Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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The 1983 Gruaud Larose and Talbot last night with local wine buddies, both in great form with red fruits, great intensity from brightness but enough layered fruit to be wonderfully balanced, totally resolved and silky, complex and just the right amount of funky. The Talbot was a little wilder and en...

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Great stuff, Ian. I had a bottle of the 02 in February (I still weep a little each time I see the $35 price sticker on it), and our notes are nearly identical: 2002 Leoville Barton: Expressive, lovely, utterly classic bouquet of cedar, graphite, charcoal, and purple flowers. Overall, this is cool fr...

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Thanks for providing some welcome news for a change. So happy for you guys.

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I am on the record praising the 03 Duhart. Haven’t had it in a good while, but I loved it on release and the $28 on-the-shelf price tag didn’t hurt. I did sell some of these during the Lafite craze, but I think I have some still. I did bail out on buying this chateau when en premier prices started ...

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Congrats, Michael-P! Condolences, Nalan!

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I am on the record praising the 03 Duhart. Haven’t had it in a good while, but I loved it on release and the $28 on-the-shelf price tag didn’t hurt. I did sell some of these during the Lafite craze, but I think I have some still. I did bail out on buying this chateau when en premier prices started r...

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1998 Muga Seleccion Especial... lovely, lifted, heavily perfumed nose with sour cherry and integrated scents of American oak. Quite bright on the palate, but with enough body and depth to stand up to all the acid. Long, tart, bright finish with a touch of oak tannin. Just terrific.

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DavidG wrote:Love the 2000 Magdelaine. Grabbed some based on your praise for it and glad I did. Holding on to a few to see what additional magic might develop.

Big +1, I've got a baker's dozen I'm sitting on.

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1980 Figeac: Ash, cinders tobacco, compost, forest floor, undergrowth and wet soil, mushroom with some residual berry fruit - goji berries (MEK). The middle part of the bottle has more ash, but with coal, schist, granite and gravelly notes. It has a fabulous texture and decent length on the palate....

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Had a stellar 2004 Delamotte BdB last night. As good as any bubbly I’ve had this year, with the exception of the 02 Rare.

Plus a wonderful, pitch perfect 1983 Lynch Bages and a young but excellent 2000 Gaja Sperss.

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I am a bordeaux man, thorough and thorough. Even with my well-chronicled doubts about many modern takes on wine in Bordeaux and elsewhere, I still have large holdings of recent vintages from Aquitaine and I am very glad I do. What changed for me wasn’t going off claret, but was realizing (very late ...

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Enjoying the second half of an 01 Monsanto Il Poggio Riserva. Bright, mentholated, layered, long, well balanced, ready. Very good.

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JimHow wrote:My gut tells me that this is going to help Orange somehow, give him a bump in the polls.
Jesus, 4 years ago Comey, now this. We have been truly cursed by events since 9/11.

I think most of the world’s current geopolitical woes can be traced back to 9/11 to varying degrees.

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You were right, Jim. All along. Screw logic, data, priors, fundamentals... Trump is getting re-elected. It will be close. Close and fraught enough to cause great angst and heart ache in moderate and liberal circles across the globe. But Jim and I wouldn’t care, because we knew this was inevitable al...

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I loved this wine a year ago. Great note.

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After this SCOTUS calamity, I’m officially adopting DavidG’s position and assuming from here forward that Trump will be President on Inauguration Day 2021. If I steel myself now to that eventuality and don’t get my hopes up, I might survive the outcome. If I hope and conclude that Biden will win and...

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What’s the Lles Feray cost these days?

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Some fantastic bottles there, Bill!

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I think is is a perfect summary of the race in 2 sentences or less:
"it's mid-September and Biden leads by 5+ points in states totaling 290 electoral votes (he needs 270 to win). That's not a foolproof position by any means, but it's a pretty decent one."
-Nate Silver

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jckba wrote:
JimHow wrote:Sounds like a buy at $57.79 in the tax free Granite State.
I would not hesitate at that price.

I second this. I was quite taken with the 2016 Branaire (and St. Julien in general) at the UGC last year.

