So what have you bought lately?

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:36 am

I know nothing about 78 Mont Redon, but I do know that Gilman's drinking windows occasionally extend 10-20 or more years beyond my end dates. If that note was recent, I’d lend it more credence than a release note.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:53 am

DavidG wrote:I know nothing about 78 Mont Redon, but I do know that Gilman's drinking windows occasionally extend 10-20 or more years beyond my end dates. If that note was recent, I’d lend it more credence than a release note.

Good point— his note appears to be from 4/2011. Neither recent nor old, really. But 9 years can be a long time for an old wine. But did you see those perfect fills?!?!

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:49 am

Yup. Tempting!

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 3:21 pm

I was happy to find some bottles of 2014 Domaine du Mont Chauve Puligny-Montracher 1er Cru La Garenne. 2014 is amazing in Bourgogne blanc,

Some Dhondt-Grellet Champagne Brut "Dans un premier temps". I wanted to taste that since a few months, so when it re-appeared in my local wine store, i did not hesitate.

Nic

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Sun Dec 22, 2019 2:05 pm

Picked up a case of 2017 Pepiere Clos des Briords en magnum @ $38.25 + tax before they completely disappear from the marketplace.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Sun Dec 22, 2019 4:02 pm

When the other day I picked up three of my cases sitting at K&L, I added a few items:

2 2014 La Chablisienne Chablis 1er Cru
1 2008 Billecart-Salmon Extra Brut Champagne
1 2012 Franck Bonville "Belle Voyes" Bl d Bl Brut

I did not realize that the B-S was an extra brut until I got home else I would have passed on it.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Sun Dec 22, 2019 4:48 pm

stefan wrote:When the other day I picked up three of my cases sitting at K&L, I added a few items:

2 2014 La Chablisienne Chablis 1er Cru
1 2008 Billecart-Salmon Extra Brut Champagne
1 2012 Franck Bonville "Belle Voyes" Bl d Bl Brut

I did not realize that the B-S was an extra brut until I got home else I would have passed on it.

Curious what you think of the 2012 Bonville. Have you had it yet, Bill?

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Sun Dec 22, 2019 6:10 pm

Just drank it, Patrick. The note will be kn my post of today’s wine.

AKR · Post by **AKR** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 2:16 am

What's weird is that my local supermarket carries Mont Redon's CdR....but I never see their CNDP locally. I remember Musigny151 always said it was one of the better ones, especially the older ones, but I don't think I've tasted any/many. The best 78 Rhone I can recall was Vieux Telegraphe.

I'm sipping on the last glass of a kind of eh 00 Autard 'Cote Ronde' CNDP at the moment after a drizzly, gloomy day in Berkeley at a friend's wake.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 3:40 am

In winning 6 bottles of the 78 Mont Redon, I look forward to trying them with the gang over the next few gatherings.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 3:42 am

Won a magnum of the 85 Gruaud Larose today, maybe (since the 61) the best GL after the 82 and 86?

And a 750 of the 1990 Filhot Creme de Tete.

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:39 pm

Yes Patrick with 1983 perhaps.

My last chance saloon purchases for 2019 before the deadline kicks in.

Baron 16 x 6 @ £600
Baron 15 x 6 @ £550
Baron 14 x 6 @ £450
Barton (Leoville) 14 x 12 @£550

Ianjaig · Post by **Ianjaig** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:03 am

Certainly not a bargain, in fact I was robbed really, but the festive spirit made me do it.
2 x La Lagune, $134 (NZ) each. Ouch... My only comfort is the 2011 I had recently was simply beautiful.

Frederico · Post by **Frederico** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:09 am

Last buy of the year:

Pierre Peters Les Chetillons 2012

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:29 am

Probably my last purchases this year:

1 NV Franck Bonville "Belles Voyes" Blanc de Blancs $70
1 2008 Billecart Salmon Extra Brut $95
2 2014 La Chablisienne Vaucoupin Chablis $30
8 1995 Climens $39

jal · Post by **jal** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 1:35 pm

Whoa!! Great buy on the Climens, Stefan. Rest is not too shabby.

jal · Post by **jal** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 1:36 pm

Frederico wrote:Last buy of the year:

Pierre Peters Les Chetillons 2012

I love this cuvée!

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:36 pm

Comte Flaneur wrote:Yes Patrick with 1983 perhaps.

My last chance saloon purchases for 2019 before the deadline kicks in.

Baron 16 x 6 @ £600
Baron 15 x 6 @ £550
Baron 14 x 6 @ £450
Barton (Leoville) 14 x 12 @£550

Wow, these are really nice prices for the Baron! Especially the 2016 (maybe greatest ever?), which is about $30/bottle below the U.S. low and a bargain for what is basically a first growth quality wine.

