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- Sat Jul 01, 2023 9:04 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: "Heal the World...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 330
Re: "Heal the World...
Nice report on the LP GS, but wow what a ringing endorsement of the ‘19 Malartic!
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 2:15 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Jean-Michel Cazes
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2760
Re: Jean-Michel Cazes
Thank you Danny.
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 10:05 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Jean-Michel Cazes
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2760
Re: Jean-Michel Cazes
Someone please post that wonderful picture of him enjoying lunch with the BWE crew in 2005.
- Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:59 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Jean-Michel Cazes
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2760
Re: Jean-Michel Cazes
Such sad news. May he live on in his wines and in the memories of those he touched. RIP.
- Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:55 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Most Beautiful Bordeaux Wine Label
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3867
Re: Most Beautiful Bordeaux Wine Label
Musigny 151 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 2:56 am Several chateaux have made commemorative labels to highlight a special year. They all seem to look like a poor man’s version of château Palmer.
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:24 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Most Beautiful Bordeaux Wine Label
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3867
Re: Most Beautiful Bordeaux Wine Label
Musigny 151 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:45 pm Palmer. Nothing is close; just gorgeous. The wine is not bad either.
Have to agree with Mark here.
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 9:08 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 1998 dinner - mainly Graves and Right Bank
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1283
Re: 1998 dinner - mainly Graves and Right Bank
Thanks for the vivid notes Ian, and happy to see you continue to drink well! A couple of favorites in there. The Chetillons I’m happy to still have a couple of bottles. The Conseillante is sadly gone from my cellar. I wasn’t yet turned on to Haut Bailly when the ’98 was released, sounds like a winner!
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:59 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Happy Birthday Alex!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3645
Re: Happy Birthday Alex!
Happy birthday Alex!
Nice gesture Jim. Just keep AI out of your briefs. And out of your court filings, too.
Nice gesture Jim. Just keep AI out of your briefs. And out of your court filings, too.
- Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:52 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
- Replies: 4890
- Views: 1574825
Re: So what have you bought lately?
I had one a couple months back...I loved it...elegant and classic, very pretty Bummed to hear this ☹️ Enough time for sediment to settle after shipment? I popped a 27yr old burg from a 375ml bottle 3hours after FedEx dropped it off...was lovely Just a thought of one possibility… It’s funny, the imp...
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:19 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
- Replies: 4890
- Views: 1574825
Re: So what have you bought lately?
Lovely stuff🤟 Yes, I was pleased to pick them up. That said, I opened one up over the weekend and was surprisingly disappointed. Not sure if it is because the wines weren't stored as well as stated at the auction, or whether it's just going through an awkward phase? Will hold the other one for a la...
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:44 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
- Replies: 4890
- Views: 1574825
Re: So what have you bought lately?
Being searching this since a few years... today was my lucky day. For the non initiate, the Laurent Perrier basic cuvée is my favorite go to regular cuvée. Congratulations on finding a favorite, Nic! The Grand Siecle was the first favorite luxury cuvée I got hooked on back in the ‘80s, before I wen...
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:52 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: So what have you bought lately?
- Replies: 4890
- Views: 1574825
Re: So what have you bought lately?
Being searching this since a few years... today was my lucky day. For the non initiate, the Laurent Perrier basic cuvée is my favorite go to regular cuvée. Congratulations on finding a favorite, Nic! The Grand Siecle was the first favorite luxury cuvée I got hooked on back in the ‘80s, before I wen...
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Three California Wines
- Replies: 12
- Views: 658
Re: Three California Wines
The last good Caymus SS was the ‘92. That’s a looong time ago. A friend blinded me on the ‘94 Caymus SS when it was first released. I put my nose in the glass and was almost knocked over by a wall of dill. It made enough of an impression that I still distinctly remember it. Ugh! And that was back w...
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:34 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Three California Wines
- Replies: 12
- Views: 658
Re: Three California Wines
Where is your sense of patriotism? ;-))))))))))))) Seriously, though, the notion of value for money is so imoportant. So why does Bordeaux have the reputation of being expensive? It's the eternal confusion between the tip of the pyramid and the other 95%. Alex R. It took me a while to realize it, b...
