FIFY
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Never tried a pre-1990 so ill take your word on that
I joined a bunch of CA mailing lists in the late 90s/early 00s based on Parker/WA recs and after buying full allocations in full FOMO mode for several releases, came to the conclusion that I didn’t enjoy most of the wines. These were not Napa Cabs - more like Paso stuff (Saxum, Linne Calodo etc).
Luckily I figured this out pre-2008 economy meltdown and it was easy to dump them at auction without losing any money (maybe even making a little?)
Also went deep on a bunch of Priorat stuff in the very early 00s and while I did enjoy many of those at the time (Mogador was a fave), most aged quite poorly. I recall I had a bunch of 1997 Rotllan Torra ‘Tirant’ that tuned into a nasty, bretty mess. Others just got pruney and weird.
I think I bought one bottle of this and even that was one too many
I am very pro large format. It makes events much more memorable, but again, one often has to manifest those kinds occasions which takes work. Hopefully you
The epitome of Canadian politeness
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Another one: I was late getting into Barolo and Barbaresco, every one I had had early on was young, tannic, and unpleasant, so I figured I just didn’t like 'em. Then I opened an older vintage (1967, some time in the early 2000s) and it was a revelation. I started buying a ton of young vintages without much regard to what I was buying (a lot of WTSO deals, for example). Now I’ve got a bunch of rather mediocre wines that are coming of age, and while they’re “ok”, I should have been a lot more discriminate.
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All my last futures orders from Premier Cru that never got delivered when I should have seen the writing on the wall.
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Going in on a number of cases of de Negoce cabs with my brother. I thought I could bring them to the mega-family events we used to have, but we stopped having them. And they are just not my style of cellar defender.
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Even though I had stopped buying from them I still had $1000.00-$1500.00 on order when it became obvious with publicity (lawsuit?) from the customer with $1,000,000.00 in backorders. Being local I headed down and demanded a credit and filled it with whatever I could find on the shelves at that moment. I still have a mag of Clos des Papes from that. Now to find an occasion to open a magnum…
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second on de Negoce - got caught up in the chase for declassified treasure and now have too many cellar fillers rather than cellar defenders - hoping to unload on the unsuspecting at Thanksgiving
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In agreement with much being said here, but especially
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Glad to hear. My highest price order was a Petrus (forgot the vintage), but a screaming deal. That said, I have so many great deals from PC that were delivered and did not have huge $$$ in those undelivered bottles, so all-in-all, not too bad.
But still should have known when to stop . . .
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I have been purchasing Petit Chateaux for well over 40 years - and it’s always been my go-to everyday red wine for anything and everything. With global warming, the ripe vintages are now getting riper, and I made the mistake of purchasing too much “ripe vintage” Petit Chateaux over the last 15 years, and have at least 50-60 bottles of 10 year old (and older) fruit bomb/over the top Bordeaux in the cellar. Luckily, I didn’t pay a ton for them, so it’s gift city for a while -
I agree with this. Even wineries that I liked and still like (if maybe not quite as much today as at the time), I just ended up with too much, and now many of them are drifting into the “maybe declining” category.
You really have to fight the “I better get a lot of this while I can” impulse. Except for the times that you actually should have bought a lot of it (see the “offers I regret passing up” threads on here). 
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the 1990 Thalabert CH was wonderful!
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Same.
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“hoping to unload on the unsuspecting at Thanksgiving”
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I can absolutely see how that would happen, as it makes total sense on paper. Luckily i only bought a small amount of the ‘best cabernets he’s ever sourced’, and even those have been very…‘not great’ (being kind here)
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You are well on your way to wisdom . . .
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de Negoce. Even the ones I liked, which was about 1/3, was still too much. I celebrated when I drank/gave away the last bottle of that.
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