Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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Thanks Stefan what is the 2016 Lafite going for?

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I'm curious about that 1996 Lafite purchase.
I'm wondering what the market for Lafite is these days and the staying power of its prices.

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“ My problem is that MC doesn’t want to drink red wine no more, especially concentrated red wine. ”

Umm….

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7 x 2020 Felsina Berardenga Chianti 4 x 2019 La Croix de Beaucaillou 1 x 2018 La Croix de Gay I keep adding that Chianti to my cellar, Jon, it just always hits the spot. I think this may be my first La Croix de Beaucaillou since I was turn off this wine following a watery 1996. I'll uncork one and r...

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I'm intrigued by the words: "Blind you would be hard pressed to tell where this comes from…it does not have much identifiable Pauillac typicity. It has a somewhat aloof and clinical persona." Followed by: "Overall I like this wine...." As we all know, this was produced during an ...

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Insanity plus!
Well done! Very well done need!

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A beautiful wine, true to Graves. A nod to modernness but not offensively so. The fruit is ripe and fresh but the wine is overall elegant. If I were drinking this blind I would wonder if it were a right banker, or a Graves. Opened up with air, the last sips were the best. For me, these 2014s are dri...

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I'd be curious to know the merlot content here. This wine is lovely, round, it has a lovely fruity profile, I would definitely identify this as right bank if I were drinking it blind.

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Thank goodness for the Orange Head stock market effect.

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50 years ago we were driving cars on the moon. Now we can't even land a metal box upright.

But hey, this wine is showing nicely, it has a nice fruity quality that is more right bank than left bank.

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we lost another of the Apollo astronauts this week, Tom Stafford, at 93, he was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 10, along with Gene Cernan, they went down to about 8 miles above the Sea of Tranquility to scope out the landing site, test the radar, a final dress rehearsal before Apollo 11 later that...

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I think the BWE crew had a memorable visit to this estate in 2005. It seems to be a property that has especially generated some buzz in recent years, no?

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Of course, I've generally been coming to the conclusion that life is meaningless, that I'm never going to see my parents again, etc., and that even the vines of Bordeaux and Champagne are dying.

I need a vacation.

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I don't know if "sad" is the right word, I've been just off center all week since I watched "A Zone of Interest" (twice), it's a movie that really upset me.

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One more day of work and then I'm off to Manhattan and DC for three weeks! I'll still be working remotely but it'll be nice to get out of town for awhile. I've been feeling that these 2014s have been in a good place, let's see how this puppy performs....

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Indeed, it was THREE cases of 1982s....

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Also at the dinner was BWEer Maureen Downey, who did such a great job in "Sour Grapes."

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Hope we can break the fever come November. It all rides on Jon Northway’s Michigan, as far as I can tell from my interactive electoral college map.

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Lol... Classic. We had the "pleasure" of meeting Rudy in NYC 2003, we were already overbooked at 102 guests for an event limited to 100. I got a call that day and he begged me and was guest #103. Like an idiot I turned down the two London girls there to celebrate the birthday of one of the...

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There’s some new rom com set in Quebec City, I think I’ll rent it. One of the great cities of the world.

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Hope you’re feeling better Danny. As my doctor always tells me: moderation.

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Me too E, a half case of the 19 and 14 each.

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The 2019 Meyney has more depth and richness, the 2020 Meyney has more balance, these are wines that will not appeal to all palates. I prefer the 2019 slightly more, and thus rate it 92+ points, 92 points for the 2020. Both wines stand out for their rich, distinctive, opaque purple color. Chateau Mey...

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Let's see how this puppy matches up against the delicious 2019 Meyney....

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Indeed, Ian, that visit was one of the highlights of the trip, don't forget the helicopter. Gerry M picked up six bottles for me in NH but I've never rendezvoused with him to pick them up. It was about this wine that I first heard you utilize the term "a revelation."

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lol… That’s a damned good looking dictator.

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I know blanquito and others like these Geyservilles with some age in them but for me I love them young like this, with big ripe rich voluptuous fruit, it was delicious, mouth-filling. I think the back label of the bottle has it about right: "Showing plentiful fruit, elegant tannins and bright a...

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Hail BWE on our 24th Ides of March.... We had an attempted assassination this past year but the Benevolent Dictator lives.... Oh how he lives. Long live BWE, despite the murderous attempted assassins.... We were in Rome last summer and visited the archeological dig where the daggers flamed. I can't ...

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I honestly don’t think I have been more sick than that night… The Night of the Zins….

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Ha ha, the very first night I met you in person, Stefan, February 2001, in Chicago, more than 23 years ago, we were drinking Zinfandels, and I think I had a steak.

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Ha I just texted the picture to my brother Tom and he said he never realized that my cover art looked like the game Asteroids. And I said Asteroids looks like my cover art, that's circa 1969, 6th grade at St. Patrick's Elementary School.

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By the way, my third novel, "Lisbon Street," a legal novel of Grisham-like proportions, is still available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. (I think the best source is B&N.) https://www.amazon.com/Lisbon-Street-Jim-Howaniec/dp/1614347387/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 https://www...

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When I was 11 years old in the 6th grade I wrote a 200 page novel (the first of two novels I wrote in grade school). It was titled "A Trip to Mars," a story of six American astronauts journeying to Mars and the adventures that ensued. It was written entirely in cursive. I still have it to ...

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Enjoyed that launch today, David, if I were elected president one of the first things I would do is invite Elon Musk over to dinner and I would say, Elon, humor me, tell me what would need to be done to land man on Mars in six years. we should have been on Mars 30 years ago.

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By the way, I tasted a 2014 Stony Hill chardonnay at the same birthday party, it was beautiful, best showing yet of a case that I bought a few years ago in NH, I have five left. A revelation, as Comte would say. Looking forward to trying some with lobster this summer.

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Tasted it the other night at a birthday party, RP, it was outstanding.
Going to give it a more serious analysis with a nice sirloin to see if it is as good as I thought it was.

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Ah spring is in the air and it's time to uncork a 2021 Ridge Geyserville....

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Man that 2014 Larcis Ducasse I had the other night was a beauty.

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T minus 6 minutes….

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