Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Actually I think the question stated, "you could drink from only one appellation for your last meal tonight ... " (emphasis added). There appears to be no limitation on the number of chateau or bottles. I'm surprised no one, but especially Stefan, picked up on this. Who drinks just one bot...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

I'll have to think about this.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

There's a ton of worthy Bdx at 30 and under, much of which has kept well since I've purchased it. But then I tend to go hunting in vintage of centuries mostly and I can usually do really well in the $20 range even. In fact, I'd say there's more than one man (me) could purchase even though I'm always...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Not sure it's mentioned there and we did not discuss this in the various recent threads, but part of the problem, for those who think there is a problem, may be down to the corporatization of Bordeaux. I'm under the impression that quite a few of the great growths are owned by insurance companies, p...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

04 Sociando Mallet:

http://www.bordeauxwineenthusiasts.com/ ... ndo#p26813

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Is the 2010 Pontet Canet also 100 "Parker Points," or do we not yet know? That appears to be the Suckling 100-pt 100-pt/price leader by far. The runner-up being, what, Ducru-Beaucaillou? Suckling points don't really count for much, though. Frankly, Suckling doesn't count for much.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

I like SM, including the oddball characteristics that always seem present regardless of vintage. I'd say its style has less to do with the terroir than the man who owns it and makes the wine. Plus they have some large plots at the chateau but many others though fragmented about the commune. I read s...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

"I actually gave more perfect scores in 2010 than in 2009."

Trying but failing to add a decent sarcastic comment.

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Who is Levy?

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Jim, availability and rational pricing permitting, you, at least, should have a case of every BWE WOTY. In fact, somebody should jump on this idea of mine for a BWE Hall of Fame. There one can look at bottles and cases of wine, compromising pictures of BWErs in their underwear, things like that. Act...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

If you are good enough to taste the La Conseillante-ness in the La Conseillante, then I don't doubt you might be disappointed if it were replaced by even a (objectively?) "better" wine that did not taste quite the same. But it's a brave new world and there's probably an emerging cohort lau...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Yeah, but the 08 was BWE WOTY. How could both those things be true? I mean, we don't go for slick, micro-oxed wines here. Not at all.

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Here's a nice refresher from the NWS site. Glad to see it leads with the Jan 19-21 storm.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/papers/Bliz78NWS.pdf

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

See, you don't even remember the pre-blizzard storm. It's the least-respected biggest storm in MA history.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Boston's top six snowfalls. #6 preceded *the Blizzard* by just a couple weeks, but it kind of gets lost in the bigger picture. Feb. 17-18, 2003 27.6 inches Feb. 6-7, 1978 27.1 inches Feb. 24-27, 1969 26.3 inches March 31- April 1, 1997 25.4 inches Jan. 22-23, 2005 22.5 inches Jan. 20-21, 1978 21.4 i...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Yeah. I recall either a Patty Luongo or maybe her brother being in my class or the next after. Didn't know them but to say hi is all. Of course the high schools there are pretty big. We had over 2100 kids in our three grades combined.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Malden, MA 02148

BTW while everyone recalls *the blizzard* there was a second substantial (+1') storm that I recall within a week or two of it. It was a snowy month.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

I'm ready to call this: Robert Parker won 49 states and the District of Columbia. But he failed to carry Maine, which is 51 percent of the vinelectoral college. Thus, Decision 2013: Parker has been a negative influence. Which one are you calling in favor of BD Hound? Whether Parker is overall Pos/N...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

I'm ready to call this: Robert Parker won 49 states and the District of Columbia. But he failed to carry Maine, which is 51 percent of the vinelectoral college. Thus, Decision 2013: Parker has been a negative influence.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Is it anything like the movie?

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Try mixing it with some of the Phelan Segur. That should roll a strike right down the middle.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

However, we DID have our last DC BWE convention at the Washington Hilton. Did you tour the kitchen passageway where Sirhan Sirhan fired the fatal shots? Jim, why don't you think a 4-year-old Haut Bergey you had last week might taste something like a 15-year-old LB when you had it 10 years ago? I th...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Now if you just had a room in which you could sit and not work you could join the UAW. Oooh, I can't believe I said that.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

The 09 Pavie Mac he said was like "Mount Blanc." Given the video we saw, I'm surpised he didn't say the RS was like "purple mountains majesty, above the fruited [vineyards?] plain."

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

What's missing here is a conspiracy theory. Ex-Navy SEALS are being killed or "committing suicide" at a statistically alarming rate. Teh NFL is totally rigged. (This I've learned from the Yahoo message boards and comments and yes, the "teh" is purposeful). None of this is acciden...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

I am keeping pace with grade inflation. As my followers know, my sweet spot has always been 89 points. I've had to adjust that to 91 points, but that is subject to WineWatch positive, meaning I may add an additional point to keep up.

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There's a game today?

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

The man almost always points out that C'merle is a lighter/more classical/nearly Burgundian style of claret. Seems he always says so of this and the one Pessac property Carbonnieux.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Dipped into the stash last night for a good ol' Bdx. Having had so many good (albeit humble) and presumably mainly merlot 09s lately I decided to go more classic and old school last night with a filet mignon. Having had this wine a few times before I was looking forward to see if it came across as a...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Is this a requiem? Is he dead? What would Haut-Bergey be without his supposed influence? That's the other side of the coin. The answer might be languishing in obscurity (deserved perhaps), or perhaps with its vines completely pulled up. Wasn't Bordeaux the most well-known and well-loved wine region ...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

The 08 Lanessan was a fairly simple, easy wine, to me at least. It was right off the boat and I wouldn't vouch for it's longevity one way or the other.

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Hace calor?

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

By the way, an 02 isn't really aged 10 until spring 13 at the earliest, right? I mean the 10-year anniversary of the 02 harvest is fall 12 but the 02s did not debut until when, March or April 03? And that's not even the finished assemblage sometimes, let alone the finished wine, unless I'm mistaken....

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

I thought that several of the 08s were pretty substantial. I bought and tried a few, like DdC, that are usually at the fringes of my walletgrasp. I'm sure they will be fine down the line - maybe not in some comparative tastings, but on the dinner table by themselves. I probably won't be able to tell...

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

I think Patrick will agree with me on this one, in any recent vintage I don't like Haut Bergey's label. It is not befitting a quality wine. It lacks gravitas and oomph factor at any price point. These are the same people who make Ch. Barde Haut in St. Em. The 05 of both are nice (esp. the Barde Haut...

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I will wait until I've drunk the others at age 10 to finish out the rankings. It only seems fair. And it gives my readership something to look forward to.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

This is getting close.

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Still counting. Got some hanging chads to analyze.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Of course the Romans thought Graves and St. Em. were the bomb. The Medocian aristocracy is really just crass new money.

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Will a Right Banker ever win wine of the year? Sounds like a resounding non!

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