Loading up on the Baron before the moratorium was another priority of mine. I feel like aged Baron is my desert island wine. I now have at least six each of the 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008. 2014, 2015, and 2016, and four bottles each of the 2009 and 2010. Of course as perhaps the most reliable high end ageworthy Cabernet in the world it isn't really urgent to secure those before a one-year moratorium, one could backfill the 2014-15-16 in a decade and they would just be at the beginning of their drinking window. Still, nice to have it locked down.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:06 pm

The nice thing about Bordeaux is that there’s plenty of it, at least for most Châteaux.
The Chetillons, OTOH... I’m a big fan of that bottling. I snoozed and loozed on the 2008.

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:45 pm

marcs wrote:
Comte Flaneur wrote:Yes Patrick with 1983 perhaps.

My last chance saloon purchases for 2019 before the deadline kicks in.

Baron 16 x 6 @ £600
Baron 15 x 6 @ £550
Baron 14 x 6 @ £450
Barton (Leoville) 14 x 12 @£550
Wow, these are really nice prices for the Baron! Especially the 2016 (maybe greatest ever?), which is about $30/bottle below the U.S. low and a bargain for what is basically a first growth quality wine.

Loading up on the Baron before the moratorium was another priority of mine. I feel like aged Baron is my desert island wine. I now have at least six each of the 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008. 2014, 2015, and 2016, and four bottles each of the 2009 and 2010. Of course as perhaps the most reliable high end ageworthy Cabernet in the world it isn't really urgent to secure those before a one-year moratorium, one could backfill the 2014-15-16 in a decade and they would just be at the beginning of their drinking window. Still, nice to have it locked down.

Marcus

In my opinion Leoville Barton and Pichon Baron epitomise what is great about Bordeaux, on the left bank, particularly but Bordeaux more generally.

They constantly strive to make better wines, year-in, year-out and succeed with alacrity. Leoville Barton, however, is the only wine you could buy with impunity for the last 50 or so years year-in, year-out.

That it has gotten better - in absolute and relative terms - in the last 20-25 years is noteworthy, because in my opinion this is not reflected in prices.

At Baron, Christian Seely has a well articulated business plan to match LLC and Latour, and it seems like in 20 years he is close to achieving that objective.

If you believe that, as I do, Pichon Baron is still a bargain.

But then you look across the road to what is going on there at the female Pichon...a healthy dynamic...who says healthy competition and dynamism don’t drive the French economy.

gene m. · Post by **gene m.** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 4:34 am

Last purchase of the year, mixed case of 6 BDX, 5 burgs, 1 champagne
2x Gloria St. Julien 1985
La Tour de Mons 1986
l`Arrosee 1986
Gloria St. Julien 1989
Raymond Lafon Sauternes 1990
Pinson Chablis La Foret 2000
Louis Boillot Nuits St. Georges Les Pruliers 2003
2x Louis Boillot Gevrey Chambertin Cherbaudes 2003
Tarant Extra Brut La Vigne d`Or Blanc de Meuniers 2003
Jean Claude Boisset Chambolle Musigny Les Charmes 2013

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 3:27 am

Last purchase for a year: 6 bottles on the 2008 Dom Perignon (on sale)

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:11 am

Based on Patrick's tip, put in an order just before midnight for 4 x 2008 Dom @ $136.
My 2020 buying freeze is now in effect.
Happy New Year all! I don’t expect to be posting much in this thread for a while.

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:11 am

Like Yoda would says:

"Boring in 2020, BWE will be".

Happy New Year and good luck to the ones engaged in the 2020 buying freeze.

Nic

P.s. i have bad news for your freeze... on the dec 29th, had one of the very best 2016 up to now...

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 12:48 pm

Nicklasss wrote:Like Yoda would says:

"Boring in 2020, BWE will be".

Happy New Year and good luck to the ones engaged in the 2020 buying freeze.

Nic

P.s. i have bad news for your freeze... on the dec 29th, had one of the very best 2016 up to now...

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Racer Chris · Post by **Racer Chris** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 1:16 pm

I'll start the new year buying.
4x 2015 Ch. Prieure Lichine
4x 2016 La Dame de Montrose

The free shipping coupon put me off the fence but one of the wines I had in my stored shopping cart (for the last 2 months) sold out I guess, so I had no guilt buying less than a full case.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 1:49 pm

A little summary of 2019. For the year:

Purchased: 147
Consumed: 144

Net gain of 3 for the year. While ultimately a fail in my goal of reducing the cellar size, still much better than last year. New Year resolution is to limit purchases to no more than 1 case in 2020. Almost 9 hours in and I’m doing great! Only 8756 more hours to go...

