Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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Thanks guys for the comments This was arranged a good while ago so we weren’t trying to rain on Jim’s parade and Jim I can assure you there is no conspiracy to unseat you. There never has been as far as I am aware. It is all in your mind. You have said on some occasions that you have wanted to step ...

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Last night we had dinner at Cabotte in London where we had a BWE event in March 2023. The theme of the dinner was mature first growths, and all of them showed well, and demonstrated the virtue of patience. We had three vintages of Haut-Brion: 1966, 1985 and 1990 and two 1989s: Margaux and Mouton. Th...

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Brian the that wine is a white Rioja, and very good it was too. https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=4307285

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Sorry to hear about Marie Claude’s accident Nic, I hope she gets better quickly.

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Dinner last night at the Hawksmoor in the City of London with one of my London groups. Haut Bailly 2000 was the clear stand out and comfortably win the wotn accolade. The two 2005s are still a work in progress but nearly there (one Blanquito away). I was t over the moon about my 1996 Calon - it was ...

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Congratulations stefan and lucie. Good choice of wines to celebrate your milestone. We are drinking Haut Brion tonight by coincidence

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1982 Magdelaine - out of a Conterno Sensory Evolved colour mahogany, ripe, rich berries intense, incense, exotic, ginger, array of spices, plenty of tobacco notes, aromatically more expressive and complex than the 85 Later very beautiful lovely tertiary complexity and truffles and tobacco notes -96 ...

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I thought the 1982 edged it but they were both stellar, like 96 vs 95 point wines. Joel thought the 1985 edged it. It was a bit like the men’s 100m Olympic final and the 1982 came out the blocks faster.

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Last night we matched the 1982 vs the 1985 Magdelaines

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Last night at Noize where we had the BWE party in March 2023. The theme last night was ‘grower champagne and burgundy’ - some terrific wines here with the two 2002 red burgundies neck and neck in my book and both at least 95 pt wines, while the 90 Climens was fabulous and the Meursault Charmes went ...

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Hi Mike If you are free in London tonight do you want to come out to dinner tonight me Joel, me and two others? We are dining at Noize restaurant where we had the BWE party last March and the theme of the dinner is grower champagne and burgundy. Wine prices in London ar3 probably keener than in the ...

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Yes Nic, you nailed it, I have sleepless nights and recurring nightmares about the Polish guy from Copenhagen coming to…as you put it. So in spite of the alliterative title of this thread, designed to chime with Jim’s, this will be a fairly low key and modest affair. But of course the future of our ...

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A young man is flying over from Washington DC…

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Watch this space

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Thanks Mark for your detailed reply Like Nic I also found your comments on DDC interesting as I have generally had good experiences with this wine from the late 70s to the early 00s, where clearly there was a stylistic change towards a more Parker friendly style. I don’t think the estate really retu...

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Even at a very junior level young burg these days is just something else…when I came back from Italy in early May I stopped off in Beaune at one of those touristy places on the square and ate something with a 50cl carafe of some generic 2022 St Aubin rouge from a producer I had never heard of for ab...

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“ I expect that it should become better in 8-10 years.”

But these young burgundies are just so delicious and irresistible now…

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2014 Meyney, Calon, Tronquoy and Montrose have all been consumed chez moi and they are excellent. Perhaps an off bottle? RP the wine was not faulty in the technical sense - although the label was tatty because it had been in a damp cellar - it was not corked, oxidised, heat damaged or in any other ...

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Yes I think Jim the best utility for this wine would be to open it 1-2 days in advance and imbibe it with a large hunk of rare porterhouse steak. Day two, it has softened a bit around the edges; it is less unpleasant. But it is still unpleasant to drink. It still suffers from the same shortcomings: ...

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Interesting notes thanks Mark for posting them. I always found it difficult to evaluate Bordeaux at this kind of age, when the wines tend to have a fair bit of puppy fat. Did you get the impression that Pape Clement has dialled things down a bit? Because 20 years ago, in Parker’s hey day, they were ...

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I sourced a bottle of this wine this week. I was fascinated to try it because I had read polarised reviews. I opened it tonight after standing it up for a day, then double decanted it. Initial impressions are not favourable. It is horribly over extracted. It has bitter acerbic tannins and a drying f...

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Kamala indeed has made a great start

What I find quite revealing is that she has clearly being prepping for this moment for a long time!

https://x.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1815847644863811584

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Now that Biden has exited the spotlight will swing over to Trump on the question of age and mental acuity https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/election-trump-harris?utm_term=669f2ac5118a7a49a917aa33eb679949&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&a...

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Maybe Trump is now going to win unless the deep state can fork out a bit more to find someone who can shoot straight?

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It is just a question of when rather than if Listless Joe exits right? Seems like the cat is out of the bag? Perhaps his attempt at diversity by picking Harris - the debate candidate who turned on him in the debates in a nasty way - backfired?

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Thanks Nic. Looks like you had a splendid evening!

Comte Flaneur · Re: President Trump https://www.theonion.com/kamala-harris- ... 2024-07-18

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How was the Castellare Nick? I ask because it is popular with my London wine friends, and it is a wine on my hit list.

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It’s a pretty rich and dense wine for sure, but I didn’t find it offensively so. It’s a steak wine, something you would uncork at a testosterone filled Wall Street steakhouse. I like the 2019 and 2020 Meyneys as well but I think I give the nod to the 2014. These are very richly colored wines. This ...

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I would be really curious to try one of these, and also the 2016. While these new fangled Meyneys are generally well reviewed, a significant minority have grumbled that the estate has gone over to the dark side with an inclination to soup up the wines, with the controversial owner of Ch Angélus, Hub...

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Thanks for the update JC. I have always liked this wine, which has always been accessible and has been a good ambassador for the forgotten 2012 vintage. I think I have three or four and I might take a look too as it has been a while. A lot of us like our Bordeaux with significant bottle age and evol...

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It was a sad day but I have always argued that the so called deep state has a compelling motive to remove Trump somehow. Pure conjecture, but on the basis that Trump poses a grave national security threat.

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He referred to Kamala Harris as Vice-President Trump. If you watch the clip he was not aware he even made a gaffe. He also referred to President Zelenskyy as President Putin https://news.sky.com/video/share-13176846 Again no awareness of his gaffe This is beyond embarrassing Is it true that George C...

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Last night at Piccolino behind London’s Liverpool Street Station a timely snapshot of the 2000 Bordeaux vintage. With one or two exceptions the wines showed well. It is a very good classical vintage and most wines are into their drinking windows White starter Latour Martillac 2015 Quite pungent – bi...

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Interesting that the UK has gone left while France and the rest of Europe has gone right. Is it an anti-establishment sentiment or more complicated than that? It is complicated here because the traditionally left-leaning Labour Party, which won in a landslide, moved to the centre of the political s...

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The notion that he will be fit and capable to be commander in chief between now and January 2029 is a ludicrous prospectus. In fact this was the case well before last week’s debacle.

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Thanks JC that is helpful. I might have to move this case up the pecking order.

However I have unopened cases of 2012, 2011, 2010, 2008 and 2006, and an opened case of 2005 - not ready in my opinion - as well as cases of younger vintages than 2014.

Has anyone tried the 06, 08 or 12 recently?

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