Help with wine list

We’re heading up to the Post Hotel in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. We were there in December and enjoyed several bottles of Chablis, some red burgs and white and red Rhones. Prices posted are in Canadian dollars, and we would like to choose 4 bottles under $600 CAD total. We would likely pick 2 whites and 2 reds. We would be very happy to stay within the regions I mentioned but are open to other suggestions.

TIA

Over your limit and not type you asked for, but the 89 Taittinger Comtes at 315CAD is probably about auction value.
For Chablis I’d probably go with the Fevre or Brocard. If you want a cheap white the Drouhin St Veran is usually pretty dependable. As it their red CDBV.
Not much red Burg there under 150CAD, but the Pavelots should be good. The 1er is (relatively) better priced, but the village might be drinking better at moment, I haven’t been touching '09s.

I’m not a lot of help on this list, but the 2009 Dujac MSD white might be a good deal at $130. The '98 Caprai Sagrantino at $185 is over budget and out of region, but could be showing really well. The '88 Ch. Camensac might be interesting, as well as the '05 Cantemerle. The '07 Vieux Telegraphe is just over budget at $165. That Alberta liquor control board mark up is amazing, plus the Post Hotel adds their own, for sure. Cool list though, if money is no object.

I love that area. Michelle and I drove from Banff to Lake Louise one morning with the hopes of going skiing. The car thermometer read -26 Celsius (-15F?), so we decided to have a good lunch there instead. Have a fun trip.

Thanks, Dale and Ed. To clarify, we would like to keep the total under $600 CAD, so some bottles at 100 or less and a couple at 200 or so would work.

What a list. No real suggestions but it does seem like the Mt. Edens are priced nice.

this appears to be quite a value:
6676 Pouilly Fumé, “Buisson Renard”, Didier Dagueneau 2005 $155

Would you pay the extra $20 for the Pur Sang from the same vintage?

depends, they are from different parcels with different soils. pur sang has no silex i believe. maybe read some tasting notes and judge which style you would prefer.

2005 Pur Sang is one of the best white wines I have enjoyed in the last 5 years

I’d definitely hit a bottle of that '94 Chartron Chevy for $220. Sure, the vintage was pretty crappy, but where else can you touch Chevalier-Montrachet for that price?!

If anyone out there has had this wine lately and thought it was very enjoyable I would consider this one.

God that list sucks. Would never go there unless they offered corkage.

Unfortunately, I’ve never had the wine. '94 isn’t showing up online, but the average across all vintages shows the wine has virtually no markup over retail.
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if you like aged Champagne at all:
Taittinger Comes 89 315
Drouhin St Veran 49
Drouhin CdBV 65
Littorai Hirsch pn 165

White: Fichet and Ramonet look promising, as well as Picq, Defaix, Moreau in Chablis. Mondavi To-Kalon Fume Blanc if you want to go that route.

Red: Il Poggione 2010, Ceretto 1985, Lapierre, Ornellaia (2003, for example), Beaune Ursules or Mouches.

Plenty of flexibility. Quite a few more to pick through, depending on your preference.

Invest in a cast for your arm & fill with a nice Bordeaux or Cali-Cab. [wow.gif]

I’ve never had this wine, but the few grand cru whites I’ve had from 1994 have been amazing. This was the last year before premox, it could be an incredible find. And if it were over the hill, a good sommelier would realize that and find you something else.

Any recommendations for red Rhones in the <200 range? Ed mentioned 2007 VT, which is a possibility.

2001 Pegau CdP at $195.

For a different take - how often do you taste Canadian wine? If I go to France, I don’t ask them for Italian wine. Canada may not be the vinous equivalent of France, but why not give them a shot? I’ve had some surprisingly good wines from BC. Last weekend I was in Mexico and I didn’t look for CA wines - I wanted to try some of the local stuff. I’d do the same in BC.

Okanagan has some interesting wines. The Osoyoos Larose for example, is made by the folks who own Gruaud Larose, and it’s a nice wine.