Other than Rousseau and DRC, I have to agree. While I’m not seeing much of what I would call great deals, there’s a lot of reasonable prices coming through. If you’re looking to backfill 2012-2014 this is a pretty good event.
worst auctioneer they have. The pacing makes no sense. Sometimes she takes forever to hammer. Then that one you’re talking about suddenly a bid came in and they closed immediately.
I also do not care about the people bidding and how you know that when that person bids that means it’s good juice.
I started to get the impression that #942 was a “house” buyer or something because (1) he/she seemed to buy boatloads of stuff and (2) often, the woman auctioneer would bring in #942 at the last minute and seemed to be saying something like “my bid”.
Meanwhile, she was a shitload better than the guy that took over for her in the middle of the string of Truchot offerings - he rarely even identified the wine.