Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

JimHow

Well done, David, very well done indeed.
I think it is a DavidG kind of wine.

JimHow

I remember Arv buying a bottle of this, the 98 I believe?, at that store north of the city.

JimHow

Thanks for turning me on to it, Patrick, I was thinking of buying it but your note in the name of science gave me the nudge I needed! I have 5 more and will definitely get another 6-12.

JimHow

So is the 2015 Siran a wine that needs to be Howed in its youth or is it something that will last or develop complexity? Boy I've been asking the same question David. The fruit is so beautiful right now. I predict it is going to shut down tight like that '15 Giscours I had a few weeks ago, but righ...

JimHow

I see it at 34-35 at Zachys, Saratoga, JJBuckley etc.
I wonder what the special client price is at JJ Buckley.

JimHow

Where did you get the Siran Chris and how much was it?

JimHow

I take it back, I only paid $29.95 at MacArthur's that's a great price.

JimHow

I see Jeff Leve and others like it on cellar tracker. Interestingly, it is 55% merlot.
MacArthur's seems to have sold out of it, bummer, they had like over 120 bottles a week ago.

JimHow

A really good wine. Loved it.

JimHow

As Blanquito said, this is a JimHow kind o wine. it was worth the FedEx wait. As is becoming evident to me from the 2015 vintage, it is BIG. Aromatic, Margaux, splendidly purple. A stunner! An immediate front runner for 2018 BWE wine of the year. Fills the mouth. Great ripe fruit. Will age a long ti...

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JimHow

First impressions:
Oak on the nose.
Margaux purple on the eye.

JimHow

Delivered today, finally, after a FedEx ordeal this week.

JimHow

Ha well done, Ian, well done. I was looking for Thomas Carlyle quotes on wine and I just got lost in some of his letters in the past 20 minutes or so, ah, BWE....

JimHow

Or at least Victorian....

JimHow

Well thank goodness they found my '15 Siran, Rausan Segla, Tour Christophe, SHL, etc., the latter with their fancy black label, before sitting in a truck all weekend with temps scheduled to rise. The bureaucracy of fedEx when a delivery goes wrong is astounding, I'm too exhausted to recount what I'v...

JimHow

That's what I always do, including in this case, but the two cases are sitting on a truck at a facility 5 minutes from my house because of a shortage of drivers.
That's bad enough but it is the multiple lies I have caught these assholes in that are what really have me pissed off.

JimHow

These people are just lying to my face.
The wines have been sitting in a truck for 2 now going on 3 days, 5 minutes from my house.
The lies are outrageous, I'll recount them here if/when the ordeal is over.

JimHow

I'm having an epic nightmare with FedEx trying to get a couple mixed cases of 2015s delivered, I'll report if/when I ever receive them.
I've yelled at no less than 8 FedEx employees on the phone, over the internet, and in person so far.
Man, I hate being bullshitted.

JimHow

Well, ok BN, I'll go along with "a lot of it is stewy plonk."

JimHow

Australia = stewed wines.

JimHow

Man, you love that Croix Ducru, Chris.
I have never bought it since I wasted $25 on the 1996, which I felt was a supermarket-level wine.
Somewhere along the way it appealed to you, how would you compare it to the first label?

JimHow

So did I Arv but the 2012 HB seems to be in a good place right now.

JimHow

I had the 2012 again recently.
The elegance of the vintage matches well the style of the wine.
The 2012 is seamless.

JimHow

...2012.

JimHow

Ah yes that has been a BWE favorite, although I haven't seen many notes from more recent vintages.
We used to be able to get that for like $15.

JimHow

I have had some very memorable hits over the years with those bottles, but overall my hit rate is substantially lower than it is with Bordeaux. Like, a lot lower. Yeah, that's been pretty much my experience. One big problem is that I find the Burgundy aging curve totally random/incomprehensible. I ...

JimHow

Great report Ian, is Burgundy overrated in general or is it just that young Burgundy is so undrinkable.
I made the mistake of uncorking another 2005 Jadot 1er Cru the other night.
Very impenetrable, needs another 20 years.

JimHow

Ha ha I've been in trial and away, my subjects have been naughty while your kind and benevolent dictator has been gone.

JimHow

Ha he was very nice, what a great day that was, the presidency comes to Lewiston, wow!

His speech at Lewiston High School:

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19933

JimHow

I met Barbara Bush back in 1991 when she and her husband came to Lewiston in early September after a summer at Kennebunkport. I was 32 years old, the young pro-education mayor of Lewiston. The four presidential helicopters landed out on the soccer field at Lewiston High School. The president was in ...

JimHow

How old are you now, 32?
I’m surprised to hear these notes on the 2003 Leoville Barton, it seemed like such a rock in its youth.
Should I be drinking my 2002 Leoville Bartons?

JimHow

Tasting notes for a teeltotalling president:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018 ... Q5ODIwNAS2

JimHow

I truly believe the reports that he is descending into the abyss of dementia. As I've said here before, I haven't heard barely 5 minutes of his voice since he was elected. I've READ all about him, but I've turned him off every time he has come on the TV or radio. During the campaign I listened to hi...

JimHow

Well, then of course you get into the metaphysical question of whether the president can commit a crime. Richard Nixon said no but most scholars say yes. But it's never been decided. But it is really a moot issue. I truly hope you guys are braced for the worst: Donald Trump will be re-elected, and w...

JimHow

Lastly, count me in as a big fan of the new philosophy in wine making. A long overdue change and return a more traditional approach.

Aaaamen, brother.

JimHow

What if there is solid evidence of felonious criminal financial activity? Money laundering perhaps. What do you think would come of that? What should come of that? It would depend how serious, David. I'm sure you've seen the Jimmy Carter interview in which he says he is praying for Donald Trump and...

JimHow

So your answer is C then?
I'm still trying t figure out the Brett Favre connection.

JimHow

I just can’t get excited about these sex related issues, video or no video. Even if Trump is being “blackmailed.” The integrity of an election of a president should not be usurped except under the most extreme of circumstances. The public has the right to elect a raging lunatic. I can’t get excited ...

JimHow

“With respect to CellarTracker -- it would be interesting to see someone do a correlation comparing Parker scores to CT scores for Bordeaux wines. I would guess that the correlation would be near-perfect.” Amen, BordeauxNut, I’ve been saying that for years. Cellartracker is an excellent website but ...

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