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Vinsent’s ads tout that they bring their wine in via refrigerated containers, “reefers,” yet without notice on Friday shipped me champagne via...

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 have been holding off drinking 2013 napa cabs in general, but spur of the moment pulled this out and drank it over dinner last night. WOW. I was...

Lovely event 2+ years in the making. We had this confirmed for feb/mar-ish 2020, and we all know what happened then.. :(

Marcus/Megan came up to...

Hi everyone,

I have a friend who loves and appreciates good food, probably more than anyone else I know, and who is also a fan of craft beer. We're...

I think the above says it all. Prefer Chicagoland or domaine storage so we can transfer safely.

email me at nickgangas@yahoo.com

Would love some recommendations on a few tequilas to try. I have virtually no experience so looking for some things to try across the spectrum. I do...

Friend is looking to purchase a birth year wine for < $500. I suggested check out Heitz and then saw the $2K price tag! I'm not sure if this is a...

which one and why?

With special mid-summer holidays in the US, France and Italy thought it would be a good opportunity to enjoy summer wines. Doesn’t have to be from...

Two go-to 2019 Pinots around the $30 point were the Colene Clemens Dopp Creek and the Cristom Willamette. Both excellent with different...

Great letter from the team at Realm! Love the openness and look forward to the releases!

We are grateful you are part of the Realm journey!

As you...

We are working on reservations for a trip to Napa, and planning on visiting three wineries per day (while driving). While I'm not worried about my...

Boutique yam'Tcha - stopped by on our first day and had buns and tea. This is in the old space and only serves buns. Fantastic.

Miznon - Nice...

Interesting move...LVMH buys Joseph Phelps

Heading to Cafe Diva later this week in steamboat springs and need some help on this wine list. It’s not the best list, but steamboat isn’t really a...

Not sure if this has been posted yet. Sorry if I missed it.

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...

How would you rank the main villages of the Cote D'Or in terms of most feminine flirtysmile to most masculine reds? Is village/vineyard generally a...

Hi, I would appreciate any recommendations for champagne to pour at a moulin rouge themed 60th and 30th birthday party (my wife and son). We will...

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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 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...

Last fall I arranged this lambic tasting for a small number of my friends who are more inclined to drink interesting beer than wine (even if they've...

I'd like to do a thread, or standalone page, on taking great bottle shots with a cell phone. This would be either a thread or a standalone page...

We tried this last night w/ dinner:
1. Hewitson Riesling GunMetal EdenVlly (12.5%; FrederickWildman) 2016 : Med.gold color w/ slight tartrates...

Where: California/Sonoma County/Russian River Valley/Forestville/Casa Tuite

When: July 16th 2022 (2-1/2 weeks away) 1:00pm’ish til whenever the...

Orange County
OWC 6 packs: $1999 each
2 available
bought on release, stored in cold cellar
You pay shipping or can hand off

Perhaps their supplier cost is different from my small store's cost, but it seems like they're willing to make $1 on some of their sales and...

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...

For me at least. Going from $105/btl for the 2018 vintage to $150/btl for the 2019 vintage that will be open for futures deposits next month and...

VINUM PIEDMONT TASTING - (2/7/2022)

Vinum Piedmont tasting that was fantastic value for S$30, extremely generous pours and got to taste some...

I've been recovering from a fairly gnarly case of Covid a few weeks back. It may be psychosomatic, but my taste buds have been slightly off. Wine and...

We were invited to a couple of cookouts this weekend and asked to bring an appetizer. I have a few go-to recipes that I rotate, but I get the most...

Four-year-old girl reviews the world's best restaurant, The French Laundry, where soup tastes like 'Tinker Bell Popsicles', truffles are 'black...

Sick of all the sadness and pain on your 401k? Tired of all the inflation in your daily spending? I've been working with WineAccess.com (yes, they've...

Just to keep the theme going.
Tonight I popped the Dry Creek Zin from 2012. Probably one of the more exciting DCZs I've had. Darker and richer...

I ordered a case, they confirmed my order in writing and then they sent me a lesser product.
I called and was told the website is often wrong and in...

Can someone explain what I keep seeing on the online HDH -
Lets say there's a bid for 10k....auctioneer will be there for a bit, trying to get more...

MOSTLY CDP DINNER - The Capital Grille at Tysons corner, VA (6/29/2022)

Six of us got together to drink mostly CDPs. The food was solid as usual....

New release upcoming July 12th. For a year I thought I would be getting a little relief, I am getting slammed.

Friend needs recs. Building a large wine room in Austin.

A large number of different vintages on offer for pretty good prices. Just in case you are wondering I am not the seller.

Kerin O'Keefe resigned from Wine Enthusiast. She announced it with a video on social media.

She did not say what she is going to do next, except...

I love this. Cabernet Franc in all its glory (or conscious lack thereof). There’s a beautiful line of dark sauvage character that runs through it;...

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...

I took the last of my wines out of commercial storage today (well, except for the two cases they can’t find).

There was a pleasant surprise. There...

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...

Okay, so I can't find a 2019 bordeaux thread. Even though it is probably buried deep in the ocean of topics I have very little interest in, I feel a...

I am beyond excited for the 2021s! I was there for two weeks in August during a crucial stretch. A number of growers mentioned the sun came out when...

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...

I've been looking for a good book on the history / current state of Oregon wine. Has that book been written, or are things just changing too quickly?

I’ll be flying to Vienna next week for an 8 day vacation. It’s going to be our first one abroad with our toddler and I very much expect it to be very...

Thoughts on the 2020 Portfolio release from Myriad?

This release features the following wines.

2020 Myriad Cellars Napa Valley Cabernet...

Hello,

I am looking to purchase a few empty/non labeled/non marked 750ml Gin Bottles that are frosted . I can find stuff that requires pallet type...

