Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Blanquito

I just responded to your post on Wineberserkers on this, so I'll replicate here. In general that Sotheby's auction was pretty nuts, made HDH look cheap. What was especially striking to me was how often prices were far in excess of retail on widely available, not-rare, easy to find Bordeaux. E.g. 20...

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stefan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:59 pm Lucie and I each bike five miles per day while watching CNN. I have trouble getting my pulse over 100, so every once in a while I switch over to Fox.

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Yeah, 98 LB doesn’t usually bring the fireworks, but a bottle of the 98 Pichon Baron was pretty brilliant recently and more or less fully ready to drink.

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You look great, Jim! I love the mountain man meets the city look. This summer in lockdown I was walking 10+ miles a day, and my wife was regularly more than that. But the cold weather has put the kibosh on that.

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Jay Winton wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:34 pm I remember sitting on the beach in front of the Fountainebleu when low and behold a group of models appeared topless frolicing in the surf. I was not permitted to frolic with them.

Advice from your cardiologist, I presume?

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4 of the 2017 Pierre-Yves Colin Morey Pernand Vergelesses Les Combottes
1 of the 2016 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Momtazi
1 of the 2016 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Temperance Hill

The PYCM was $50 + tax + shipping, but I don’t have nearly enough 2017 Burg Blanc and my 2014s are long gone.

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Faury VV is such a great deal year after year, and the 15 and 16 are especially good.

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4 bottles of the 2015 Rhys Horseshoe Chardonnay

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Love this wine.

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I’ll pile on here and agree that this really is fascinating reading. Such an interesting, crazy case with some very scary undertones and implications. I have been thinking the same thing as Marc reading this, that I know who’d I want as my attorney! You clearly can sway a jury Jim and I find myself ...

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2005 Boyd Cantenac (Margaux) I bought this as futures way back in 2006/7, but this is my first try from the case... A delightful wine squarely between austere-traditional vs modern-glossy, this is a nicely balanced. Shows good fruit, but the sweetness is well harmonized by acids and tannins. I’d cal...

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Since Stefan hasn’t, I am officially stepping up here to offer to take all of BWE’s stocks of that swill La Lagune off of your hands, as a public service. So it can be safely and properly disposed of. Heck, I’ll even pay you what it cost on release, I’m just that kinda guy.

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I’m long on the record that I don’t really like Leoville Las Cases and/or it’s never ready. More recent vintages might have broken this streak — I actually liked the 02 when I tried it — but even at best it seems overpriced/overrated. For ages, this also summed up my general feeling about red Burgun...

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Nice write up, Ian. I’ve had two underwhelming bottles of the 85 Mouton over the last 5 years, but it sure sounds like those weren’t correct bottles. Not had any of the others, but I guess I’m surprised that Lafite was “last”!

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Last night with rack of lamb and brussels sprouts, we opened a 2000 Talbot St. Julien. This was the 3rd bottle out of a case that was cracked last May, and all of them have been excellent. This is a deep, rich, and structured wine, still seeming very youthful at age 20+. My notes say that RP rated ...

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2012 J. M. Boillot Puligny Montrachet La Garenne First of a 6 pack won not long ago at auction for $52.50/each all-in... Very nice, quite lemony in profile with good dry extract and bright acids, and a nice grippy finish. A white wine in a lithe, citric, mineral vein. I’m happy with the value here, ...

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I haven’t had many 2018 white burgundy is yet, mostly lower end bottlings from PYCM, Neillon and Billaud Simon. At least compared to the 2017 versions, these are too soft and diffuse at these domaines. They’re not bad, but they lack the electricity that the 2017s show. But it’s good to hear that the...

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I’m not impressed with the 2018 white burgs I’ve tried so far.

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stefan wrote:Hmm. The secret for not buying wine is to go to a wine website and spent a lot on other things. I guess it makes sense if you have a BWE mentality.

Exactly! I was bragging to Kim, who was shocked at all the CC activity, that at least I didn’t buy any wine!

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Based on the comments, I got the “Grand Selection - Schrenckii”. Looks like that’s DavidG’s fav too.

