Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Tom In DC

Thanks for the comments, folks. I like Nic's approach, with both some fine wine vinegar and the knowledge that it would have been the 1900 Margaux had I had one

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Tom In DC

Thanks for the stirring tribute, Jim, and best wishes for a great family celebration!

Tom In DC

I feel a bit like Joe Walsh... (life's been good to me so far) The 2000's are really hard to call, haven't tried that many and too early to tell (TETT) for the majority of interesting (to me) wines: 2009 - Actually had a New Zealand Sauv Blanc a couple of weeks ago...probably won't try any Beaujolai...

Tom In DC

Gail and I celebrated her birthday a few weeks ago at Mannequin Pis, a terrific Belgian restaurant in Olney (probably the only decent eatery near our house!), but we celebrated again Saturday when both of our kids were home from school. (Brief tangent - Omaha Steaks are decent offerings but are not ...

Tom In DC

Sauternes and lobster is a decadent treat indeed. My introduction to d'Yquem was with just that match...addiction ensued.

Tom In DC

I didn't say $100MMM to buy it...the question was "buy and upgrade", right?

So, $20MM to buy and $60MM to upgrade it to the state-of-the-art showplace that the stellar terroir deserves.

The other $20MM? Hazardous waste disposal fees for existing stocks...

Tom In DC

I'd guess US$100,000,000 would be a good start...

Tom In DC

Surprisingly, Marquis d'Alesme Becker made some decent wines in the 1980's, so that takes them out of the running for me.

Tom In DC

But if Lynch Bages is a 5th growth, does this seem like a second?

Tom In DC

Tom In DC

what 08s are you buying? how much and from whom? Like voting in Chicago, I was thinking early and often. I've picked up Pichon Lalande, Duhart Milon, Clinet, Gazin, Clos Fourtet, Pavie-Macquin, and others. All of these estates seem to be on a roll over the last few vintages, and the pricing seemed ...

Tom In DC

Jimbo, First, if France is seeing a lot less of your wine-buying dollar, is some other country (or countries) feeling your beneficence or are you just cutting back? Next, maybe I'm out of touch with our BD's finances, but I can't imagine how you'd find the many excellent 2007 Cotes du Rhone Villages...

Tom In DC

Count us in!

Tom In DC

Congrats, Marie-Claude and Nic! (As Bill Cosby suggested long ago, everyone should have a least two kids so they can blame each other for everything that "happens"!)

Fondly,
Gail and Tom

Tom In DC

We're looking good for the last weekend in March, God willin' and the creek don't rise..

Tom In DC

A Cab Sauv year always makes me think Leoville Las Cases and Mouton, but the prices are soooo far out of whack...

Tom In DC

The eightie's are the years that are really a crap shoot for me. Not from personal experience, but from looking at reviews, I believe that a lot of the 3rd thru 5th growths really started to produce some great wine after 1989 but before that you really had to look mostly at 1st or 2nd growths to fi...

Tom In DC

Regardless of sourcing, it's no surprise that two bottles of the same 20-year old wine show differently. I've seen the top and bottom half of the same magnum show differently enough to fool experienced tasters. We did get a little loud while keeping the silver-tongued devil from Lewiston at bay, did...

Tom In DC

Hey Ian, Let me add my accolades regarding the great job you did organizing a fantastic evening. I know how much work (guessing at least 400 emails/posts?) goes into one of these, and we all owe you big time for staying the course and pulling it off. Let's do another one next year, but if you need a...

Tom In DC

Wow! What a night. WOW! Did I say "Wow" yet? Probably the strongest lineup of wines I can recall at a tasting since a "half-dozen 59's, half-dozen 61's" (including lots of Firsts) tasting I was lucky enough to attend (drop by wine shop, the owner says "My guest can't attend,...

Tom In DC

Foul! I say foul! While nearly all of the world's supply of '89 Lynch Bages is stashed at evil How Mansion, we're gonna be side-swiped with a bottle that Jim is picking up via a drive by? Is he setting up a great excuse for why his fighter goes down hard, once again??? If you'd like, I'll strap my ...

Tom In DC

Never let the facts get in the way of a well-nurtured opinion...

Tom In DC

Put me in, coach!

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Tom In DC

I haven't tasted it, but I've always enjoyed Meyney, and this sounds like a good vintage. At $18/750 by the case, I'd take a flyer on it. You wanna split a case?

Tom In DC

Ordering off the menu sounds fine to us. (Gail just doesn't want to be restricted to a lamb dish!) I thought last year's veal chop was awesome -- I think I may have had that both nights(?) -- but I'm flexible (and I love lamb, but never get to eat it at home...) We should be able to arrive by 5:45, ...

Tom In DC

Is there any menu selected?

Tom In DC

We'll be going to a matinee in the afternoon; we'll get there as close to 5:45 as we can. We'll have a half-dozen glasses and three carafes. I'm not worried about the order as long as Jimbo isn't in charge (he'd open three bottles of Lynch Bages just to make sure that one of them won!) I'd be up for...

Tom In DC

Good. It's $80++ in DC...

Tom In DC

$46.00 !!!!!!

Tom In DC

Great call, Glen. We have a big mob that goes camping every Labor Day weekend and most Memorial Day weekends, and we've sucked down gallons of the Domaine Chandon over the years. The other Cali-pagne producer to check out is Roederer Estate which is usually sufficiently better than the various Chand...

Tom In DC

The Champenoise have always exploited a "luxury goods" approach...have you ever encountered a wine seller who couldn't get a bottle of Dom for you by tomorrow? The only losers in the yield reduction agreement are the small growers who make their wine from grapes from their own vineyards. T...

Tom In DC

Great to hear from you, Patrick! When can we expect you folks at another convention?????

Tom In DC

Thanks for a great way to approach lamb or veal shanks! I haven't tried the "cook the day before" method, but I can easily imagine why it would make the dish taste even better.

Tom In DC

My buying pattern is usually 7 (or 8 if I've heard the wine is drinking well young) to allow for an "In the name of science" bottle (or two) and six more for whenever I think and/or hear that the wine will have gotten to a good place. If you buy 4 bottles, you might drink one now (lots of ...

Tom In DC

I was more thinking of the absurdly high percentage of corked and/or oxidized Spanish wines that I and many others have encountered. I was at one tasting/dinner where the most-generous host opened four bottles of an old vintage of Vega-Sicilia ('68? '70?) to get a sound one!

Tom In DC

Yep, spoofulated to the max. I liked the '05 for what it was -- a good wine in a non-expectational way.

BUT, it's a function of what you want in a wine... It may not be classic Bordeaux, but it would be an interesting ringer in a high-dollar Napa cab tasting...

Tom In DC

JIm,

If you think you can buy votes with your long-term ties to the Kennedy family, just remember who's digging deepest making campaign contributions...

Tom

Tom In DC

Don't know about '53, but Broadbent thought '47 Cheval Blanc was amazing in the late 50's...

Tom In DC

Thanks, Danny.

'Tis a brave tasting group that holds a Spanish wine in reserve to replace a corked bottle.

Tom In DC

Congrats on a killer round, Danny!

I always hit 70 for a round of golf, but I'm never done with the 18th hole when I take that particular stroke.

Tom

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