So is the 2000!
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I ordered the 02’ Ployez Leisse d’Harbonville and am excited to give it a try.
The Glavier crus sound enticing and I will certainly have to try them too. Thanks for the recs!
Excluding those that I can’t talk about yet, the Spring 2024 releases from Di Costanzo.
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I was pumped to get my 21 Dico and 21 Montecillo. The recent Mag release was awesome as as well. Loves these wines and cant wait for the spring release!
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bumping this thread hoping to shake the tree for some new (to me) ideas. maybe im just in a rut, but mostly drinking the same stuff waiting for red wine season to come back.
this was such a good thread in the past.
Great thread! I’m excited to finally try some South African chenin blanc - didn’t grab anything fancy, but I’m hoping to get a sense of how it might be different from Loire chenin. (2023 Man Family Wines Free-run Steen, the only SA chenin my local “good” wine store had).
Also sourced some Donhoff chardonnay based on the other recent thread, and am very jazzed about that.
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I have too much interesting stuff I want to open and not enough time or opportunities to do it. You know where to find me.
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I’ll add my +1 to these, and add Roy Piper , MOWE , 001 Vintners, Palisades Canyon, and Thomas
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Purchased one of Labet’s new(ish) cuvées La Pellerine. Pretty excited to try it as I read a lot of good things avout it.
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I’m excited about Riesling. I’ve had so many good bottles in the past year - From Von Winning, Julian Haart, Ulli Stein, Keller, Schafer Frolich, Emrich Schonleber, Veyder Malburg, Falkenstein and many more. It’s such an exciting new front for me, and while there are things like G-max out there, most of these are obtainable and deliver at a really high level, with excellent aging potential.
I’m excited about Burgundy in both colors. 2022s will be wines that I hope to drink in 15-30 years. There are so many interesting new producers to chase, and while the hype machine is perhaps stronger here, like Greg, I’m excited to open special bottles I’ve been saving to share. I could give dozens of examples here, but I have a couple friends who are either new to wine or have less experience with top producers and it’s been a blast pulling things from my cellar to either build a tasting framework or check some things off their bucket list.
I’m excited that as my tastes mature and I’m able to refine and articulate palate preferences I take fewer fliers on unknown wines. I’m perfectly happy to try new things, but there is only so much room/space, so my buying criteria have focused a bit. As such, there are essentially no wines I’m buying that I’m not excited to drink. And while that can create a situation of only having “special occasion” bottles, plenty are at are accessible price points (see Reisling, Dureuil Janthial and Ferret for example, and loads of Oregon chardonnay) that I’m happy to open on a weeknight.
And lastly, not a particular wine, but in San Antonio, a new wine storage/member’s club/school/retail space that I am an investor in will be opening in the next few months. I’m anticipating that will open doors to meet a few new wine lovers and create opportunities to open those special bottles.
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Recently, I am into private winemakers who have no distribution machinery except show up to their doorstep and act charming, appreciative and knowledgable.
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