DC ‘21: Thursday night, Black Salt, 6:15 PM

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:27 pm

Steve and I are definitely in, no food allergies for either of us (just a moderate intolerance of Rollandized wines).

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:08 am

Count me in as well…

JoelD · Post by **JoelD** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 4:13 am

Blanquito wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:27 pm Steve and I are definitely in, no food allergies for either of us (just a moderate intolerance of Rollandized wines).

+2 for all of the above. Dallas and I will be there. Good specification on going Pomerol vs just Right bank, Patrick. That alone should mitigate most of the issues.

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:20 pm

I have a shrimp allergy that I will be telling them about and would like to give Black Salt a list of any other food allergies and aversions very soon.

Chris Bublitz

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:26 pm

We also need to work/coordinate on building our plan for wines for each flight. I told the restaurant:

Champagne
White Burgundy
Red Bordeaux (Pomerol)
Red Bordeaux (Pomerol)
Red Bordeaux
Dessert wines

Chris Bublitz

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:59 pm

I'm in, Chris, I have a bad allergy to pistachios.

ericindc · Post by **ericindc** » Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:47 am

Janet and I are def in. No real food allergies.

As I said, we'll bring a (1) a mag of 2005 Charles Heidsieck, and (2) a couple bottles of '82 VCC. If people would rather we bring 2 750s of different champagnes, thats possible as well. I have a much larger selection of champagnes than aged pomerol.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:03 pm

I’ll bring a nice bottle of Champagne, Chris, along with a 2010 La Conseillante. I can bring up to three bottles of Champagne if need be.

Thanks for organizing the dinner at Black Salt, I love that place. We had a great dinner there last time. The one very minor nitpick (from the mystery puker, and I concurred) was that we felt a little rushed through some of the courses.

Thanks again for everything, I hope Marjorie can make it!

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:08 pm

I am in, as I think I mentioned before, bringing the 2001 and 2011 Vieux Chateau Certan

Thrilled to try the 2010 Conseillante!

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:48 pm

Jim, Marjorie is planning on coming to the Thursday night dinner. Eric is bringing a magnum of Champagne, if you bring two bottles, we will have enough Champagne.

I plan on bringing the 1990 Conseillante and a white Burgundy (to be determined) and Yquem.

Chris Bublitz

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:51 pm

Ok awesome, I'll bring two bottles of Champagne and the 2010 La Conseillante!

JoelD · Post by **JoelD** » Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:19 am

JimHow wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:51 pm Ok awesome, I'll bring two bottles of Champagne and the 2010 La Conseillante!

I do have a bottle of the 2000 La Conseillante, for a little vertical of every 10 years. Tempting. I know Marcus would love this vertical action!

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:33 pm

Chris, as you know, I had to cancel for health reasons, so please remove Lucie and me from your list.

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:30 pm

Stefan, we understand! So sorry you and Lucie won’t be able to join us. Patrick started this thread so he will need to make the change

Chris Bublitz

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:29 pm

JoelD wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:19 am
JimHow wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:51 pm Ok awesome, I'll bring two bottles of Champagne and the 2010 La Conseillante!
I do have a bottle of the 2000 La Conseillante, for a little vertical of every 10 years. Tempting. I know Marcus would love this vertical action!

Not only do I love verticals (sometimes to a fault!) I LOVE La Conseillante, one of my favorite producers, so tell me what I have to do to get you to bring it!

I kind of cheated by picking VCC instead of La Conseillante as my focus wine for this BWE, I am treasuring my very few bottles of older Conseillante and didn't want to drink them in a group setting. But I would love to try them from others LOL!

JoelD · Post by **JoelD** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:24 pm

marcs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:29 pm
JoelD wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:19 am
JimHow wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:51 pm Ok awesome, I'll bring two bottles of Champagne and the 2010 La Conseillante!
I do have a bottle of the 2000 La Conseillante, for a little vertical of every 10 years. Tempting. I know Marcus would love this vertical action!
Not only do I love verticals (sometimes to a fault!) I LOVE La Conseillante, one of my favorite producers, so tell me what I have to do to get you to bring it!

