Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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The forthcoming John Bolton book will be interesting.

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Today's Tweet and total disregard for humanity and common sense is a glaring example of his psychosis. No way he stays. Yesterday in Fallon, NV a small town which features Naval Air Station Fallon, aka Top Gun, they were many more BLM protesters than rednecks across the street, even a few packing gu...

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The Only Keller I ever had was a basic Trocken and it was rockin.

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AKA He Who Shall Remain Maskless.

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Is he coming to Bangor?

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1990 Leoville Poyferre for a landmark birthday. Consumed over 2 nights with a 375 recork tonight, this is a wonderful St. Julien. Fully mature and nicely textured, no need to wait on this any longer.

Tomorrow night we will open more celebratory gems at the gathering at my house.

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Trump is only concerned with getting re-elected and the Repub agenda, nothing more. While DC was burning he panders to the gun people by mention the Second Amendment and then pulls the Major Frank Burns bible stunt to appeal to his base. His ego is so big he cannot allow himself to fathom the possib...

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Do not overlook dry Australian Riesling. I am enjoying Rolf Binder.

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I miss Wine Commune. If one stayed away from glamour bottles there were bargains to be had. I scored lots of Germans.

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Do we have a President? Clearly there is no leadership.

Enough burning and looting. The idiot is mute except for loot and shoot. Will there be shooting?

If the food chain gets seriously disrupted my doomsday tryptich will come thru sooner than later.

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Nice. I enjoyed the 96 version and an empty sits on my Wall of Fame.

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Nic, if you can find any Pieropan Soave give it a try. I have only had the basic bottle and it is fantastic, especially with fish. Venica in Friuli is also excellent.

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I am thrilled to have a small group of friends over for dinner next week for a landmark birthday.

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In my experience SI wines reward ageing. I have not opened any 12's yet.

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12 in OR is considered a ripe but not crazy hot vintage and I like the results. I am opening a 12 Walter Scott Dumb Ox on Saturday for the WS Zoom event. I do not have any recent data points on this vintage so this is a good exercise. I find it amusing that SI has so much traction here. Is the 17 vi...

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My next vintages of SI to explore with be 11 and 13. I have liked the 13 vintage in general.

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I have not tasted any OR vintages post 14 except a lone 16 that I liked. 14-16 is a string of warm to hot vintages. My last SI was a puzzling 06 Seven Springs Special Selection. It was more a product of 06 heat than Seven Springs. I just could not get a good handle on what this wine was about. My la...

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2008 Le Cadeau Cote Est Pinot Noir. Pretty OR PN with maturity.

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Interested... I have a few 99 Laurents.

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Riesling and pork or grilled chicken works too.

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A classic PL.

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Arv, let me know how it performs. I wish I had bought 10 cases of 01's, but I have 17 bottles left.

The Merkelbach yesterday was very, very good.

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My bad, I was stuck on Beaujolais. Wrong thread.

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I have some 02 from board recs. I was at the NYC dinner with D'Issan et al.

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I am huge fan of the 01 Merkelbach lineup. I have only a few left, and I’m hoarding them. I saw your note on CT and will be making chicken on the grill in a lime chili marinade. I was at an 01 German release tasting and when we got to Merklebach Kinheimer Rosenberg Spatlese it caused an immediate b...

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I am opening 01 Merlkebach Urz Wurz Spatlese tomorrow. Abtsberg is a rockstar.

I have a couple of 2001 Selbach Oster ZS Auslese, but have not breached any.

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Now that is a liberation libation celebration!

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Jim, I enjoy living in Reno due to the 4 seasons and proximity to the Sierra Nevada Mts., Lake Tahoe and of course California. I can get to Bill P's house in Sacramento in about 2.5 hours.

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Yes that was a great moment in SF in 2002, my buddy Steve and I had driven cross country (just got off the phone with Steve, he retired from his job as a prosecutor last year and has now joined the defense team in our Alaska murder case, he gives everyone his regards, especially you and Peggy, Mr. ...

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You never forget your first. For me it was BWE '03 NYC. OMG so many stories. . What was it called? Harold's? Afterwards a few of us wandered down the street to a spot overlooking the East River, We drank the remains of an 82 LLC, wondering when it would ever be mature while taking in the sweetness ...

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For me it is German Riesling, Chenin Blanc and some Italians including Soave and Vernaccia with fish. Also a few dry Australian Rieslings.

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JimHow wrote:Mmmm can't wait to try that '18!
Timmy has some pictures from that dinner we did back in 2004 with the winemakers from Corbin, Lagrange, and d'Issan, can you post one or two Timmy?

I remember attending this event.

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Is this mass deception? I just cannot understand why anybody supports this imbecile other than for tax breaks for the wealthy if they qualify.

I am neither wealthy nor a supporter.

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Give him a double on the rocks.

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I have had only good 96's, perhaps not as good as 95.

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stefan wrote:Tonight we drank 2009 St Innocent Shea Special Selection with braised duck legs over cabbage. This Shea is wonderful, but the SS version will benefit from 5-10 more years in the cellar.

I have 2 of the regular Shea in 09. So it is drinking well now?

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It might be a while before I get to my locker to pull a 13. Next up is 06 Seven Springs Special Selection.

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I like Beaujolais on occasion but do not cellar much of it. Last night with turkey chili was 2016 Louis Tete Morgon. A nice Gamay.

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I hope it is as good as it looks, Patrick. Tonight we drank 2013 St Innocent Freedom Hill PN with shrimp and tomatoes over polenta. This wine was unattractive a few months after release and stayed that way for quite some time but has now come around. I was worried about the 2013 St Innocent PNs, bu...

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