Taken some fliers on stuff from LastBottle, Winebid, WTSO…
Regions and vintages that I like from producers that I am not familiar with. Lived to regret it.
Good grapes in the wrong hands can lead to bad wine.
I largely drank up my 2000 when it was young, so it was not too bad. My disaster was the 1998. I actually found a bottle of the '98 in my dad’s cellar. I have this morbid curiosity to have him open it.
“The Gourt” got some hype around the 1997 vintage. Lots of folks bought the 1998, and it was a huge, inky monster that ultimately turned hopelessly volatile and nasty. It didn’t get huge scores, but was sort of a cult darling for a little while.