Thanks for the note Alex I really loved this when we drank it about five years ago - based on that one encounter one of my favourite Sociandos
Has any one else had any other mature Sociandos recently?
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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2000 Sociando Mallet
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- Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: ‘Best of the best’ first growths dinner
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‘Best of the best’ first growths dinner
Last night at La Trompette in Chiswick west London, where some BWERes have been, and the culmination of seven of ‘first growth’ dinners in London starting with Lafite in the spring of 2018 and finishing with Cheval Blanc in the autumn of 2023. The idea of this dinner was, if possible, to have a line...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:04 pm
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- Topic: 2020 Chateau La Lagune revisited: This wine is absolutely gorgeous....
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Re: 2020 Chateau La Lagune revisited: This wine is absolutely gorgeous....
I can get the 2019 for £18 for a half bottle all in from Hedonism wines in Mayfair in London. It gets very well reviewed too. This is a very good price especially considering that Hedonism is owned by a Russian oligarch, answerable to Putin, who owns the GOP now - lock, stock and barrel.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:28 pm
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- Topic: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
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Re: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
I was just reading the Farr Vintners intro spiel on Troplong Mondot - link here: https://www.farrvintners.com/wine.php?wine=69497 Was Michel Rolland (born in 1947, the same year as Parker) a net positive or negative for Bordeaux? For me the answer is clear - he has been a been a net negative - for e...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2020 Chateau La Lagune revisited: This wine is absolutely gorgeous....
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- Views: 185
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2020 Troplong Mondot
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- Views: 312
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:09 pm
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- Topic: 2020 Troplong Mondot
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Re: 2020 Troplong Mondot
In the UK Troplong Mondot is significantly cheaper than Beausejour D-L, and in recent tastings I have attended the BDL just didn’t stand out from the pack the way Troplong did. Hence my vfm prospectus. But it is always healthy to disagree.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:20 pm
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- Topic: 2020 Troplong Mondot
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Re: 2020 Troplong Mondot
I have the 2018, 2019, 2020, and they have fabulous potential.
These wines perhaps represent the best vfm in St-Emilion because the terroir is superb. And now the oak/gloss/extraction has been dialled down to sensible levels the terroir can shine through
These wines perhaps represent the best vfm in St-Emilion because the terroir is superb. And now the oak/gloss/extraction has been dialled down to sensible levels the terroir can shine through
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:09 pm
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- Topic: Northern Rhone night at Cabotte
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Northern Rhone night at Cabotte
Last night at Cabotte. Eagle-eyed BWErs will remember it was the venue where we had our second ‘official’ BWE London ‘23 dinner. But we were in the second smaller room. White flight With duck liver parfait, smoked breast, pickled mushrooms & bitter leaves 2003 Marc Sorrel Hermitage Blanc Les Rec...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:50 pm
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- Topic: The 2016 Phelan Segur has been uncorked and other ramblings....
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Re: The 2016 Phelan Segur has been uncorked and other ramblings....
Should be good no?
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:24 pm
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- Topic: Sixteen more bottles of 2016 Chateau Lafite have been secured….
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Re: Sixteen more bottles of 2016 Chateau Lafite have been secured….
Lafite is the first among equals
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:34 pm
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- Topic: Sixteen more bottles of 2016 Chateau Lafite have been secured….
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Re: Sixteen more bottles of 2016 Chateau Lafite have been secured….
Yes Jim is leading from the front
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:15 pm
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- Topic: Dinner with two 2005 Bordeaux
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Re: Dinner with two 2005 Bordeaux
Thanks for the notes Alex, quite a disappointment for the Bahans.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:09 am
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- Topic: Sixteen more bottles of 2016 Chateau Lafite have been secured….
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Re: Sixteen more bottles of 2016 Chateau Lafite have been secured….
Congratulations Jim an inspired inter-generational investment!
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 5:32 pm
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- Topic: Wine poetry or?
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Re: Wine poetry or?
Yes on the left is depicted porn star Ron Jeremy…
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:04 am
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- Topic: Wine poetry or?
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Re: Wine poetry or?
The 2010 Mouton is absolute perfection…apart from the label…which is an abomination
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes
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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:44 pm
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- Topic: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes
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Re: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes
Who Jim or Mark?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:55 pm
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- Topic: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes
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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.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:14 pm
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- Topic: 2009 and 2010 St Emilion and Margaux tasting notes
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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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:35 pm
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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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…
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:32 pm
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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Re: So what have you bought lately?
Better to be mad than sad
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:28 pm
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:08 pm
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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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...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:54 pm
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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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
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:40 pm
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- Topic: 2011 Pontet Canet
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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.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:33 pm
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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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...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:25 pm
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- Topic: 2011 Pontet Canet
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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...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:05 am
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- Topic: 2011 Pontet Canet
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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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:47 pm
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- Topic: President Trump
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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:31 pm
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- Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
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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...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:59 pm
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- Topic: Pontac Lynch
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Re: Pontac Lynch
One to watch
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:57 pm
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- Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
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- Views: 223
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.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
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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...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:52 pm
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- Topic: "Beware the Ides of March"
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Re: "Beware the Ides of March"
Now now, tut tut
Et tu Brute?
Et tu Brute?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
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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 ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:03 pm
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- Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
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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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 am
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- Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
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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.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:45 pm
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- Topic: TN: 2006 Langoa Barton
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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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:10 am
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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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 ...