Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

jal

I am always bothered by 15% alcohol, especially in Bordeaux. Sometimes I lower the level slightly by diluting with water from my reverse osmosis machine. If highly classified Bordeaux estates feel it is OK to concentrate their grape juice, why shouldn't the consumer restore it to its natural state?...

jal

Fascinating tasting Ian, seems like all the wines, including the simple Nebbiolos and Langhe showed well. And I agree about them needing a lot less time to show well.
Enjoy your trip, and in truffle season no less! I can't wait to read about your impressions.

jal

Beautiful, thank you for this Chateau Vin, but I have a problem with single vineyard nebbiolos. I just don't think the terroirs is distinctive enough to justify the premium in price. As opposed to Burgundy where Grand Crus and 1er crus were designated a few hundred years ago, Barolo and Barbaresco o...

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In a way that leaves Burgundians speechless, estates in Saint Emilion with different statuses have merged while retaining that which is most advantageous. Could you imagine a Grand Cru in the Côte de Nuits annexing a Premier Cru and rebaptizing it Grand Cru? Anyway, Pavie has absorbed Pavie-Decesse...

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Glad you were in NYC Jacques and hope the damage is not all that bad. Thanks, we were supposed to be there for two days en route to Israel but ended up staying a week. Got back yesterday and the damage is mainly ceiling and floors, the building manager covered the furniture and we are now in full c...

jal

Thanks for checking, we were in NYC when we heard we have some water damage from a leak in the roof so we canceled our trip to Israel. We will go back to Sarasota Monday to assess the extent of the problem, but it looks like mainly our floor and some of the furniture may be ruined. The important thi...

jal

BTW, same is true of Chase Marriott and Chase IHG cards. $95/year and yes, we have them all just for the free nights

jal

Bill, the Chase Hyatt card costs $95 a year and gets you a free night every year in Hyatt hotels category 1-4 (the Hyatt on Capitol Hill is category 4)
Jill and I have each a Hyatt card just for that

jal

I still have some 2013 Fevre Bougros, we drank a bottle of that last week and it was delicious but not as rich as one would expect from a Grand Cru, I bet you'll like the 2014 Billaud Simon 1er better.

jal

I have a soft spot for this estate, I find the style soft and elegant. I used to like La Gomerie better but now find that a little too cloying.

Jill and I visited the grounds in June 2017, I still have a case of the 2005 Beausejour Becot I have not opened yet

jal

1990 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot - France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru (9/22/2022) With rack of lamb, leek gratin and roasted green beans. Cork was very dry and not even a Durand corkscrew could stop it from falling in. So we decanted through a tea filter. Dark almost black, seductive...

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Comte Flaneur wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 9:41 am By now after three dinners in a row a lot of fabulous wine and a hard week, I was beginning feel to the effects and lose my focus - Alex and Aziz.

jal

I agree Ian, 2004 Barolos are ready and I have some Mascarellos waiting to be opened
2010s I would wait on but I’m glad the Veglio showed up for you.
And Langhes are always great. Have fun with Alex and Christine, can’t wait to read the Burgundy notes

jal

marcs wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 4:03 pm I picked up three bottles of this for my sons birth year but seems like it might not be a long ager?

The age old question. It will last a long time in my opinion. I just don't think it will improve much or gain in complexity.

jal

2012 Château La Conseillante - France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol (9/14/2022) We had this with a roasted rack of lamb and a simple green salad. Dark almost inky black, nose of black forest cake. This is a delicious hedonistic wine with a high level of purity. Layers of flavors and what it lacks ...

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Went to a garden center in Allendale, NJ and ended up swinging by the Ramsey Bottle King location afterwards as I was in the neighborhood and I am glad I did. A1CA577D-8CDA-4CC5-85F9-8F624881FA29.jpeg 2D2D19F6-F7FD-42A9-8924-27496EB8392E.jpeg Those Dauvissat prices are great Jean Christophe!

jal

I'm in Sarasota Steve

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Or are you putting it in your cereal instead of Beaujolais?

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It was Bill, $40 per bottle. The last ones in the store

jal

5 x 2014 Louis Michel Chablis Grand Cru Vaudesir half bottles

jal

Sounds good Steve, Jim keeps threatening to come to the west coast of Florida, we should meet when he does.

jal

Jacques, None of us were there, so you could have told us how perfectly you prepared those lamb chops - we would have all believed you. Just think how much that would enhance your reputation as a great chef! Chris Bublitz :D :D very funny Chris. I mention it because the flavor of the chops didn't e...

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Served with lamb chops (that I overcooked), zucchini fritters and a tomato salad this bottle, which I have held since release, was popped and poured. Nice nose of cedar and black fruit but not as haunting as the 1990 Cos of a few days ago. Dark inky color, on the palate, this is profound and complex...

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Musigny 151 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:52 pm I Adam and Eve that you are elephant’s trunk and your loaf of bread is filled with pony and trap.

Ok, that one is above my pay grade

jal

Opened for a couple of hours but not decanted, with roast chicken, green salad, and roasted sweet potatoes and butternut squash. Dark color, almost black, slight bricking on the rim, very expressive old school nose of earth, graphite and tobacco. On the palate this is delicious, not the most precise...

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Racer Chris wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:42 pm:groan:

I hear you, but that was happening before his crash. It wasn't meant to be disrespectful.

jal

Chateau Vin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:42 pm
Racer Chris wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:32 pm
Comte Flaneur wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:54 pm
...for an ‘Ayrton Senna’ - £9.99 to be precise.
...
Care to fill in some meaning on this?

WRT Grand Mayne, I drank a couple bottles of 2008 several years ago which were pretty good.

Isn’t it a British slang for ten pounds???

Yes, Senna rhymes with tenna, tenna or a tenner is £10

jal

jckba wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:42 pm
Musigny 151 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:33 pm Bloody Hell!
Ian was clearly the pack leader on this one.

Our Comte is both a bell weather and a trail blazer

jal

Here you go, JC and Mark. Hope that works for you guys

jal

No problem, if you want to move your post to the other thread, I can delete this one completely.

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There is one already

http://www.bordeauxwineenthusiasts.com/ ... f=4&t=5928

jal

That's a wonderful line-up, great wines and excellent producers. All vintages in Burgundy are good imo, but they are different from each other. But Fourrier, Dujac, Roumier, Meo-Camuzet, Cathiard, Mugneret-Gibourg are really can't miss. The only one I need to try more is Roty. And the whites are not...

jal

Fascinating story Ian, thanks for sharing!

jal

Racer Chris wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:58 am Looks a lot like Australia to me, lol.

jal

Maybe in the fall, Ian. We're now in Paris till Wednesday morning. Then Israel before heading back to the US mid July

jal

Great time and dinner. Ian, you are quite the master host to travelling BWE'ers.

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jckba wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:10 pm Jacques, next time you see a bottle of Laurent Tribut Chablis which is brought in by Vineyard Brands, give it a go as I think you will take to it and there is a Dauvissat connection.

Will do, JC. Thanks

jal

Nice tasting paring, past the heavyweights Dauvissat and Ravenneau, chablis pricing is quite decent. We drink Billaud Simon, Louis Michel, and William Fevre a lot as they are widely available in the US and Israel. I love Roland Lavantureux also.

jal

Leflaive Montrachet

jal

I still like my real-estate-is-mostly-likely-path-to-billion-dollars strategy, which Jacques corroborated with his algorithm a couple years ago. Yeah, no. You’re not leveraged enough. The classic buy low, sell high mantra suggests we should sell our wine and invest the proceeds in stocks. Something...

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