Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

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I predict my over under is a couple of weeks.

But a slow down is certainly necessary.

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Lovely thought. On a par with hitting my head on a concrete slab until my brain starts to explode.

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3 bottles of 1989 Haut Brion, and I am going into a Summer hibernation, and do my best not to buy anything until September. I will fail of course, but I am a living example that I am proof against anything except temptation.

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2 x 3 packs of 2020 La Conseillante WK rated 100 I have tried it, and it is very good, though not sure it is 100 pts… Huh. That might be the first time Conseillante ever got 100 points from a major critic. Long overdue in a sense, but I’d also be pretty surprised if the 2020 was actually the best C...

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Great tasting.
I always enjoy doing a 1982/1983 and 1985 flight, and can never predict the outcome.

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An old cellar
Pavie 1955
Evangile 1952
Canon 1949
Labels rotted, fills high shoulder.

Also a 9 bottle set of Duclot 2000 for our tasting group.

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Well I have to plug the VCC 2005. One of the three wines of the vintage (Ausone and Latour). This was the wine that began my love affair with the estate. But it is taking its time. I bought a case of half bottles and now have had half a dozen. Still a wine more about its future than its present, alt...

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Well done grasshopper. I just bought two more cases

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Also the Bordeaux/Burgundy Advocate critic, William Kelley participates. He is knowledgeable and interesting and a recent article detailing the changes in Bordeaux winemaking is a must read. It is free

https://winejournal.robertparker.com/fr ... of-the-art

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As buyers of wine, do you buy a great third tier wine from a top vintage such as 2005 Issan or a second tier wine, Lynch Bages, from a lesser vintage such as 2004?

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I had a 1993 La Mission recently which was easily the best wine there. Unusually everybody agreed. That being said, there are off vintages and off vintages. Weather defines what is possible, the limits of quality. At the bottom are vintages such as 1977, 1984, 1991, 2013. All dismal; if you find som...

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The debate is also on the Berserker board. Well worth looking at

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Suenen Robarts 2014 Champagne

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For me precision is a combination of structure and flavor. Comparing the 2009 and 2018, with the 2009 the structure allowed each flavor and nuance to come through clearly while with 2018 it was muddied, everything coming together into an and anonymous single note. It is often, but not always, a pro...

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For me precision is a combination of structure and flavor. Comparing the 2009 and 2018, with the 2009 the structure allowed each flavor and nuance to come through clearly while with 2018 it was muddied, everything coming together into an and anonymous single note. It is often, but not always, a prod...

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The first bottle, opened a couple ago was corked, so we moved on to other wines. Today I opened a second bottle, and was initially disappointed. The color was deep is red, and a few stray wisps coming from the decanter promised much, but when I poured a glass, it seemed drab and not very interesting...

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I think most critics consider the wines being made today are better than the same wines thirty years ago. For the most part they are undoubtedly cleaner, the selection is more careful, and there is plenty of new technology around. The problem for me is that the wines tend to be riper, more alcoholic...

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Coincidentally I was offered a pristine case of the 1982.

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Ian, It's not nice to write about Olivier Bernard that he was bulshitting you. He's imho one of the most honest and charismatic wine personalities in Bordeaux and I've known him since 1984. Others, Some of the posters on BWW feel free too much to do scathing attacks on several wine personalities, a...

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Not sure if of interest, but starting looking for the Pichon Lalande 1985 after drinking a phenomenal half bottle and picked up six beautiful bottles from a UK merchant Tom Mann. He has a few left over at at £250

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DDLC?

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Jouan is probably the best Burgundy buy out there, but the cost differential between the village and Clos Sorbe is relatively small for the huge jump in quality, I tend to focus on them. CSD is a bigger jump in cost but about the same jump in quality.

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Flummoxed.
Have not tasted the 2020s yet, as I like a little age on my Burgs. Don’t have Brouillard but have Santenots and Chenes. Will open a Santenots in the next week or so.

Have been drinking 2010s with pleasure.

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Strange. I always thought of her as quite lovely. Long story but I once turned up at Barton in tennis gear because there was back to back traffic in Bordeaux where I played (and lost) getting back to the Medoc. No time to change, arrived at Las Cases, and instead of the winemaker or Delon who I usua...

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Just bought a six pack of Les Carmes Haut Brion.
I hate not having the chance to taste the wines myself, but I have a couple of decent surrogates, whose palates I trust.

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Another Trump rant. Maybe he is planning an insanity defense.

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Just opened a couple of bottles. I think you will enjoy it.
The alcohol level is listed at 14.5%. I am nearly 100% sure it is much less than that, and suspect the high number may be Trump tariff related.

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I get your reservations about the property. I have never had a great Gassies, I have had good ones, the 2000 being one of them. But even the good ones are not close to Rauzan Segla, although many of the vineyards are interspersed.

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Great buys.

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The last interesting Pape Clement for me was 1998. After that it turned to the dark side, and turned with a vengeance. Seems they might be emerging

I do wish they would change the name. Pope Clement was a vicious anti Semite, as well as a seriously nasty piece of work.

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Rumors of How’s impending knighthood has not yet been corroborated by our network.Stay tuned.

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Nice note Mark on an unbeknownst to me wine but see Touton has got the 2016 so will have to order some. So out of curiosity, were the DB and LMHB both 2016’s as well or … ? The other wines there included a 2003 and 2009 Gruaud Larose, a 2009 reserve de la Comtesse and the clear winner the 1993 LMHB...

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Not a wine on my radar usually. From Castillon. Retails for 6 Euros in Europe apparently, and $14 here. This was completely unexpected. A traditional well made Bordeaux, a couple of years off its peak. Everything about it was slightly better than expected, the nose more complex, the balance really s...

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2 x 6 Taittinger Comtes rose 2007

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Blanquito wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:35 pm
JimHow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:40 pm In a fight between MTG and Tucker I’ve got my money on MTG.
Agreed, she would spank Tucker.

And he would love it.

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While Thunder in London is being conducted in front of a howling crowd, a lesser but no less important event is being planned for the same night. Sadly, there will be no crowd and no howling, but the shock waves from this tasting will prove far more far reaching than a battle between two, too young ...

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This is a perfect example of arbitrage for me. I was thinking about the Latour 2015 at around $650, a good price for the Latour when I saw an offer of 3 magnums of Montrose 2016. This is a great, possibly legendary Montrose; the exchange rate is 2 magnums of Montrose for one bottle of Latour. Montro...

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Could not resist: just bought some magnums of 2016. Slated for my unborn grandson’s rehearsal dinner.

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You do need one right bank wine.

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I would rule out Giscours, not because the wines are not good-they are. But the wines from the seventies are every bit as good, and for most of the decade, it was between Palmer and them for who made the best wines in Margaux. And yes, they were that good. The debate centers around style and which p...

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