Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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I agree with those who say the 85s are drink now wines. But I don’t think the 86s are really improving anymore at this point either (first growths and LLC excluded), though they should hold at their current peak for a good while still.

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Count me as preferring 85>86 overall. If the total number of great wines in a vintage is the metric, then 85 wins easily because both the right bank and left bank wines are wonderful in 85. I’ve had quite a few spectacular 85s from St Emilion and Pomerol, as well as from the Medoc (where it shows mo...

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And as a corollary to Marcus’ singularity, has greatness come at the expense of Bordeaux ever making a true vin garde vintage again a la 75, 86, 95, and at this point, probably 00 and 05? We can also debate if the occasional vin garde vintage is a good thing — as I get older, my interest in a vintag...

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My sincere condolences, Jim. Siblings are so special.

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I also have come around to being reluctant to open left bank Bordeaux before about 15 years old. However, I don't think I will ever agree with waiting 25 years. The implication there would be that I need to wait until my mid 70s to open 2016s, early 70s to open 2014s, etc. Not happening. I stopped ...

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Fun and interesting tastings, Marcus. These sorts of notes just reinforce my inveterate reluctance to open young Bordeaux. I have loads of 2005s in the cellar and I always think about opening one, but except for the true petite chateau, I never do. Heck, I won't even look at most of my 2000 Bordeaux...

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Last night, a Médoc that some know here, the Chateau la Tour Saint-Bonnet , in the 2015 vintage. Let say that for less than 24 $cad, this is excellent, made in a classic way. Delightful now and for 7-10 years. Awesome. Haven’t had this chateau since the 2010, but I could see it excelling in 2015 an...

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Oh fudge! I put a fairly aggressive bid in 7 days ago on a 6 bottle lot of the 1995 l’Evangile and promptly forgot about it assuming I’d get outbid. Well, they bid me up to within a dollar of my max bid, but I won.

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In the spirit of great wines for <$50, I bought 6 bottles of the 2019 Huet Clos du Bourg Sec, 5 of the 2019 Huet Le Mont Sec, and 1 of the 2017 Elio Grasso Langhe Gavarini.

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Scary factoid of the day: “A Wednesday poll found that 45 percent of Republicans approved of the storming of the Capitol building”.

It does make me wonder how the other 55% of Republicans can stay in the same party with the fascist 45%.

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I am having one of my periodic bouts of shock at what we are all willing to pay for wine. It feels like waking up from a dream or coming out of a daze. In this current state, things that normally seem like a deal seem outrageously expensive and I am finding it so hard to believe that I have been rea...

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How in fuck’s name did that happen? Did you see the picture of a capitol policeman getting in a selfie with one of the rioters? That's how it happened. Yes, and then these domestic terrorists were just allowed to leave on their own. (Almost) no arrests, no IDs taken or noted, nothing. They broke in...

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On this board, I’m a basically a rookie with 82s as well, but there are 5-6 relatively affordable chateau (eg Beychevelle, Dominique, Magdelaine) from that year that I zeroed in on about 10 years ago to load up on and which I’ve had regularly in the years since. And yes, several of these are seeming...

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Will there be any fallout? Arrests? Shouldn't Guiliani go to jail for inciting this, along with Trump?

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Reap what you sow.

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Stacey Abrams is my newest and biggest hero.

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Incredible!!!

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Holy shit! Wasserman has just called the race for Warnock!!!!!!!!!

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Based on the results so far with 78% of the vote counted and a very careful tabulation of what is left to be counted, the NYTimes needle now has Warnock winning by 1.7 points and Ossoff by 0.9 pts!

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Dave Wasserman@Redistrict ·1m “ Here's the story right now: 1. Black turnout looks, frankly, phenomenal. 2. Perdue/Loeffler are approaching Trump %s of the vote in a lot of deep red rural counties, but turnout there isn't anything special. 3. It's getting harder to see a path for either R, but esp. ...

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Nate Cohn and David Wasserman are both making some very encouraging posts and observations about the Dems chances right now, especially Warnock. Tight, even very tight still, but looking/leaning blue at the moment.

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Putting the cart waaay ahead of the horse here, but if Dems take senate 50-50 + VP, how long before Breyer retires?

