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“One out of every 1,000 residents of North Dakota has now died from COVID-19. Over 9% of the state has tested positive. South Dakota is not far behind with 8% of the state having tested positive, and 1 out of 1,200 dead.” Simply staggering, especially given that these states essentially were bypasse...

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Fun stuff. The main interest for me in these reclassifications is (a) deciding which current 5th growths should be promoted, (b) deciding where to place the Right Bankers, (c) deciding which cru bourgeois should be elevated, and (d) figuring out where to put all those moribund classified growth, mos...

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That's really interesting - it's like you were drinking a component of the 1990 Monte Bello. Beringer sells some of their components to their PR cab too, mailing list and tasting room only, but sometimes they pop up in the secondary market. They could be lesser vats that don't make it into the top ...

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Ridge used to make cabernet (and still makes zinfandel) from Jimsomare, a vineyard in Santa Cruz quite near the main Monte Bello vineyards. In the late 90's (CellarTracker has the final vintage of Jimsomare Cab as 1998), Ridge stopped making Jimsomare Cab and it sounds like they instead began bottli...

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With dinner last night — 1982 l’Arrosee, 1990 Jaboulet Thalabert Crozes-Hermitage, 1990 Ridge Jimsomare Cabernet, 1990 Filhot Creme de Tete. Whoa nelly! heavy duty stuff....please expand on these.... I didn't even know Jimsomare had cabernet plantings. What was up with all that extravagance? It was...

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Giuliani’s press conference today took crazy and bizarre to another level, even for him. His hair-dye malfunction was especially creepy and pathetic.

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Just re-reading this (fantastic) old thread... and I’m wondering if the needle has moved at all on the 95s/96s in the last 2 and a half years? Anyone have any updates? Also, this thread got me thinking early about New Years Resolutions (disclosure: our Christmas tree has already been up for a month,...

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Breaking: no, it wasn’t just people voting early — the U.S. just surpassed a record-shattering 156 million votes counted. Could be as many as 3 million votes left to count, mostly in NY and CA.

Biden 79,535,824 (51.0%)
Trump 73,616,203 (47.2%)

Biden's popular vote lead is up to 5.9 million (3.8%).

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With dinner last night — 1982 l’Arrosee, 1990 Jaboulet Thalabert Crozes-Hermitage, 1990 Ridge Jimsomare Cabernet, 1990 Filhot Creme de Tete.

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Movie and TV stars are clearly wildly overpaid. Think about how much money Trump made from the Apprentice (I read something on the order of $400 million).

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Stu, how mature is the 95 Monte Bello? I have a bottle or two floating around, but I just assumed it needs more time.

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Yes, the protest 05 burgundy WOTY was my rationale.

It was the delicious Alain Burguet Gevery-Chambertin "Mes Favorites" Vieilles Vignes. Not profound but super well balanced.

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I had a lovely red burgundy tonight with almost new world levels of fruit. And I know I would be in trouble for reporting it here but for the fact that it was a 2005.

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9 cases arrived yesterday, 1 from WineBid, 8 from K&L. Mostly bubbly, Bojo and Baudry, and various chardonnay.

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stefan wrote:Ian, your prices make me want to move to the UK.

Yes, that... and the weather.

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I just had the 2005 Produttori Barbaresco normale the other day... and it was honestly a kinda hard work to drink given all of the drying, austere tannin and lack of fruit it is still showing (especially without food). I often like Nebbiolo and I often like Produttori, but it sure can be austere and...

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Any attempt to compare them to the faults of the Democratic Party is a false equivalence of astronomical proportions. They are not in the same universe. These lawsuits are birther, Qanon-level material. You know where I stand on this (can I get an amen?)... Even after 4 years of Trump, I know lots ...

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Everything I’m seeing on AZ says it will be close, like you say, and that Trump is very close to hitting the numbers he needs to reel Joe in. But Nate Cohn, whose twitter feed has been a fantastic resource and spot-on the vote count realities since election night, says he thinks Trump will fall just...

