Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

JimHow

No she didn't die Glenn, it wasn't a murder case, a bad aggravated assault case.

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Not sure if I can ask this, but how did you know he was innocent?

(Not questioning that he was either)

It's a long complicated story Marcus, I'll have to type up some more details after I can get up the strength to lift my arms.
These cases just wipe me out for literally days afterwards.

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I enjoy being the only friend to the people most reviled in society Nic, it is the only way a fair system of justice can work. The day that those charged with even the most heinous crimes are no longer presumed innocent is the day our society crumbles. In some places in the world my client would hav...

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...ah yes, the old "underage wine drinkers with their parents' credit card" argument.
Exactly what do the wholesaler fascists argue when we point out that all we need is an adult signature upon delivery to solve that issue?

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... after a nearly week-long jury trial. He allegedly nearly strangled his girlfriend to death. The neck is an AMAZING part of the human body. Those da Vinci sketches, those medical sketches, of muscles on top of muscles, cartilage, bones, hyoids, thyroids, trachea, carotid arteries, lymph nodes, an...

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Aging like a couple fine stubborn 1986 northern Medocs....

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This new breed of prosecutors watches too much TV Bill.
There are some bad apples.

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Yeah I couldn't help but notice the less than spectacular pricing for the 2017s.
As I will be 60 this year I'm planning for 2016 to be my last vintage of any significant quantity.

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I think the price we ended up paying for 2014 in New Hampshire was about $67 on sale.
I agree, it is a stunner.

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They had a warm September in 2014.

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I have like 20 bottles of 2014 Calon Segur, I'll bring you one when I see you.

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2004 Haut Bailly was great, as was 2002 and 2006.

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Ha not at all Comte.
It really is one of those wines that combines the best of the modern winemaking world while still maintaining a very characteristic northern Medoc profile.

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2014 Lafon Rochet is a Nicola kind of wine, Nicola.
Gerry and I were really lucky late last year, NH had some excellent deals on quality 2014s that were on sale.
I'm just so impressed by that vintage.

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I agree, Gerry, we got some excellent 2014s at great prices last year in NH.
The northern Medoc is a particular sweet spot in 2014.
I really expected this to have shut down but to the contrary it was singing.

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Being a criminal defense lawyer in this day and age is a really, really tough job. The criminal courts are really unfair, skewed in favor of the police and prosecutor. But, hey, nobody said life was fair. And every once in a while you have weeks like the past one, when your crush these assholes, and...

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You da man, Ian, I hope to get to France again this year as part of the JimHow 60th birthday extravaganza tour. I was invited to London first week of June for the opening of my friend Elizabeth Strout's play "My Name Is Lucy Barton" at The Bridge Theater but I have a big argument coming be...

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I'm just a country lawyer from Maine.

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That's negotiable. I just gave my lawyer 50% in a suit against another firm because he did a good job.

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Um, 33.33%.

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7 divided by 910 = 0.0077%.

I would say that is pretty much about the same as my experience.

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I think this was an interesting little poll, if I say so myself. A very small sample, obviously, but it is a BWE sample, which gives it greater weight. For me, I read a lower incidence of cork defect than the norm that you might find on, say, cellartacker, or, as I recall from the "more serious...

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I neither expect, nor have I ever encountered, the copulating deity in a bottle of wine.

Really.... Have you ever combined a fine northern Medoc with a Maine whoopee pie.

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I'm not surprised at its performance, JC, these so-called off vintages still provide quality.
(I for one liked the 2013 La Lagune.)
Now if we can just figure out how to make your pictures not appear sideways....

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I’d be curious to know what JScott’s percentage is.
I recall seeing his notes on cellar tracker a while back and it seemed like he had a VERY high incidence of corked bottles.

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Often the wine tastes a bit flat and lifeless at first then it gets worse.

Exactly.

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Funny stuff.

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Indeed, David, when a wine is completely flat -- I'm not talking just "closed," I initially think about it being flawed. A small sample in this poll, I realize, but I find it interesting that a substantial percentage find the incidence of cork in only one out of every 50+ bottles... which ...

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Yes but how do you prove that a wine was corked? Do you bring the 95% full bottle back to the retailer? Sometimes at BWE events there is not always a consensus whether a wine is corked. I’ve seen BWE dinners where a whole table was convinced that a wine from 3L was corked but the other three tables ...

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I would say my experience with corked wines is about the same as Gerry’s.

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Poll: How often are your wines corked?
(I was thinking of adding "cooked" in there as well but I don't want to get too complicated.)

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Agreed but what can a retailer do?
If somebody buys a $2,500 Petrus and the buyer says it's corked 10 years later, I don't see too many realistic options.
Especially when sometimes there is not always consensus whether a wine is corked, "cooked," etc.

Which leads me to a poll question....

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3 Gruaud.

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Ha you are not a hater, David, you are a lover....

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I agree with the sentiments, Nic, the Lagrange hate is a little over the top.
this is like Gruaud hate.
Is this something unique to St. Julien?
Didn't you name one of your children Julien...????
Oh the hate out there.

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He wants to fight you Nic.

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You nailed it on the Lagrange vintages, Stefan: 1990, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003.
We had the 1982 Lagrange at a restaurant in Montreal in my early days of drinking Bordeaux (early 1990s) and it was memorable.
And, as I said above, the 2007 was a pleasant surprise.

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I drank through early a case of 2006s. I have one bottle left.

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We drank a LOT of 2000 Lagrange half bottles in that time frame.
The SteveH’s of the world really liked it, as did I.

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