Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

JimHow

I'm starting a big three week trial involving a Somali couple charged with welfare fraud next week.
It is going to be a political spectacle.

JimHow

I'm in!

JimHow

agreed.
what meant was ash tray no, tar yes.

JimHow

Well, ash tray yes, roadside tire I'm not so sure.
I think I "get" the roadside tar of La Tour Carnet and some of those racy St. Emilions.

JimHow

Wow! Been in court so not much time to comment right now but I have many questions/comments.
Suffice to say for now that I love that whole Twitter style of reporting your notes under X number of words, it is quite unique, effective, and useful.
Will report back in.

JimHow

True.

JimHow

Well done. Well done.

JimHow

I thought the 1998 Ducru was nice but it lacked a wow factor.

JimHow

Yes Emil, the 1995 Ducru was featured in that famous Wine Spectator article on Bordeaux that came out in 1998 by Suckling.
I remember we could get it for $50 on the shelf in NH but it went up in price not long afterwards.

JimHow

Well put, Claudius, although He Who Shall Remain Nameless used to proudly describe roadside tar as a positive not a negative.

JimHow

The only one of those wines I see being under $50 brodway is Cantemerle. The rest of those wines have all been well over $50 in the past decade, even in less than stellar years.

JimHow

It could very well, Patrick. That '03 was a beauty in its early days. I have one lousy bottle of the '02 left from that case. Was that the golden age of Sociando Mallet? How is it performing these days relative to 1990-2005? Seems like some of the scores of the "experts" have not been great.

JimHow

The end of an era. Best of luck in CO!
We'll have to do a BWE event in Denver at some point.

JimHow

I'm about to go into a stretch of three jury trials over the next five weeks so I'll likely be going into some level of a wine drinking fast, but next on the agenda will be to crack open that case of 2003 SM!

JimHow

Bell peppers indeed. Glorious bell peppers!
12.5% in 2000.
Man, that is what Bordeaux is all about.

JimHow

Love this wine. Love it! So darned vegetal, classic, structured, green, spicy, cedary, aromatic, biting, still youthful, but showing us a lot at age 17. This is going to be a tough one to keep my hands off of in the years ahead. My goal is to pace myself at one bottle per year for the next 11 years....

JimHow

PhilR disappeared, he's the only one who knows how to adjust these things.
I really need to elevate Blanquito to an assistant manager position so that we can tap into Brendan's technical expertise and spruce up this site a little bit.

JimHow

I finally broke down and cracked open my case. I'm liking the style of this wine, but I can definitely see how this would not be for everyone. It reveals sour cherry, spice, and cedar, with a penetrating nose. A beautiful bright ruby red. Most importantly, it is classically styled. Still quite youth...

JimHow

I will buy at least a few bottles each, if they are good and the prices rational, of Giscours, Calon Segur, Gruaud Larose, Barde Haut, Cantemerle, Leoville Barton, d'Issan, etc., etc., etc. It's just another vintage in the march forward of life.

JimHow

I'm sure I'll buy a few of the usual suspects, depending on prices.
I drink my wines young.

JimHow

Interesting you should ask that question, Patrick, I was eyeing my '96 Poyferre 3L tonight, wondering when this beast should be uncorked.

JimHow

I was never impressed with the 1996 Pichon Baron. The '95 was good as I recall, but I agree it was not impressive from 1991-1999. And then a new era dawned commencing in 2000.

JimHow

I think it is time to crack open my cases of 2000 and 2003.

JimHow

Those 2011 and 2012 Pontet Canets are JimHow kinds of wines. (Please excuse the third person reference.)

JimHow

Wow! Is 2016 a Cabernet vintage?

JimHow

They are in that $29-30 range here in the US, which seems to be an excellent price for the quality offered.

JimHow

Yes the Geyserville that Patrick brought was nice, I think it was a 2002. It was certainly not over the hill, it was certainly a different animal than the younger Geyservilles. I'm just not sure it was BETTER than these delicious, youthful animals with their ripe, rich, up-front fruit.

JimHow

Yeah, I would give it a good couple hours Gerry.
That $280 price is a decent price compared to what it is going out there at both retail and auction.
K&L had it going at retail for $399 recently.

JimHow

8 hours!
This wine is really closed right now.

JimHow

Why would you guys let any of these Ridge wines age for any amount of time?
I'm not saying they'll become over the hill, but how do you see these $29 bottles of wine becoming appreciably BETTER?

JimHow

well I have 5 more bottles of the 2014 Geyserville and 5 more bottles of the Lytton Springs, and I'm glad I have them to drink over the next year or two.

JimHow

Delicious wine, I think I prefer this by just a notch to the Geyserville because it is just a notch more understated.
This wine has everything about the 2014 Geyserville except for the almost intimidating bigness.
It is just a little more reined in. Excellent QPR at $29.
91 points.

JimHow

Yum seems a little smoother on the first sip too. I like this. At least early on.

JimHow

Real nice on the nose, it seems a little less overwhelming than the Geyserville, in a good way... at least on the nose.

JimHow

We coincidentally drank a beautiful 1990 d'Armailhac on Campobello Island the day that Princess Diana died.

JimHow

I remember reading an article, I believe it was in the Wall Street Journal, about Peter Gelb, the schmuck who is running the Metropolitan Opera into the ground. I think it was an article about wine. As I recall, he was being interviewed by the reporter at the restaurant across Broadway and he was dr...

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Lynch Bages and Latour did well in 1991. And I think PLL and Cos too.
I'm pretty sure there were other northern Medocs as well.

JimHow

I am not one of those people complaining about 1986 Bordeaux. I like the vintage. I think most of them are really starting to strut their stuff. I am a big fan of the 1996 Pape Clement. Very good plus it was relatively cheap for a long time. I agree with everything said here. It was a thrill to dri...

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well done, RPCV. You are dead on on the 05/12 Barde Haut.

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