1966-1988 Mouton-Rothschild
Purchased from a neighbor that moved and couldn’t take it with him.
Same exact thing here. I think I started buying Bedrock with the 2008 vintage, but they’re too darn tempting to drink. I only have a couple '16s left at this point, and mostly '18 and '19s.
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Wow, that’s pretty damn cool! Have you added to it? Some really great, post-88 vintages, and with cool labels, but ouch so pricey.
My uninterrupted Levet vertical went to 03 until a few weeks ago. You’re not missing anything.
I don’t think that I bought a single Northern Rhone from 2003. I do still have a 2003 Janasse VV but I’m afraid to open it. Was gifted to me a few years ago by a client that loves Caymus, who knows my palate leans French.
Maybe MacDonald now?
Looks like SQN 1995-2018
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I was curious how he handled the vintage. Turns out, much like everyone else.
I started buying Coche Dury and DRC in the early eigthies , never missed a vintage .
But I have much more Yquems , have them or drank them , I don’t know how many , somewhere between 70 and 80 I think .
WINNER…close thread.
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The struggle is real fellas. I totally get it!
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One thing I learned from this site is to not hold dearly the vertical. Drink the wine. Enjoy. When are you likely to have an opportunity to open up 12 vintages of [fill in the name]?
That outlook has me holding many wines that I enjoy in six to ten vintages but not all consecutive years. There is a hole in the consecutive run with a year or three missing.
I generally buy individual wines in quantifies of two to three, and with more expensive wines, only one bottle. Not much chance to develop a long vertical with such a purchase pattern.
For folks with large verticals - when do you open up all (or many) of the bottles at one tasting?
Most people I know with verticals, including myself with my relatively modest/meager holdings, chipped away at them over the years to:
- open the ones to try for myself those that I think, or read about, as being in that so-called optimal-drinking stage; and/or
- more often than not, contribute to themed wine-dinners that I am able to join as a filler for that missing vintage/region/producer.
That is what I do as well, Ramon. And I guess it is not surprising that the wines I have the deepest verticals on, are the ones that I buy in much larger quantities. Hence, some of the runs being uninterrupted. I do not have any uninterrupted runs in Bordeaux, as I think with many Bordeaux fans, we really only buy in the good years. Wines that are highly allocated, like Vatan and Gonon, I simply will not miss a vintage allocation. And luckily enough, these wines have had incredible runs of really good to excellent years. I’m actually not sure that I have ever had a vintage of Gonon that I would consider to just be “average”. Maybe 08?
Beaucastel back to 89, Chave back to 92
I rarely open more than three at once though I do two or three fairly often for dinner with 6-8 people or an occasional tasting. The only time I do larger vertical tastings is with a formal tasting group, and usually I’m only contributing 3-4 of the vintages.
I also don’t do verticals for the sake of verticals. That said, my only 10+ year vertical is Chandon de Briailles Ile de Vergelesses, of which I’ve got 15 vintages.
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No, just left it as is. Had duplicates on some I tasted namely the ‘88 and I wasn’t impressed.
Not sure what to do with it as many of the 70’s are duds. Maybe break it up and sell the ‘82, ‘86, etc.
Uh, did your neighbor move six feet under? That’s the only plausible reason to part with such an amazing vertical.