Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Agent How reporting.
Stash has been secured.
Over.

Nice work Agent How! But you may have to delay your retirement.

That’s a lot of murder trials!

That is a very pretty sight!

Stash has been stored safely in cellar, surrounded by security of poison-tipped darts and jungle trip wires.
Inventory of Lafite now totals 34 bottles. I will drink well when I am 116 years old....

Wow. You remind me Trump : you seem to always get a way to get out of « special situations ».

Seriously, you’re now equipped with lot of the 2016 Pauillac, that you’ll enjoy for a long time… oups, wait, those cases are opened… nothimg to protect these bottle from you… come on Jim, take one (only one) to report…

If/when you come to the Great State of Maine, Nicola, I will uncork one....

The New Hampshire folks ended up being very nice, I guess I've developed a bit of a reputation there.
They extended the 20% sale for me.

Congratulations! That's a great score. Thinking about drinking them at maturiy will help you stay alive.

Congratulations Jim an inspired inter-generational investment!

Indeed, Mr. Flaneur, I was just discussing with my brother tonight the plans for my cellar after I travel on to meet the Great Stefan in the Great Tasting Room in the Sky.
I still say the best plan is DavidG's: Leave a moderate sized cellar for our heirs.
I thank you for your enablement, I am very happy with my purchase, you are right, I would have been disappointed not to have closed the deal in this opportunity.
These wines are safe and sound under lock and key and fully insured, I look forward to drinking them with you and BWEers for many years to come....
BD

It must be said: Well done. Well done, indeed!

Yes Jim is leading from the front

The most exciting purchase of my career! Lafite has always held a mystique for me, to me it is the ultimate. Probably the biggest disappointment in our pandemic trip cancellation .

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Lafite has always held a mystique for me
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For me, too. No other first growth has it. It reminds me of Salieri versus Mozart: Salieri crafts a perfect composition, then a Mozart piece blows it away.

Lafite is the first among equals

JimHow wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:26 pm The most exciting purchase of my career!

Good job Jim! Well done

Thank you, JF....

My current Lafite inventory:

3 x 1996 Chateau Lafite Rothschild
1 x 2002 Chateau Lafite Rothschild
2 x 2004 Chateau Lafite Rothschild
22 x 2016 Chateau Lafite Rothschild
6 x 2019 Chateau Lafite Rothschild

Total Lafites in cellar: 34

If you had told me 24 years ago when we started this site that I would have 34 bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild in my cellar I would have called you crazy, I would never spend $100-$180 per bottle for that many wines....

It is just a tad sad that Lafite has replaced (i guess temporarily) in your mind the greatest red Bordeaux wine of all times, the 1989 Lynch Bages…

I don’t mind saying that it has crossed my mind, Nicola, to start buying older vintages like normal people, but I think I have enough wine in the cellar for now….!

Wine enough for after you turn 90, but what about when you are in your seventies and eighties?

Well, Stefan, you guys talked me into it, I just bought five bottles of a certain northern Medoc by the name of 1989 Chateau Lynch Bages....

Great wine for celebrating your 80th birthday! One lot I lost in my last auction outing contained a bottle of '89 Lynch Bages. I hope it found a good home.

JimHow wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:33 pm Well, Stefan, you guys talked me into it, I just bought five bottles of a certain northern Medoc by the name of 1989 Chateau Lynch Bages....

Well done. Very well done!