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Tom In DC

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I don't have any wine there or any transactions through the Marketplace, but thought others might be interested...

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I didn't mean to be so negative, and didn't intend any reflection on Howard other than appreciation for find us such a great rate!

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Online worked tonight!

Thanks, hm$.

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Re: the rules, Chianti has allowed 100% Sangiovese since 1995, recognizing that that particular grape was the key to making good wine.

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Kind of an average vintage to my mind. Which wines do you think are worth chasing, Jon?

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Makes me wonder if anyone in Pomerol makes good wine? Coming from you, Michael-P, I'll assume you'll eventually see a medical professional to extract your tongue from your cheek... Seriously (and I hope I don't offend AlexR too much with my take on things), in my experience, Pomerol is not a wine t...

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Happy and Healthy New Year to all of our friends on BWE! We've had some decent wines over the holidays, but no Bordeaux yet. The best was a delicious but probably-still-needs-a-bit-more-time 1999 Ridge Monte Bello. Among others, we have '64 Canon and '82 Cos d'Estournel on the card for tomorrow. Tom...

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Please add Gail and me.

Thanks!

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I haven't completely decide if Bruno missed the mark with his 1997 Barbaresco wines. They certainly aren't the usual heavy hitters, but I'm waiting and hoping for some complexity to develop.

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Reviewing our schedule with the cruise director, we're out. We hope you have a great gathering!

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Two maybes????

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Good call, Chris -- one fading into the sunset and one whose sun hasn't even risen, but some dinners are like that.

'82 du Tertre was a really tough customer for a long time -- at least two decades. I'd give the wine a much longer life expectancy since it took 20 years to come together...

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Very, very difficult...top tens are much easier... Movie? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels -- Before and after the Croatian Incident, just cuts too close to home. Book? (this is REALLY hard!!!): The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco Song? As a musician, musicologist, this is just ridiculous... But there are a gr...

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Belated Happy Birthday, stefan! I love the Margaux wines from the early Mentzelopoulos vintages.

Regards,
Tom

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or the Spanish deposition...

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stefan wrote:I nominate Bob Hamman.

So that would be contact bridge instead of contract?

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However, to hear that 200x vintages are being counterfeited also is really mindblowing. I'm assumimg this is limited to only a few wines such as Lafite and Latour. As someone mentioned previously, there must be a threshold that must be reached value-wise to make it profitable to go to all the troub...

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Interesting , indeed! Jim doesn't trust any pundits, but is going to start his Spanish sojourn based on Parker 90+ pointers???? Alion is a winner, and due to pretty much everyone knowing this, we have to pay up for the experience. I used to buy Haut-Brion for $25 or so a bottle... Bobby Zimmerman su...

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At four years old, it would be more a still-birth than prem-ox to my way of thinking...

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I think white Burg prem-ox might be a better established fact than global warming...

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An Etienne Sauzet 2002 Puligny-Montrachet (village) tonight with some golfing buddies and spouses. One of the golfers asked "Will this come back with more time?" Sadly, the answer is no, this wine is premox-ed...

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Jimbo, Well then, your last statement above: Despite all the condesension and arrogance on sites like here and squires.com, one thing seems clear: Nobody knows what the hell they are talking about... begs the obvious "Why the heck is anyone supposed to listen to this country lawyer from Maine?&...

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Much more value in the Picasso label than the juice. Seriously, a Picasso where the print run might have been 240,000 and the vast majority have been thrown away?

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For 1966 and 1975, it must be a bottle by bottle thing, because I'm not feeling the love most times when we open these.

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I'd guess that experience trumps "groupthink insofar as corked wines. Some of it might be tasting more wines that display being corked more dramatically, like Rieslings. I've tasted plenty of wines at BWE events that I thought were corked that others simply thought weren't performing up to expe...

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Gents, Please don't take this as bragging, but we're drinking '80, '83, '85, '88, '89 and some 90's -- the rest generally need more time! I'm invariably amazed at how well a minor '78 or '79 shows when we crack one. The red burgs in your cellar are the bottles to just park in the far reaches of the ...

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Thanks for the notes, Bordeaux Bill. '82 de Sales was the first wine I tasted from the vintage, of the shelf for maybe $9...made me feel pretty good about our futures purchases! I've enjoyed the '89, '98, '00, and '05, although the '05 was a little pricey for my wallet (which may no longer have any ...

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Diageo has been and continues dumping all of their stock, so price cutting is occurring as we type.

I'm more worried that the price folks in the US are willing to pay is being reset, in which case we'll see NOTHING from future vintages...

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We always bring two bottles of anything we're contributing to a BWE dinner, and the one we bring to the table is NOT always the first bottle...

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I don't have much experience with the VV (other than really enjoying the few I've tried), but the regular Beaucastel Blanc behaves exactly as DavidG describes. The '86 seemed to disappear during the dot.com days, but we tried one at age 20 and it was beaucastic! The '95 regular is just coming back f...

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Dunno, they're faking current release Barbera and Mouton Cadet, for gosh sakes!

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Well done, Harry! Obviously a true labor of love.

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It's not often that I've been accused of thuggery, but as the slur comes from the lips of an effete Down East "could'a been a contendah" politico, I guess I'll wear this censure as a badge of honor.

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Average vintage of bottle: 1992 Median vintage by bottle : 1995 (sense, since the older vintages go back a lot farther) Average vintage of wine: 1991 (just slightly fewer of the older bottles) Median vintage of wine : 1993 I'm happy with these numbers, given what's in the cellar (Bordeaux, Barolo an...

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Lots of wines work, and I prefer Nebbiolo with game birds, but the gamey meats call for Cabernet, preferably Left Bank!

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