Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

JimHow

Did we even try the 2013 Pontet Canet?
I don't think we did.
The only thing I recall about the 2013 Pontet Canet was Alfred Tesseron telling us that he "wished he had more...."

JimHow

Stefan... mon ami... How many 2013s have you tasted beyond the 2013 La Lagune we had in 2015?
I personally have tasted, um... zero.
I don't know how ANYONE can make an assessment of 2013.
Myself, personally, as I have said several times, I thought the 2013 100% cab La Lagune was just fine.

JimHow

I'm with Alex regarding vintage generalizations but I'm also with Hound on this whole "clay" in the St. Estephe nonsense. Guys.... My friends.... As the apparently ONLY Bordeaux Wine ENTHUSIAST in this group.... I'm not sure I've ever had the legendary 2013 Cos, but I have every reason to ...

JimHow

Had this the other night, it is wonderfully austere, vegetal, restrained, green, classic, non-extracted, low alcohol, cedary, stoic, staid... There was no severed arm, no dismemebered trunk of a man in his late fifties. No head in a bag. Nothing. Not a sausage. A complete absence of any tiny but tel...

JimHow

I recall that '98 Gazin as a "big" wine.
I liked it too, although I thought it was quite different from the voluptuous 1990 Gazin, one of my Top 20 greatest wine experiences.

JimHow

I'm going to Blanquito x 3 my lone bottle of 1995 Petrus.

JimHow

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/p ... v=top-news

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This morning’s NYT.

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Well that’s bad then.
May Justice Kennedy live forever.

JimHow

I see they are now projecting Republican gains in the Senate this year.
Man, is the Democratic Party pathetic.

JimHow

I’m intrigued by this Feytit Clinet stuff.

JimHow

And meantime it has been 50 years this week that Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
I don't think this country has ever recovered from the triple blows of November 22, 1963, April 4, 1968, and June 5, 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N105wUjgTcM

JimHow

Wow! Small world.
A quarter mile from my office.
It’s where I’ve been having my cardiac testing done.

JimHow

Life is good.
I really have no complaints.
I’m constantly keeping myself amused, every day.

JimHow

I know, DavidG, but you know I thrive on this, I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t working crazy hours, getting involved in stressful high stakes cases, working hard, playing hard, drinking Bordeaux....

JimHow

Aww too bad, Jon, would have loved to have you up, I have two extra bedrooms.

JimHow

I'm about 7 years behind you, David, I'll slow down when I get to age 66 and 8 months.... If I get that far.

JimHow

Agreed, Jon, although a lot of it is relative, of course. When I was mayor in the early '90s this area was basically in a depression. More people are working today, but, of course, the bigger question is whether they are making a livable wage. https://www.pressherald.com/2018/03/23/unemployment-rate...

JimHow

The newspaper reporter forwarded to me the draft of his story on my latest client, charged with attempted murder. I need some Bordeaux tonight.... Hi Jim: Thanks in advance for taking a look for any errors and/or omissions. Chris AUBURN — A man charged with attempted murder in a January stabbing ple...

JimHow

Hello! Gerry! Dare you be so beautiful!

I'm sipping on a 2014 Meyney, my last alcohol to be consumed between now and June 12th when I have a big argument before the Maine Supreme Court.
Keep us posted! My recollection is that it benefits from air.

JimHow

Interesting perspective, Felix.
Yes, David stole my thunder, being a fan of 1986, I’ll take it.
I don’t have a lot of 2005 in my cellar: A case of Duhart Milon, five bottles each of d’Issan, Brane Cantenac, and Grand Mayne, a few other bottles here and there.

JimHow

Unemployment in Lewiston, Maine, is at 2.3% right now, which of course is basically no unemployment.

JimHow

What are you putting up, CV, and, more importantly, on whom do you have your money?

JimHow

If you bet a 2010 Gruaud Larose, I will bet you a 2000 Pichon Baron that you will lose.
Donald J. Trump will be re-elected in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

JimHow

I'll bet you a bottle of 2015 Cantemerle over dinner that DJT will win re-election... unless, of course, the pathetic Democratic Party sobers up and nominates Bernie, in which case all bets are off....

JimHow

Eh, that's melodramatic, like an over-extracted Parker St. Emilion.
We've survived a million times worse than Donald Trump.

JimHow

A popular-vote-without-electoral-college-vote majority and $1.50 will get you a small black coffee at Dunkin' Donuts.

JimHow

Donald Trump will be re-elected in a landslide.

JimHow

We will drink a fine 2003 or two at some point in 2018 Danny!

JimHow

2003 Bordeaux is like the 2016 U.S. presidential election. All the experts keep saying it sucks just like Trump supposedly sucked, except the people who actually taste the wines like them, just like everyone actually liked Trump and before you knew it Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania was going ...

JimHow

There was a Maine domestic violence gun ban case that went up to the Supreme Court a couple years ago, that's the only one I can think of. The 2005 Barde Haut is still very young at the 13 year mark. It is almost like a little too perfect. It has a lot stuffed into the bottle, great richness, beauti...

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I'm just starting to get the feeling back in my jaw and extremities, Nicola, so I thought I would engage in numbing activity to assist in the thawing back to reality.
Meantime, I have three probation violation hearings tomorrow, along with an arraignment in an attempted murder stabbing case.

JimHow

Yes, it has been uncorked....

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Sigh, I see some familiar faces in there. I want to go back! Man, airfares are so expensive in the shortterm. I had a chance to hang out with the author Elizabeth Strout this weekend of the opening of her play "My Name Is Lucy Barton" at the Bridge Theatre but the flights are so damned exp...

JimHow

I know, it sucks.
PhilR disappeared on us.
I have no way of managing this stuff.
It may be time for an upgrade in the next year or two.

JimHow

Cantemerle.

JimHow

I have one bottle in my cellar.

JimHow

I got 1994 Haut Brion and 1994 Margaux for $55 each at Martignetti's Liquor's in the North End of Boston.

JimHow

I uncorked that 3L you sold me, Glenn, back in 2004 at my parents' 50th anniversary. It was a beauty then.

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Indeed, Bobby, I did not get it the first time but I do now.
What are other good vintages?

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