Chateau Margaux 2018 Chateau Haut Brion 2014 Chateau Montrose 2014 Chateau Grand Puy Ducasse 2016 Chateau La Gaffeliere 2016 Chapoutier Cote Rotie La Mordoree 2017 Zind Humbrecht Brand 2019 Le Brun de Neuville Cote Blanche BdB NV Marie Demets Cuvee Rubis NV Morlet Chardonnay Ma Princesse 2019 Spotts...

Sounds like you had better luck with the ‘82 La Lagune than I did. De fargues is one of my favorites but difficult to find. Nice notes!

Deep purple color. Definite roast beef nose. Still a bit hot but a nice hot that integrates well with the fruit. Dark fruits like blackberry come thru but more meaty notes than something you get from a Bordeaux. I’ve been disappointed with Rhône wines lately but this was quite nice.

I bought a number of Tuscan 2016's, mostly based on my delight with how the 2010's have been evolving. Sangiovese is a bit more drinkable in our heat out here, than Bordeaux or Rhone which are more our Fall/Winter fare. I went overboard on Tuscan 2016 wines based on how much I loved the 2010s, too....

Needed to get out of the house, so rode the Metro downtown. Stopped at Calvert Woodley and Weygandt
2012 Belle-Brise
2015 Doyard Clos de l’Abbaye

Two Bordeaux recently at a dinner
1982 Vieux Chateaux Certan. Took a while to open up but showed a nose like my Potting Shed. Some celery and smoke. A bit past prime
1988 Lafaurie Peyraguey. A long time favorite Sauternes of mine. Honeyed sweetness. Beautifii up wine.

2014 Latour
1996 BAMA
2005 BAMA

I’m cutting back on purchases, no more room in cellar, but I had to take advantage of the RMN 30% cash back and coupons on WDC. Cherry picked: 2010 Branon 2016 Montrose 2009 Pichon Baron And got an offer for some 1996 and 2005 BAMA and Some Dehours Oeil de Perdrix Rose Champ Trying to decide to get ...

I rarely go to Total Wine but I was over in the McLean VA area and stopped in. Picked up a 2009 Lynch Bages for $238. Clerk there showed me how to work their discounts! And since I was in the area, I stopped off at a little store called Chain Bridge Cellars, small but interesting selection. I picked...

2018 - 0 futures but I have 24 bottles
2019 - 43 bottles
2020 - 3 to keep verticals going

1982 Bordeaux is great now, plenty of ripe fruit, most of the better ones in early to mid secondary stage, no tertiaries yet. Stu Agree 100%. I've had some great 1982's, and I pick them up when I can. I have also had a couple bottles of 1981 Chateau Haut-Bailly which are fabulous. I'm hit or miss w...

1 x 1985 Figeac for 115 2 x 1982 La Lagune for 95 each 2 x 1976 Lafite for 399 each 6 x 2016 Xavier Gerard St-Joseph for 27.5 each All in £ and all ex-tax I had an '82 La Lagune recently from my cellar. It did not age well, we dumped most of it. Maybe it was a bad bottle. I hope yours are better

I have not purchased anything and I’ve been very tempted. I gave up Cedric Bouchard and Ulysses Collin offers as well as my Kistler and Aubert allocations. So, I just make lists of things I want for Feb 1st!

Very nice notes, bookmarked!

I still haven’t purchased anything although it was difficult turning down Cedric Bouchard and Ulysse Collin offers. I’m on a freeze because I have absolutely no room left and I’m getting shipments from purchases last year that are piling up outside the cellar door. I’m also limiting wine to the week...

Opened a 2005 La Chablisienne Les Preuses for my pork, kielbasa, and sauerkraut New Years dinner. Pretty good, but not as big or typical of Chablis from that vintage I’ve had. I’ve always liked this coop but they could have done better with a grand cru.

Another wine dinner hosted by Eric! Lots of caviar, cheese, crab cakes, mac and cheese, cool veggies, and chocolate pie. This time for New Year’s we focused on Champagne! The group was careful with COVID protocols but I do think this will be the last get together for a while until Omnicron settles d...

I'm in for no buying this month. I went overboard in 2021 and have no room left in the cellar.

You guys talked me into it, I picked up two bottles of the 2014 La Conseillante, as well as a 2016 Saint Pierre, various Walter Scott Chardonnays, a 2008 Paul Bara Comtesse Marie de France, a 2017 Domaine du Closel Le Gel, and a 2016 Elio Grasso Gavarini Chiniera. And I’m definitely on a wine buying...

Top for Bordeaux
Giscours
Le Gay
Coutet (? surprise to me)
Pape Clement
Smith Haut Lafitte

Top overall is Aubert

SO hard to choose Top 10 no order 2006 Krug 2014 Albert Boxler Riseling Sommerberg 1994 Shafer Hillside Select 2001 Donnhoff Niederhauser Hermannshohle Auslese GK 1990 Leoville Las Cases 1986 Rieussec 1997 La Jota Anniversary 2002 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas-François Billecart 1989 La C...

Eric and Janet hosted a wonder truffle dinner for us to showcase wines from both Piedmont and Tuscany. This group likes their bottles really mature! I think I had the youngest bottles. It certainly opened my eyes to some things: I like Barolo old too! I still like my Brunello's young. I should be bu...

I love it! Put some fly into those bottle designs!

A prior poster asked about Giscours. I do not think it is classic, nor do I think it is “modern” in the pejorative way that some of us use that term as applied to wine, but it does fall into that third bucket that Marcs mentions. It is well made from a technical point of view, IMHO, and actually ta...

Thanks so much to Joel for arranging this and introducing us to a new restaurant. All the wines were on target - I didn't dump any! Some of my notes Both the Champagnes were very nice upon opening. The Larmandier in my opinion tended to wane a bit over time. I brought that and was expecting more of ...

Thanks for the welcome. I'm on a Bordeaux buying spree again. Also picked up a 2010 Trotanoy today.

2010 Palmer
2005 Vieux Chateau Certan
2008 La Conseillante
2009 d’Arche
2009 Guiraud
2009 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc
2018 de Fieuzal Blanc
2010 Saint Pierre
2019 Martin Müllen Trarbacher Hühnerberg Riesling Auslese