Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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Really a pointless exercise for me. I usually leave a movie after fifteen minutes if I'm suffering. I can't remember the last time I sat and suffered though a whole movie. Even that junk Avatar had redeeming value because the special effects were so cool. My kids love the Hangover, Date Night and a...

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I suspect a perfect cellar may provide different results. Mine is a passive cellar ranging from 58F in deepest Winter to near 69F in hottest Summer.

So YMMV.

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Tried to warn you...

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ROFL!

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I've had several 2005 Bordeaux, all have been very satisfactory to excellent. Many have been less than $20, some less that $15. Just good damn wine. Comparitively. Smooth yet complex and drinkable but with the ability to last. Damn fine year it seems. Drink around any you have and keep your 2005's. ...

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Attack of the Giant Leaches. I pity you. Even if the MST version is enjoyable. Methinks that one has Joel.

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Interesting. But upon reading, it doesn't matter the vintner nor the year, it's the vintner AND the year. I've enjoyed that grape from many a place and many a year and many a vintner. Nebbiolo is a fine grape for wine.

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Best wines I've been having of late are 1996 Cote-Rotie. Different vintners but all I've had have blown my palate. Weren't cheap when I bought them Back When and no idea how expensive now, but marvelous even in my cellar. Those of you with them in some '55 degree' cellar, look forward to 10 more yea...

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BTW, I love old B&W Sci-Fi.

But you obviously haven't seen "The Giant Gila Monster" or "Attack of the Giant Leaches".

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Lawyer, politician, wine connoisseur, web master, now author? What have I missed?

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I suppose this means Hollywood movies. Worst Adaption for me goes to Starship Troopers. A MOST MARVELOUS book that what completely whored and destroyed and ruined by Hollywood. NOTHING like the book. Sad. "Hey, let's throw out the social commentary and add in some teenage angst, yeah, and SEX! ...

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I had this wine just the other day. I bought 6 of them Way Back When. $36 or thereabouts. 3 left. Didn't find it oakey at all, didn't find it particularly Margaux either, just a nice wine. $65 though after 10 years and the lauded 2000 vintage (or has that been revised?) and pretty much tells the tal...

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JimHow wrote:I wouldn't necessarily dispute that, in general.

Got to go Jim, see you soon.

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Heck, my opinion is drink your 2000's before your 1996's.

Just me of course.

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JimHow wrote:Okay, sounds good, I'll bring along a certain wine from the Bages plateau of Pauillac that has been known to offer up black-fruit and lead pencil enjoyment for several decades now....

Maybe sometime this winter/spring....

Ah the inevitable 1989 Lynch-Bages.

An Arcana of BWE. From the first.

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JimHow wrote:Ah, I'm really sorry to hear about all that. Life is just way, way too tenuous. Well, just try to keep an even keel, I hope we get to share a glass or two sometime in the not too distant future.

Jim, whenever you get to DC let me know. I'm buying.

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Obladih oblahdah, life goes on...

Yeah, but I've found insurance companies are the worst.

Don't get me started.

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Same here, I just have a passive cellar, but it stays cool pretty much year round. I have cases of 2000, 2002, and 2003 Sociando. I've had numerous vintages of Sociando. The '82, '86, '90, and '03 were great, but '96 is my favorite. Well you are in Maine for Thor's sake. How much colder can you get...

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Hey Alch, what have you been up to? What have you been drinking lately? It's been a suck year Jim. Brother, Mother, step Mother, Mother in law all die within 6 months, Hell of a cost too. Been sucking down my cellar of great wines. Bordeaux and Burgundy and Rhone rules! now can only buy cheaper win...

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Well, I have no Sociando-Mallet but i do (did?) have some others. All were delicious wines some 14 years later. Got to love that Bourdeaux mentality.

And my 'cellar' isn't even close to the 55 degree some Scottish castle kept as. The power of advertising.

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Have you tried any? Buy what you like.

Otherwise, don't bother the group.

Duh.

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I know you folk only drink the finest How do you know that, Alch? By ignoring all the posts on sub-$20 wines and only reading the notes on the expensive ones? David, c'mon! I've known you guys since 2000. I've read you'r evaluations of wine. I've read your dismissals. Are you now telling me you've ...

