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by JimHow
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Diner at First Nations hotel in Québec City
Replies: 1
Views: 81

Re: Diner at First Nations hotel in Québec City

There’s some new rom com set in Quebec City, I think I’ll rent it. One of the great cities of the world.
by JimHow
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
Replies: 9
Views: 185

Re: 2012 Du Tertre

Hope you’re feeling better Danny. As my doctor always tells me: moderation.
by JimHow
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Replies: 28
Views: 530

Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…

Me too E, a half case of the 19 and 14 each.
by JimHow
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:57 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2020 Chateau Meyney has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 1
Views: 109

Re: The 2020 Chateau Meyney has been uncorked and other ramblings....

The 2019 Meyney has more depth and richness, the 2020 Meyney has more balance, these are wines that will not appeal to all palates. I prefer the 2019 slightly more, and thus rate it 92+ points, 92 points for the 2020. Both wines stand out for their rich, distinctive, opaque purple color. Chateau Mey...
by JimHow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:19 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2020 Chateau Meyney has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 1
Views: 109

The 2020 Chateau Meyney has been uncorked and other ramblings....

Let's see how this puppy matches up against the delicious 2019 Meyney....
by JimHow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
Replies: 9
Views: 185

Re: 2012 Du Tertre

Indeed, Ian, that visit was one of the highlights of the trip, don't forget the helicopter. Gerry M picked up six bottles for me in NH but I've never rendezvoused with him to pick them up. It was about this wine that I first heard you utilize the term "a revelation."
by JimHow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: "Beware the Ides of March"
Replies: 59
Views: 10202

Re: "Beware the Ides of March"

lol… That’s a damned good looking dictator.
by JimHow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

I know blanquito and others like these Geyservilles with some age in them but for me I love them young like this, with big ripe rich voluptuous fruit, it was delicious, mouth-filling. I think the back label of the bottle has it about right: "Showing plentiful fruit, elegant tannins and bright a...
by JimHow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:12 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: "Beware the Ides of March"
Replies: 59
Views: 10202

Re: "Beware the Ides of March"

Hail BWE on our 24th Ides of March.... We had an attempted assassination this past year but the Benevolent Dictator lives.... Oh how he lives. Long live BWE, despite the murderous attempted assassins.... We were in Rome last summer and visited the archeological dig where the daggers flamed. I can't ...
by JimHow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:32 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

I honestly don’t think I have been more sick than that night… The Night of the Zins….
by JimHow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:22 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

Ha ha, the very first night I met you in person, Stefan, February 2001, in Chicago, more than 23 years ago, we were drinking Zinfandels, and I think I had a steak.
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:22 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

Ha I just texted the picture to my brother Tom and he said he never realized that my cover art looked like the game Asteroids. And I said Asteroids looks like my cover art, that's circa 1969, 6th grade at St. Patrick's Elementary School.
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

By the way, my third novel, "Lisbon Street," a legal novel of Grisham-like proportions, is still available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. (I think the best source is B&N.) https://www.amazon.com/Lisbon-Street-Jim-Howaniec/dp/1614347387/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 https://www...
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

When I was 11 years old in the 6th grade I wrote a 200 page novel (the first of two novels I wrote in grade school). It was titled "A Trip to Mars," a story of six American astronauts journeying to Mars and the adventures that ensued. It was written entirely in cursive. I still have it to ...
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:50 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

Enjoyed that launch today, David, if I were elected president one of the first things I would do is invite Elon Musk over to dinner and I would say, Elon, humor me, tell me what would need to be done to land man on Mars in six years. we should have been on Mars 30 years ago.
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:32 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

By the way, I tasted a 2014 Stony Hill chardonnay at the same birthday party, it was beautiful, best showing yet of a case that I bought a few years ago in NH, I have five left. A revelation, as Comte would say. Looking forward to trying some with lobster this summer.
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

Re: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

Tasted it the other night at a birthday party, RP, it was outstanding.
Going to give it a more serious analysis with a nice sirloin to see if it is as good as I thought it was.
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:19 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 13
Views: 134

The 2021 Ridge Geyserville has been uncorked and other ramblings....

Ah spring is in the air and it's time to uncork a 2021 Ridge Geyserville....
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:23 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Replies: 28
Views: 530

Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…

Man that 2014 Larcis Ducasse I had the other night was a beauty.
by JimHow
Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:19 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Eclipse preparation
Replies: 3
Views: 112

Re: Eclipse preparation

by JimHow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: President Trump
Replies: 5478
Views: 683679

Re: President Trump

Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were my political heroes, now we are reduced to Aaron Rogers and Jesse Ventura. I do think we are broken beyond repair.
by JimHow
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:13 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Eclipse preparation
Replies: 3
Views: 112

Re: Eclipse preparation

Wow! My brother is gonna go up to western northern Maine. Hope the weather holds!
by JimHow
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:58 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.
Replies: 29
Views: 600

Re: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.

