Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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No way, you’re still good, Marcus: the 1989 Lynch Bages — the greatest wine known to humanity — has a permanent buying freeze exemption. It’s number is retired.

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robert goulet wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 7:32 pm Freeze??? Bahahahaha.....Neverrrrr!

Spoken like a true Floridian!

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What about Rollandized chateau? Are their pre-Michel era wines automatically exemption eligible?

And now defunct chateau, like Magdelaine and La Tour Haut Brion, these of course have a standing exemption, I assume.

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As the initiator of the buying freeze thread, I endorse this topic as safe and wholesome as the 2022s are not yet for sale.

Proceed.

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Is this MM, Nicola’s favorite note writer?

Welcome home!

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I think I’m gonna win this contest, or at least be a finalist.

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I almost just bought some Beaujolais, but this thread “froze” me.

It’s working already!

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stefan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:45 pm Is there a "fantastic deal" exemption? When a when is available for a short time at a great price (say, 25% under low retail), or you have a short term interval in which to but from a private cellar?

Not sure Jim is the one trolling us here…

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But, as a married man, I am sure I can hold out the longest… and buy no wine before anyone else here! Gauntlet thrown!

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Racer Chris wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 8:06 pm In the immortal words of Kramer, "I'm out."

Classic!

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Nicklasss wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 9:46 pm By the way, why you like to self torture yourself? There is so much shit sometimes in this life, that we don't need self inflicted wine freeze buying!

For a moment, I thought you were talking about why torture yourself with marriage. Lol.

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Musigny 151 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 6:43 pm On a par with hitting my head on a concrete slab until my brain starts to explode.

This describes nicely my experience as an American citizen during the Trump presidency.

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Being an existing wine club member clearly qualifies as an exemption, Stefan. Excellent, Stefan is in! On the 2023 freeze, I'm feeling strong! I had planned on holding off through the summer myself, I'm really not seeing much "must have" out there. Yeah, that’s my feeling too. Plus shippi...

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stefan wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 6:05 pm If you are committed to buy due to being a wine club member, does that count as breaking the freeze?

BD, can we get a ruling?

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The BWE Spring 2023 Great Wine Buying Freeze Contest (a la Seinfeld): who can hold out the longest? Mark’s recent mention of a buying freeze “until September” caught my attention, seems like a worthy, if challenging, goal. Better yet, why not share in this effort and even compare notes in the proces...

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ut i'm kind of resigned to go to Hell, drinking Rolland wines for Eternity... Reading this, I immediately had an image of Robert Parker as Satan in your person wine hell, looking quite dapper dressed in a garnet-red devil suit with a big Mouton-purple bow tie, forcing you to drink one 17% Rollandiz...

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Nice! This makes me glad I just picked up some of the Gosset Grand Rose on sale.

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What is going on with this transphobia out there, it seems like fascism is alive and well in this country. I really wish the "Republican Party" <rolls eyes> would just die and go away. Man, they are dying hard, though, with their autocratic tactics. They will die, though, I predict it. I'...

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My style is more aligned with Ed's, as we prefer to walk and explore on our own as much as possible and use a guidebook for the extra details we would miss otherwise. But for sure, advance bookings and reservations for basically everything are highly advisable. I looked up one of the mind-blowing ge...

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Trump would call the 2015 a “low-energy merlot”.

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Been to Rome once in 2010 and I loved it, totally loved it. All of the main sights are well worth it — the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, the Spanish Steps, the Vatican, etc. If the weather cooperates, Rome is small enough to walk everywhere especially if your hotel is fairly central. The one t...

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I’ve never visited, but I found that the add on Berserkers.

Have fun and report back!

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https://www.wineberserkers.com/t/rioja- ... aro/286807

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Rolland = perfection.

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We are not worthy. [bowing emoji]

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In an ideal cellar world, I’d store my fully mature wines (‘88 and older, some ‘89s & ‘90s) at 50F, the 95-05s at 55F, and the younger stuff at 60F.

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05s RB I wish I’d bought Trotanpy, VCC, Figeac, Canon, Magdelaine, Conseillante, l’Evangile, maybe Angelus.

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I missed the boat on 2005 Right Bankers...

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NV Gosset Grand Rose x 6 (with an assist from jckba)

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>> big banks should be making money, paying 3.00-4.00% to depositors >> Bank of America is paying .06% money market to its top tier depositors! I would change if it were not so inconvenient to do so. Yeah, Chase ain’t much better, but Vanguard’s money market is around 4.5%, so I moved cash over the...

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+2 with Jacques, except climate change is already here, already wreaking ecological, economic, and societal damage. And worse is coming fast/soon. So far, virtually every forecast to date on how climate change will play out has been too optimistic, eg rates of warming have been much closer to the wo...

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I was guilty of slinging a little mud.

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One of the most enthralling, magical, beguiling, complex, ethereal bouquets I've ever put my nose to was the 1973 Mouton (circa 2008). The palate couldn't remotely match the bouquet and the whole thing fell apart right before our eyes (and noses and mouths) after about 30-40 minutes of air, but it w...

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William Kelley is earning some real cred in my book with his recent commentary on Berserkers, distinguishing himself from other critics at least in principle. That said, his scores on the 19-21 vintages are virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the “rock star” wine commentariat, so it’s hard ...

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I found the 20 Figeac pretty hohum at the UGC. I tasted it 4-5 times over the evening and couldn’t understand what the fuss was about (but I liked it more than the 20 Canon).

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I was all pumped up about that, then I read that the Florida-of-the-North has elected a Republican super majority in the state senate that allows them to impeach the governor, state Supreme Court judges, dog catchers. That state is crazier than Florida. Yeah, and that gerrymand played a big part in...

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Surprisingly large victory for the liberal judge in Wisconsin. Not sure if it means anything lasting about national politics, but the pundits sure want to ascribe it to how overturning Roe has upended political dynamics in swing states. I do know how insanely gerrymandered Wisconsin is, even by toda...

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Maybe the best answer is, none of the above. There are outlier vintages like 2003 we might agree are better consumed sooner than later, but for everyone with palates like me, it’s really a holding pattern and hope the 01s and 02s hurry up. But someone like AlexR should have a very different perspect...

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JimHow wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:56 pm Both the 2001 d'Issan and Rauzan Segla in London still seemed young to me.

Exactly! These are evolving glacially. Or maybe 21-22 years old was always primordial in Bordeaux, outside of the 82s, 83s and 85s.

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Which post-1990 vintage is closest to full maturity? We had so many wonderfully mature wines at the convention in London, it has me thinking yet again about which of the many bottles in my cellar are close to similar peak drinking. Everything we had at the convention post-1990 still seems like it ne...

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