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:47 pm

Nice, David.

Here are my 2019 'in-out' vital statistics:
- Bottles In (includes purchases and gifts): 319
- Bottles Out (includes drank, sold, gifted and flawed bottles): 442*
--Net change: -123 bottles

*I sold a consignment of 198 bottles in 2019.

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:47 pm

I went on a major buying binge the last two weeks of the year in preparation for the 2020 moratorium.

Some of this was mentioned above, including the 11*1995 Grand Puy Lacoste and 12*1998 Bourgneuf I bought to have some more reasonably priced aged Bordeaux on hand.

I filled out my holdings of Pichon Baron (vertical of 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 with at least three bottles in every year and 6+ in most, with 8 bottles each for 2000 and 2016 anchoring the beginning and end of the set).

I picked up a few more Conseillante, my favorite right bank wine, so I now have five 2015s and a few 2014s

Filled out my holdings of Philip Togni, my favorite California Cabs, with 4 bottles each of 2001 and 2006, so I now have 20 bottles total.

Snagged a case of a 2015 Grivot Chambolle-Musigy Combe d'Orveau, a village lieu-dit, at an excellent price -- a very good Burgundy cellar defender. Also filled out holdings of Hudelot-Noellat which is one of my favorite producers.

Picked up a few 2016s (probably too few given the reported quality of the vintage) to add to the futures I got, so I now have 20 bottles. Including 5*Branaire Ducru and 2*Beychevelle in addition to Pichon Baron and Leoville Barton (the LB being one of the few times that buying futures has paid off recently!)

Got a mixed case of 2012 Copain pinots on a blowout sale from Winebid, basically 50-65% off their release prices and in excellent condition.

Anyway, I was already absurdly well stocked for a year-long buying moratorium but no there can be no pretense I'm not completely set up for the entire 2020s and beyond!

OrlandoRobert · Post by **OrlandoRobert** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:03 pm

I don’t use CT or keep track, but I bought and consumed quite a bit last year, and still ended up about +250 for the year. How do I know? Bought another wine fridge in December and it is full!

I’m not on a moratorium, but I do need to chill on new releases, and instead, focus on selective backfilling.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:22 pm

OrlandoRobert wrote: Bought another wine fridge in December and it is full!

Baller.

AKR · Post by **AKR** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:12 am

stefan wrote:Probably my last purchases this year:

1 NV Franck Bonville "Belles Voyes" Blanc de Blancs $70
1 2008 Billecart Salmon Extra Brut $95
2 2014 La Chablisienne Vaucoupin Chablis $30
8 1995 Climens $39

Whoa nelly! Climens for under a pair of sawbucks?! Get Jay Miller stat

AKR · Post by **AKR** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:18 am

gene m. wrote:Last purchase of the year, mixed case of 6 BDX, 5 burgs, 1 champagne
2x Gloria St. Julien 1985
La Tour de Mons 1986
l`Arrosee 1986
Gloria St. Julien 1989
Raymond Lafon Sauternes 1990
Pinson Chablis La Foret 2000
Louis Boillot Nuits St. Georges Les Pruliers 2003
2x Louis Boillot Gevrey Chambertin Cherbaudes 2003
Tarant Extra Brut La Vigne d`Or Blanc de Meuniers 2003
Jean Claude Boisset Chambolle Musigny Les Charmes 2013

Those l'Arrosee's from the 80s can be really good when they're on. However my hit rate was only about 50%.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:20 am

The 82 l’Arrosee is sensational.

William P · Post by **William P** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:19 pm

2 - 2016 Malescot St. Exupery
1. 2016 St Innocent Justice
1. 2016 St. Innocent Zenith
1. 2016 St. Innocent Shea
1. 2015 St. Innocent Justice
1. 2017 St. Innocent Village

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:08 am

Those 2016 SIs are all good and still open. Probably the 2015 Justice also as some other SI 2015s have not closed down. The 2017 SI VC is somewhat below average for VC in my experience, although stefanJr likes it.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:46 am

3 bottles Krug Grande Cuvée 168
4 bottles Taittinger Comtes BdB 2007

Which leaves me 5 bottles left in my one mixed-case allowance for 2020.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:11 am

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Which leaves me 5 bottles left in my one mixed-case allowance for 2020.
>>

After which you will start using your allowance for 2021?

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:45 am

stefan wrote:>>
Which leaves me 5 bottles left in my one mixed-case allowance for 2020.
>>

After which you will start using your allowance for 2021?

Fear not! Despite an inauspicious start, I remain steadfast with my brothers on our journey of shared sacrifice for a greater good.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:54 am

Um. Are you on a crusade?