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JimHow wrote:It's going to be really close, I think we are going to lose.

That was my expectation earlier today, but with 66% of vote reporting things look tight but leaning Dem.

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Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict · 10m ago
“Bottom line so far: I think Republicans have a turnout problem.”

A 50-50 Senate might be in our near future!!!

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D'Armailhac, La Lagune, d'Issan, Cantemerle, du Tertre,... The list of Grand Cru Classe estates that produce great wines in some vintages is very long. All of those above are currently under $50 for 2019 futures as are many other wines that are great in some vintages. Yes, the 2019 pricing puts a l...

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Some additional ones off the top Tempier Rose Laherte Freres BdB Marc Hebrart Rose Keller Von der Fels Olga Raffault Les Picasses CVNE Vina Real Gran Reserva Lopez de Heredia Bosconia / Tondonia Reserva Burlotto Pelaverga Produttori di Barbaresco Foillard Cote du Puy Ghislaine Barthod Les Bons Bato...

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Apropos of very little that’s going on over the next few weeks, I was pretty shocked by the factoid: “ [In the 2020 election] Trump received 46 percent of the vote, but the counties he won represented only 29 percent of America’s economic output .” I’m sure none of us here think that the validity of...

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Side bar: I put Produttori de Barbaresco in the same category as Sociando: world class QPR, a big part of my cellar, great longevity, perfect style (for my palate), and just shy of true greatness. Like the 82 and 90 Sociando, I have had some Produttori Riservas from the ‘70’s that have been truly ep...

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Depends on what "great" means. Top 10% of wines I've drunk? That's a high bar, and based on that none come to mind as currently available at $50. Top 10% (but not really any higher than that) is in essence what I am thinking, David, and if there are still wines that can get to that level ...

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Holy moly, a single bottle of the 1998 l’Evangile just sold for ~$300!!! I thought I paid a lot for my bottles of the 1990.

https://www.klwines.com/Auction/Bidding ... ku=1516017

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I think it’s clear at this point that for most Republicans Trump’s strong-man, fascistic, demagoguery are a feature not a bug. The GOP leadership sold its soul many years ago and it’s paying the price now with a rank-and-file party that believes Obama was born in Kenya, that Democrat ‘elites’ are ru...

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What would Warren Zevon say?

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Just won at auction 3 bottles of the 1990 l’Evangile.

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A lovely bottle of the 1996 Grand Puy Lacoste . This is wide open and texturally so easy to drink, but it’s showing only secondary development still at age 24. The profile is quite leafy, but eschews any bell pepper, and the body is at most medium. This bottle was in the low 90’s point-wise, and I t...

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So what happens when Pence, as presiding officer, doesn't allow the counting of the votes. Good question. Uncharted territory. My guess is he pushes it as far as he can to make a symbolic display and then “under protest” allows the certification to happen. And if he refuses altogether, why can’t th...

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I listened to the entire call. A few things struck me in particular: Trump is a moron, he has a substance-free mind that can only resort to repeating itself over and over, pointing out meaningless nonsense three or four times like he’s getting paid by the word; Trump is nuts; we have no choice but t...

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Ha, yes! “Great” vintages are often misnomers for me too, e.g. 07 CdP, 03 Bordeaux (Parker at least ranked lots of 03 claret very highly even if he offered some notes of caution in his vintage overview), big vintages in Cali. These are, or should be, cautionary tales for anyone who follows wine crit...

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Boy, I'm really having trouble thinking of any "great" wines for under $50. The Giscours of the world have all gone up in the $60-70 range, or more. There was a time when I could buy 1994 Margaux and Haut Brion, and 1995 Ducru and PLL for under $50, but those days are long gone. Exactly. ...

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Pegau is a great CDP, I agree, and indeed in less acclaimed vintages it is just under $50 still (but the fancy vintages are more like $70-$75). But I stopped buying Pegau after all of the bottles in a 6-pack of the 08 were wildly unstable and spritzy with secondary fermentation. Totally undrinkable....

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One sub-question of this post: do you agree that great, fantastic, even world-class white wines are much easier to find at a ‘reasonable’ tariff than the comparable red?

You only get to vote if you actually in principle like white wine as much as (or nearly as much as) red wine!

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