Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

SteveH

The preview is very cool.
Harry, how did you approach RP to write the forward?

SteveH

Sounds like a solid and honest village wine. Nice.

SteveH

Yes Rick, an excellent Chianti. These were my last two bottles. I've drunk through four cases of this wine over the last five years, and every single bottle was very good from day one release at ... B.J.'s Wholesale Club!

SteveH

Not bad. What's the pricetag on this one these days? Still reasonable?

I should check in again on my 1996s.

SteveH

This estate has struggled famously over the years.

SteveH

I thought you got rear ended in the Lincoln? That massive boat probably saved your life. You're a Mainer and an American patriot, even if you're a democrat. Buy a Chevy. I traded my 13 year old Tahoe that ran like a top. I bought a new one. I tried to save GM by myself. It didn't work, but I love my...

SteveH

Thanks David... Now I don't feel so stupid.

SteveH

Jim, Buy a Chevy.

SteveH

2003 DUHART MILON.

SteveH

2003 Duhart Milon is a very promising young wine. The quality of the estate is becoming impressive. I suppose it required the enormous resources of the Rothschilds to tame this gigantic Pauillac property. The color is young, almost opaque purple. It's very restrained, showing mostly oak for the firs...

SteveH

Giscours 2005 and your Dauzac seem promising for the future, Michael. I think your're right, they've closed. As for the Reserve de PLL, I always prefer their Bernadotte property, and both are about the same price. Thanks for your notes. Michael, I suppose it's not all sand and headscarves over there...

SteveH

Sounds like a magnificent Pomerol experience, Michael.
Great wine from the smallest commune.

SteveH

After Fenway Park... We'll grill four beef tenderloins and serve with couscous, sauteed mushrooms, salad and Susan's traditional 4th of July peach cobbler. Our non-appreciative-of-Bordeaux friends prefer Cali Cabs, and it's patriotic, so it'll be ' 97 Rodney Strong, Alexander's Crown - wrapped in th...

SteveH

Right Glenn. RP missed the boat in 2002. His wife asked him not to attend the barrel tastings out of concern for plane hijackings after 9/11. This is an example of a classic northern Medoc vintage. Lack of RP's barrel notes allowed futures prices to hit bottom. I pounded the BWE table to buy early b...

SteveH

We were walking the dogs an hour ago when a terrifying thunderstorm came from out of nowhere. Without warning we were in the deluge with lightning all around. We made it to the shelter of a breezeway where noone was home.

SteveH

Glenn, It would be unfair to say that the ' 98 Pape Clement is going downhill. I've drunk through less than half the case and only that recent bottle was, "off." I'll try number six in the fall and let you know. This wine never appeared to close down, and was very promising right out of th...

SteveH

It's only natural that a math professor's bottles should multiply!

SteveH

Stefan: "... the printout is 24 pages single spaced..."
Your bottles are multiplying, despite your constant efforts to enjoy all of them, all the time. Bravo.

SteveH

Over the years Tom's generousity in New York and at his home in D.C. to provide us with dozens of the top ' 82 Bordeaux, including six or more Mouton has been overwhelming. You're a class act.

SteveH

Thanks very much for his note, David.
He is encouraging you to hold and then savor your last two bottles in the years ahead.
Mine were a case of half bottles, so the time has come for me to enjoy that last little ' 82 Mouton jewel.

Steve

SteveH

Plenty of sensible and well founded comments here regarding the continued cellar worthiness of wines fashioned with ' modern ' winemaking methods. I should add that a recent bottle of the ' 98 Pape Clement was considerably more awkward and gangly than a bottle drunk just last winter which was showin...

SteveH

Haven't seen RP's "What About Now," piece.
Is RP saying that I should drink my last bottle of ' 82 Mouton? If so, I can't wait!

SteveH

These wines are very friendly towards unadorned summer foods such as: boiled lobster, steamers, grilled shrimp or fish... as well as with marinated and spiced dishes like tandoori chicken and Malay chili crab. I'm not surprised that the price has doubled to $18. in the last few years. It's still wor...

SteveH

Are these from your recent 2006 vintage buys?

SteveH

A terriffic white night selection Michael, followed by clear and extensive notes.

I have never had any Dauvissat bottling that was less than outstanding. Their hand picked fruit is always harvested at just the precise moment. The king of Chablis in my book.

SteveH

No sour grapes here, but it's obscene.

Jim, weren't we attacked by a religious temperance group just ahead of the New York banquet several years ago?

SteveH

A great call, indeed, by hautbrionlover. Thanks again.

SteveH

Thank you for your measured and detailed notes, David. Your step by step report is most instructive. Alex's experience with the ' 99 Pavie was also not encouraging. I'm wondering what will happen to this style of wine in a more highly acclaimed vintage that carries the mega pricetag, such as 2000? W...

SteveH

Jim, Thanks for posting.

SteveH

A success John! Tonight excellent leftovers with fresh stock added to the brew. The Chianti was perfecto. I tried to post pix, but it became a very frustrating experience for me: the hopeless non-tech. I did get as far as a message telling me that my pix were using too much something-or-other, so I ...

SteveH

Definitely Italian. Her tomato sauce is rather pronounced. She uses only San Marzano D.O.P. The saffron is very fresh from a sealed packet.

Sounds like this calls for Ruffino 1997 Reserva Ducale Gold?
Thanks HBL.

SteveH

I'm cracking up from the story Chris told about the Israeli restaurant with a list of three wines. Sounds like a routine you'd hear from a waiter in the Catskills. Stefen's dinners and wine tastings there have really cast a whole new favorable light over my old impressions of Israeli dining. Haven't...

SteveH

Yesterday, Susan took the final cut of halibut, so she asked the fishmonger for the carcass, then she made a supply of fish stock. (It freezes very well.) She's now preparing bouillabaisse for dinner. We invited our friends tonight, BUT THESE TWO DON'T DRINK WHITE WINE. I'm thinking; Chianti? Zinfan...

SteveH

Check it out David.
My storage is good. These bottles were mixed and matched from three different NH State Stores.

SteveH

Andover, Massachusetts, June 27th... Gerard Perse was in the left hand seat of the cockpit. Michel Rolland was flight engineer. Robert Parker was the navigator and communications officer. Their grand and costly craft, known as the 1999 Chateau Pavie is now smouldering wreckage. This is a wine that s...

SteveH

Yes, of course, I'm referring to the non-classified properties. The big guns of ' 83 are superb wines. Ch. Margaux ' 83 is perhaps my alltime favorite vintage of the estate. Lafite ' 83 was fabulous, until I drank them all up. I remember Jim alerted us to a supersale of Lafite at P.C. about 8 years ...

SteveH

Sounds like a winner, Hound. What's also satisfying is the fact that these juniors were priced in the teens and twenties. You are right about, "... drinking very well now." My 'juniors' are also starting to express the beauty of the vintage, and will definitely go some distance. The top 20...

SteveH

Twenty five plus year old bottles are always interesting, and dicey. I uncork them with care, and always with low expectations.

Your ' 83 Gloria is a fine success for this non-classified property! Nice notes.

Steve

SteveH

Most likely. How else could they have stayed in business?

SteveH

Thank you Ramon.
The wait list is fine for me. Fair is fair.

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