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New year, new thread. Any updates?

Letting go of 4 bottles: 2x Beta Vare and 2x Beta Monticello. $450 + your label, or $475 all-in. Release price was $85 + tax + ship, so thin margin...

Just read the restaurant will reopen in September in Geyserville. Yeah!

A few weeks behind on this one, but I’m just getting settled back in. This was an unusual itinerary for me as I wouldn’t normally choose to taste at...

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...

I have always wanted to try Saxum. I made their list a few years ago but have yet to buy any for the following reasons:

1. I keep reading it needs...

I just created an account for my wife on Cellartracker. I tried printing her list of wines, and when I sent it to myself, it was my list from my...

“We were curious to explore if underwater ageing could actually allow us to have young wines with the benefit of maturity, winery founder Patricia...

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

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...

Was thinking of trying my first bottle of '15 Mascot.... Wondering if anyone has any advice or recommendations on how to approach drinking ....PnP,...

Wife and I will be visiting Florence in June, and while the trip does not include any stays in broader Tuscany, we are interested in a day trip out...

Came across the 2018 Andremily Grenache release post on the Andremily IG page.

I've been fortunate to have an allocation for the Syrah and...

1999 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage - France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage
I somehow had the impression that this wine was far darker and...

Just had a 546 word tasting note in my CT feed. Before reading it, I couldn't imagine how such a note could be necessary. After reading it, I wanted...

Hey everyone. Looking for a little advice here. I am heading over to France shortly and expect to be buying a decent amount of wine (Alsace,...

Got an e-mail from winebid on current hot lots today. One wine has a reserve of $4,155 for a bottle of 2010 Screaming Eagle sauvignon blanc. It has...

It seems week after week that Envoyer has been offering one cool Champagne after another. Just today, the Vilmart Cuvee Rubis '10. Earlier this week...

I'm planning a dinner with a few friends and would love to serve wine from one winemaker throughout the evening. I would like to serve a white blend,...

My Wine Guardian made it 14 years to last week. Nicknamed the beast, it was enormous, loud, and effective. 14 years is apparently a little longer...

We tried ystrday @ Pig+Fig some Ridge GSM blends:
1. Ridge Calif 50% Syrah/Grenache LyttonEstate/DryCreekVlly (14.5%; 40 brls; SaH: 26.8%;...

There has never been a classification of Loire wines and there probably never will be, which is just as well for our wallets. I chose reds, rather...

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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...

Will be using this thread to consolidate my tasting notes from my trip for greater coherence, hopefully will be useful to the folks here. Any...

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Will be spending a long weekend in the Petaluma area. Internet search shows a number of wineries in the vicinity, but few with which I'm familiar....

We are refinishing our wood floors and unfortunately have to get rid of this unit.

Size:39w x 29d x 82h (in)
Weight:513 lb
Pictures of the actual...

No specific question here, just musings that might stimulate interesting discussion. Or might go nowhere…

I only have a few years of taking wine...

2019 Caruso e Minini Perricone Naturalemente Terre Siciliana IGP

This wine has a plushness to the palate that I usually associate with hot wines...

Recommendations anyone? We are kicking around a few days end of Feb 2016 for anniversary as we never get enough city time, and yet can't really leave...

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...

What crystalline, clean bottle of chardonnay! Light to middle weight, citrus, a little peach, a lot of minerals. No oak notes. A pure wine that's...

Fourth WINeFare – June 4th, 2022

I attended the recent WINeFare tasting in San Francisco, and wrote a report for the Grape-Nutz.com website. An...

Hey guys

Just wanted to check if there would be any interest in doing a Bordeaux tasting in NYC.

I was thinking the theme could be 2009 vintage...

For a friend's birthday, we dug into our cellars. It was a good line-up: 2004 Dom Perignon (youngish, no DP nuttiness, but good); '16 PYCM Chassagne...

new lompoc based winery,
duncan harmon is the proprietor.
on the fence about buying.
syrah and grenache, larner and thompson vineyards for syrah....

Anyone else get this? Seems to be an off-cycle offering from Ceritas, featuring a few wines I haven't heard of before. The note suggests they've made...

I thought it made sense to have a catchall thread to post about interesting restaurants in town, whether or not they BYO.

Speaking of...

I was able...

I just read Jeb Dunnuck’s report that came out today on 2019 and 2020 Northern California vintage. He says this about the 2020 wines.

“ Roughly 75%...

Gee this is good! There's a whiff of flint and pure white peach. It is intense and direct, perfectly ripe and underpinned by chalky structure. There...

Looks like inflation has hit the NYWE, only $400 for 2 hours, not sure what it was previously but I am convinced I paid less than that 5 years ago...

Have the following for sale; please PM with interest. The Napa wines were purchased on release, and the Petrus from the original owner. Stored at...

In late 2021 an online Portuguese wine shop approached me and asked if I was interested on a tasting sample case. Why not? thought I. I replied by...

Thanks to a dear friend, our dinner last night was embellished by his contribution of this exquisite champagne:

2005 LOUIS ROEDERER CRISTAL- 55%...

I've previously used all Domaine boxes because I just pick them up when I visit my wine, but I have to say ... Vine Vault boxes are significantly...

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...

The color is striking. Light red. Almost translucent. 13.6% ABV. Beguiling nose of red fruits, baking spices, citrus and forest floor. Medium body...

Hi everyone,

Here is an offering of general wonderings. No specific point and few specific questions. I'm just mostly curious on your thoughts.

My...

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

I honestly don't know if anyone has ever done anything like this before. I was able to find 15 discrete labels from these two giant families in white...

