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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2011 Pontet Canet
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2011 Pontet Canet
I vividly remember being ever so impressed by this at our pre lunch tasting during our visit to Pontet Canet in May 2015, when we tasted the 11 against the 12, 13 and 14. On returning to London, I immediately purchased a case of 12 and this is bottle #1 out of the case. Bright and young looking with...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1057
Re: 2012 Du Tertre
Sorry about your travails Danny that sounds awful. Here’s hoping you get back in the swing of things pdq. I want to be sharing plenty more bottles with you! Nic I think you are spot on about Du Tertre, with the nose flattering the rest of the wine somewhat. Yes their Tuscan was Cairossa Think Giscou...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Pontac Lynch
- Replies: 2
- Views: 754
Re: Pontac Lynch
One to watch
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1057
Re: 2012 Du Tertre
However; beyond the nose, it does not deliver a whole lot of nuance or complexity. It is a perfect mid-week quaffing wine, but still loving it for what it is.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2012 Du Tertre
- Replies: 9
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2012 Du Tertre
Our second visit on the first day of our Bordeaux tour in 2015 was Du Tertre. Although a comparatively lowly address compared to what was to follow that day, it was one of the highlights of an amazing trip. From the tour of the winery with our delightful hostess with fetchingly child bearing hips, w...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: "Beware the Ides of March"
- Replies: 59
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Re: "Beware the Ides of March"
Now now, tut tut
Et tu Brute?
Et tu Brute?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
- Replies: 28
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Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
My favourite would be Pauillac, and as noted least favourite is St-Estephe. But everything else - St J, Margaux, Pessac, St E and Pomerol, is very closely bunched with the pecking order between these middle rankers just too close to call - for example St J has the fewest superstars but the greatest ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:03 pm
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- Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
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Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
Another bird brain comment: “I was surprised to hear Ian's comments, as he mentioned that Saint Estephe was his least favorite AOC. I wonder if he considers wines such as Cos, Montrose, Calon Segur, Meyney, Phelan Segur, Haut Marbuzet, Lilian Ladouys, de Pez, Tour des Termes, and Serilhan disappoint...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
- Replies: 28
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Re: Your least favorite famous Bordeaux aoc…
I couldn’t put down St-Emilion given how much it is improved in the last decade and given that Cheval Blanc was my wine of the year last year. So by a process of elimination the one I love least is St Estephe but I still love St-Estephe but not as much as the others.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:45 pm
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- Topic: TN: 2006 Langoa Barton
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TN: 2006 Langoa Barton
I was curious to pop one of the 06 Langoas I picked up at auction a few years ago. The 2006 vintage is turning out to be stubbornly backward, relative to some of its peers, and I was not optimistic that I would enjoy this wine, so resigned myself to this being a bottle opened ‘in the name of science...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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Re: So what have you bought lately?
Yes like a patch work quilt. I tried both of these wines last April - I rated the 2020 Lafleur Petrus 98 points - one of the top four wines I tried from the vintage - the others were Montrose, Pichon Lalande and Ducru. I think Lafleur Petrus is really top tier Pomerol now. The 2018 Branaire I rated ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:28 pm
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- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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Re: So what have you bought lately?
6 x Lafleur Petrus 2020 for £951 in bond
3 x Brainaire Ducru 2018 for £90 in bond
3 x Brainaire Ducru 2018 for £90 in bond
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Oh my Devil, the catastrophic St Émilion tasting
- Replies: 11
- Views: 992
Re: Oh my Devil, the catastrophic St Émilion tasting
Sorry about your bad experience Nic. These wines from peak Parker were the nadir of St Emilion… …which is why some canny observers have remarked that St-Emilion is the most improved commune over the last decade… …as winemakers there eschew the souped up style of yore… …as epitomised by Troplong Mond...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
- Replies: 4897
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Re: So what have you bought lately?
3 x La Conseillante 2020, 3 x Lynch Bages 2014 My intelligence (contacts not nous) suggest 2020 could be the best ever vintage of La C, certaintly better than 2019, and even better than 2016 and 2010. I think the great WK rated it 100 points, so I now have two three packs. With Lynch I continue to l...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
- Replies: 4897
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Re: So what have you bought lately?
Ha ha, I think that is a wise decision Marc
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Happy 24th Birthday to BWE.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1175
Re: Happy 24th Birthday to BWE.
Congradulations!
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Another Bordeaux 2014 ten years
- Replies: 4
- Views: 661
Re: Another Bordeaux 2014 ten years
Yes I agree a much more accurate assessment, a much better write up
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Bordeaux 2020 Southwold Tasting at FarrVintners
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2139
Re: Bordeaux 2020 Southwold Tasting at FarrVintners
I think the Farr’s guy has quite a sweet tooth because he always has Poyferre as his pick of St-J’s.
Has he seriously tasted the 2014 Ducru and Leoville Barton?
My faith in 2014 is not all shaken.
Has he seriously tasted the 2014 Ducru and Leoville Barton?
My faith in 2014 is not all shaken.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: I'm making a bold statement: 2019 is the greatest Bordeaux vintage ever, surpassing even the epic 2016 vintage....
