Think I’m good for this!
How about your wonderful spouse?
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I can bring a magnum of something
I can bring a magnum of bubbles to get things started!
Jay what’s our approximate total attendees?
I was mostly thinking new world.
But let me know if there is an area you want covered.
Alas, you’re stuck with the B team
I’ll probably bring a MacDonald and a few others.
Let me know final numbers so I can see if I need to bring magnums. Maybe a 2002 Insignia.
Also thinking about bringing some recent 100 pointers like
Kinsman, Memento Mori or Accendo. They’d be young though.
Is anyone going old world?
Also can probably dig up a 1977 Fonseca.
I’ll probably go old old world and anti-burgundy varieties.
Yea old world here. Will bring an 89 Beychevelle. And maybe some old Napa to compare against.
So I will probably bring two polar opposites…maybe a Cayuse Bionic Frog, and an older Bordeaux…and backups just incase…Jay if you are bringing a Scarecrow lmk vintage
Ooh. Ooh. If you can dig up a 1977 Fonseca, I will bring a 1978 Quinta do Noval Nacional. I never get to drink it because everyone in my family hates Port, but if you have never had Nacional, you need to try this.
I have a 2002 La MIssion HB that I got from my uncle’s collection when he passed away. Not a good year but this could be an interesting group to open it. Any thoughts? Or a 2003 Sassicaia.
AND I am obligated to bring some wine with lots of flavor. So how about a Colgin '06 or '07? I have no idea where they are in my cellar but CT says that I still own a few.
This all depends on how many people I drag with me, which is changing every 12 hours due to changes in travel schedules of the rest of my family. It could be anything from me alone to four others. If it’s four others, I will bring lots of wine.
Apologies everyone. Something came up and I’ll no longer be able to make it. I hope everyone has a blast! I’m looking forward to seeing some of you at the event on the 6th.
@J_a_y_H_a_c_k - theoretically, how much space do we have?
Theoretically, as much as we want. But theoretically, I could win the lottery tomorrow. If only I bought a ticket. If you can find four friends, assuming that you have four friends ( 
), that’s fine. I have to check with the restaurtant to see which of the areas that we can have, but I think we can go up to 16 total in either location and I suspect that we have 20 in the larger area, perhaps 24.
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Looking forward to this, has been an awful week, need some great juice!!
Hi Jay
Do you still have an open spot? Arnold is recovering from his knee surgery so I feel safe venturing out
You’re bringing some horrific wine but I’d love to see you and Rebecca anyway.
Best
Jay
I’d probably be a half hour late since I’ll be working until 5pm
Yes, we have room. You can bring Arnold as a chaperone. I have not decided for certain what my wines will be, but I am leaning towards bring two horrific wines, one outstanding wine that I think you do not like for reasons that are unknown to me, and one potentially GREAT wine that you may enjoy, as follows (write up with reviews for a friend of mine just to make him feel guilty because he can’t come):
Two Wines You Will Hate:
2006 Colgin IX Proprietary Red Estate
RP 100
From the Pritchard Hill Vineyard, the 2006 IX Proprietary Red Estate is a blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot. The good news is that there are 1,500 cases of this cuvee. It, too, reveals the noble sweetness of tannin, the extraordinary rich, intense mouthfeel, and sumptuous aromas of flowers, burning embers, blackberries, blueberries, spice box, and cedar. With extraordinary intensity, beautiful purity, a texture and flavors that build incrementally on the palate, and a significantly long finish, this is a perfect wine.
2016 Saxum Rocket Block James Berry Vineyard
RP (96-98)
The 2016 Rocket Block James Berry Vineyard shows fabulous potential, but it’s still a baby [in 2018], offering up a deep-pitched bouquet of wild berries, wood smoke, sweet licorice and dried flowers. On the palate, it’s full-bodied, rich and layered, with great concentration and rich tannins that are hidden by an exuberantly primary core of fruit. In a subtle departure from 2015’s 100% new puncheons, the 2016 is being matured in 73% new puncheons and the balance in used wood, where it will spend another 12 months.
One Outstanding wine but IIRC, you do not like Port:
1978 Quinta do Noval Vintage Port Nacional
Robert Parker wrote this many years ago. When I read it, I decided to find one as my wine bucket list. I have since had Nacional twice.
The beautiful Quinta do Noval is undoubtedly the most famous port producer, largely because their 1931 and 1927 were to vintage port what the 1947 Cheval Blanc and 1945 Mouton-Rothschild were to the Bordeaux trade - divine, monumental wines of extraordinary depth of flavor. Also, the Quinta do Noval produces a rare vintage port from a small vineyard of ungrafted, pre-phylloxera vines called Nacional. It is so rare that I have never seen, much less tasted, a bottle of what is supposedly a great port .
AND One wine that you should like:
2002 La Mission Haut-Brion
RP 92, Reviewed by: William Kelley
One of the better successes of this overlooked and misunderstood vintage is the 2002 La Mission Haut-Brion, a wine that’s really beginning to drink well. Offering up a deep bouquet of cassis, burning embers and cigar ash, it’s medium to full-bodied, with a sweet core of fruit and a rich chassis of tannin. Served blind, after a decant of a couple of hours to flesh out, it tends to pass for a more reputed vintage; it’s only held back by a slight lack of mid-palate density to balance its structure and the fact that it tastes about a decade older than a top vintage for this address such as 1998.
Published: Dec 21, 2023
Great!
It will just be me
I love port and, of course, Lmhb
I promise to bring something old and over the hill with faded flavor and shrill acidity
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for some unknown reason, I thought you hated Port.
Now that you mention it, I won a few bottles of 1975 Cos at auction and I think I have one or two left. I could bring that. But if you really want over the hill with faded flavor and shrill acidity, how about 1982 Hospices de Beaune Pommard Cuvée Billardet Jean Duport. It will remind everyone that we are not at La Paulee for a good reason.