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Blanquito

You may have seen this already, but just in case: https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3253039#p3253039 I’ve not had any 2019’s yet, but the 2018’s I’ve had generally have been ripe to very ripe, showing much more Bartlett pear and even tropical notes than I prefer. But I have tried ...

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>> These could well be the best American Pinot Noir I've ever had >> Strong statement! I would like to try some Domaine de la Cote. I will accommodate! Friday night (or Saturday lunch) sub-theme, great American Pinot Noir? I can bring a recently acquired bottle of the Vincent Zenith.

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Great stuff, Jacques. Along with chewing gum and some merlot, I fully expected a tasting note from Miles’ favorite dump bucket! I squeezed in a visit myself to a Californian winery last week after a hike in a majestic old growth redwood forest in Mendocino, at Ridge Lytton Springs while in Sonoma wi...

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This little undergarment digression makes me so glad my main accoutrements are strictly wine related!

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1998 Riojanas Monte Real Gran Reserva x 6
1989 Couly-Dutheil Chinon Clos de l'Olive x 3

Both ex-bodega/ex-domaine library releases.

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I changed the title of this thread, to reflect the facts on the ground.

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An old fashioned Rioja drinking at peak, the 1995 Riojanas Monte Real Reserva . A flat out fantastic bouquet much like a mature claret except for the top note of sweet American oak which makes it smell of lavender and cherries. The palate is lighter and brighter, like a Pinot, but with terrific frui...

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Lots and lots of vintage-dated, single-vineyard, artisanal variety Tuscan olive oil.

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I’ve progressively worked my way up the glassware ladder — Crate and Barrel, Reidel, Schott Zwiesel, Reidel Somm Series, Gabriel Glas, Gabriel Glas Gold — eventually settling on Zaltos (which are also pretty darn weightless and attractive) as my tip-top stem (never tried a Sensory). Then Berserker D...

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Yeah, I’ve almost never come across it and Parker panned it when he even bothered to write about it, calling it perhaps the worst 3rd growth. I have a half of the 05 I think, I might look for it.

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A smattering of tasty, inexpensive French chardonnay…

2018 Pascal Bonhomme Viré-Clessé Vieilles Vignes x 2
2018 Guerrin et Fils Pouilly-Fuissé La Maréchaude x 4
2018 Jacques Saumaize St-Véran Poncetys x 2

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Any love on BWE for Vincent Oregon Pinots? Been reading some very strong copy on them over on Berserkers.

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One can get used to a bunch of tasty fruit in their pinot…

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1990, since we missed it in 2020?

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Jim, can you add Steve Roy from Denver to the attendee list? Steve attended three of the BWE Denver events and wants to see everyone again.

Blanquito

With this many attendees, maybe a Thursday night might be added to the agenda? I for one would be interested (I’ve always really enjoyed the Thursday nights at Conventions), but we of course need local buy-in. Consider me in for this. Already mentally picking out the wines that I think are perfectl...

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With this many attendees, maybe a Thursday night might be added to the agenda?

I for one would be interested (I’ve always really enjoyed the Thursday nights at Conventions), but we of course need local buy-in.

Blanquito

Great night, great write up! Well done.

A night featuring Pichon Lalande is always special in my book.

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We're getting the (whole) band back together!

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A delightful half bottle of the 2012 SI Momtazi sitting on the front porch on a truly beautiful day in Colorado. We’ve had an epic amount of precipitation so far in 2021 (by Colorado standards) and everything is so green and lush.

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Good bottles of the 82 Sociando are soooo good.

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2017 Frog’s Leap Napa Cab , popped ITNOS after lots of buzz. Picked up in the low $40’s, my first try with this producer and I must say, I like! Lots of pure black raspberry fruit woven with a sappy acids and vinousness. Nice cranberry finish. Nothing heavy or overly polished here. In many respects...

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The smoke has cleared, and I'm 'stuck' with the 2014 Produttori and a 5 bottle lot of the 1973 Sterling Cabernet . Won these just under the wire before the shipping ban goes into effect. The Sterlings have sensational fills for 48 year old wines (all into the neck), but 4 of them have signs of past...

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The smoke has cleared, and I'm 'stuck' with the 2014 Produttori and a 5 bottle lot of the 1973 Sterling Cabernet . Won these just under the wire before the shipping ban goes into effect. The Sterlings have sensational fills for 48 year old wines (all base neck or higher), but 4 of them have signs of...

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The Man from Napa… that’s got a nice ring to it.

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stefan wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 2:00 am 2036, Patrick. By then they may need only a couple of blanquitoes.

Ugh. Too long! Why am I buying young wines?!

This was hard to resist though as these were seriously cheap.

Bill, you got a safe haven for future KL shipments? Is Oregon still an option with KL?

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I’m in!

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I'm penciling October 1-3 in my calendar as I type...

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Early October sounds great.

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Crap, just won 6 bottles of the 2014 Produttori del Barbaresco Riserva Pora at auction. Bid on this lot thinking I'd get crushed, but this one slipped through the cracks. I might be able to wriggle out of this... I tried to pay for this lot but K&L's software wouldn't let me as it claimed they ...

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Crap, just won 6 bottles of the 2014 Produttori del Barbaresco Riserva Pora at auction. Bid on this lot thinking I'd get crushed, but this one slipped through the cracks.

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A tasty bottle of the Ruinart BdB NV. Really good stuff, but the price has gone up so much at this address that I think there’s plenty of cheaper bubbly out there that I like just as much.

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I had a 90 Sociando blind recently — a wine I’ve had at least a dozen times before — and I swore it was an 89 Loire cab franc like the Couly-Dutheil Clos de l'Olive.

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Is Petrus the new birth control?

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I can’t wait for the 1995 horizontals we will surely have in 2025 when these hit 30 years. If they ain’t great then, they’ll never be (and some came to this conclusion when these were 15, 20 and now 25 years old).

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Winona Chief wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 12:02 am Come on Blanquito, isn’t that you with the 5000 bottle cellar?

I honestly stopped keeping track about 5 years ago, think I’m around 1400 bottles.

Chris Bublitz

Not I! I’m a little over 2000 these days, and it’s in shrink mode from here to the Great Tasting Room in the Sky.

Blanquito

Wow, one cellar over 4500!

Blanquito

A terrific bottle of the 1990 Lagrange tonight, clearly in my book the best ever wine from this chateau. An expressive bouquet of cedar, cassis, sous bois with a regal, time-honored classicism that harkens to candlelit dining rooms with white table cloths, dry martini aperitifs, hushed service, and ...

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I have the '14 canon and recently added a '70 Canon to the cellar that I hope to share with Orlando Robert in the near future I’ve had the 70 Canon a few times before and the good bottles have been stellar, but I think it’s been 6 years since I’ve had one. Curious to hear how it shows, do tell once...

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I snagged a 6 pack of the 2016 Giscours at Costco last year for $45/per (to go with some 2016 Cos, Lynch and Purple Baron)… when to try these I wonder?

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