My wife and I are celebrating our 30th in Europe this spring and I’ve not been to Piedmont in a long time. We’ve got lodging covered at the Relais &...

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...

We purchased across the board, it is the way the game is played.
if we want to continue receiving allocations of these Chateau they threaten us,
so I...

Four of us spent a wonderful four plus hours with Ketan Moody and Wade (did not catch his last name) last Saturday on the top of Diamond Mountain...

Way too young . . .

In what is becoming more of a scheduled monthly-or-so tradition, had another lovely dinner with boardmember Tran Bronstein and our friends Michael...

anyone been by ridge recently and able to try?

2019 Ser Cinsault Old Vine Bechtold Vineyard - USA, California, Central Valley, Lodi Mokelumne River (6/23/2022)
Berserker day purchase. Popped and...

Just in time for summer...

All wines professionally stored.
Located in Seattle area, but can hold for shipping in cooler weather if...

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

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...

BROTHER'S LAST NIGHT IN TOWN - 3 Day Wine Review World Headquarters, Minneapolis, MN (6/23/2022)

Great wines again and almost all Washington...

Fleisher’s Craft Butcher Closes

Going to a 4th party and I'm responsible for the champagne.

More specifically, narrowed down to these 2.

NV Charles Heidsieck Brut Champagne...

2018 Reynvaan Family Vineyards Syrah In the Rocks - USA, Washington, Columbia Valley, Walla Walla Valley (6/23/2022)
Day 1: This wine is on par with...

Got a notice last night that someone shipped me wine. Everything I’ve purchased for the past month I have specifically but on notes to “hold for...

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...

2020 Rootdown Riesling Cole Ranch - USA, California, North Coast, Mendocino County (6/23/2022)
Excellent little Riesling from the owner of Cole...

As the weather begins to cool down, I find my mind turning to the Northern Rhone. I have enjoyed N Rhone wine in the past, but have no experience...

We wanted to bring the apéro dinatoire with a decent bottle to a friend's house today and this was the only thing that spoke to me in the closest...

Small batch cellar cleaning;

1 2014 Del Dotto Cabernet Sauvignon Connoisseur's Series Vineyard 887 Family Reserve St. Helena $125
1 2016 Del Dotto...

TWO FRIENDS SHARING THREE BOTTLES OF WINE - The Capital Grille at Tysons Corner, VA (6/15/2022)

I have known R for close to two decades. This was a...

Seeking input from the boards’s collective wisdom.

A calvados I’ve been searching for for over a year just became available in London on this, the...

Hello, Has anyone here used Spiegelau Definition Bordeaux? I heard they are cheap and the quality is not much worse than the good ones.
Give me some...

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...

Anyone planning to attend the Taste of Sonoma this weekend (at KJ grounds) in Santa Rosa? If so, please post any revelations...I'll be managing...

Staying at Hasbrouck House in Stone Ridge. Looking for 2 or 3 nice meals (not fancy, but ideally seasonal and decent cooking, byo obviously a huge...

I received my case a month or so ago, and tonight, an intolerably hot evening in Beaune, seemed like the right moment to try one. With a côte de...

Cellar thinning continued... All wines professionally stored.

Located in Seattle area, but will ship at buyer's expense and acceptance of risk if...

Will ship at buyer's expense and acceptance of risk if agreed in advance --OR-- provide free delivery in Seattle area. Will consider small discount...

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...

On Sat. two friends and I got together for our annual summit .

There was a great lineup of wines from old Heitz, old Phelps, Allemand, Ganevat,...

I know a few others buy from Full Pull. I’ve had good luck with some of their offers. Especially the redacted wines. Today’s offer has me scratching...

If you’re headed to Osteria Francescana because it got ranked the best resto in the world, here are some other things to eat and drink while you’re...

The offering letter says that there wasn’t any smoke taint, and I believe them, but is this just a vintage to pass on? Thanks for any thoughts…

Enjoy Your Wine (And the Next Morning) When You Toast! Before You Drink
Hey WB Community, we’re so excited to be with you this year! I’m Sean, the...

going to Maine and Nova Scotia. Need restaurants in Camden, Maine; Charlottetown, PEI; Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thanks.

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...

Long time lurker, first time poster on here.

My wife and I are going out to the Carmel Valley Ranch for some R&R late next week. Looking for some...

Continuing the theme of pairing intolerably hot weather in Beaune with improbably rich red wines, tonight with duck breasts grilled over charcoal we...

Figured I'd start a thread unless there's one out there so we're not ruining the fun within the de Negoce thread. I'm also lazy and searching the...

Next month we're going to be in Switzerland for a week before heading to the Amalfi Coast. We're flying into Zurich and then going to Lucerne, Wengen...

Travelled to Lisbon (Jan), LHR and Dublin (Mar), and Geneva/Madrid (Jun); returned to NYC/JFK.

All immigration and security lines have gotten much,...

We tasted these 4 at Pig+Fig ystrday afternoon:
1. Ridge Grenache LyttonEstate DryCreekVlly (80% Grenache/10% PS/10% Zin; 49 brls; bttld April 08;...

Linda brought this dessert wine to Pig+Fig last night:
1. Horton Vidal LateHrvst OrangeCnty/VA (11.5%; stopped frmtn; SaH: 24 Brix;RS: 5.3%) 1992 :...

After seeing Phil Franks' band-less Flannery Hangers from his Camp Chef smoker, I was pushed over the edge and need to get myself setup with one,...

We traveled to Italy in 2007 and after a few days in Venice, drove to Friuli to tour the wine country while also visiting a good friend who lives in...

Nice short piece here on the wine cellar the author's late father left behind.