Not sure I've had the 2014 Cantemerle but I imagine that vintage + that estate was a nice result. I'll have probably consumed a case each of 2019 Cantemerle and 2020 Cantemerle before you even touch your next 2014 Cantemerle, Stefan, it's hard to imagine that wine will improve dramatically over the ...
by JimHow
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:51 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: President Trump
Replies: 5478
Views: 683679

Re: President Trump

If Aaron Rodgers ever comes within 8 million miles of even the VICE presidency of the United States, I will move to the furthest time zone away from Lewiston, Maine, what is that, Taiwan, I think.... I would vote for Orange Head and Marjorie Taylor Greene before I would vote for Aaron Puke Rodgers.
by JimHow
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:56 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.
Replies: 29
Views: 600

Re: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.

Ha ha, just leave him some of the basic Felina chianti, esl, he'll be happy.
JC is one of the very first original BWEers, we met him and his amazing better half Paula in Chicago in February 2001 at the first annual BWE convention.
by JimHow
Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.
Replies: 29
Views: 600

Re: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.

They have such a great selection!
I’m going to splurge on some Dal Forno Amarone when they arrive.
by JimHow
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: UN POINT C'EST TOUT ! par la Pépinière Berillon
Replies: 5
Views: 187

Re: UN POINT C'EST TOUT ! par la Pépinière Berillon

I dunno, Ognik, after watching this video I think I'm going to stock up and not wait five years. We got like hardly any snow this winter here in the Great State of Maine. I uncorked a bottle of 2013 Dom Perignon in Montreal with the Canadien BWEers. It was delicious, nice and ripe, it didn't seem to...
by JimHow
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.
Replies: 29
Views: 600

Re: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.

I'll probably drink through my cases of 2019 and 2020 Cantemerle in the next five years.
by JimHow
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:32 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4837
Views: 1546701

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Thanks JC I just ordered ten bottles of the Montrose and two of the 2019 GPL.
I told them that either you or I will pick them up, I'm going to be heading down that way next week.
Thanks for the tip, I've been wanting to get my hands on some '14 Montrose!!!!
by JimHow
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4837
Views: 1546701

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Oh man how can I not? Which store do I order from? I’m going to be heading down I-95 in the next couple of weeks.
by JimHow
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4837
Views: 1546701

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Very well done indeed, JC! I had the 2014 La Dame and it is beautiful, I can only imagine how great the first label is. I have one bottle in. my cellar.
by JimHow
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4837
Views: 1546701

Re: So what have you bought lately?

1 x 2010 Montrose
1 x 2010 Troplong Mondot
5 x 2019 Montrose
7 x 2019 Felsina Rancia
6 x 2021 Ridge Geyserville
by JimHow
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: It doesn’t matter if you are classified third, fourth or fifth in the classification.
Replies: 35
Views: 1260

Re: It doesn’t matter if you are classified third, fourth or fifth in the classification.

I haven't had a Rauzan Gassies in years, what is the state of quality of the wines?
Seems to me the Orlando Bobbys had it in the last year or two.
by JimHow
Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:30 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.
Replies: 29
Views: 600

Re: 2019 Chateau Cantemerle.... Best Cantemerle ever.

Very nicely done e!
I've been very happy with the service at Saratoga, I should be getting a couple cases this week.
by JimHow
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Replies: 28
Views: 530

Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…

I think you would like that 2014 Larcis Ducasse, Nicola.
by JimHow
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Replies: 28
Views: 530

Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…

I voted St Emilion but that doesn’t mean I dislike it. They are all spectacular, it’s just that somebody has to come last.
by JimHow
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:53 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2014 Chateau Larcis Ducasse has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Replies: 2
Views: 128

Re: The 2014 Chateau Larcis Ducasse has been uncorked and other ramblings....

This wine was absolutely delicious. A little shy on the nose at first but it was open for business on the palate right from the start. I’ve always said 2014 was equally great in the right bank and this is another example. I regret that this was my only bottle as it seems hard to find and the prices ...
by JimHow
Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4837
Views: 1546701

Re: So what have you bought lately?

I can't remember which vintage we tasted at Branaire, but I really liked it. Maybe Tom members.