Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Nicklasss

So much great people and memories!

For my part, i will focus on attending the 2025 DC event.

For France, i will go in 2025 with the whole family probably end of June, for 2-3 weeks, so if the France event is around that time, i can probably do something to attend a few days…

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Ok, too much is too much! (or when the 1988 Haut Brion is the lowest scoring wine of the night :shock: ) I have to go back to London sooner than later. Great report. Count me a fan of the 1988 Haut Brion, a super wine in that vintage. That remind me the first time i brought a bottle, brownbagged at ...

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WoW, nicely done Jim. The 1989 Lynch Bages is always of amazing interest, at least each time I had a pour of it. I know JeanFred has a bottle. I think the one time he taste it, it was in 2017 at the Thursday night dinner of the BWE convention. That night, the 1989 Pichon Baron won over the 1989 Lync...

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I’m sorry but i’m wrong.

The Québec snow crab is like an old vintage of La Lagune : crap!

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Nice white wines, with a Champagne. The Austria Riesling was the best, with lime, oil and mineral notes. The Muscadet was cool, a bit ripe, but shell mineral, undefined fruit, clean and a bit clinical. The Chablis was respecting the basis of Chablis, in an international way. The fresh crab was the b...

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Miam!

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Snow crab (or spider crab?) season is back in Québec. When i think about the 3 best things to eat produced in Québec, first would be this crab (probably tie with our sea scallops), second would be the maple syrup, and third would be the bacon! We bought a full case of crabs with friends, and will ha...

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Your usage of the word nasty in your Bollinger note makes me think that it might have another meaning north of the border? You’re right jckba: Méchante bonne bouteille = Nasty good bottle. Stefan, the 2014 Grande Année is already very enjoyable, but very serious and complex Champagne that will prob...

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Tonight, with a simple steak grilled on the gas bbq, the 2022 Laurent Combier Croze-Hermitage. Combier has a good reputation here, and it is deserved. Medium dark red color, the wine is you but with a fragrant nose of sweet dark red berries, violet flowers, meat, spices and black pepper. So typical ...

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Personally, my hypothesis is that 2016 is an improvedc 1996... so good move Jim with these 2016 Lafite!

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Superb report Comte and with good details. It is surely a sad thing to have corked 83 Margaux and 86 Lafite... and 64 Cheval Blanc with 89 Mission Haut Brion not delivering their top qualities... i feel almost happy with my last great red Bordeaux tasted, the 2016 Domaine de Chevalier! 82 Mouton is ...

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Nice Jim.

The 2019 is excellent. i did not had 2020 but from your comment, it seems even better.

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Harry C. wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:45 pm Nick, where would a Mulligan fit in?

Easy Harry : let say you open a 1995 Pichon Baron that is corked or other kind of default, you take a Mulligan until the next bottle of 1995 Pichon Baron you will uncork.

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Thank you Ian as i’m a fan of Northern Rhône and like to read notes about any. I’m more a Côte Rôtie/Cornas guy, but Hermitage can move me too ( aaaahh the 2003 Chave). Impressed that the Cornas was the best flight. I don’t know Michel Robert, but Balthazard and Allemand are solid producers. I had a...

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2014 Grande Année was lemony,flowery, bread crust, saline, hazelnuts. Complex well made Champagne. Mouth has some light red berries, but swallowed in saline, confit lemon, ginger, light oak, and vine root length. Nasty. Tn : 95. 2022 Chablis was all about sea shell minerality, salt, and some light s...

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Very nice JC.

Montrose seems to (almost?) never deceive. Every vintages are classic.

In Montréal, Jim brought a 2010 that was an exception : crazily concentrated, demonic tannins, strong as Superman… needs lots of kryptonite and time…

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More comments later…

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I play the game and use the 100 points scale as well. But in all truths, the 100 points scale has just 6 levels: 100 97-99 94-96 91-93 90 <90 For the common mortals, is there a real noticeable difference between a wine rated 97 vs 98? Ihave some doubts… At the end, maybe using golf (dstgolf would li...

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I almost opened a 2016 red Bordeaux again tonight… but changed my mind for Rioja.

But your final comments tonight might turn me on for 2016 Bordeaux tomorrow!

