Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

@DavidK: You set a record for me: 35 different wines posted on BWE and I have not tasted any of them in any vintage!

Stefan, it's too bad that we don't live closer. I'd be happy to open any of them with you! In my opinion, wine is meant for sharing

Absolutely, David!

5 2005 D'Armailhac
1 1970 Ducru-Beaucaillou
1 2005 Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Arrived today from Oregon:
3 X 2021 00 Wines Chardonnay EGW
3 X 2021 00 Wines Chardonnay Seven Springs Vineyard

I loved the 7 SpringsPinot Noir from St. Innocent; not so much from Evening Land. I never tasted a 7 Springs Chardonnay. How are they compared to other Oregon Chardonnays?

3 2005 Pedesclaux

4 1975 Pichon Lalande

1 - 2014 Montrose 1.5
3 - 2014 Beychevelle

As indirectly recommended by jckba on another thread...

3 x 2021 Château Thivin Cuvée les 7 vignes
1 x 2021 Château Thivin Godefroy

stefan wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:35 pm I loved the 7 SpringsPinot Noir from St. Innocent; not so much from Evening Land. I never tasted a 7 Springs Chardonnay. How are they compared to other Oregon Chardonnays?

3 2005 Pedesclaux

I'll let you know when I drink some. I'm hopeful that it's delicious!

2 X 2022 Sousa Lopes Vinho Verde
1 X 2022 Anselmo Mendes Contacto
1 X 2010 Chateau Lascombes
3 X 2022 Freire Lobo Dao Vigno Branco
1 X 2021 Paulo Laureano Classico Branco
1 X 2016 Chateau Cantemerle
1 X 2015 Chateau La Lagune
1 X 2022 Pedra Cancela Dao Branco
1 X 2022 Lacrau Field Blend Branco

2 more '95 Dissan
1 '93 R. Segla

2016 Clisson Muscadet
2021 Gini Soave
2019 Château Bichon Cassignols Graves blanc

2018 Domaine Galantin Bandol red

I'm not supposed to be buying but so many sales and cash back, i just had to:
2020 Bernard Moreau CM Morgeot
2014 Suduiraut
2021 00 Wines Chardonnay VGW
2019 Martin Woods Chardonnay
2020 Brittan Vineyards Chardonnay Estate
NV Taittinger Brut Reserve - Fifa Cup Edition
2021 Lingua Franca Pinot Noir Estate
2021 Bethel Heights Pinot Noir Lewman Vineyard
2021 Ponzi Vineyards Pinot Noir Laurelwood District
2022 Purple Hands Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard
2019 E. Pira Barolo Cannubi
2019 Sandrone Barolo Le Vigne
2018 Fayolle Hermitage Les Dionnieres

2012 Domaine Aurélien Verdet Nuits-St.-Georges Les Boudot
1995 William Harrison Cabernet Franc

4 2021 Patricia Green Marine Sedimentary PN

This was on WTSO this morning for $24!

12x 2000 Cantemerle
1x 2000 Leoville Barton
2x 1998 Talbot

Finally picked up 19s (shipping delays from France), the Montrose begged to go home with me...

2014
3 Montrose
1 Montrose Mag

2019
12 Lanessan
12 Tour St. Christophe
12 Leoville Poyferre
12 Branaire Ducru
6 Lynch Bages
6 Malescot St. Exupery
2 Cos Estournel
2 Haut-Bailly
2 Canon

Eric,

1 X 2016 Dominus
1 X 2019 Chateau d'Yquem
1 X 2010 Chateau Durfort-Vivens
1 X 2016 Cakebread Cellars Chardonnay Reserve
1 X 2005 Joseph Phelps Insignia

2000 Château Haut-Bailly
2000 Château Rauzan-Gassies
Henriot Blanc de Blanc NV
2017 Luigi Pira Barolo Margheria

1 bottle each

DavidK wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:26 am

stefan wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:35 pm I loved the 7 SpringsPinot Noir from St. Innocent; not so much from Evening Land. I never tasted a 7 Springs Chardonnay. How are they compared to other Oregon Chardonnays?

3 2005 Pedesclaux

I'll let you know when I drink some. I'm hopeful that it's delicious!

It's much richer and less steely than other Oregon Chardonnays that I've enjoyed over the past few years. The oak influence is palpable, and there is a buttery viscosity. I'm disinclined to describe wine in terms of secondary and tertiary characteristics. Ir's a big wine, and, in my opinion, a nice match for rich dishes.