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JCNorthway wrote:That was priceless!

Big +1!

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Except in 2004, Democrats have won the popular vote in every presidential election since 1988!... In almost every election since 1992, far more votes were cast each cycle for Democratic Senators and Representatives than Republicans, with only re-districting and the anti-democratic nature of the Sen...

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Getting nervous... again.

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A few thoughts... -Looks like we will end up with an epic turnout, maybe 160 million voters cast ballots. Truly epic... -In this way, the election showed that both Jim and Nate Silver (if you will) were right: the anti and pro Trump forces were epic in scope... -yet clearly again, the pollsters unde...

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Jay Winton wrote:prune juice

I agree, Cali Cab is a good, patriotic choice for election night.

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I ended up just drinking some scotch, too stressful for a fine bottle of wine (or prune juice).

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Nicklasss wrote:The more I look at it, the more it looks like a BWE 1989 Lynch Bages/1989 Pichon Baron blind tasting...

Nic

No, this election was/is a close call, unlike all those lopsided standoffS between those two ‘89s.

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Gotta like those WI and MI numbers, Patrick! Arizona to me is the story of the night... It ended up being Joe's sunbelt firewall. Nate's site saying it is "more likely than not" that the outstanding ballots in PA will leave Joe ahead in the end. Amen, brother! It’s looking good for Joe it...

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I bet Biden wins GA and PA once the dust settles.

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Biden declared the winner in NE-2!!!

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Older Dominus at least — say, 1994 and older — can be absolutely spectacular. And I have been enthralled by some Phelps wines as well, but basically only from the 80’s — the 87 Eisele was transcendent for years, and the Insignia in 84-87 were terrific. Same with Montelena Estate up through 1991 (the...

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Great minds and all: Here's mine. Biden 305 - wins MI WI PA AZ NC Trump 233 - holds FL GA OH Trump's going to win 40%+ of the vote so of course it's not difficult to find his supporters. But I think Covid has done for him. https://www.270towin.com/map-images/38doY Here’s mine: Biden wins. Range of B...

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Trump might win, no one should be shocked if he does. But for Jim’s EC guess to be anywhere remotely accurate (i.e. Biden wining only 222 EC), Trump would have to win every single toss up state (NC, FL, OH, IW, GA, TX, ME-2) AND the science and art of polling would have to be essentially worthless (...

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If I cared more (I checked our emotionally 2 months ago), I would take a stab at writing the ying to Jim’s yang on the state of the election with 3 days to go, but it feels like it’s really just Jim and me talking to each other here in cyberspace. No disrespect to all the other numerous interesting ...

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Here’s mine: Biden wins.

Range of Biden win — between 290 and 351, with a 413 Biden landslide a (remote) possibility.

Best guess of final EC tally: Biden 305, Trump 233

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“As the New York Times' Nate Cohn points out, Biden would get more than 300 electoral votes [on Tuesday] if the 2016 errors repeated themselves exactly in 2020.”

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A martini, shaken not stirred, in memory of the original 007.

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Yeah, I’ll see how things are shaping up at like 7-8 pm EST before deciding. It might be a vodka martini night instead of fine bubbly, should things look grim.

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What’s everyone planning to open next Tuesday? To celebrate or commiserate?

It’s a school night, so it has to be fairly tame, but I’m thinking I’ll pull an 02 Piper-Heidsieck Rare.

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The uber cautious, non partisan Charlie Cook calls the election for Biden, says when the smoke clears he expects Biden to win by 9 pts and the Dems to take back the senate:
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/71103 ... VCJHPBFJTS

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In a reasonably free and fair election like 08, 12 or even 16, I see Biden winning all of the key Midwest blue wall states, maybe even by comfortable margins. The real problem as we know is all those mail-in ballots, especially in PA. It sounds like it might be days before we officially know who won...

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Ha, just read this right after my post!:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-BB1avo0E

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