Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

JimHow

Jesus, I’m on statins and I drink more than one glass.
My liver results (and all my organs for that matter, including, surprisingly, my heart and kidneys), were quite positive in my last battery of tests this past winter.... knock on wood!

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A very good guess indeed Hound, a gorgeous spot.

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Ha I thought the same thing after I typed it. I remember my first client, Donna Hancock, a young woman charged with aggravated assault for (allegedly) hitting another girl over the head with a baseball bat outside a little corner bar up in Somerville. The ADA dismissed the case when the victim myste...

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Yeah, plus the facts of this case will probably drive me to drink as well.

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I liked the 96 and 06, and I've been quaffing the 07 lately as I bought it cheap at auction and it is a solid performer for that vintage.

Indeed.

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I'm not a doctor but I don't buy the "couple glasses of red wine a day are good for you" argument. i think any amount of alcohol is, at the least, not "good" for you, and more likely "bad" for you. Having said that, that doesn't mean I think I should drink no wine. I fe...

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Well done, Claudius. Very well done indeed.

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3 x 2016 Calon Segur

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A lovely week in Boston, Cape Cod, Manhattan, and the Berkshires, now back to the great state of Maine. A few wines consumed along the way as a final splurge before the August fast. Thursday night dinner with the old law school "study group" <rolls eyes> in Boston, we ordered several overp...

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My friend George Isaacson (from Lewiston, Maine) argued that Wayfair case before the U.S. Supreme Court. There are many sober-minded stories out there on this issue, on both sides. It is not as simple as mocking Orange Head because he likes American wines better. Indeed, conservative justices joined...

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From what I've read, this French digital tax on revenues (not profits) would be at a threshhold that would impact only American companies and only a single French company, and that even the Germans oppose it. The point I think I'm trying to make, Alex, is that, just because it is Orange Head who is ...

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Is that rule being applied consistently in France, Alex, or just targeted to large US companies?

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But these taxes are targeted primarily to the big US companies, no?

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What is the root of the French digital tax that he is threatening to respond to, and why is it unfair for the US to respond?

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Found that WSJ article:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-psycho ... opin_pos_1

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We are just going to have to agree to disagree that the firing of James Comey is a "federal crime" that warrants indictment and possible incarceration of a president. Anyway, I'm not trying to be a dink here. I just think that there is a country out here outside of Washington and the big, ...

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I do indeed fast 3 months per year, but not consecutively, except for the one year a few years back when the April 1st BWE weekend was my first wine consumption of that year. I just got done with a family wedding on Cape Cod and I’ll be dining with relatives in the Berkshires later this week and the...

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I'll bet anyone on this web site my entire collection of Calon Segur that Orange Head will be neither impeached NOR federally indicted <rolls eyes> after he leaves office.

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Well, come on, David, you haven't called for his impeachment but you've baically said something worse: Jim asked for examples of criminal behavior on the part of Trump. Obstruction of justice. You've basically said he commited a serious federal felony for which he should be incarcerated in a federal...

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I’m sorry, I love you guys like brothers, but you have not even begun to come close to making the nuclear, blow up the country case for the extreme, extreme recourse of impeachment and removal of a nationally elected president. Give up this tired pipe dream of Trump and Russia. I could care two shit...

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CV I didn’t hear anything about a specific illegality in your message. Patrick’s answer seems to be that the Alexander Butterfield moment is that Orange Head wanted Mueller fired. That’s apparently “the worst” thing that DJT did. I’m sorry, I’m not (through a hyperpartisan impeachment process) gonna...

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I keep asking the same question and I can never seem to get an adequate answer. I keep waiting for Godot, for the Alexander Butterfield moment, but it never comes. Maybe the answer will be obvious now after the Mueller testimony: What is the single most convincing piece of evidence of illegality by ...

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I predict Orange Head's poll numbers will rise and the Democrats' will decline post-Mueller:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/opin ... e=Homepage

JimHow · Re: July 20, 1969 Very, very nicely done indeed, Mr. Flanueur....

Very, very nicely done indeed, Mr. Flanueur....

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If that happens, CV, he won’t vacate the office due to “voter fraud.”

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Very well done indeed Chris!
Yeah, I believe the sweet spot is St. Estephe, along with Pauillac and St. Julien.

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The "new" Bruce Springsteen album is a real gem, you need to listen to it two or three times to fully appreciate it. The album title song is "Western Stars".... It has a bit of that Bowie-at-the-very-end feel to it that you liked, Nicola, although I think the Boss is not quite th...

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A knock on the door of a First Growth abode in the Paulliac hood would be a very fitting finale

Indeed. we visited Margaux and Latour last time.

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We're only human after all....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz2szRFTp60

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OMG, Nicola! Take care of yourself! When I got sick this winter with first my heart issues and then my (more serious) stomach issues, it was a real eye-opener for me. Especially with the stomach issues, I realized that we can't just take our health and welfarefor granted. a local guy died today at a...

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The Democratic Party is vacant of ideas. Just compare the opinion pages of the WSJ and NYT. I "hate" the WSJ opinion page! They are rabidly right wing (as opposed to their superb newsroom). But, the WSJ editiorials are alive! Crackling! Vibrant! Controversial, they have you ripping your ha...

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Those of us who live outside of the Beltway, Jay, have a very different perspective.
Stop blaming it on everything else other than the sad state of affairs in the Democratic Party.

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That sounds about right Nicola.
As much as 2015 was the experience of a lifetime (my friends Tony and Jennifer still talk about it to this day), I just can't do 24 estates in 5 days again...
Three per day for four days would be just about right.

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By the way, what do people see in this Mueller guy?
He seems like he is way past his prime to me.

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One of my favorite lines in my closing arguments before juries -- and I have now tried more criminal jury trials than any other lawyer in Maine, with an 85% acquittal rate, far greater than any other lawyer in the state -- is that the prosecution is trying to "fit a square peg into a round hole...

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Amen.

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If Russia is trolling Facebook I'm not scared. The internet is a swamp.
If they are hacking voting machines, then I am scared.
Has there been any real evidence of the latter?

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...especially on the left bank. Clerc Milon may be the best I've had from that property. d'Armailhac... a beautiful 90 pointer that will present true Pauillac for the next 10-15 years. Haut Batailley: Loved that wine from the other night, another beautiful, elegant true Pauillac that will reward in ...

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Since 1996 Pichon Baron has far exceeded Lynch Bages.

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I agree with everything you say Marcus, except that when he zeroes in on a candidate he destroys them. I mean, like DESTROYS them. Ruins their careers, their lives. He was a joke a year and a half out before the last election but he methodically picked off one Republican afer another... and these we...

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