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by Comte Flaneur
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes
Replies: 15
Views: 250

Re: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes

The best Giscours I ever tried was the 2020, better even than those Giscours legends from the 1970s.
by Comte Flaneur
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes
Replies: 15
Views: 250

Re: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes

Thanks for the notes Claudius, a useful update. I have a lot of money invested in both vintages, and am optimistic too. Wasn’t the 2009 Giscours one of the BWE wines of the year? Jim I had a thought for the 25th anniversary - a dinner somewhere - on the East Coast presumably - where we source as man...
by Comte Flaneur
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

In these instances I employ a ‘least regrets’ approach - and usually the ‘mad’ option, buying the wine and shelling out a fortune, beats the ‘sad’ option, of deciding not to bite and losing the chance to buy…
by Comte Flaneur
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Better to be mad than sad
by Comte Flaneur
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

I think that is a good price Jim especially if it includes taxes. For reference I bought 2x3 at £500 pb ex taxes or £1500 ex tax per three pack, and three packs now are being listed around £2.3-2.5k ex taxes but suspect the lower price is more indicative. So $691 is not much higher than the ex-tax p...
by Comte Flaneur
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

That was a great bargain for the 1983 Lafite stefan a wine I really rate. The price of Lafite has come off a lot - the range on retail here is very wide and now for the 1996 £720 (equivalent to $900) to £1450, with the lower price being the fresher one, and more indicative of the market. For mine th...
by Comte Flaneur
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:54 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Il Pogg is a reliable steed; the quality at Bruna Grimaldi has come on in leaps and bounds…I had a very enjoyable visit there in 2022, with Martina
by Comte Flaneur
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2011 Pontet Canet
Replies: 5
Views: 157

Re: 2011 Pontet Canet

Got to say I am liking this a lot on day two, definitely a good wine and a good Pontet Canet experience.
by Comte Flaneur
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Good work guys. At a recent auction, for good prices I bought: 10 x Lafite 96 6 x Bruna Grimaldi Barolo Badarina 2018 3 x Burlotto Pelaverga 2021 Otherwise 3 x Bruna Grimaldi Barolo Camilla 2018 1 X Bruna Grimaldi Barolo Bricco Ambrogio 2018 2 x Gian Luca Colombo Pinot Noir 2021 2 x Gian Luca Colomb...
by Comte Flaneur
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2011 Pontet Canet
Replies: 5
Views: 157

Re: 2011 Pontet Canet

Yes this chateau is an enigma. I kept six of these and put the other six up for sale. After drinking this one I think it is the right decision. You do feel that the precision engineering to banish all the faults takes away from the personality of the wine. Would I rather drink this or the 1996? I am...
by Comte Flaneur
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:05 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2011 Pontet Canet
Replies: 5
Views: 157

2011 Pontet Canet

I vividly remember being ever so impressed by this at our pre lunch tasting during our visit to Pontet Canet in May 2015, when we tasted the 11 against the 12, 13 and 14. On returning to London, I immediately purchased a case of 12 and this is bottle #1 out of the case. Bright and young looking with...
by Comte Flaneur
Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: President Trump
Replies: 5480
Views: 684365

Re: President Trump

A minority of you may not like this

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by Comte Flaneur
Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
Replies: 9
Views: 201

Re: 2012 Du Tertre

Sorry about your travails Danny that sounds awful. Here’s hoping you get back in the swing of things pdq. I want to be sharing plenty more bottles with you! Nic I think you are spot on about Du Tertre, with the nose flattering the rest of the wine somewhat. Yes their Tuscan was Cairossa Think Giscou...
by Comte Flaneur
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Pontac Lynch
Replies: 2
Views: 115

Re: Pontac Lynch

One to watch
by Comte Flaneur
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
Replies: 9
Views: 201

Re: 2012 Du Tertre

However; beyond the nose, it does not deliver a whole lot of nuance or complexity. It is a perfect mid-week quaffing wine, but still loving it for what it is.
by Comte Flaneur
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
Replies: 9
Views: 201

2012 Du Tertre

Our second visit on the first day of our Bordeaux tour in 2015 was Du Tertre. Although a comparatively lowly address compared to what was to follow that day, it was one of the highlights of an amazing trip. From the tour of the winery with our delightful hostess with fetchingly child bearing hips, w...
by Comte Flaneur
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:52 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: "Beware the Ides of March"
Replies: 59
Views: 10217

Re: "Beware the Ides of March"

Now now, tut tut

Et tu Brute?

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by Comte Flaneur
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Replies: 28
Views: 577

Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…

My favourite would be Pauillac, and as noted least favourite is St-Estephe. But everything else - St J, Margaux, Pessac, St E and Pomerol, is very closely bunched with the pecking order between these middle rankers just too close to call - for example St J has the fewest superstars but the greatest ...
by Comte Flaneur
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Replies: 28
Views: 577

Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…

Another bird brain comment: “I was surprised to hear Ian's comments, as he mentioned that Saint Estephe was his least favorite AOC. I wonder if he considers wines such as Cos, Montrose, Calon Segur, Meyney, Phelan Segur, Haut Marbuzet, Lilian Ladouys, de Pez, Tour des Termes, and Serilhan disappoint...
by Comte Flaneur
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Replies: 28
Views: 577

Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…

I couldn’t put down St-Emilion given how much it is improved in the last decade and given that Cheval Blanc was my wine of the year last year. So by a process of elimination the one I love least is St Estephe but I still love St-Estephe but not as much as the others.
by Comte Flaneur
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: TN: 2006 Langoa Barton
Replies: 0
Views: 83