For sous vide-like control of a smoker or conventional oven, Chris Young (ex-Fat Duck, coauthor of Modernist Cuisine & creator of the ChefSteps Joule...

New Belgium -- Wild Ale (Lips of Faith series)
Bear Republic -- Racer 5 IPA
Stone -- Arrogant Bastard

2011 Inama Soave Classico Vigneti Foscarino. Lots of character and a pleasure to drink. It is so much fun to find a wine with personality this...

Just received an email about a large collection of Calera on sale at KL Wines. No affiliation.... Goes back to the 80's.

Any success or thoughts? Pork and veal join beef in the meat mixture, so a white wine might not be outlandish. The sauce is ketchup based, but served...

Sold

I'm helping my sister pick the wine for her wedding and she decided that she would like an Austrian white. I'm hoping to find something inexpensive...

Non-commercial post: I represented this producer for a few years in the DC metro area about 30 years ago.

I just bought 6 bottles for ~$20/btl,...

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

bring one bottle of a favorite wine, $20 or under, to Wus Wonton King on East Broadway. Let's relax, enjoy the food, the company of fellow wine...

My very first experiences with Carignan-based wines, as well as many Zins, were from sources in Mendocino.

I actively avoided the region in recent...

Four, NEW, in original packing, 12 glass cases.

$150 per 12 glass case.

Ship at buyers risk and expense. RIEDEL-Case, Front.JPG

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've been meaning to jump into Washington for a while now, but it's a tough shell to crack. I can't seem to find any direction on what producers to...

I know we have this discussion on the aging palate from time to time, but I have an anecdote to share. I posted part of this in the daily wine...

Purchased on release and shipped/stored in temp controlled truck/cellar since.

These were released as 2 year verticals (2 bottles each vintage per...

Hi! I’m relatively new here and was hoping to find a tasting group in Denver/boulder for some offline events. I live in Boulder with the family.
I...

Interesting article in the NYTimes today by Eric on Peay Vnyds:

I followed the Peay Wines & did a visit w/ Nick way back when in the early yrs....

I am a super nerd. I ask weird questions of winemakers and search strange combinations of terms in a Boolean Search.

I wanted to share a couple of...

36 years since I tricked HRH into saying, “I does.”
Staying at Old Town Manor (an old fave) for just two nights.
Dinners at Little Pearl and Hot Tin...

Took a quick gander at the Acker live auction this AM. Vast majority of DRC selling at low estimate, some at minimum reserve. Sounds like a couple of...

Had these two wines the other night at DinDin:
1. WindGap PinotGris WindsorOaksVnyd/ChalkHill/SonomaCnty (12%; 6 brls/133 cs) Sebastapol 2013 : Light...

Wines located in professional storage in Atlanta. You can pickup in person, pay for air shipping, or I’ll also hold for the Fall and split ground...

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...

2018 Ceritas Chardonnay Charles Heintz Vineyard - USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast (9/20/2020)
My wife knows when I've had a rough day,...

As mentioned on the thread I created yesterday I will be heading to Vienna next week and as such wanted to open something Austrian today. I’m sad to...

2014 Domaine Bertheau (Pierre et François) Bourgogne - France, Burgundy, Bourgogne (6/27/2022)
Still such a pretty little thang! Not much change...

IDEALWINE DINNER - (30/6/2022)

Idealwine was in town and hosted a lovely dinner at Estuary with very good food. It has been a great source of wines...

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...

Hudelot-Noëllat Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots 2005 : 18/20
A great pinot noir, elegant, persistant.

Lenoir Les Roches Chinon red 1997 : 17,5/20
An...

Interested on any thoughts, ill guess at a few

Bedrock 1 year
Carlisle 3 years
Kosta Browne varietal 3 years
Kosta Browne SVD 5 years
Saxum 6...

Saw on IG from Josh Raynolds that they are moving facilities for making the green chartreuse and production is currently stopped. Can’t seem to find...

Nestled on a secluded mountaintop in St. Helena, the estate that furnished the grapes for the 2020 Star Treatment has received ecstatic 99-point...

My family and I will be visiting Italy in July. I've found lots of great info on WB. But we'll be spending a few days on Lake Como in Bellagio and...

Headed to Maine, Portland and need restaurant recomendations.

Long shot request here, but if anyone in the DFW area happens to have a well cellared bottle or two of 2001 Heitz Martha’s on hand you could part...

2015 Ulysse Collin Champagne Les Pierrières - France, Champagne (6/30/2022)
Restaurant purchase at Zuni, because they were out of the 08 Vilmart...

WARNING : Long read ahead!

Typically there are three types of tastings. There are mundane tastings in which you taste wines you've either tasted...

Hi! So, after mentally planning and unplanning multiple European trips for 2022, I bit the bullet and actually bought airfare for a week in Spain in...

Love to see the combos used out there.

I've been going Plymouth Gin, Campano Antica, Campari and orange bitters. Equal parts on the booze.

And...

I have the following for sale.

6 btls, 2012 $600 each
6 btls. 2014 $500 each

Held in professional storage in Chicago. Can hold till fall. Shipping...

I have basil, Thai basil, garlic, dill, mint, oregano, thyme, sage and rosemary before I get to veggies. Do you use anything else with regularity...

A wine that makes you stop and appreciate it, but is still a pleasurable experience

This wine is still very much on the ascendancy - has not reached...

2019 Hofgut Falkenstein Niedermenniger Herrenberg Riesling Spätlese feinherb Onkel Peter #4 - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (12/14/2020)
There’s...

Jorges, ribeyes, skirt steaks and hangars are on sale. Not sure if I missed anything else