Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

JimHow

In the end the wine becomes more earthy, rustic, it is a unique, charming little nuance about this wine.
Two thumbs up. Drink a bottle now, but wait at least another 7 years, as Leve says, before drinking the next.
It'll be interesting to see how this evolves over the years.
Rating: 95 points.

JimHow

I hear you, jckba, I just wonder what is a fair recourse.
We had an issue a while back with a BWEer in a Boston restaurant involving a disputedly "cooked" 1975 Petrus.
It was an ugly little incident.

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Look, this is a table wine. This is a wine to be consumed with a meal that stands up to it. This is not a wine to drink in the loft while musing about the latest Netflix release. Again, if you love Margaux -- and show me someone who doesn't -- a case of this at about $360 seems like a no-brainer. It...

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Good to know JC. I was trying to coordinate a pickup of some of your wines with Chris in CT but my schedule is really, really tight tomorrow, I don't think I can do it. The significant other will be moving up here for a while but keeping her place down there so I'll be in NYC a little less but still...

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Ok that's good advice JC, thanks. I just figured I'll be in Scarsdale tomorrow, when you factor in gas, tolls, everything else, I thought it might be a good opportunity to stock up on 6-12 bottles for consumption in 2019. I'm picking up a case of 2016 Meyney and Tour St. Christophe.

JimHow

Ah I guess that Felsina is not in stock, never mind.
I do need to get a little more Italian in my cellar though.
I think I'll buy some more of that '15 Produttori in NH tomorrow, that was a real crowd pleaser.

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Come on guys can you just take a quick look at the chianti/italian selections, looks like some wines are on sale, I'm just looking for stuff to drink in 2019. https://www.zachys.com maybe you don't see anything there. How about 2015 Chianti Classico Riserva Felsina at $24.99? That would seem like a ...

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It has a bit of a rustic, tobacco, earthy component that combines with ripe red fruit and robust cedar that just seems to be so perfectly and delicately matched. Jeff Leve thinks this will drink well in about 7 years, I can see myself drinking a bottle per year over a 7-25 year period. Love it. I'm ...

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If you find it in the $30 range, I hereby order everyone to buy a case.

JimHow

Jeff Leve's 93 point note about this $30 bottle of wine: Silky textures, refined tannins and an elegant, fresh, juicy mouthful of earthy, ripe, sweet dark red fruits with nuances of tobacco, wet earth, cigar wrapper and a background note of licorice are a turn on. Give this about 7 years in the cell...

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Interesting grape breakdown:
Merlot 55%
Cabernet Sauvignon 38%
petit Verdot 7%

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Went over to Jeff Leve's site to see what he thinks about this:

Today, there is no better wine for the money from the Margaux appellation than the 2015 Chateau Siran.
Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/se ... au%20Siran

I cannot disagree.

JimHow

Man I LOVE this wine. I'm really hard-pressed to recall a $30 Bordeaux that has performed better. Maybe those Poyferres and Duharts that we got for under $30 back in the day, but damned, in 2018, this is as good a value as you are gonna find out there. I don't know, I don't want to go overboard, but...

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Well, we are in the final days of our mini-Trump embarassment of a governor, Paul LePage. Eight long years of this douche. If any of you have followed this cat over the past 8 years, he has been really something. He's in the news again with a douche thing he just did today that's not even worth the ...

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Well it's been another good year, all in all. The criminal law business is busy as ever. We avoided disbarment for my lawyer client. I've been able to focus my practice to almost exclusively criminal defense, which is a good thing. Any year I get to travel to Paris not once but twice things must be ...

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This wine is smoking from the get go, Nicola. How long do you think this will age?
It is thick and chewy, I love the Margaux bouquet.

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Off on vacation tomorrow in South Florida, figured I'd finish off the year with a... 2015 Margaux.... I have about 9 bottles of this in the cellar, let's see if I want to pick up a few more on sale at $30 in NH. Wouldn't be shocked if it is a little closed up at this point. Although, the nose is in ...

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I'll be at Zachy's at some point tomorrow picking up a couple cases of 2016 Bordeaux that have arrived. I'll be looking for some lower priced chiantis and other Italian wines, maybe a Rhone and Burg or two. If anybody has time to take a quick look at their website between now and early afternoon on ...

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Sounds like 2008 is supposed to be a good vintage for Champagne?

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I'm hoping to pick some up on sale in NH tomorrow for $70.

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Everyone should have at least one bottle of this in their cellar.
It will drink well in ten years, it will drink well in fifty years.

JimHow

waiting for the complexity.
You may be waiting for Godot, DavidG.
Having said that, I have few complaints about Haut Bergey, it almost always provides good fruit -- if not profundity -- consistently in the $20-something price range.

JimHow

You did a good job this holiday season, Stefan, what was your wine of the season?
Looks like you drank a lot of pinot, champagne, and Sauternes.

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To me, this was one of the easier selections in the august nineteen year history of BWE. 2015, the most recently bottled Bordeaux vintage to hit the shelves, experienced a Margaux vintage of epic proportions. Wines from that area, from top to bottom, excelled. Many, at least in my experience, were &...

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...to be announced soon.

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I still say we moved the market on '89 Lynch....

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You might want to blanquito it.
I've gone through a case of the 2005 Haut Bergey.
It has good fruit, just not a lot of complexity... at least yet.

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The winner will be announced within the next three hours....

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yes but i am the anti-pope

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Habemus vinum anni.....

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BTW the 2005 Haut Bergey also has an issue with lacking complexity that I hope will straighten out with age. Good fruit though

yeah, but isn't that pretty much the definition of Haut Bergey? Good fruit, nothing too profound.

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...and the clock ticks down.....
The choice has been made.
The subjects await the black smoke.

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Oh yes.
The 2007 Lafaurie we had on Christmas Eve was very nice.

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How do you prove a wine was corked? Or cooked? Or tired? Or just “20% corked”?

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Thanks for the update Gerry, I have a case each of 2004 and 2006 Pontet Canet sitting in my cellar.
Hope you have a happy new year, we need to get together in 2019.
Go Pats!

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That's strange to me, Stefan, I can't think of a better food to drink French red wine with that a ribeye.
In fact, Jimmy Suckling and I drink French wine with anything....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEYHX5XlZ4

JimHow

The 2016 Geyserville is a stunner.
There are 12 bottles in NH Hampton South, hoping to get at least some of them on my way south this weekend.

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MacArthur's is not shipping to Maine anymore.
I'll be picking up some wine in NH and NYC this weekend before flying out of NYC for sunny South Beach.

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