I planned to dial it back a lot this year, but ended up with 69 bottles, which was thirty more than last year (and which takes my total BD purchases between BD V and BD XI over the 500 bottle mark), with wine purchases from:
Briceland*
Di Costanzo
Fogline*
Goodfellow*
Halcon
JB Neufeld
Kelley Fox*
Riverain*
Salt Vine
Sojourn*
Terrien
means I have bought from them before
I also bought some of Charlie’s caviar, Grassl Mineralite stems and a decanter, and Flannery porterhouses and a pichana. At least I expanded my horizons with 5 new producers.
Tercero - gotta buy Rose’ and excited to try the new one
Sojourn - gotta buy Gap’s Crown Pinot and Home Ranch Cab
Jean Edwards - always get their Cabs
Sabelli-Frisch - these sound too fun to pass on
Veleta Gourmet - love the fishes
Scherrer - love the Zins and Fred
A Thing of Beauty - unlike some of you, I don’t really need anything to make me more beautiful but hey, stay ahead of the curve
kept it to a case between Goodfellow’s Berserker Cuvees and Kelley Fox Hyland Courys, then grabbed a couple Grassl Glasses to test out… way too good a price to pass up!
I was proud of myself for exercising restraint. That said, I’m excited about my ~2 cases or so between Riverain, Sandler, Cabot, and Franny Beck wines.