Let's see: If the Bd lives to be infinity minus epsilon, then he might be lucky enough to drink '07 Yquem when it is mature.

Buy a younger Yquem, Jim.

stefan the counter

We can make any weekend after April 10 until the end of May.

Even better, have your favorite wine merchant call.

Yeah, Jay!

Jim just wants to have it on his record that he has attended more BWE conventions than Lucie and I.

If Lucie drank like that I would not be able to make our mortgage payments.

Haut Batailley has now probably the best QPR of any classified Pauillac. So SHhhhh, Chris!

I hope it will be later this year. Jan and I will be in Cambridge, England, until April 7.

stefan

Some great wines there, Stuart. '82 L'Evangile is to die for.

What was the fourth '82 Pomerol?

Quite a nice selection of wines there, Nic. Two I also really like are '88 Lynch and '98 Rieussec.

Too bad the '83 B-C was not up to snuff.

I think about Corton-Charlemagne when Bonneau du Martray is mentioned, although some have said that he makes a nice Corton as well.

It is interesting that two Riojas knock out classified Bdx and Burgundy. I'll bet they were less expensive, too.

Not exactly a typical BWE get together except for the quantity consumed. No wonder you want to get back here.

The bidding got surprisingly high, so we passed.

Strange that some bottles are tainted and others are not when the taint comes from the winery rather than from corks.

As usual, Jacques' analysis is spot on. Well, except for the price, which will be 25% more than the '09s.

I don't use CT.

Tonight Lucie and are drinking Chateau La Fleur 2004. Same name; different wine. This is a wine that PappaDoc recommended. It has a very firm structure, a nose that has developed nicely, and lots of fruit. Thankfully, no greeness. The tannins are strong, but I am not sure about holding the wine for ...

Really? My '82 Mouton is not valued that highly.

Heck, at $17 I would buy 5 cases even without having tasted the wine.

I never thought of St Pierre as being a masculine wine, Bill. Has the style changed this millennium?

89-91 is about right for '98 Pavie Macquin IMO. '98 Pavie Decesse is better.

I don't buy much entry level Burgundy. In November I bought 2002 Domaine A.-F. Gros Beaune Les Boucherottes @ $40. In May I bought Bouchard Volnay Caillerets @ $38. Last year I took advantage of distributor close outs and got some extraordinary deals and posted some of them on BWE. In the USA, if yo...

Nice article, Alex, but is there a market for very many of these wines at the prices in the article? LANESSAN is good for the mentioned $20 price (and a BWE QPR favorite), but $50-75 for D'ARCHE?!?! (just to mention the two on the list that I know well).

Thanks for the great report, Jacques, and the update on our friend Arv. "I've been loving the Right Banks for 5 years but now the Lefties are coming on strong." +1 Now it is looking like '95 is overall a better year than '96 for red Bordeaux. Maybe we should be nicer to The Sucker? No; tha...

Why don't you buy a case of Chateau Haut-Brion Blanc and serve it at a BWE convention?

Was that a 375? If not, you should buy a truckload of it. $18 is already rather low for a 375.

It does not surprise me that 2005s are not very good right now. But their structure is great and, given time, should be outstanding.

...and if each one buys one bottle of Lafite every year, then there are no bottles for the rest of us.

Thanks, Jacques. I was in the '70 La Lagune, but will change to another wine-- the '78 La Lagune-- to give us a nice match up with the Palmers.

A pleasant occurrence, Danny. Usually the opposite occurs to me; i.e., I have in inventory a bottle that has already been drunk.

I thought the reason the Chinese are buying up all the Lafite is that Lafite is the best wine for Peking duck. Live and learn.

I am thinking about '78 Haut-Brion for our fourth bottle.

Thanks for one of the great annual BWE events. I hope to make one sometime.

Thanks, guys. Life is good.

Lucie and I celebrated our 42nd two days late last night. We drank 1990 Winston Churchill and 1986 Haut-Brion. BWE conventioners know how good the Winston is. This bottle was further along than the one in Florida. The effervescence was good, but the taste was that of an old Champagne. Excellent, to ...

Ian, Tom & Gail are missing from the list of diners. Tom was the first to opt in.

Such variability in the young 1998s is surprising, but we have all experienced such things from time to time. Is it mostly due to variability of corks?

Nice report, as always, Jacques. Wasn't Fevre still using too much oak in 2004? The '02 Burgs are have matured more quickly than I guessed. No doubt they will evolve over the next 10-100 years, but will they really be better? On the other hand, the '99s seem to be quite slow in coming around and wil...

Too bad, Jacques. Because of premox issues I made a systematic effort to drink through our '99s and now have at most four bottles (one magnum and three which I am not sure still exist). Patrick, I have wondered the same thing. There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that long time white Burgundy lovers...

I am at a decade low in white Burgs, Jacques, so I was happy to get some good ones that can be drunk young.

I had my first tastes of '07 white Burgundy yesterday at my wine merchant's. We drank Girardin Macon Fuisse $16.50 JM Boillot Rully Gresigny $25 JM Boillot Rully Les Meix $24 V&S Morey Chassagne-Montrachet $33 Carillon Puligny-Montrachet $40 What a pleasant surprise! All of these wines are true ...