I paid $55 for it when it was still prearrival.

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...and we’ll (start to) know the fate of our nation in just FORTY-SEVEN days!!!

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If Joe wins the election but then loses because of unfaithful electors or insufficient ECs to get to 270, or right wing courts throwing out mountains of mail in ballots for spurious reasons, or Trump sending in the military police to stop the vote count, et cetera... I really think something like fu...

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One non-polling related thing I’ve been heartened by over the last month or so... Biden has seemed to me way more cogent, energetic, even nimble in both his prepared and extemporaneous remarks. He did very well in his town hall with voters the other day. So much so that Trump is now saying he must b...

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Tim Alberta: “A reality that's getting harder to escape: The 2 states Trump World knows have slipped, and may be unrecoverable, are AZ & MI. WI isn't far behind. If Biden flips all 3, and Trump holds everywhere else, it's 269 apiece. Omaha could soon be the center of the political universe .“ Gu...

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Nate Cohn of NYTimes: “ Biden leads [Trump] by 2 points in ME-02, 47 to 45... In the U.S. House race there, Golden (D) leads Crafts (R) by +19, 56 to 37... The ME-02 House race is considered a tossup by most rating outlets, though that may not last long .” That’s a very big lead for the Dem House ca...

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Branaire has quietly become my go-to chateau, replacing/supplementing the likes of Sociando, Cantemerle and La Lagune.

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I ended up with 4 bottles of 2016 Lynch Bages at $108/each all-in (including sales tax).

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The eye-opening bojo for me was a 10 year old Lapierre Morgon.

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I’ve bought more Beaujolais in 2020 than any other red wine. Maybe more than the rest (of red) combined. I didn’t realize I was such a sheep, following the herd.

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SF Ed wrote:Cheese generally and Sauternes do not work for me, except for blue cheeses.
SF Ed

Absolutely. Stilton can work very well.

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JimHow wrote:I don't buy the Quinnipiac polls, Patrick, they had Biden up by +13 in Florida.

Yeah, they’ve been very tilted to the Dens this year in general... but still!

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They also give Gideon a huge lead:
Maine, SEP 10-14, 2020, Quinnipiac University, Gideon 54% Collins 42% -- Gideon +12

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Surprising poll here, given that the insiders give Trump a slight edge in ME-2:

ME-2, SEP 10-14, 2020, Quinnipiac University, Biden 53% Trump 44% -- Biden +9
ME-1, SEP 10-14, 2020, Quinnipiac University, Biden 64% Trump 32% -- Biden +32

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Lots of good pairing ideas here. I also don’t really like sauternes with sweet desserts though a few work like creme brûlée. I most prefer it with some types of cheese, I think, but I admit when I breakdown and have it, foie gras is a truly magical pairing. I’ve had some nice sauternes and seafood p...

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Lest we forget, Nic’s Purple Baron ran away with the fight in SanFran ‘17:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7107&hilit=2002+Pol ... ncs#p58715

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Prices are nuts, and many regions have gone up a lot in just the last year or two. White burg is particularly bad in my world, wines I used to consider pricey at $75 (like some of the 2014 Neillon Chassagne single vineyards) are now like $115-$125 for current releases. Man, I miss PremierCru -- at l...

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Good point, Jacques. So I checked and the 08 Grande Dame starts at $120 (and the 09 begins at $200!), while the 09 Pol Roger is $79. Is the Grande Dame >$40 better?

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I see the 09 Pol Roger for $79, seems like a good price for a bubbly drinking better (for now) than the 08 Cristal.

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Wonderful stuff, team. Sounds like how the 89 Lynch and Baron showed in Denver — both wonderful, the Baron more open.

How was the 85 Lagune? That wine has wildly over-performed in my experience a few times in blind lineups.

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6 bottles of the 2016 Baudry Clos Guillot on sale for $25. 3 bottle of the 2016 Foillard Cote du Py for $40. I blame Alfert (again). You are learning, Grasshopper! And an amazing price for the Baudry. And in a turn of the tides, based on the glorious BWE pressure and hegemony, I bent against my nea...

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