Sounds like I might not like it much, David. Strange that Dominique Lafon would make a buttery Chardonnay. Maybe he is no longer consulting for Evening Land.

I bought some Savoie wines from Gilles Berlioz e few days ago. An interesting domaine, biodynamic, with a bunch of cuvees done in a nearly natural way where eeveybody is paid the same (wines are not cheap though...). Opened the cuvee "Jaja" 2022, a white Chignin wine and it is quite a different wine from anything I know but quite interesting and well balanced... although initially with gas and smelling a bit like cider. Went well with smoked fish and home made (partly home grown veg) soup.

These bottles recently arrived in the United States from Italy, and they were delivered to me today:
1 X 1978 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco
1 X 1964 Pio Cesare Barolo
1 X 1964 Marchesi di Barolo Barolo
1 X 1971 Fontana Saverio Barolo
1 X 1964 Travaglini Spanna Riserva
1 X 1967 La Spinona Barbaresco
1 X 1971 La Spinona Barbaresco
1 X 1978 La Spinona Barbaresco Bricco Faset
1 X 1974 De Forville Barbaresco Santo Stefano Riserva Speciale

Nice selection of older bottles!

1983 Lafite (2 halves, 4 bottles, 1 magnum)
1990 Yquem (2 bottles, 6 halves)
1982 Cos d"Estournel (3)
1986 Pichon Lalande (6)
1982 Prieure Lichine (1 magnum)
2009 Canon (12)
2016 Giscours (12)

Lucie's Xmas presents for 2023, 2024, and 2025.

1 x Pontet Canet 2003
3 x Felton Road Block 2 Chardonnay 2017 (a Central Otago wine I have not tried before but is highly regarded, particularly the 2017)

All bought at Auction.

Some 2019 St Emilions - Clos Fourtet (one of my favorite wines from Bordeaux), Beau-Sej-Becot, and Clos L’Oratorie. Drinking the BSB right now - utter deliciousness. Perhaps a touch more wood than I like on the finish, but delicious nonetheless. 93

1998 Canon
1988 Suduiraut
1990 Rausan Segla

JCNorthway wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:43 pm Nice selection of older bottles!

I got these from a reliable USA source who brought them in from Italy. I don't know exactly where in Italy my source acquired these bottles, but I watched the unpacking of the wines when they arrived in this county. I'm hopeful!

These six bottles are my final wine delivery of 2023:
1 X 2010 Larkmead Tocai Friulano
1 X 2020 Larkmead Tocai Friulano
1 X 2021 Larkmead Tocai Friulano
1 X 2022 Zidianakis Garage Winery Semissis
1 X 2019 Quinta do Javali Clos Bonifatata
1 X 2021 Antonio Madeira A Liberdade Dao Branco

Solely due to BWE enablement:
4 x 2019 Giscours

DavidG wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:26 pm Solely due to BWE enablement:
4 x 2019 Giscours

Good thing David.

I personally bought a lot lately, but few Bordeaux. But 3 bottles of 2016 Château Lafon-Rochet found their way to me!

Nic, I’m always on the lookout for 2016 Bordeaux.

I’m (trying) to limit myself to one unicorn bottle a month this year while in retirement. I have way too much wine as it is. So I bought a 2019 Chateau La Violette. I hesitated because of the price, but I’ve always loved the owners’ Le Gay. I don’t see it that often and wanted to add to my cellar. Hope it’s good some time in the distant future!

2019 Giscours is a beauty, David, probably runner up for wine of the year. I’ve been filling out my mixed case orders of the fancy stuff in NH with bottles of 2020 Felsina Berardenga Chianti, I just love that wine and will be forever grateful for JC Northway’s enablement in that regard.

And I just keep buying it, Jim. About to order my second case of the 2020 regular bottling. And just ordered a case of the 2020 Riserva. Hard to find a better wine for good old fashioned Italian dishes (or whatever other excuse you have for opening a bottle).

1970 Pichon Baron
1986 Lynch Bages
1990 Rausan Segla
2006 L'Arrosee
1985 L'Eglise Clinet

A local retailer had a clearance sale on 2014, 15 and 16 Bordeaux and I just had to help them liquidate some.

Bought Branaire, Lagrange, Cantemerle, Monbosquet sms Du Terte cheap plus a few decent CBs and Pomerols. the Tour Bessan Margaux was a very nice wine at a decant price point.