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Thanks JC that’s helpful

Another 2009 that seems to be drinking well is Leoville Barton an epic wine in the making

The 2009 vintage is shaping up as the modern day 1982

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That was too good a price not to bite stefan. And it was from Berry Brothers too, wine merchants for HRH and the Royal Family. Jim I was thinking about moving some 2009s up the drinking queue. I was looking through my storage inventory tonight and saw I have a case of Clerc Milon 2009, which piqued ...

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6 x Lynch Bages 2009 for £700 in bond

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2017 Domaine Julien Gerard & Fils, Nuits-Saint-Georges x 2 2015 Camille Giroud, Marsannay, Longeroies Rouge 6x75cl 1 £120 2021 Thomas Morey, Bourgogne, Blanc 6x75cl 1 £100 2016 Domaine Henri Magnien, Bourgogne, Pinot Noir Moutier 1x75cl 1 £13 2021 Triennes, Rose, Var IGP 1x75cl 2 £14 2018 Foglia...

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Nice CV! But not surprised…

I have the 04 and 06 and they are both superb, both drink now in their feisty youth or hold

At the risk of thread drift the 2009 also performed very well recently in auguste company…

https://www.farrvintners.com/blog/post.php?post=1980

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Are the prices coming down/fair Jim? You mentioned that they are not ‘giving away’ the 2021s, implicitly an impediment to buying them. I didn’t buy any 2021s and have only a few 2017s, picked up when discounted. I have been waiting quite patiently for the price of 2017s to fall and I also picked up ...

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Thanks for the notes Alex. I am a fan of 2000 Beychevelle but my case has been a bit up and down. At its best it is revelatory. Interesting to read you effusive praise of the 17 Langoa. I was so impressed by its 17 Leoville sibling that I immediately purchased a case. That was just over a year ago. ...

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Congratulations Nic on reaching this milestone - I hope you celebrate in style

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Hi Mark, Thanks for your notes and best wishes for the New Year. I am also grateful to you for letting me know that there is a Château Lagrange in Saint-Emilion! All the best, Alex Alex Err I think I’d had too much to drink when I posted that note. From memory I think I posted it at about 3am. Actu...

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Drank one of my new 2019 Montrose that I bought yesterday, it was very disjointed, it has officially gone into hibernation stage. Hold off drinking it for at least five years. I thought it was a bit like that when we tried it in March here in London. I don’t think any of the 2019s showed particular...

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The ‘cash is trash’ mantra applied when the Fed held rates at near zero. But now it looks like the Fed will start cutting rates in March. Trump said he will fire Fed Chair Powell on day one if he wins, so Biden and the White House seem to be colluding with the Fed to juice the economy this year to t...

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These are the 94 point wines, wines 99 to 70

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Lafite and Mouton are quite possibly the best two wines of the vintage - I have both but not the same quantity of Mouton!

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I was a bit late compiling my top 100 wines for the year as I usually do between Christmas and New Year. It was such a bumper year that I ended up compiling a list of my top 200.

This is 200 to 100 on the list, and all these wines scored 93 points

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To you all - may 2024 be healthy, happy, peaceful and prosperous

Seeing in the New Year with this

It is so good that it is a contender for my woty and surely wotv?

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What a fabulous set of treats and thanks for the vicarious thrill ride Joel

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A logical and worthy choice Jim - reading your piece I would say - rightly - more about Ch. Montrose than the 2019 vintage - the 2016 and 2020 Montroses are epic wines too - though I would concede that it would be odd not to have a 2019 to win this prestigious accolade.

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Good choices for Christmas Day stefan. That vintage of Comtessa can be variable but at least the Lafite showed its class.

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Good suggestion Nic

Ducru is very good in 2018

As is Conseillante, Figeac, Troplong Mondot, Lafite and Mouton

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Merry Christmas BWE

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How about

2020 DDC
2020 Canon - Mark’s suggestion
2019 - Montrose
2019 from the Margaux appellation - take your pick from D’Issan, Giscours, Palmer, Rauzan
Golden oldie - Pichon Lalande 1985? Or 1937?