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Rioja made by Telmo Rodriguez. A very nice and complex wine for the affordable price. Lot of tempranillo redberry fruit, some black fruit, tobacco, very light vanilla oak, smoky sweet beef jerky. Mouth is convincing with medium concentration, blackberry flavors, meat, smoky rasberries amd coffee roa...

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JimHow wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:52 pm 5 x 1989 Chateau Lynch Bages.

You talked me into it, Nicola.
I am mad. I am a madman.

I wish i could do that.

I thought you could need some help, but now i’m fully conviced that no.

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JimHow wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:33 pm Well, Stefan, you guys talked me into it, I just bought five bottles of a certain northern Medoc by the name of 1989 Chateau Lynch Bages....

Well done. Very well done!

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It is just a tad sad that Lafite has replaced (i guess temporarily) in your mind the greatest red Bordeaux wine of all times, the 1989 Lynch Bages…

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3 X 2020 Lindes de Remelluri Vinedos de Labastida Rioja

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My uncontrollable love of Côte Rôtie…

1 X 2020 Chapoutier Côte Rôtie Nève

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Wow. You remind me Trump : you seem to always get a way to get out of « special situations ». :lol: Seriously, you’re now equipped with lot of the 2016 Pauillac, that you’ll enjoy for a long time… oups, wait, those cases are opened… nothimg to protect these bottle from you… come on Jim, take one (on...

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Don’t know what is the fuzz about that producer, but finaly found a bottle of the 2021 Chassagne-Montrachet vieilles vignes from Pierre- Yves Colin-Morey.

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I lile that wine, and had many vintages in the past.

RPCV Your decription of the style of the wine is pitch perfect! Very nice wine to enjoy, with great freshness and fruit.

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Seems like a very nice time. Many of the « familiar bottles of BWE « were in attendance, as i can read.

86 and 88 Gruaud Larose, 89 Pichon Lalande.

Me too ithink i will never understand the 86 PichonLalande.

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For Easter dinner, the Collet Art Deco Champagne was nice, with lot of ginger, yellow apple fruits, and chardonnay orchard fruit. Not the most complex or intense, but lot of bubbles and medium richness.very good. Tn : 89-90. The 2017 Clau de Nell Violette, biodynamic red wine made in aoc Anjou by An...

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I opened a bottle of 2019 Cantemerle last night and have to agree with Jim : this is a great Cantemerle! It represents all the best of that fruity, complex, élégance of that Haut Médoc. Drinking so well already and for long. I would rated it a bit lower like 93, but it is up there with the 1989 and ...

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Wow, what a report! I can imagine how Léo Barton + 2019 must be stunning!

I opened a 2019 last night too, and it was great too. Will report on a different thread.

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Pick up the last bottle of that Champagne at my local wine store… +2 dry white.

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Like i texted you, not a madman but a rich man (come on, 16 times the fuc**** 2016 Lafite)! But on the other hand, i’m really proud of you, coming back in the right path, chasing some 2016 instead of 2019. Finally, these 18 bottles 2016 Lafite will go well with your reserve of 18 bottles of THE wine...

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The less heralded grape sylvaner, can give good results in Alsace. Like this one. The 2021 Leon Boesch Pierres Rouges Sylvaner. Clear light yellow, wit a nice rich or sweet nose of spicy lemon, peaches, geranium flowers and litchis. Remind me more a Gewurztraminer. In mouth, bitter flower bud, peach...

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Wow! Looks delightful.

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Wines of Beaujolais are better than ever since the last 10-15 years. It is an area where there are still many vinegrowers and winemakers trying their chance, and results are sometimes excellent. I read the two men that started Domaine les Garçons did their first vintage in 2019 or 2020. 2021 was a c...

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1 bottle of each:

Louis Nicaise brut Champagne
Collet Art Deco brut Champagne
2022 Vera Cruz Luneau-Papin MSeM
2021 Boesch Pierres Rouges Alsace Sylvaner
2021 Les Garçons Brouilly
2021 Domaine des Deux Frères Chinon

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I had the 2009 at my 50 th birthday on January 13th, Still need to report.

A complex and not so easy subject.

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