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I think I have some of this (3+, less than 6). Not sure if I've tried one as I've tried to keep the 1998 Right Bankers in the racks. 93 to 91 doesn't really mean anything to me. I have quaffed a few 2000 Bordeaux and for my palate they do not come near the 1996's, which I tried a few of, fell in lov...

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Being my Birffin Day week and a year since me mother died and all the crap of last year I took the week off. Been trying to straighten the house up which is hard considering its' size and trying to fit most of four other houses of stuff you want to keep inside it. Cat hair hides. Anyway, Kathryn mad...

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I honestly still do not understand this obsession with keeping wines. Drink them when they taste good. Drink them up. If they taste good now drink them up. Screw 'maybe they'll be good a godzillion years from now'. I mean, who cares. OK. Speculators. Bane of ManKind. I've had anywhere from 1st Growt...

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2008 Gazin looks to be one of this estates best ever and the prices aren't crazy.

Does that mean it's less than $200 per bottle.

Bordeaux prices have become ridiculous.

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You guys just never learn. 2003 was the Vintage of the Century. Only it wasn't. Yes, run out an buy initial basis findings. Within a few months it will change. Always does. Sheesh, you guy's and gal's STILL all a-wonder on WA scores? Whatever. Man, enjoying a $9 local wine. Nothing to ponder over, j...

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Damn! Sure I posted, thought so anyway. Lost.

Guess that is best.

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Thanks Dan, But you know, I've been an ass-hole since I was 15. Just that teen-age thing every parent knows about. I hope I've out-grown it, being 52, but I doubt it. I don't mean to be, but I am. Now that my mother is in dementia it IS a different world. My brother is no longer there to care for he...

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Not sure how this vintage nor this wine was received but I like it. Has that 'really well made' quality to it just from the nose. Slightly floral, red fruits, a nip (tannins?), forest\mushrooms, something deeper. very deep red in color. Some graphite in there. Smooth-ish but needing food. Heck, in m...

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I bought a case of the 1998 Ducru Beaucailou. 4 down methinks. Something like $30 per. Guess those days are over. Bought after a trial. Several other 98's I pruchased. Even the Sociando-Mallet. Still drinks nicely and methinks that was $250 for the case. Also bought the Lynch-Bages among a couple-th...

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By odd time I meant this time of year. Just about every Bordeaux I try around now is ...odd... Not like deep Winter or any other time. Just this month. March is a bad time for Bordeaux. Maybe it's for ageable wines. Tonight I popped a 1999 St. Innocent Arden. It's OK, but nothing like I remember. It...

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Weird expierence. Lot's of fruit. Mostly Sour Black Cherry and Raspberry. But it was kinda back-word. Slightly tannic and though had a 'forest floor' component seemed a little out of sorts. This is one I bought two cases of. Still have most of the second case as the first wast so delicious I drank i...

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Jim,

Like I said, due to the rarity. Often I can realize the taste of a nice well blended Bordeaux and rare the taste of a true Burgundy.

St. Innocent in Oregon the same, kinda, for the New World Pinot Noir's. I've got some 1998's or 1999's that rock my world, but they ain't Burgundy.

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Not being a Burgundy aficionado I always kinda was partial to Jadot. They always seemed...hmm...correct or something. Anyway, I liked them. Fine Wine got in Burgundy from a G-something family but was shut down from it as they missed something in the archaic and convoluted laws of Montgomery County. ...

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David,

Where do you see the delineation....Third Growths or Mid Seconds or where.

I am just curious.

And do you think high end Cal wines suffer more.

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Jay, is BlackSalt on MacArthur BLVD.

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Heck, how has prices done in the past with lowered economies. I mean folk with money still have money, maybe not as many billions or millions or hundreds of thousands, but they ain't hurting anything near average folk are. Went from 20 mil to 5 mil...hell, a couple dozen thousand for wine ain't squa...

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Damn Claret, Not only are you in the Freeist State of the US but you are able to bring in great wines. Alaskan Salmon is always a Fine Thing. Glad the 1992 Dominus was great. I think 1992 and 1993 CalCabSauv was kinda poopoohed compared with 1990, 1991, and 1994. Seems around mid 1990's the dreaded ...

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Bill, Not to start a political mish mash, but I honestly can't remember a thing Bush did right. From unilateral breaking of a missile treaty with Russia to total disregard of Climate Change to unacceptable low numbers of military in the Afghanistan War to the bogus invasion of Iran to the tax cuts t...

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