it. Have opened literally dozens of bottles past 6 months. No closer to understanding champagne than I was. I get...

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...

Light straw color. The aromas are intense and outstanding, far more floral than most Rias Baixas, but not masking the piquant panoply of white,...

Done

Seems like we don't get enough notes on WA wines and Steve Costigan notes on 2008 roused me to find a bottle to open.

2015 K The Beautiful...

Eagle Rare 17 year. Make offer.

While I'm generally a proponent of local seafood I just had barramundi for the first time at a restaurant and what an amazing fish!

The restaurant...

So, back when I had disposable income, I routinely loaded up on Lagavulin 16 to make the days pass by a little more painlessly. But, as time as gone...

Anyone shop at Station Plaza Wine in Bronxville, NY? Reputable? TIA

I just finished off a plate of oven-baked salmon in a soy/honey/lime glaze, pan-seared asparagus cooked in butter, and pilaf rice with my second...

Nice article from David Wondrich in the current Saveur about various types of gins available now.

I'm a London Dry person, Plymouth if I get it...

How is it possible this thread doesn’t already exist? (Or maybe it does and my search skills suck).

Tonight, I opened a beautiful wine to kick off...

A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a gentleman who LOVES nebbiolo. I thought I had a deep understanding when it comes to Piedmonte...

Greetings!

I collect wine corks with bird-related themes (long story... I love wine, and birds, and I have a 33-year-old companion parrot).

I have...

Total Wine did me good. Totally surprised me. Totally happy. The first of my 2019 bordeaux bought EP arrived at my local store- a few bottles of...

Hi, all - planning a trip to the valley and curious as to peoples' thoughts on the best tastings at the moment for top-class cab. We visit fairly...

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...

Ok we (well, the old farts among us) talk about owning too much wine, stopping buying, reducing our holdings, etc. So i challenge those of us to post...

Sounds terrible.

Anyone have any info from local sources?

I am sure a post about a wine like this will generate massive interest here and honestly I probably wouldn’t read it if someone else made this post....

Hello everyone,

I haven’t posted for a while and this note on a wine I tried yesterday is proving popular so I thought I’d share. I hope it is of...

Immediately expressive as soon as the cork was drawn. The nose is all strawberries and black earth. It has some Hoisin and coffee too. The palate is...

WHITES AND CHAMPAGNES - (8/8/2022)

Casual white/champagne theme that turned up some interesting wines.
2012 Olivier Horiot Champagne 5 Sens Les...

Weird! Not sure if I like it, but unique and certainly worth trying. Gold in color, right out to the edge- looks like flat ginger ale. Very slightly...

IMO, one of the hands-down most interesting tastings of 2022 was had already in January, when a wine geek friend of mine - who is married to a...

I have a dinner coming up at Oriole in Chicago. I plan to bring two bottles, one the ‘89 Lynch-Bages. It needs a longish decant, plus has been in my...

Anyone received the Save The Date yet? Does anyone know more about these? There is a Rose this time, but unsure it will be worth the entry fee. Thank...

A recent winebid pull (84) Napa Valley Port Cellars has me wondering if anyone knows the original source? Seems like they only made wine from 84-86,...

I had never heard of this brand until 5 minutes ago, when I read Ciatti's report on the California wine market. It states that Shanken's Impact...

2013 Tercero Grenache Larner Vineyard - USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Ynez Valley (8/9/2022)
Dayum! Wonderful nose of dried rose petals and...

Ok, controversial subject line perhaps. But how dumb is this:

Wine Access really takes the cake on shipping stupidity. When I choose a shipping...

Michael, our Monday Table group member had planned to build a dinner around the 1720 H.M. Borges, Madeira Pather in 2020. The 300-year mark seemed to...

These were < $100 not that long ago. Per W-S, there doesn't appear to be any Stateside at any price -- what happened?

I just received a few mixed cases of Vincent, including some library wines, that I am excited to start drinking. I've learned a ton from the...

2020 Saint Cosme Côtes du Rhône - France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Côtes du Rhône (10/7/2021)
Day 1: Not a good first glass. Hot wine with some...

Our family will be in Madeira next week, and I would love some recommendations on wineries to visit as well as restaurants. I'm traveling with a 5...

Several months ago, I posted a similar question about champagne:

I enjoyed the discussion and appreciated the feedback. The next blind spot I’m...

I was intimidated by the very pronounced leather on my first pour of this, but it gave way to a beautiful foreground profile of red fruit - mostly...

Anyone know if Dauvissat adds a little César to their bottling?

Hi all,
Considering a week trip via flight to Rome. I’ve been to Orvieto and points north prior, since I don’t have a lot of time, I was considering...

2021 Extradimensional Wine Co Yeah! Full King Crab White Wine
40% Chardonnay
30% Chenin Blanc
15% Marsanne
15% Viognier
(All from Brosseau Vineyard...

I want to avoid mail order if possible. Is there any sources of foie gras in Los Angeles. Thanks in advance.

Scott

There have been several lastbottlewines.com threads, so I thought it would be good to create one overall thread for discussion about the...

UPDATE 7/27/22

Estimated 'read only' downtime on the current forum will be Aug 15 and Aug 16. We're migrating the last of the data, finalizing all...

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

It’s warm and humid in Southern California and the backyard garden is doing just fine. I figured some margaritas as our Bearss Lime is going strong,...

Hello everyone and I have the following bottle for sale -

1x - 2019 Caterwaul Cabernet Sauvignon Cemetery Vineyard - $175

Please DM to contact me...

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The pizza threads seemed to disappear around here lately. I must not let that happen.
Homemade dough
sliced mozzarella
homemade San Marzano sauce...

ALL SET

A few people mentioned in the 2018 Barolo thread that the conventional wisdom at this point seems to be that 2019 and 2021 will be exceptional Barolo...

Looking to sell this mixed case for $1050 (WS low is ~$1250). I will hold and ship when the weather cools at the buyers expense or I am located in...

Looking to sell this mixed case for $975 (WS low is ~$1060). I will hold and ship when the weather cools at the buyers expense or I am located in...

A real joy and at the perfect maturity level for my palate. Ruby in color with some bricking at the rim- looks just as I’d expect it to at this age....

There seems to be a lot of love for Bedrock wine on this board that i figured we could probably start a thread devoted to which one you opened...

I received the save the date from VV earlier today for the Fall allocation which will be released on 8/9. I've yet to have the opportunity to try any...

I have a strong interest in the history and culture of wine growing and making in the Santa Clara and San Benito areas.

Often (in my mind) the...

2020 Tensley Syrah Colson Canyon Vineyard - USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Barbara County (8/4/2022)
Day 1: This is showing really well and...

I've been to Montreal a bazillion times but not since Covid. We're going up at the beginning of September with another couple and I was wondering if...

Parting with some more of my Weller 12...

2022 release - $250/ea (x3) sold
2016 release (old bottle style) - $375/ea + ship. (Take both for $750...

The producers in the Barolo zone are beginning to release their 2018 vintage and the season has begun inauspiciously. Massolino announced that they...

My first introduction to natural wines (since I didn't know what I was doing) was filled with mousy garbage but I have certain fellow Berserkers to...