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https://youtu.be/XwdhhZGhVZ8?si=MPkP2QdycSZZ5-wq

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Yes best case is that Jim reappears - like one of those bond characters emerging from the waves - in time to make his choice. But I think we should prepared to vote in his absence. I suggest you guys accept submissions and whittle it down to five options which we can all vote on. I can get the ball ...

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One way to do it in Jim’s absence would be to agree on an executive committee to agree on a finite number of choices which we could all vote on before the new year. My suggestion would be an executive committee consisting of Jean-Nicolas as the closest soul mate and confidante of our absent Dear Lea...

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That’s a hard act to follow Joel In no particular order and no burgundies made the cut: Cheval Blanc: 1964, 1966, 1983 (had the ‘85 and ‘98 too but the oldies really did it for me) La-Las: 1976 Mouline and 1985 Landonne Capellano Barolo: 1967 and 2004 Pie Franco Giacosa Red label Barbaresco Rabaja 2...

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My vote would be for DDC 2020 - so I second JC’s suggestion.

I hope it is not a 2019 - I thought tasting those 2019s in London was a waste of time - they are big monolithic and a bit fuzzy right now - the 2020s have a lot more focus than the 2019s

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Funny I was thinking what would happen for the 2023 woty - kudos Nicolas for taking the initiative. Are you going to decide by diktat or will it be a democratic process?

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Yes agree with Antoine - 2013 wasn’t great in burgundy but it certainly was not terrible. It is all too easy to read across from Bordeaux. But interesting stats Marcus.

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Comes back to life, like the phoenix from the ashes, in a far flung corner of the world, which is the rather delightfully civilised Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand. We met at Ian’s house in Eden Park to sample some mature Bordeaux, topped and tailed by Perrier Jouet, a 2022 Kumeu River Cha...

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Greetings from Auckland New Zealand where last night Ian - of this parish - invited me over for dinner. Our 2008 Leoville Barton was more backward than I expected - report to come on a separate thread.

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Happy Thanksgiving one and all

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Wine prices tanking in the UK with ‘high for long’ interest rate policy

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We did this at the Chez Bruce private room on the edge of Wandsworth Common in South London. It must have been nearly a decade ago that we did a dinner there with the theme of St Emilion first growths. This was soon after Angélus and Pavie had - somewhat controversially - been promoted to Premier Gr...

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We did this dinner at the Piccolino restaurant behind Kiverpool Street Station in the City of London on Tuesday night What we found was that our selection of wines was of uniformly high quality and ever so evenly matched. However, somewhat to my surprise no wine really stood out, grabbed the torch a...

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Nic you certainly are one of the big cheeses on BWE and always have been. I meant to qualify my opinion that the torch should be handed over to a ‘North’ American - and you have the natural empathy with Jim as a Quebecer - I didn’t realise that Jim had a Quebec side but I knew about the Polish side ...

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A poignant interview with Jim I am sure many of us were shaken as much as I was about what happened in Jim’s hometown, which as he noted has one of the lowest violent crime and homicide rates in the country. Maybe this can concentrate minds enabling this community to unite and turn the page, draw a ...

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Nobody is trying to blow up BWE Jim.

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PM’s message to me: Good points, Ian... a few little tidbits (for which I have all of the emails still) that provide needed context... Jim said initially he could only commit to 1 night in NYC (and which not incidentally he repeatedly vetoed adding more people to the group... so much for “everyone i...

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This is my message to PM Patrick I think we need to be 100% honest about all this. From what I understand there was an arrangement to meet in Manhattan based on a Krug 170 delivery from Jim. Is that correct or not? Did he drive down with the goods? I presume but don’t know so. Based on that it was a...

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I have to chime in here because what Jim wrote above is misleading, disingenuous and wrong. The reason this has happened is because you Jim decided to go public rather than do the mature thing and remonstrate with us privately on email. How unbelievably hypocritical to berate others for airing their...

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