Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

AlohaArtakaHoundsong

Too bad about your Haut Brion. I bought mine from some guy named Rudy. It was excellent and unbelievably youthful-tasting.

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Not surprised at this. We did a DDC tasting not so long ago, which showed the splendid terroir of the chateau. My problem is Dererencourt. The most affable of all the big consultants, but also the one who makes the most anonymous wines. I was dragged into a tasting of all his wines, and the DDC res...

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Geoff Emerick engineered a couple of their greatest albums.

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If reverse psychology were deemed necessary and appropriate, I'm ready and willing. But I don't think it is.

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Yeah, Tom, it looks like the relief is exaggerated somewhat. I noticed Lanessan on the fly in. Looks like they have their own little mound and even closer to the Gironde than Lagrange. I always wonder what really differentiates seemingly similarly situated properties. Meyney comes to mind farther no...

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Long overdue.

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I guess aesthetics and accessibility have a lot to do with the price.

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Not recently but I have mentioned once or twice that a 1968(?) Caves Velhas Garrafeira was really the first aged/mature wine that i ever had and it made a real impression on me about what a wine was supposed to become. There are some excellent red table wines in Portugal. It's not all about Port.

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95, 98, and 00 have all been really good. Too bad the guy who made them died so prematurely.

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K&L's email this week is practically all second wines barring the Barde Haut, Pavie and one or two others.

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Has anyone tasted both the '14 and the '15 Cantemerle?

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Cantemerle is about as close to Margaux as can be.

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Have both. And 42 is very respectable. Congratulations.

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My limited experience with this house has been limited to budget, entry level stuff and I have not really enjoyed any of it. It's on my Avoid list.

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/jxeZEHpzDJMkkwZr7 Don’t eat cooked breakfast either. I have a Swiss breakfast: berries, fat free yoghurt and oats. One of the greatest things to come out of the only cruise I've ever taken was the muesli served at the breakfast buffet. I dislike granola and I had never had...

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I am eating like a pig and drinking like a fish and I need to eat and drink more because paddling 40 miles a week plus the associated cross-training has me down to 147 pounds, which I haven't seen since college. That's my plan.

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I remember talking to the Thiels at some UGC event maybe 10-15 years ago (no one else was hovering around them) and they were just the nicest people. Most of the other places didn't have the owners doing the pouring. I think the Thiels are out of the picture now. Believe Poujeaux was sold somewhere...

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danzur wrote:I was just going to chime in and say that this was the "Margaux of the UGC tasting" a few months ago, but the more I thought about it, that was the "Brane Cantenac", not the "Cantenac Brown". Wine can be so confusing sometimes...LOL.

Don't forget Boyd Cantenac.

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I've noted that same "ethereal" quality in the three budget 15s I've sampled: the Tour de Mons (Margaux), Vieux Robin (Medoc) and the "Kirkland" Pauillac. I'm chalking it up to a couple of factors, including alcohol somewhere in sweet spot between "normal" and "too...

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The 2009 (then) Chateau Capbern Gasqueton is excellent. It was ~ $17. This was/is under the same ownership as Calon Segur, and is very close to Calon if not contiguous with it. What I find interesting is the high percentage of cabernet in the cepage, which in the 2009 was also something like 70%. Co...

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Interesting. Off the top of my head I would side with Stefan over Arv here on the concept of the marginal utility of the nth bottle of the same wine, provided of course it is one that you really like. This is not to say I don't value "diversity" if I may use that term. I'm sure that econom...

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LOL. Someone else has been listening to Bordeaux sales bullshit for decades just like me. Of the three vintages I ended up going long on 2014 because the pricing was so good. I am also hoping that it is ready to drink younger. I think in the modern era the "not as good but not actually bad&quo...

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Gee it looks like the victorious 14-15-16 triumvirate has a big whole in the middle. Seriously 15 was pegged as the vintage that will always drink well, and which if anything was tarred by some as being "too obvious" (digression--this has always been one of my favorite trade terms, one whi...

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Hmm. I have six out there in the wine cloud. The en primeur reviews ranged from full-bodied to vin de garde material. The couple of lower-level 15s I've tried have shared a certain ethereal lightness which I have attributed to ripe tannins and alcoholic lift. So, like the man says, "we'll see.&...

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I'll check her out, but since the broader subject of electric people/electrocution is broached, does anybody recall an episode of the original Avengers series where some dude in a white panel truck was driving around electrocuting people? That scared me.

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I hear you. Temps in Hawaii may be ideal for humans but it's too warm by ten degrees F for wine. But suffer we must.

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>> Drinking red wine here in open spaces is impossible. Even at 11 pm, it is 30 degrees C (86F) and fuller wines end up going from 12-13 degrees (about 55F) in my wine fridges to 30 degrees in a short time. Ugh. >> Here also the temperature at 11 PM is often in the mid 80s or higher. When I take bo...

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All I can say is the $10 2014 Ch. l'Argenteyre, Medoc (Costco) was great. Full bodied, dry, ripe. 50% cabernet. If this is exemplary, earnest 2014s should be way more than serviceable, and a place to look for relative bargains among the better-reputed names. I have a case of 2014 Cantemerle somewher...

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I'm not a psychiatrist but my diagnosis is multiple internet personality disorder. It is not uncommon but often misdiagnosed.

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I thought "Professor Marvin Hancock" gave the joint a touch of class. Or, putting it another way, it was highly unlikely.

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Has he tried unplugging his router and plugging it back in? That's the first thing the experts always tell me to do.

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I thought the 2000 Brainare had an excellent future the one time I tried it. I also vote for bad bottle.

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Don't drink rose if I can help it but wondering what grapes were used?

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Haven't had one of these in a while but it was one of the best tasting wines I ever recall on release.

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I have the '04. A case I think, minus two or three bottles. I liked the wine but I was left wondering why everyone says it's unique or sui generis or takes two decades to reveal what it is all about. It definitely was not unapproachable at age 8 or so. But I'm happy with it nevertheless. Maybe I'll ...

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Funny but from limited tasting experience and by reputation, "legendary" is not a word I have seen associated with Leo B., other than Anthony Barton is legendary for not overpricing his wines.

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An unopened bottle will never disappoint.

Have low expectations.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... sonnel-for

Looks like she's been OTB for a few years though.

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This is Spinal Trump: "My relations with the G7 are a '10'. Most relationships only go to a '10.' But Mike Pompeo is building me a relationship that goes to '11'. See? '11'. My relationship with Kim will be an '11'. Nobody else has one like that."

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We did that here several years ago. I think we concluded it was JimHow first and everyone else a distant second.

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