Tried some low stakes 21s with Monday night piranha steak
21’ Berthaut-Gerbet Haute Cote de Nuits - Easy-sipping medium bodied dark fruited pleasure, with some of BGs trademark Fixin funk
21’ Hudelot-Noellat Bourgogne - zippy red sweet-tart cherry fruit. A good glass, but I didn’t give it enough of a go; kept going back to the BG
Yea that a really nice vintage. I recall during the recession that followed the release, I bought tons at clearance price under $20.
Those don’t seem like good pairings with predatory Amazonian fish. 
Curse you autocorrect!
It was picanha steak (top sirloin, accept no substitutes)
However, I have eaten piranha. (see: feckless youth, Amazon jungle, fishing by whacking your pole on top of the water…)
2014 Rivers-Marie Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
This wine has barely budged over the year since my last bottle. It’s full of terrifically rich dark fruit, velvety dense tannins, and a strong backbone of acidity. It was delicious but felt like a shame to drink it last night, given how much more it will offer in 3-4 years. I’m going to do my best to leave my last bottle alone and enjoy it in its full glory down the road. For $65, this is one heck of a wine. For my palate, it’s a 93 now but I’d expect this will hit the mid-90s when it peaks.
Hey Jackson, how was that Flowers? They used to be so good then a lot of turnover with numerous wine makers coming and going-they seem hit or miss since around 2014-
Thanks
Have drank a broad range of Flowers PN from 2012-2017 over the last few months. Generally, I stick with the single vineyard wines (Camp Meeting Ridge, Sea View Ridge, etc.) and have been pleasantly surprised with the quality
Amazing wine at 18€, and a great intro to the oxidative wines from Jura. A blend of vintages, grapes (Savagnin and Chardonnay) and ‘ouillé’ and ‘sous voile’.
Plenty of curry, coconut, nutty, salt and lemon notes. But it is much less intense than a Vin Jaune. It also have a more fresh fruit profile from the ‘ouillé’ part of the blend.
Really impressed with 2018 Bolt Cutter from Herman Story. A very Robust Bordeaux blend in the same category in terms of spice and length as the 2019 Double Diamond. All the better cause I got it end of bin for half price ($32) at Binny’s in Chicago.
The Tarlant Brut Nature Zero was just flat out delicious, not the most complex or sophisticated wine but really pleasurable on a warm summer afternoon.
The 2017 Ch des Tours was a welcome return to the “baby Rayas” style I love. Recently had the 2019 and it was dark, ripe and not very interesting. The 2017 was a much lighter colour, more floral, red fruited and spicy. Amazing quality considering it is Rayas’ 5th tier wine. Really good and drinking beautifully.
Not sure what to with my other 2019s?
Brodie
2017 Goodfellow Family Cellars Chardonnay Ribbon Ridge Cuvee.
In a nice drinking window, with lime, lemongrass, crushed rock aromas on the nose. Light in body and glides across the palate, this is easy drinking with perfectly integrated acidity and rocky minerality. Flavors of almond skin, orchard fruit, and white flowers. What I really enjoy is the weightlessness yet power/intensity of the minerality on its long finish. I have one more bottle that I may save for extended aging, but this is a pleasure to drink now.
1995 Grand Puy Lacoste. At Turtle Bay (Oahu) with food truck burger & taro fries. This was amazingly good, super expressive - cassis, walnut, lead pencil, iron. Just classic Pauillac and in a wonderful place. The grippy tannin is still there in the finish but never in the way, just adding structure. So glad I was patient with these.
Yes! Really like this one.
Wait. Was not impressed with the 2015 at release. It has turned out very well.
94 pts.
Brett & herbs in the nose.
Ripe cherries and cured meat. Something minty and cool going on — not sure how to describe it. Everything integrated and in balance. Just an amazing bottle. Wow.
Have 3, or 4 left and I think I’ll do one bottle per year in the hopes that one more lot will appear at auction.
2012 Copain Kiser En Haut PN
Still quite fresh
Oh momma!
I want!!!
‘16 ch sansonnet
