Spectator top 100

[Frank_Murray_III]

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[terrance.c]

For the fun of guessing, there hasn’t been any pinots on the list yet. They’ve been pro-oregon the last two years. My guess is there.

[PeterH]

I’m leaning towards Domaine St.-Prefert Châteauneuf-du-Pape Collection Charles Giraud.

P Hickner

[RandyH]

I’m going with Don Melchor.

[larry_schaffer]

Happy to see so many Rhone variety wines represented . . .

[Drew_Goin]

@PeterH

I’m leaning towards Domaine St.-Prefert Châteauneuf-du-Pape Collection Charles Giraud.

P Hickner

@RandyH

I’m going with Don Melchor.

Both of these are prescient, based on the past trends in Wine Spectator’s “Top 100” listings - meaning, a Châteauneuf du Pape and/or a Concha y Toro Cabernet Sauvignon.

[Anton_D]

@D@vid Bu3ker

@Anton D

How can you guys be wasting time on this when Rolling Stone is about to announce the 100 best albums of the year?

There haven’t been 100 good albums this millennium.

Well, at least we have the NYT Book Review Top 100 to quiver over.

[RichardFlack]

@Anton D

How can you guys be wasting time on this when Rolling Stone is about to announce the 100 best albums of the year?

Er, which year? Not say 1968 by any chance?

[Andrew_Christiansen]

@Frank Murray III

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[timmy_roos]

Duck horn merlot. Of course. Merlot is back?!?

[James_Sanders]

@RichardFlack

@Anton D

How can you guys be wasting time on this when Rolling Stone is about to announce the 100 best albums of the year?

Er, which year? Not say 1968 by any chance?

Does no one on this board understand sarcasm? Original post was LOL funny, Anton

[Carter_Y]

@timmy roos

Duck horn merlot. Of course. Merlot is back?!?

Haven’t you heard?

[Alan_Rath]

Don’t really follow the top 10 reveal, but I did look at the list. Got to be one of the most boring “top 10” they’ve ever assembled. Would be interesting to thumb through the magazine to see the correlation with advertising.

[PeterH]

A big thumbs down to their entire top ten list, although the French selections are fine. Just another reason why WS has become irrelevant to my wine purchasing decisions.
They are obviously playing to California palates and California advertisers.

P Hickner

[Robert_Pavlovich]

@Andrew Christiansen

@Frank Murray III

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This.

[David_Bu3ker]

@Alan Rath

Would be interesting to thumb through the magazine to see the correlation with advertising.

I was wondering when this canard would come back.

[GregT]

Well, at least we have the NYT Book Review Top 100 to quiver over.

Indeed.

I tremble before it.

[Alan_Rath]

@D@vid Bu3ker

@Alan Rath

Would be interesting to thumb through the magazine to see the correlation with advertising.

I was wondering when this canard would come back.

Very good! And just to follow up, I flipped through the last couple of issues, and didn’t find any advertising I could attribute to Duckhorn, or Far Niente (also owned by the private equity firm that owns Duckhorn, at least according to google). So I withdraw my accusation, and will just stay with “boring”. Thankfully.

[Mike_DiSalvo]

St Cosme 2015 Gigondas’s price doubled this week. Thanks WS.

[ATaylor]

[/quote]
Very good! And just to follow up, I flipped through the last couple of issues, and didn’t find any advertising I could attribute to Duckhorn, or Far Niente (also owned by the private equity firm that owns Duckhorn, at least according to google). So I withdraw my accusation, and will just stay with “boring”. Thankfully.[/quote]

Alan, it has become a bit blurred but I believe Duckhorn is in a different PE stable now, whereas Far Niente and Nickel & Nickel are part of another PE group.