Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Tom In DC

Welcome home, Bill! All our best with the recovery.

Tom and Gail

Tom In DC

Interesting that only people in the trade will be attending. Is Bordeaux trying to revert to the bad old days when only cheerleaders and those flogging the wines get to taste EP?

Tom In DC

Ian, if you held onto a bottle for 75 years, you'd be unlikely to have the taste buds to tell if it was gutted, let alone you!

Tom In DC

Certainly more fakes than genuine bottles of the great wines in truly geriatric vintages (basically anything pre-1959 and possibly through 1961) by now. One of the ironic bits of the counterfeiting business is that everyone is conditioned to expect and accept mediocre old bottles. So a fake bottle h...

Tom In DC

I have to think that NYC without the lockdown would have been a bloodbath. It's no surprise that things seem normal in Downeast, Jim, as population density seems to be a key ingredient to the spread of the virus.

Tom In DC

Canon '82 was probably the worst wine of the vintage for percentage of corked bottles among the wines I've had a bunch of times. No idea why.

Tom In DC

That might be a new record for longest double post!

Nothing else to see here...keep moving along, folks...

Tom In DC

Completely agree, Ed, but I was trying to stay on topic (Tuscany) after so many remonstrations from the ITB (or quasi-ITB) types among us.

Tom In DC

We're still drinking Tuscan wines pretty regularly.I think they can represent good value (outside the biggest names) if you like the style. No, it's not going to be like Bordeaux or the Northern Rhone. I've always liked wines from all over the place, relishing the variety, so the "I'd rather sp...

Tom In DC

Did we meet Denis Dourantou in 2005?

Tom In DC

For reasons that I cannot comprehend, the ultra-conservative folks on my Facebook feed have all decided that voting by mail (rather than lining up at your polling place) would mean the end of civilization as we know it. Here in Colorado, all voting is done by mail or drop off in a collection box. I ...

Tom In DC

Paul's comment when Corinne took his glass was priceless, effectively "Can you tell which one of us is the boss?"

Tom In DC

If you ever start being interrogated by the BD, realize that "I don't remember" (or maybe "I've had too much wine to remember") will never do as an answer. Better to make something up and move along to the next question. So many great memories listed above - the entire week of Fr...

Tom In DC

I have heard recommendations for taking Zinc to help ward off the virus (as well as the common cold.) I lost my sense of smell for a while when I took it years ago.

Tom In DC

GBF, Give us "a f...... break"!!! You post self-proclaimed "Very interesting" notes on Easter Sunday then give us until 6am the next day to respond, acting like you'll take your ball and go home if we don't stand up and salute? I'm happy to have you participate here and appreciat...

Tom In DC

It was indeed a great success. Putting faces/voices to names is always helpful. Next step is meeting in real life at a convention.

Tom In DC

Maybe add a password and send it via PM to everyone who says they're attending?

But it's not like we're talking about intellectual property, business strategy, protected health records, etc.

Tom In DC

Gail will be working but I'm in.

Tom In DC

I remember seeing a "Plain Old Pearson's" price list from the mid-1960's. Most 61 firsts were $3, Lafite was $4, and Petrus was $6.

If those prices were actually from 1963, inflation on that $3 price would be $25.36.

Tom In DC

With a reverse-sear tri-tip roast, we tried the first half of a bottle of 2002 Branaire-Ducru. A very 2002, very JimHow kind of wine. Plenty of fruit on the nose and palate but a bit lean in the finish. I'll try another one soon before I decide between zero or one blanquito.

Tom In DC

Fast tracking is not what I meant by "bending the rules". Danny's article, for example, says the test subjects will be observed for 14 months to see if a) the vaccine is safe and b) if it creates any immunity.

Tom In DC

Not Stu, but I would hope the FDA's of the world would not bend the rules for a vaccine. Administer it to 8 billion people? Too big of a chance that it kills more than it saves...

Tom In DC

Interesting that brandy is a last resort after the whiskey, rum, gin, etc. are gone.

Tom In DC

I wonder if September might be a problem for the chateaux selling the previous year's vintage (say, 2019) - isn't that late enough in the growing season to have a good idea of the quality of the current year's vintage on the vine/being harvested (2020 in this example)? If the vintage still on the vi...

Tom In DC

We will both likely be in the great tasting room in the sky by then, I think.

Tom In DC

Best retail price in the country per Wine-searcher Pro, stefan. Hehehe. Let us know when you're gonna drink it and we'll stop by!

Tom In DC

Happy Birthday, Jill!

We BWE'ers have long known that wine shops are essential services.

Tom In DC

Yes, very sad that we aren't all on on way the the Motherland. But we'll rally along with the rest of the world. Like the Red Sox fans for so many years, we'll cry "Wait 'til next year!"

Tom In DC

Exactly, Nic - if we had had multiple "end of Raiders of the Lost Ark"-sized warehouses full of aging ventilators and expiring N95 masks and an investigative reporter had found them there would have been hell to pay about all the wasted money.

Tom In DC

The poll is hard for me to answer because in my experience both options are true. a) There are many thousands of producers in Bordeaux and I'd guess that the large majority of them produce wines under $30. (A price point, by the way, that was set 7 years ago when this thread started!) With such a wi...

Tom In DC

AKR wrote:"If you can't find an N95 respirator, you can improvise with a silken cravat. Cheerio, until next year!"

Like.

Tom In DC

Why would you ever want to do that?

-- stefan

Tom In DC

tim wrote:As I may be moving to Denver soon, I may take you up on that offer!

That would be great!

Tom In DC

Typical Trump miscommunication. Amazing and yet not surprising.

The color of one's passport will not protect them from disease. Why on earth can US citizens fly but not others?

Tom In DC

We're checking on cancellation/refund policies with our various paid visits as we speak.

Tom In DC

I'd love to try the Tesseron Pym-Rae, but at $350 bottle

I don't see that happening very often.

Tom In DC

With stefan and Lucie in town, don't forget some high-powered luncheon wines!

Tom In DC

Blanquito wrote:... but maybe wines like that are the exceptions which prove the rule?

Spoken like a true academic.

Tom In DC

Clos Fourtet. Figeac. Vieux Chateau Certan.

Tom In DC

Our own Pontet-Canet?

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