I kind of cheated by picking VCC instead of La Conseillante as my focus wine for this BWE, I am treasuring my very few bottles of older Conseillante and didn't want to drink them in a group setting. But I would love to try them from others LOL!

Well, I plan to complete One of the verticals. Either the VCC, with the 83 to compliment the 82, 86 and whichever younger ones you end up bringing. Or the Conseillante vertical. (Dark horse option, I have the 98 L'evangile to complete the vertical with the 89 and 90.)

Also I could bring my own vertical of L'eglise Clinet, 87,90, 97. The 87 I am bringing regardless as an "extra bottle" since its a birth year wine and this is the perfect place to open. The 97 drank Very well whenever our last BWE zoom call was.

Whats your preference between those 3-4 options, Marcus? Everyone else please feel free to weigh in as well.

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:42 pm

JoelD wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:24 pm
marcs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:29 pm
JoelD wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:19 am

I do have a bottle of the 2000 La Conseillante, for a little vertical of every 10 years. Tempting. I know Marcus would love this vertical action!
Not only do I love verticals (sometimes to a fault!) I LOVE La Conseillante, one of my favorite producers, so tell me what I have to do to get you to bring it!

I kind of cheated by picking VCC instead of La Conseillante as my focus wine for this BWE, I am treasuring my very few bottles of older Conseillante and didn't want to drink them in a group setting. But I would love to try them from others LOL!
Well, I plan to complete One of the verticals. Either the VCC, with the 83 to compliment the 82, 86 and whichever younger ones you end up bringing. Or the Conseillante vertical. (Dark horse option, I have the 98 L'evangile to complete the vertical with the 89 and 90.)

Also I could bring my own vertical of L'eglise Clinet, 87,90, 97. The 87 I am bringing regardless as an "extra bottle" since its a birth year wine and this is the perfect place to open. The 97 drank Very well whenever our last BWE zoom call was.

Whats your preference between those 3-4 options, Marcus? Everyone else please feel free to weigh in as well.

I plan to bring the 2001 and 2011 VCC. With those two we already have a four vintage vertical of VCC so I suggest picking one of the other wines.

I urge you to bring the 2000 Conseillante -- not only do I love Conseillante, but a vertical of the oughts, all great vintages, is too good to pass up. And three vintages is IMO the optimal length for a vertical at a large gathering like this one featuring multiple wines. Any longer and it starts to blur together.

Then I would also bring the 1998 L'evangile, it was one of the real standout wines at BWE 2018 when we explored 98 right bank, I still remember it. 89, 90, 98 is a fantastic right bank vertical. With that said, I totally understand if you wanted to keep the 98 L'evangile to drink on your own at a small dinner, it's a great wine.

Not too excited by L'Eglise Clinet, but maybe that's just me -- just never had a great experience with them.

JoelD · Post by **JoelD** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:30 pm

marcs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:42 pm
I urge you to bring the 2000 Conseillante -- not only do I love Conseillante, but a vertical of the oughts, all great vintages, is too good to pass up. And three vintages is IMO the optimal length for a vertical at a large gathering like this one featuring multiple wines. Any longer and it starts to blur together.

Then I would also bring the 1998 L'evangile, it was one of the real standout wines at BWE 2018 when we explored 98 right bank, I still remember it. 89, 90, 98 is a fantastic right bank vertical. With that said, I totally understand if you wanted to keep the 98 L'evangile to drink on your own at a small dinner, it's a great wine.

Not too excited by L'Eglise Clinet, but maybe that's just me -- just never had a great experience with them.

I'll start with the 2000 La Conseillante then for sure. Will figure out the rest later. Curious to see if Blanquito has any preferences on the other wine options for the evening.

I also have a 2014 Chateau De Meursault Charmes Du Dessus. And a 2015 JM Boillot Puligny Champs Canet as options for a white burg if we need another.

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:32 pm

This is a crazy good lineup....Thursday night becoming more than just a prelude!

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:38 pm

Oh hey -- I forgot! I also have the 2015 Vieux Chateau Certan, along with the 2011. I was thinking the 2015 would be an interesting comparison given some of the discussions about high-alcohol wines and 2015 in particular. The critics went absolutely gaga over the 2015 and called it one of the wines of the vintage, multiple 100 point scores, etc. I have not tried it, but have had the 2011 and it is excellent in a more restrained and classic style (lots of cab franc).