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:30 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 5501
- Views: 712532
Re: President Trump
No, and I don't think it is anywhere within him to even try it.
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:29 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Three California Wines
- Replies: 12
- Views: 658
Re: Three California Wines
Not the Estate... mentioned in another thread.
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:58 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Report on 2022 vintage in Bordeaux - at last!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1362
Re: Report on 2022 vintage in Bordeaux - at last!
dstgolf, Damn, God knows how many hours I have used for the correction! Thank you for pointing it out. For me, sappy is like Collins English Dictionary says: 1. abounding in sap, as a plant · 2. full of vitality and energy or equivalent to "juicy". Thesaurus.com has a different opinion on...
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:50 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2009 Monbousquet
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1185
Re: 2009 Monbousquet
What is wrong with being over naked, Danny? I guess it is an auto-corrector problem, as i feel it is over oaked that Danny wanted to write. But as he probably is writing the word "naked" more often than "oaked" in his regular searches on the Internet, his auto-corrector correct ...
- Fri Jun 16, 2023 12:36 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2009 Monbousquet
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1185
Re: 2009 Monbousquet
Encouraging note Danny. Has Monbousquet dialed back the oak and ripeness since the days of max Parkerization? I used to be a regular buyer of Monbousquet. Always very reasonably priced and often quite appealing. It tended towards the modern, oaky, jammy/sweet style and as my palate became less toler...
- Fri Jun 16, 2023 12:21 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 5501
- Views: 712532
Re: President Trump
In my fantasy world, this drama ends with >> NewsFlash: Biden Pardons Trump. NewsFlash has learned that former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have come to the following agreement. 1. President Biden will pardon former president Trump for federal crimes that he committed or may have ...
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 1995 Ducru and Lalande
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1210
Re: 1995 Ducru and Lalande
Funny how that works. Old wine is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:45 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 5501
- Views: 712532
Re: President Trump
I’m not buying the “Johnny did something a lot worser, and he got away with it” defense.
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 5:54 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2019 Lytton Springs, two thumbs up; 2019 Chateau Montelena, bleh....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 644
Re: 2019 Lytton Springs, two thumbs up; 2019 Chateau Montelena, bleh....
Agree, unlikely to be the Estate, which is usually in the $175-200 range.
That said, I don’t doubt the note or the disappointment with what is often available from Napa in the $50-100 range.
That said, I don’t doubt the note or the disappointment with what is often available from Napa in the $50-100 range.
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:05 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Mixed Grill and BDX in the 916
- Replies: 10
- Views: 678
Re: Mixed Grill and BDX in the 916
Arv, your cooking is as enticing as the Bordeaux.
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:04 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Are the 2019s closing down?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1171
Re: Are the 2019s closing down?
Appreciate the input. Keeping hands off for a blanquito or two.
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 5501
- Views: 712532
Re: President Trump
withholding some boxes in his bathroom and bragging about stuff that doesn’t really seem to have endangered national security . Interesting post. Above is the part that seems relevant to the classified documents case. I get your mistrust of prosecutors. It’s well-founded, and I have the utmost resp...
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:56 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 5501
- Views: 712532
Re: President Trump
Jim, I don’t see where you have made a substantive argument for why Trump shouldn’t have been indicted. “It’s bad for democracy” is pretty weak sauce compared to the specific and cogent arguments laid out by CV, Tim, and others. Giving criminal behavior by a President a pass just because of his offi...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 6:22 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 5501
- Views: 712532
Re: President Trump
Here’s the indictment. Should be a free link. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/us/trump-indictment-document-annotated.html?unlocked_article_code=quKGXoSWlzN-4BksfBOf2TjwGbVAI7RkMGCOibycXu3CtzrvPo1sg_D5HPFOq4J2dnpA7aTs9VNWZMzqw5_Kid6PM06V74WcaHsIzEFg8Tcfoo0N2HcU9I9fG2iVTDR9PcXsx9xW8LZQW...
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 5501
- Views: 712532
Re: President Trump
Mens rea. He’s guilty but unlikely to be convicted. Especially if Aileen Cannon remains the judge.
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:38 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Which is better, Lytton Springs or Geyserville?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1780
Re: Which is better, Lytton Springs or Geyserville?
