Want ALL the SQN's…..here is your chance!

WINE TALK
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Just about all….But you’re gunna have to PAY$$$$ [wow.gif]
http://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/4703802/1992-1994-2006-Sine-Qua-Non-Sine-Qua-Non--Havens

or….just get a few of the rare ones……

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Bonner needs a new lauter tun for the brewery?

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Thanks, but no thanks. It is good to have Parker like your wines.

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Well said!

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Virtually every Parker score is 3-5 points higher than Tanzer’s. Quintessential critic consistency!

Are there any wineries where the opposite can be shown?

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I have drunk every one of these. Wish I had kept them. I did find the other day my stash of empty SQN bottles that I used to have displayed, most of which are depicted on the Winebid lot. Wonder what those are worth?

After checking CT, I find that I still have one bottle left of the 1995 The Other Hand. Maybe I’m not quite the glutton I thought.

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or….just get a few of the rare ones……

All 3 of these have bids, some multiple! Wowzers [shock.gif]

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Viader. Parker reads as if he doesn’t like her personally, or resents her, or something, as with Edmunds St. John. And the wines are subtle and need a lot of air and/or time. Tanzer loves them, especially the 2007 and 2009, read the notes not just the scores and see where he ranks them for those vintages.

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The Queen of Hearts is up to $5K. For a rose. [shock.gif] [shock.gif]

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BTW just so no one is confused by the title of this thread, this is not nearly a complete collection. It is only 32 bottles. There have been something like 200 distinct wines made by Manfred.

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I used to be a big fan but I don’t know about the “needs a lot of time” thing. I stocked up on a few '90s vintages I really liked intending to give them a lot of time and they didn’t last. They peaked ~12 years past release, which isn’t nothing, but before they had developed any mature character. I have not had any recent vintages - maybe the vineyard is old enough now it has more staying power. But didn’t they go through some winemaking changes that may not have been all for the better as well?

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There’s a few of these I would love to have, but the prices are getting a bit out of control…

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If anyone has a Queen of Hearts or E-Lips gathering dust in their cellar that could find a new home, please let me know!

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W……T……F!!! [shock.gif] [shock.gif] [shock.gif]

13K [swoon.gif]

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It took a $5K and then $3K bump in bids. That is insanity.

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At that point, why don’t they just bid on the big lot for $30,000? Yowzy.

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At that point, I believe we’ve long since left the realm of economic rationality.

Bruce

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That ship has CLEARLY sailed.

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As for the 1998 Sine Qua Non Hospice Du Rhone Alban Vineyard Syrah(now at $3600)….this will always be one of my….“what wine do you kick yourself for not buying” [head-bang.gif]

This was my first ever SQN wine, had it at The Cellar in the Rio in Vegas in 2000. It was part of a Rhone tasting off their flight menu…I remember it being pretty good, but not the best wine in the flight. That went to the 1998 Per Sempre Shiraz The Lisa, which blew me away! Could have bought the SQN(I think for something like $65? ) but passed. Went on a hunt for the Sempre…managed to get a bunch off Winebid for $10! The reason…the '99 got a 64 from WS. That wine has faded…wish I had the SQN instead! [cry.gif]

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What the hell is going on??? This has to be some record for a rose…