Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Michael-P

Werner: Apologies. Not sure why but I must have been thinking about our recent new hire (at a start up with 25 employees) when I wrote "Walter". Nalan was remembering the last time we saw you guys with your baby daughter and I said she's probably in college already! Looking forward to catc...

Michael-P

Lisa is helping to organize the venue so please let us know who is coming so we have a head count.

Michael-P

Michael-P

Gene: Sorry but the 20th did not work for us. Merrick Dowson's memorial service and an evening concert.

Michael-P

BD's blind WA 100 pointer tasted like a recent Napa cab even though it was the 10 Cos. I like many Napa cabs but this was not for me and many of the other wines on Sat kicked it's 100 point butt. After open in the bottle for an hour, the 59 Latour Pomerol was intact, with fruit, a little unbalanced ...

Michael-P

Full TNs for the evening please....

Michael-P

BD: 20 people drinking alcohol without masks in your hotel room. Closed door, low ceiling and probably no window. No one would fault you for changing that plan. We will drink plenty each night. Joel: I would think the 1 hour of pre-dinner drinks we already have for Fri at Bis is enough, no? Michael-P

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Can someone please bring a Durand to Sat? I think my old bottles need it and I lost mine as soon as I bought it and have been too pissed off about promptly losing it and too stubborn to get another, yet.

Michael-P

Whatever happened to the guy (can't recall his name now) that was a wine humorist and VERY un-PC, talked about other wine critics and his young female asian assistant? Perhaps his humor was too un-PC and he got shut down?

Michael-P

I pulled the wines for this trip over a month ago and promptly put them in the check-in box, and I can't recall what they are! Other than the 3 that belong to BD (I am a mule at BD's command), a couple of aged Bordeaux and I think a JL Chave blanc (late 90s), I really have forgotten. So it will be a...

Michael-P

Michael-P and Nalan: 1 Lamb, 1 Salmon

Michael-P

Joel:
Thanks for all the heavy lifting. Any updates?
Michael-P

Michael-P

Please add to the list for the BD Friday Champagne Reception:
Michael-P + Nalan
Thomas+Joanna (our hosts in DC)

Michael-P

Nalan and I will join the Friday dinner

Michael-P

Arv:

Yes, that sounds the same.

But please try not to remind me about how I don't have the time, or in my case also the money to fix them all, to play with my cool cars. I recently had to move a few around and one of the tires was flat and not inflatable. Ugh! BTW, "Cool" IMHO.

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Michael-P

70 Giscours - On another BWE post about Napa wine tastings I had noted that we had a guest visiting a few weeks ago. On that trip we went to some nice dinners with him and when he mentioned one of his favorites was Giscours, I went to the cellar to see what I might have. I could only find one 375 o...

Michael-P

UPDATING Periodically (last 11/10) Guest list currently: 1+2: Michael-P and Nalan 3+4: SF-Ed and Lisa 5+6: Tim and Guest 7+8: Arv and Marco 9+10: William-P and Linda 11+12: Chris and Werner 13+14: CabFan and Victoria Location: Piperade, 1015 Battery St in SF. We've had multiple BWE events at Piperad...

Michael-P

PS - There are easily 30 or more I like for either their wine, their tour experience and their staff.

Michael-P

It all depends on: A - How much you want to spend on tastings. I recently read the average basic tasting fee in Napa is $58. Reserve tastings cost more and tours with small food plates cost even more. We had a guest from India a few weeks ago and went to Napa where we had multiple $100 and one $150 ...

Michael-P

Are we reconstituting our 2020 trip for 2022?

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Michael-P

Bought our tickets to DC for the event.
Now what wine to bring?
Are we shipping in advance anywhere?
Michael-P

Michael-P

We may have 2 DC friends that may come one night as soon as they know venues and costs (fair questions!)

Michael-P

Please add Nalan and I to the attendee list.
Is there a wine plan and/or venues?
Michael-P

Michael-P

BD: We expect you to point us to where we can read the public reports as and when they occur? MP

Michael-P

Depending on date and time, we would love to join. We need some advance notice to access the cellar.
We had a VCC 90 on a BWE zoom call a few months ago and it was very complex. I think I rated it a bit lower than it deserved because it grew in complexity and long finish after the call.
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Michael-P

A bit late but wanted to thank Ed and Lisa for having us over to a yummy dinner, sharing yummy wines and fun conversation. Ed made this huge hunk of lamb, perfectly cooked for many hours, and gave me such a big piece that I wasn't able to even ask for seconds. Lisa made the most amazingly light choc...

Michael-P

Dropped an 82 GPL in the storage lockers. Hit the concrete flooring from 6 feet and immediately smelled wonderful. Grabbed the neck of a bottle of something 1915 in a cardboard box and the neck came right off the rest of the bottle. In shipment from Europe: imperial of port (newer vintage) and 47 Ch...

Michael-P

1 - Yes, try it now since you like infanticide.
2 - Try one every year until one case is gone. Then decide what to do with the second case.

Or sell or trade them to someone (MP?) directly to avoid auction fees.

MP

Michael-P

"only wanted Sancerre and Dom"
LOL!
MP

Michael-P

I also store in cardboard and never noticed any impacts. I put them on a metal shelving rack units so for most of them they are not stacked on top of one another. MP

Michael-P

Opened a 1990 VCC at 445p est. Will decant around 530p.
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Michael-P

Nalan and I will join today, hopefully with a VCC.
Michael-P

Michael-P

The Amorosa castle is apparently gone too. I like Disneyland so I liked the castle too, although not any of the wines. Still a fun visit. Others have burnt to the ground too. Sad. Fires slowly getting under control. Nicholas: Thanks, our house is at the Eastern edge of the town of Napa, so we have b...

Michael-P

Jim: When I first read "16", I thought you meant 1916. RIP Eddie. Good times. Ronnie was a good friend of one of my closest friends. I met him a few times and he seemed a nice guy. Too bad he apparently had demons he could not manage. After Ronnie's death, my friend helped produce the fina...

Michael-P

I am with Alex on this. Generally I decant, although sometimes I do the Audouze method with older (+50 years) wines. I have quite a few experiences where decanting an old wine helped, to be clear helped a LOT. Some 15-20 years ago, repeated tries with half bottles of 66 Haut Brion (from the same cas...

Michael-P

Thanks for all the good wishes. Nalan and I are happy.
Except that we can't sit near our friends when we drink Bordeaux together.
And Napa is burning.
And the BWE trip to Bordeaux was cancelled.
Soo this too will pass.
Michael-P

Michael-P

Nic: But bachelor party will have some great wine!

And I forgot to mention that my earlier plan was to ask her on the BWE trip to Bordeaux in March. But, as we all know, that plan was cancelled by Covid.

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Michael-P

Ed:
Is today your anniversary? Congrats to you and Lisa!
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Michael-P

OK, I was going to do a posting tonight but Jim beat me to it. Nalan and I took an 8 day road trip to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks and got back home a few hours ago. While there on Sunday, in front of Old Faithful geyser as it erupted, I got on one knee I asked Nalan to marry me (...

Michael-P

And I haven't yet seen a dime back of my $$$.

Michael-P

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