Yeah, funny that the vote is so lopsided yet so many who have commented said they preferred Geyserville by a tiny margin. I suspect if we all scored them on a 100-point scale, it would come out something like Geyserville 94.6, Lytton Springs 94.4. I wonder if there’s a simple way to look up an avera...
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:29 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Too much wine space--what should I do?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1435
Re: Too much wine space--what should I do?
That price looks good, CV; only about $2/bottle. Even if the price has tripled it is much better to ship than to sell and rebuy. David, I want to avoid us moving much wine from Texas to Oregon ourselves. Our backs and joints are not up to it. I bought enough wine for Oregon that we have enough wine...
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 5:13 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Which is better, Lytton Springs or Geyserville?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1780
Re: Which is better, Lytton Springs or Geyserville?
Tried to vote 4 or 5 times and kept changing my mind. Eventually settled on Geyserville. Twenty or thirty years ago I would have easily chosen Lytton. Not that the wines were that different then, but I was.
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 5:01 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Too much wine space--what should I do?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1435
Re: Too much wine space--what should I do?
Bill, are you asking whether to move the wine or how to move the wine to OR? That’s a trickier question than what to do with the storage cabinets. I would keep the storage cabinets in OR - you’ll eventually need them - and wouldn’t worry about whether you use them now or later. Whatever’s convenient...
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 12:41 am
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Finally: 2014 VCC Versus 2014 La Conseillante.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 29638
Re: Finally: 2014 VCC Versus 2014 La Conseillante.
Patrick, that’s a good point about sticky prices/initial conditions. That usually seems to dissipate by 10-15 years post vintage. We’re not quite there yet with the 2014s and 2015s.
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:38 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Finally: 2014 VCC Versus 2014 La Conseillante.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 29638
Re: Finally: 2014 VCC Versus 2014 La Conseillante.
I agree with Jim that 2015s cost more because they got higher scores from critics, and that those scores were higher because the wines were riper than 2014s. I don’t share the apparent disdain for people who actually like that style. The secondary market continues to value most 2015s more than the 2...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:09 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: I’ve reached that get off my lawn point in life…
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1277
Re: I’ve reached that get off my lawn point in life…
Ed, that’s one of the big things that worries me about AI: making it easier to fake stuff. The other thing that worries me is that many accept the output of an AI engine like ChatGPT as the unvarnished truth. I’ve seen incorrect medical advice given by physicians who asked ChatGPT for information an...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 3:45 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: I’ve reached that get off my lawn point in life…
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1277
I’ve reached that get off my lawn point in life…
It finally happened. I’ve reached that old man get-off-my-lawn, yelling-at-clouds stage of life. It was one specific thing that made me realize it. Not the changes in music, art, fashion, medical knowledge, consumer technology, transportation, media, politics, or social mores that often separate the...
- Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:35 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: 2014 Cantemerle
- Replies: 5
- Views: 448
Re: 2014 Cantemerle
Historically, Cantemerle is a wine that can be drunk young. Has anyone tried the 2014 Nameless Wine recently? Usually it takes longer to come around than Cantemerle, but the wonderful 1996 was good at age five and never weakened. 2014 Nameless Haut-Médoc (1/7/2023): This took about an hour to open ...
- Mon May 22, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: Another Bordeaux dinner
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1077
Re: Another Bordeaux dinner
Thanks Ian, don’t want to see my beloved Haut Brion demoted LOL.
I’ll second stefan’s comment: a month of Comte Flaneur dinners is beyond my wildest dreams.
I’ll second stefan’s comment: a month of Comte Flaneur dinners is beyond my wildest dreams.
- Mon May 22, 2023 5:41 pm
- Forum: Our Forum
- Topic: The Wine Buying Gods are Cruel and Capricious
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1308
Re: The Wine Buying Gods are Cruel and Capricious
If you’re gonna fall off the wagon, that’s the way to do it!
Q about the Cotat Chavignol: what’s that silver-colored band? Is it an external ring or inside between the cork and wine? If the latter, what’s it made of and what’s it do?
Q about the Cotat Chavignol: what’s that silver-colored band? Is it an external ring or inside between the cork and wine? If the latter, what’s it made of and what’s it do?