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The caviar David is talking about is still on sale for Berserker Day: https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=176936 I did a little looking around and even with the discount code, this Astrea stuff is still pricey. But everyone on Berserkers makes it sound like world class stuf...

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Oh fudge. As the berserker day deals have been extended, I just ordered some Veleta olive oil and balsamico and a 100g tin of the Schrencki caviar!

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DavidG wrote:I bought tuna, olive oil, beef, and caviar.
Still no wine purchases in 2021...

Have you had the Veleta products and Astrea caviar before? Good stuff?

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I’ve only bought steaks (Flannery) and stems (Grassl) on Berserker Day (so far).

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Alaska is, with the possible exception of Hawaii, the most culturally interesting state in the Union. When I was there in the summer of 95 — which incidentally was during an epic King salmon run when the locals were just giving the fish away they had so much — I read that some amazing percentage of ...

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1990 Château Sociando-Mallet Another terrific bottle of this. Still sports a dark garnet core of color, but all the erstwhile primary, grapey notes are now gone. This bottle shows more pyrazine than some others bottles have, but I am seriously digging the smoked poblano, piney fruit and fresh-crack...

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Yeah, I bought the Sky Zin based on your recco, but later I saw the thread on WB. Doubly excited to try it, arriving next week!

What was the '17 Pegau running price-wise on pre-release?

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I’ve won 9 bottles of l’Evangile this month (6 of the 95, 3 of the 90) for well below retail. Not cheap of course, but relative bargains. And I consider well-stored bottles of the 85 La Lagune for $87 all-in a screaming deal.

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January has been a bad month for me, buying lots of wine. Mostly because I’m winning some lots at auction I normally get outbid on.

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A mixer of wines-to-try:
1 bottle of 2013 Sky Zinfandel
1 bottle of 2017 Pegau CDP
1 bottle of 2018 Enfield XB02 - Jurassic Park Vineyard Chenin Blanc
1 bottle of 2017 Domaine Laroche Chablis 1er Cru Mont de Milieu
3 bottles of 2014 Ridge Geyserville Essence dessert wine

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Interesting how unenthusiastic the CT notes are on this wine, even by experienced palates. My money is still on the wine and palates like J Gilman’s and Musigny 151.

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I managed to snag 4 bottles of this in 4/19 for $110 each from Flickinger, sourced straight from Europe. Short of a major financial meltdown, those sort of prices are long gone sadly.

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This makes me very happy, as I have 6 bottles of this.

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stefan wrote:Sorry about that, Patrick. I didn't check who was winning when I bid since you usually check with me via email when LL comes up.

Oh, how I regret telling the world how good LL is.

No worries, hopefully we all get to share some good LL together soon! I have a few ‘78s I’m saving for the next BWE.

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Outbidding me again, Patrick, eh? Oops! I did check for you before my first bid, Bill, but not afterwards... and checking the bid history just now, it looks like it was I who was being outbid!: Bidder Name: P*** Bid Price: $332.00 Original Bid Date: 1/20/2021 6:14:50 PM Bidder Name: W*** Bid Price:...

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Finally, 4 bottles of the 1985 La Lagune for $87 each all-in. I had this blind just over 3 years ago and I was so impressed I’ve been trying to source some good looking bottles of it ever since. Yes!

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I own ZERO bottles of VCC. I could open a different 98 Rightie though.

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...I overpaid a number of times this past year at auctions (it's easy to get out of control), but the 1998 Figeac and VCC I got for barely over $100/bottle stand out as bargains. Wow, those are great scores! Of course, $100 for a bottle of fermented grape juice is absurd, but setting that aside, we...

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99 SI Shea. Didn’t show too well on day 1, but very good on day 2 with lots of richness. The bouquet is almost claret-like, quite earthy. Has a brown rim and is fully mature, but seems to be holding well. Very nice.

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My sampling of the 85s has been relatively narrow, but boy do I love them. e.g. the 85 and the 86 Beychevelle are great... but I prefer the 85. Only the 85 Mouton has been disappointing.

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