Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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This wine really blossomed with two hours of air Stefan. Roses, roses, roses… Beautiful.

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Well, Jim, if you could prove that Cruz's father wasn't in on the Kennedy assassination you would make a good point. LOL. I've been scaring myself how expert I've become on the Kennedy assassination. (I'm a single bullet theorist, by the way. ) I say, beyond a reasonable doubt: Ted Cruz's father wa...

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I'm so old I actually remember Bobby Kennedy's 1968 California campaign, and his pledge to take it "on to Chicago."
We are still a month away from the California primary.
I think Cruz should have slept on it….

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Cruz is dropping out.

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Trump says that Cruz's father was in on the Kennedy assassination, and he goes on to win by 20 points. My head is going to explode.

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I like this liberal guy on CNN. "Get the sandbags ready, my fellow Democrats," he said. "A wave is coming…."

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I mean, she can't even put Bernie away in Indiana. By now, this late in the campaign, with her nomination assured by the good old boy Debbie Wassermann Schultz super delegate hacks, she should be winning on inertia alone, just like The Donald on the other side. I think this lady has major electabili...

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Medium red color, leafy, mushroomy. Roses. It has some nice complexity to it, with lots of little nuances. I'm not finding it closed down at all, I think it's drinking beautifully right now. It has a lot of things going on, sweet candy, tobacco, spice, licorice. Very approachable. Drink it young. Th...

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Clinton versus Trump. Hold onto your seats.

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A handsome wine blog, Alex, with the unique Rychlewski perspective!

I love the layout and the alternate perspective on the wines of Bordeaux.

http://www.bordeauxwineblog.com

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I am not the Messiah, my son. I am just a kind and benevolent dictator.

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I'm telling you, Neal's notes lack that je ne sais quoi that Parker had, I think Jeff's enthusiasm for Bordeaux, on both the left bank and, especially, the right bank, are going to elevate him in the wine critics hierarchy now that the old man has moved on.

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Love the easy to read format of your notes, Alex.
15.5% for Troplong Mondot? Jesus.

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I'm going to be honest… I'm disappointed in issue 224. Twenty-fifteen. This was an opportunity for Neal Martin to break out. Like Parker did with the '82 vintage. Like Suckling did in January 1997 in that article about the 1995 Bordeaux vintage. 2015 was the opportunity for Neal Martin to break out ...

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Postscript: In the mid-nineties, I started to discover Bordeaux wine. We drank wines in places like Montreal, Quebec, Boston, NYC, etc., that would be deemed crazy today: Margaux, DRC, Mouton, Haut Brion, etc., etc., etc. There was one wine, early on, that caught my eye. Back at a time when I knew b...

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Step Seven:

Drink your big bad tannic youthful Bordeaux/Brunello with a whoopee pie…
'Nuff said.

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NORTH END BOSTON, 1999: 1988 DAL FORNO ROMANO AMARONE As many know, what I consider to be my greatest wine experience occurred at Saraceno restaurante in Boston in 1999, when a waiter from the old country named "Pete" brought us a bottle of 1988 Dal Forno Romano Amarone, a bottle that deve...

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i like it, but I like the name of my distant cousin robertgoulet better...

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Step Six: Don't over-analyze it, man! Chill, babe! Don't worry about what your buddies on Wine Berserkers, or BWE, or anywhere else think about it. Just go with the flow! Don't worry about whether you're drinking it too young. Just enjoy the big up front ripe tannins. Enjoy the… RIPE FRUIT! The big ...

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indeed...

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Step Five: This should be kind of obvious, but… Drink your young Bordeaux/Brunello/2002L with a hearty dinner. With… FOOD! Drink it with a main course that will stand up to the tannins: steak, lamb, etc. By now, with the main course, you are slightly intoxicated. Hopefully there is a lovely nubile a...

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well done, DavidG. Very well done indeed.

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BAJA COAST, SPRING 2004: I was driving down the Baja back in 2004. Don't ask. I had smuggled a case of wine through Mexicali. On the Pacific coast, I had a dinner of about the freshest fish I have ever had. The match? A bottle of 2000 Leoville Barton that SteveH had scored for me in Boston at $50 ea...

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I paid $85 for a single bottle of the 2012 Pape Clement, rated 97 points by He Who Shall Remain Nameless. The big question is whether I'm going to spring $199 for the 2010 Pichon Baron that is due in in May at MacArthur's. Right now I'm leaning against it, but I think the 2010 Pichon Baron may be &q...

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Ha I think his heart beats just a little faster for the right bank, but that's just one man's observation. And there's nothing wrong with that!

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Step Four: DO NOT MATCH UP YOUR YOUNG WINE OR 2002L WITH AN OLDER VINTAGE. If you do this, things will likely not come out well, either for the younger wine or the older wine. Drink the young wine on its own. Admire its sternness over a couple hours of dinner, on its own, with no distractions. Marcu...

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The email server is a non-issue in terms of reality as far as I'm concerned, but I'm certain it will be used to great effect against her in the general election.

I agree with everything you say here.

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The Brunello Paradox: A Case Study I bought a bottle of 2010 Brunello Argiano when I saw Pappa Doc at Zachy's last month. PD told me to be careful, as that wine was really closed down. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I had already drunk three bottles of the wine, and loved every one of them...

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Step Three: Now that the wine has been uncorked and the first sips taken, pour a healthy glass and give it a little air. Admire the deep, opaque purple. Take in the remnants of oak. I remember having a 1994 Mouton in Quebec City in about 1999. We had duck flambé. It was a beast. But we took big gulp...

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Chris Matthews just said that Bernie made a mistake in not going after Hillary on the email issue.

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Geez that's what I paid for the excellent 2012 Haut Bergey at MacArthur's.

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Step Two: Pop and pour. Do not decant. If you are going to drink a wine young -- if you are going to drink a 2002 left banker -- you want the full experience. You want the tartness at the outset. You want to experience the tannins, maybe even have your mouth pucker a bit at the outset. This is not g...

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I still have a lot of reading to do in Issue 224. From what I have read so far, though, Neal Martin seems to lack that extra pizzaz about the right bank. I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing. It just seems like the enthusiasm isn't there. It seems that Jeff Leve's notes about the right...

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I noticed that Neal Martin did not review the 2015 Haut Bergey in the hard copy of Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.
What is up with this guy?

Where are you seeing 2015 Haut Bergey for $22 Hound?

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More than ever before, I adhere to my view that drinking a wine within the first ten to fifteen years following vintage often has its merits. In this thread I will explain to you how you should drink a young wine…. Step One: Select a young wine from your cellar. A 2002 Medoc will serve well for our ...

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It'll be interesting to see how much of that comes to fruition, Antoine.
I'll bet that some of it does.
I'm not so convinced that Hillary is electable.

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Hmmm, my case of 98 Pape is whispering to me….

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Lol… I liked the 2012, I just ordered a couple more bottles.
I want to see if it's an aberration.

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Indeed jckba, that was my observation reading through his report. Looks like we're going to have to do a little re-calibrating!

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I didn't see that he reviewed Fleur Cardinale and La Fleur de Bouard, two of my new-found favorites.

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