- Replies: 8
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Re: I'm making a bold statement: 2019 is the greatest Bordeaux vintage ever, surpassing even the epic 2016 vintage....
My analogy would be ‘dangling the teabag’ rather than ‘wringing the tea towel’
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: The 2019 Wine-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named has been uncorked....
- Replies: 5
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Re: The 2019 Wine-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named has been uncorked....
You should also try the 2016 ‘gune, it is pretty good too
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: I'm making a bold statement: 2019 is the greatest Bordeaux vintage ever, surpassing even the epic 2016 vintage....
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Re: I'm making a bold statement: 2019 is the greatest Bordeaux vintage ever, surpassing even the epic 2016 vintage....
The only thing I am confident on is that these recent infusion (rather than extraction) vintages like 2016, 19 and 20 will easily surpass the vintages that we obsess on here, vintages like 1982, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1996 etc, lovely as they are - but also the maximum Parker extracted vintages like 2005...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Introduction from a new member
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- Views: 693
Re: Introduction from a new member
Welcome to BWE esl!
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: What is your Valentines Day wine?
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- Views: 793
Re: What is your Valentines Day wine?
I will be celebrating it this year and am planning on opening Tarlant Cuvee Louis Champagne (2000 base)
And then Jasmin Cote Rotie 1990, one of my desert island wines.
And then Jasmin Cote Rotie 1990, one of my desert island wines.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
- Replies: 31
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Re: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
Alex asked: “Who counts the most these days in the English-speaking world?”
There may never be anyone to have the influence that Parker enjoyed in his hey day.
But the answer to your question Alex may be William Kelley, and from what I gather he is still a young man.
There may never be anyone to have the influence that Parker enjoyed in his hey day.
But the answer to your question Alex may be William Kelley, and from what I gather he is still a young man.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
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- Views: 2653
Re: Poll: Was Robert Parker a net positive or a net negative for Bordeaux?
I think we would have ended up in the same place had he not been around, but on a different path. Without him we would not have gotten so many extracted right bankers David has endured, and his influence spilled over into other areas like southern Rhone and Australia. I think it would be fair to say...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
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Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
To answer that question Jim you would have to ponder the counterfactual as to where would we be without him? I think a clue lies in what has happened in Burgundy since he came to prominence and where he was banned early on in the piece. Burgundy is thriving like never before and has never been makin...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
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Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
2005 Angelus, RMP note Truly great stuff, this wine performed at a three-digit level both in the horizontal tasting of 2005s in Baltimore, as well as in Montreal at this mini-vertical. This sensational, opaque, bluish/purple wine offers up notes of vanillin, spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2623
Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
2005 Angelus, RMP note Truly great stuff, this wine performed at a three-digit level both in the horizontal tasting of 2005s in Baltimore, as well as in Montreal at this mini-vertical. This sensational, opaque, bluish/purple wine offers up notes of vanillin, spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry ...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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Re: So what have you bought lately?
2 x 6 Gazin 2016
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2623
Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
You could even argue that Leoville Barton 2005 is (heavily?) over-extracted, or if not, a bit hot, bothered and unbalanced; - and not as nice as other lesser vintages like 2004 - that at least is based on my limited experience With respect to the 2005 vintage we should recognise it was a hot vintage...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
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Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
Totally fair. The ‘16 is quite good and the ‘19 better. Hope this trend holds. I have not tried the ‘20. Don’t get me wrong…. big fan…just would have liked to have seen a more risk/reward attitude toward the better past vintages where I have more experience. The 2019 St-Pierre and Gloria are suppos...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2623
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
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Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
2005 Duhart should be right up your strasse Jim
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:23 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
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Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
I am still a 2005 optimist and I put my money where my mouth is. My portfolio is very left bank biased, though: 12 x Pichon Baron - best of the super seconds in 2005? And actually another favourite 12 x Gruaud - from three separate purchases 12 x Belair - apparently this has been drinking well for q...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
- Replies: 50
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Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
Nice. I think all of my 2005s are gone. Sounds like they are balanced at the 19 year mark, I was concerned about the acidity, or lack thereof, of several wines I had like Brane Cantenac and Grand Mayne. Is 2005 a left bank vintage, right bank vintage, or both? I have barely started on my mine, Jim....
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
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Re: 2005 Bordeaux revisited.
I had a 1978 Giscours a few months ago. It was superb, nearly as good as the 1976 La Lagune we had this evening, but close to the end of its drinking window.
Thanks for your notes on the 2005s Izak…a helpful update and snapshot.
Thanks for your notes on the 2005s Izak…a helpful update and snapshot.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
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Re: So what have you bought lately?
2 x 1975 Magdelaine
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what should I buy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 728
Re: So what should I buy
Howard have you given any consideration to buying any 2001s and 2002s? They are classical vintages. Duhart O1 for example is sublime old school claret, likewise something like Ducru 02 or DDC 02 - wines which give enormous pleasure and should be up your strasse.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Whole Lotta Lafite
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1849
Re: Whole Lotta Lafite
Izak, you could have prefaced your post by saying, “Stuart, with all due respect”