Any preference between the two? I could bring both of course, or save one for Saturday.

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Wed Sep 29, 2021 12:00 am

I think you should bring the 2011 VCC on Thursday night. That one is kind of under the radar but very good vintage for VCC.

Chris Bublitz

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Wed Sep 29, 2021 12:25 am

Winona Chief wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:30 pm Stefan, we understand! So sorry you and Lucie won’t be able to join us. Patrick started this thread so he will need to make the change

Chris Bublitz

List updated.

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:47 pm

Hey, when and where is this dinner? Key info!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:50 pm

Black Salt, 6:15pm.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:56 pm

I think there are 11 of us, if my count is correct?
Plenty of healthy pours of Conseillante and VCC, mmm.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:11 am

“ Curious to see if Blanquito has any preferences on the other wine options for the evening. ”

I’m on the edge of my seat, Joel!

JoelD · Post by **JoelD** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:36 am

JimHow wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:11 am “ Curious to see if Blanquito has any preferences on the other wine options for the evening. ”

I’m on the edge of my seat, Joel!

I decided i'll just bring some Napa merlot, blind taste everyone and see if they notice!

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:02 am

JoelD wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:36 am
JimHow wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:11 am “ Curious to see if Blanquito has any preferences on the other wine options for the evening. ”

I’m on the edge of my seat, Joel!
I decided i'll just bring some Napa merlot, blind taste everyone and see if they notice!

I'm always trying to do special (even crazy) things at BWE convention, but i never had the guts to do that one, scared to be banned for a minimum of 3 months...

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:12 am

Bump, see updated first post.

ericindc · Post by **ericindc** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:40 am

Since there are only 11 of us. I may nix the magnum and bring 2 separate bottles of champagne. I'll make a game-time call.

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:01 am

JoelD wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:36 am
JimHow wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:11 am “ Curious to see if Blanquito has any preferences on the other wine options for the evening. ”

I’m on the edge of my seat, Joel!
I decided i'll just bring some Napa merlot, blind taste everyone and see if they notice!

LOL, you should absolutely do this! Pour it into a 1998 VCC or Evangile bottle and see if it's WOTN!

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:29 am

Thinking now I will bring all three of my VCCs - 2001, 2011, and 2015 - and nothing else

Going to be so many great Pomerols, I will have to exercise self-control

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:57 pm

Eric,
With just 11 coming to tonight’s dinner, I think bringing 2 750s is a good idea. With 750s we can just open what we need as things progress. We will probably only need 2 or 3 (at most) bottles of Champagne.

Chris Bublitz

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:48 pm

Personally I don’t plan to have any champagne, too much great Pomerol to try!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:52 pm

Just tested negative at Grubb's Pharmacy, I'm ready to rock and roll!
I'll plan on bringing only one bottle of Champagne plus my 2010 La Conseillante, Chris, unless you tell me to bring two.

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 2:26 pm

That’s fine, Jim.

Chris Bublitz

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 2:29 pm

I’m going in moderation this weekend myself, I’ve barely touched any alcohol since Jacques and Jill came by more than a month ago. I’ve got another murder trial coming up on the horizon, gotta get back in training after this weekend.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:23 pm

Which Champagne should I bring tonight along with my 2010 La Conseillante:

2002 Billecart-Salmon Cuvee Nicolas Francois
2008 Taittinger Comtes
2012 Pol Roger Winston Churchill

JoelD · Post by **JoelD** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:16 pm

JimHow wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:23 pm Which Champagne should I bring tonight along with my 2010 La Conseillante:

2002 Billecart-Salmon Cuvee Nicolas Francois
2008 Taittinger Comtes
2012 Pol Roger Winston Churchill

“ Curious to see if Blanquito has any preferences on the other wine options for the evening. ”

All jokes aside, looking forward to trying all three. My personal vote if you're bringing one each night would be to go in the order that you have listed by night.

Really looking forward to seeing you and everyone else in 6 hours!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:49 pm

Excellent! I’ll plan on bringing the ‘02 tonight.