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rjsussex

Thanks Ian!

Jono: I feel I should know you? Have I bought from you?

Richard

rjsussex

Very nice note, not very nice wine, bananas yes - I drank my 3 cases vey rapidly

Richard

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Ian - is that the Salvioni Rosso 07 from Goedhuis - have just asked them to keep the last 12 for me over night? Tanzer (Agata) gave it 92

Thanks - sounds great

Richard

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And thanks Jacques for the link!

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Thanks - Michael's 'tough, clipped' finish is what I felt at the end of the evening / end of the bottle.

Richard

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Thanks both - and for the Rosso tip! I'm getting addicted to good Rossos. Do find the Pertimali and the Paradiso di Manfredi if you can.

Is Asimov on the 04 Brunellos available? The Levenberg review is on the third or so page of the Poggione 04 reviews on cellartracker.

Best - Richard

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Poggione Brunello 04 has, as I'm sure you all know, got ecstatic reviews from WA (Galloni - who seems usually very reliable?), TV comic Vaynerchuck etc. I bought a case at the (very fair!) release price of c£20 a bottle. First bottle a few months ago seemed not that stellar so last night I gave a se...

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The UK wine trade thought he'd gone mad.

I bought none at the time but, in light of 09 prices, am considering Dom de Chevalier, Langoa and Cantemerle.

Richard

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I know what Asimov means about modern Chianti Riservas - sorry to quote myself but for my money the £18 2006 Rosso di Montalcino from Pertimali (Livio Sassetti) is a wonderfully pure 100% Sangiovese, un-forced, Chambolle-like beauty, for those put off by new-wave dark monsters.

Richard

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Calling himself 'The Bob'? Well, he does refer to 'Parker points'.

Richard

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Sorry to answer my own note, but am now certain that the Pertimali (Livio Sassetti) Rosso 06 though 'pricier' at c£18 is the real baragin of these Rossos: the Lisini is more structured but more worked, more oaked and less refined and long. Tanzer I think has a note on the Pertimali 07 being 'weightl...

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As mentioned in an earlier post re Chianti Classico, I owe it to this board to have sent me back to my love for Sangiovese. My current feeling is that a good Rosso di M is more to my taste than the equivalently priced CC or CC Riserva because purer (100% Sang) and more minerally than the CC. Having ...

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I found Clerc 06 subtle and quite marked by its Merlot. Good wine.

Richard

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Love Barton 01 - I thnink it's at least as good as the lovely 03.

My other favourite 01 is Montrose.

Richard

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Nice point. And the best Bourgogne Rouge I've had recently has been Ghislaine Barthod's 07 from Chambolle. She's clearly another great Bourgogne grower.

Richard

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.. and here in the UK Farr Vintners boast about £53 million sales of 09 en primeur

Sick feeling

I'm buying 06 Brunello when they open instead of 09 claret

Richard

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I think the 04 and 06 Lagrange are both winners and great value - and I suspect the 04 is very close in quality to the PC 04 (the only vintage in which I have both wines - but I haven't compared them. Perhaps this thread is an excuse to do just that). You will expect me to say this: perhaps an ever ...

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GPL 04 is a beauty.

Richard

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I absolutely agree with Chris - was in my local Sainsbury's today and some new junk 09 AC Bordeaux at £6 was 14.5%. What? Rogov's (sp?) site says too many 09s tasted like California. Firsts are`c£10,000-£12,500 in bond. And at 20,000 cases output at Lafite that just makes me feel sick. What sort of ...

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... as we're all squabbling over them let's just be calm and fair and settle for 5 cases each of Lafite at UK £12,000 in bond and Latour at £10,000 in bond - just don't crowd my space ok - I've got the dogs to feed after paying up for these bargain drinkers

Richard

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Ducru has just opened to UK buyers at c£2100 in bond. A few principled UK merchants have told them to - er - have declined their allocation. Richard If I buy anything I'm buying Lacoste Borie (2nd of Lacoste)and Capbern Gasqueton (owned by Calon Segur) at c£170 and £140 in bond respectively.These ar...

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The 03 is one of only two 03s I kept (Barton the other): I don't think it will last that long - it's very good but the Barton has much more of a tannic spine.

Richard

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Thanks indeed, Nic

The 04 is wonderful and is my best QPR of this vintage that I like so much

Richard

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I posted some months ago about China and Lynch - seemed like a joke but Cazes had launched it as a China-friendly re-name (Lan-Si-Pat or something) to massive success. Beychevelle they apparently like as the label looks 'like' their dragon-ship icons - the Lafite craze in China looks like incorporat...

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Nice one Jim - actually i'm selling my case of 02 Duhart for serious money - China is now dictating prices: I gather Carruades and Duhart have been joined by Lynch, Beychevelle and even Talbot as China-friendly brands.

What have we come to

Richard

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This has always been the second favourite 02 in my cellar after Poyferre and tonight's bottle is the best yet - maybe because the first tried in the wonderful DenkArt Bordeaux glass. Very big colour, licorishy-classy Cabernet nose, not a trace of oak, touch volatile on this bottle but more inviting ...

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Thanks Alex Quite a buzz in UK around the 09 Citran - one of the few 09s I'm considering as it's in sanity-price-land (another is the Calon-stable Capbern Gasqueton which HRH Jancis bought 3 cases of - for some reason that fact seems to have boggled the UK 09 campaign!) Hope we meet one day. What ar...

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This was my choice for BWE wine of the year a couple of years ago and hey it won and hey tonight's bottle is quite wonderful - so opulent for an 02, touch low acid, beautifully fragrant pencilly and cassis nose, long furry tannin finish - no hurry on this and feel sure it will outlast the 03 i gathe...

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The 05 is very promising and I stupidly missed out when it was on sale in UK - but have 10 bottles

Richard

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Hope it works.

Best

Richard

http://www.farrvintners.com/tasting_notes.php

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Duhart in UK opened at £550 in bond and I say above was soon trading at £700. I was wrong. It was soon trading at £800. So that's pushing towards £100 a bottle for Duhart Milon 09. With the weak pound, the opening prices of 09s are so worrying: decent but not exactly shattering bourgeois Estephe's l...

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I didn't even know about Duhart being released - it was only offered to confirmed pre-ordering customers - have just heard that it was offered yesterday at £550 AND IS ALREADY TRADING AT £700!! That's c£73 a pop all in.

Richard

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Many thanks! UK readers might like to know that Greysac (is there a link with Talbot owners) is only £85 in bond from Justerini and Brooks who also recommend it warmly. Sounds like the under £10 a bottle all-in-price winner for us poor UK buyers struggling with the currency. (But I have to say the 0...

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Latest joke from UK-world: Roc de Cambes 09 (Cotes de Bourg) at £440 in bond. That's final price about £47 a bottle. Oh I'm so enjoying this campaign and it hasn't even properly started.

(Actually I feel sick.)

Richard

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From the UK and with sterling so weak the prices are already really scary: in the last few days I've had a flurry of emails urging Batailley on me as a great value at (final price) about £30 a bottle. Batailley! Insider tips at my end suggest that value will be with Moulin Riche, Petit Bocq, Citran....

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I regularly used to blend minor cheapies together if neither tasted decent and if they were of Bx grapes - often an improvement resulted. These days life seems too short to buy cheapies at all...

Richard

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OK, BWE friends have already characterised me as the Bore That Likes 06 so let's have it again. For me (and I think the UK trade agrees) left-bank 06s are better than 01, 02, 03, 04 and 08. They have 02s classicism married with 04's fruity charm. I was lucky to buy them below market prices in many c...

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Haut Condissas £295 in bond any one??? With its rival in overoaked nastiness Haut Marbuzet at £330 in bond, how can any self-respecting but junior classed-growth come out at less than £350?

Richard

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I've never been bowled over by the 2000 (have had half a case over the years) - but perhaps I drank them too soon. But on my evidence the 05 and the 04 are better.

Richard

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Thanks Chris - agree absolutely. Depressing indeed.

(I found Belgrave 2000 very forward and looseknit and drank my cases up some time ago.)

Richard

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