TN: 2006 Langoa Barton

I was curious to pop one of the 06 Langoas I picked up at auction a few years ago. The 2006 vintage is turning out to be stubbornly backward, relative to some of its peers, and I was not optimistic that I would enjoy this wine, so resigned myself to this being a bottle opened ‘in the name of science...
by Comte Flaneur
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:10 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Yes like a patch work quilt. I tried both of these wines last April - I rated the 2020 Lafleur Petrus 98 points - one of the top four wines I tried from the vintage - the others were Montrose, Pichon Lalande and Ducru. I think Lafleur Petrus is really top tier Pomerol now. The 2018 Branaire I rated ...
by Comte Flaneur
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

6 x Lafleur Petrus 2020 for £951 in bond
3 x Brainaire Ducru 2018 for £90 in bond
by Comte Flaneur
Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Oh my Devil, the catastrophic St Émilion tasting
Replies: 11
Views: 260

Re: Oh my Devil, the catastrophic St Émilion tasting

Sorry about your bad experience Nic. These wines from peak Parker were the nadir of St Emilion… …which is why some canny observers have remarked that St-Emilion is the most improved commune over the last decade… …as winemakers there eschew the souped up style of yore… …as epitomised by Troplong Mond...
by Comte Flaneur
Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

3 x La Conseillante 2020, 3 x Lynch Bages 2014 My intelligence (contacts not nous) suggest 2020 could be the best ever vintage of La C, certaintly better than 2019, and even better than 2016 and 2010. I think the great WK rated it 100 points, so I now have two three packs. With Lynch I continue to l...
by Comte Flaneur
Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:23 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: So what have you bought lately?
Replies: 4868
Views: 1548026

Re: So what have you bought lately?

Ha ha, I think that is a wise decision Marc
by Comte Flaneur
Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Happy 24th Birthday to BWE.
Replies: 16
Views: 309

Re: Happy 24th Birthday to BWE.

Congradulations!
by Comte Flaneur
Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:02 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Another Bordeaux 2014 ten years
Replies: 4
Views: 273

Re: Another Bordeaux 2014 ten years

Yes I agree a much more accurate assessment, a much better write up
by Comte Flaneur
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:21 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Bordeaux 2020 Southwold Tasting at FarrVintners
Replies: 28
Views: 1068

Re: Bordeaux 2020 Southwold Tasting at FarrVintners

I think the Farr’s guy has quite a sweet tooth because he always has Poyferre as his pick of St-J’s.

Has he seriously tasted the 2014 Ducru and Leoville Barton?

My faith in 2014 is not all shaken.
by Comte Flaneur
Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: The 2019 Wine-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named has been uncorked....
Replies: 5
Views: 152

Re: The 2019 Wine-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named has been uncorked....

You should also try the 2016 ‘gune, it is pretty good too
by Comte Flaneur
Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: I'm making a bold statement: 2019 is the greatest Bordeaux vintage ever, surpassing even the epic 2016 vintage....
Replies: 8
Views: 299

Re: I'm making a bold statement: 2019 is the greatest Bordeaux vintage ever, surpassing even the epic 2016 vintage....

The only thing I am confident on is that these recent infusion (rather than extraction) vintages like 2016, 19 and 20 will easily surpass the vintages that we obsess on here, vintages like 1982, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1996 etc, lovely as they are - but also the maximum Parker extracted vintages like 2005...
by Comte Flaneur
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Introduction from a new member
Replies: 10
Views: 170

Re: Introduction from a new member

Welcome to BWE esl!
by Comte Flaneur
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:53 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: What is your Valentines Day wine?
Replies: 9
Views: 198

Re: What is your Valentines Day wine?

I will be celebrating it this year and am planning on opening Tarlant Cuvee Louis Champagne (2000 base)

And then Jasmin Cote Rotie 1990, one of my desert island wines.
by Comte Flaneur
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
Replies: 29
Views: 736

Re: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?

Alex asked: “Who counts the most these days in the English-speaking world?”

There may never be anyone to have the influence that Parker enjoyed in his hey day.

But the answer to your question Alex may be William Kelley, and from what I gather he is still a young man.
by Comte Flaneur
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
Replies: 29
Views: 736

Re: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?

I think we would have ended up in the same place had he not been around, but on a different path. Without him we would not have gotten so many extracted right bankers David has endured, and his influence spilled over into other areas like southern Rhone and Australia. I think it would be fair to say...
by Comte Flaneur
Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:09 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
Replies: 50
Views: 951

Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.

To answer that question Jim you would have to ponder the counterfactual as to where would we be without him? I think a clue lies in what has happened in Burgundy since he came to prominence and where he was banned early on in the piece. Burgundy is thriving like never before and has never been makin...
by Comte Flaneur
Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
Replies: 50
Views: 951

Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.

2005 Angelus, RMP note Truly great stuff, this wine performed at a three-digit level both in the horizontal tasting of 2005s in Baltimore, as well as in Montreal at this mini-vertical. This sensational, opaque, bluish/purple wine offers up notes of vanillin, spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry...
by Comte Flaneur
Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: Our Forum
Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
Replies: 50
Views: 951

Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.

2005 Angelus, RMP note Truly great stuff, this wine performed at a three-digit level both in the horizontal tasting of 2005s in Baltimore, as well as in Montreal at this mini-vertical. This sensational, opaque, bluish/purple wine offers up notes of vanillin, spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry ...