So what have you bought lately?

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:17 pm

Very nicely done indeed CV!

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:52 pm

My latest auction winnings got delivered today.

Coincidentally my gross purchases of £2990 exactly matched by gross sales of £2990. That was not meant to happen. Because after all the fees etc I had to shell out over £670. The Chaves were my undoing. I had both a few weeks ago and they are fabulous wines. But the whole purpose of the exercise was to come out in the black. But…cash is trash…we have similarly high inflation in Blighty…no point in raising cash is there?

I just opened a bottle of 2000 Glatenay Volnay 1er Cru Brouillards and it is marvellous old school burgundy, a point too.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:07 am

A case of 2016 Sociando @ $38.40/btl.
Jim’s fault. And Nic’s. And Eric’s.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:35 pm

Well done, David! Very well done indeed!

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:12 pm

Saratoga has free shipping on a case, for selected wines which included the following at not-bad prices, so I picked up a few more 2016s:

2016 Prieure Lichine x 4 @ $53
2016 La Lagune x 4 @ $54
2016 Talbot x 4 @ $70

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:24 pm

You can never have too many 2016s, I say, that is just a flat out spectacular vintage.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:40 pm

Yup, that’s kind of where I am too. And 2016 looks like a vintage I’ll be around long enough to enjoy.

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:09 pm

Two opposites:

2019 Turley Pesenti Vineyard Zinfandel.

2017 Clau de Nell Violette (biodynamic red Anjou, made by Anne-Claude Leflaive).

William P · Post by **William P** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:27 pm

JimHow wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:24 pm You can never have too many 2016s, I say, that is just a flat out spectacular vintage.

I totally agree and it's my last vintage of Bordeaux that I'm cellaring. I am buying later vintages for early consumption and to be fluent in future Bordeaux talk.

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:39 pm

Well done David on all those 2016.

La Lagune is quite good in that vintage. Looking to taste it back at 15 yo.

barsacpinci · Post by **barsacpinci** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:54 am

2014 Latour
1996 BAMA
2005 BAMA

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 1:08 am

12 mags of 2010 LdH Tondonia Reserva @ $89.99/per and another case of 2010 LdH Tondonia Reserva Blanco @ $49.99/per.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 7:10 pm

4 2015 Arterberry Maresh Vineyard PN @ $50.

I liked Maresh Vineyard Pinot Noir when Mark Vlossak made one years ago, but I have never tried Arterberry's.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 10:01 pm

barsacpinci wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:54 am 2014 Latour
1996 BAMA
2005 BAMA

Yummm!

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:50 am

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:53 am

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am

A banded OWC is indeed a pretty sight.

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:18 pm

jckba wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am A banded OWC is indeed a pretty sight.

Pulchritudinous!

This particular OWC is pristine.

I was really impressed by the 2015 by half we had when we - Alex, Patrick and I - visited the estate in October, even though it said 15% abv. The wine only had 40% new oak and it was brimming with limestone terroir expression leaving a strong impression of an intellectual wine, which was not manipulated in the cellar.

I wanted to try a cool vintage of this estate and try one to see how it compares to an older vintage of Magdelaine. (Any old excuse)

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:59 pm

Very well done indeed Comte Flaneur. What a damned shame we didn't get out there a couple years ago. This half case business is new to my cellar. I told my brother Tom and sister in law Barbara this weekend that I will leave my Moutons to them when I expire, but they will have to drink one upon my death before they can sell the rest.

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 9:13 pm

JimHow wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:59 pm Very well done indeed Comte Flaneur. What a damned shame we didn't get out there a couple years ago. This half case business is new to my cellar. I told my brother Tom and sister in law Barbara this weekend that I will leave my Moutons to them when I expire, but they will have to drink one upon my death before they can sell the rest.

Yes Jim what a shame we were thwarted by the scourge of Covid. That visit was such a good one because as we had arranged for March 2020 we did the double act with La Fleur Petrus but alas not the jewel in the crown Trotanoy. Our hostess was marvellous and impassioned.

Claudius2 · Post by **Claudius2** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:07 pm

Guys
When is a return to Bordeaux likely to be possible?
We now have war in the Ukraine to deal with and COVID has hardly passed us by.
The locals here by the way are getting rather concerned about the potential involvement of China which would be rather ugly,

un bureaucrate · Post by **un bureaucrate** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:18 pm

1x ’09 Jadot Amoureuses, from Flickinger’s — to be shared with a good friend later this month.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:53 pm

4 Champagne Philippe Prié Brut Tradition @ $25 including shipping.

This Best Buy fizzy plonk comes up frequently on WTSO.

Musigny 151 · Post by **Musigny 151** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 8:26 pm

Lynch 2018
Haut Bailly 2019
Pichon Lalande 2020
LMHB 1975 Mag

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 8:32 pm

2 x 2018 Cantemerle
4 x 2019 Beaucastel half bottles

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:22 pm

6 x Thistledown Sands of Time Grenache McLaren Vale 2020 (following on from the 2019s purchases)
12-8 = 4 Anne Gros Vosne Romanee Reas 2015 (group purchase)
4 x Lionel Faury Cote Rotie 2019 William P’s kindly received recco

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 1:43 am

A 171 Lanbo wine refrigerator. It holds about as many bottles as the Le Cache Credenza I bought last fall but costs 1/3 as much. I'll put it in the garage of our Eugene condo.

I now have enough storage space in Oregon for more wine!

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:41 am

Stefan’s law: total wine accumulated by a Johnsonian body per unit time is directly proportional to the fourth power of the Johnsonian body’s storage space.

The constant of proportionality σ, called the Stefan–Boltzmann constant or Stefan's constant, is non-fundamental in the sense that it derives from other known constants of nature. The value of the constant is

where k is the Boltzmann constant, h is Planck's constant, and c is the speed of light in a vacuum. Thus at 100 storage slots the wine flux density is 5.67 bottles/m2, at 1000 storage slots, 56,700 bottles/m2, etc.

http://www.wright.edu/~guy.vandegrift/c ... Stefan.pdf

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 5:29 pm

That's impressive, David. You coulda been a physicist.

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:40 pm

DavidG wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:41 am Stefan’s law: total wine accumulated by a Johnsonian body per unit time is directly proportional to the fourth power of the Johnsonian body’s storage space.

The constant of proportionality σ, called the Stefan–Boltzmann constant or Stefan's constant, is non-fundamental in the sense that it derives from other known constants of nature. The value of the constant is

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where k is the Boltzmann constant, h is Planck's constant, and c is the speed of light in a vacuum. Thus at 100 storage slots the wine flux density is 5.67 bottles/m2, at 1000 storage slots, 56,700 bottles/m2, etc.

http://www.wright.edu/~guy.vandegrift/c ... Stefan.pdf

Classic! I like it David.

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:11 pm

Picked up cases of the following:
12 x 2020 Pierre Girardin Bourgogne Blanc Eclat de Calcaire
12 x 2019 Charvin CdP
12 x 2019 Chapelle St Theordoric CdP Le Grand Pin
12 x 2019 Domaine Servin Chablis Montee de Tonnerre 1er
12 x 2014 Lopez de Heredia Vina Gravonia as well as another
6 x 2010 Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Reserva MAGs

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:36 pm

Dry white rules:

2020 Pinson Chablis
2018 Domaine du Pelican Chardonnay Jura
2020 Hidden Bench Vineyards Chardonnay Ontario
2019 I Campi Campo Vulcano Soave Classico

Dandersson · Post by **Dandersson** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 5:10 pm

Just arrived today.
Chateau Lilian Ladouys, St. Estephe 2019 x2
Chateau Pedesclaux, Pauillac 2019
Olga Raffault, Chinon Les Picasses 2016
Barone Ricasoli, Chianti Classico Brolio 2019
Marques De Riscal, Rioja Reserva 2015
Chateau Larose Trintaudon, Haut Medoc 2016
Produttori Del Barbaresco Nebbiolo, Langhe 2020
Domaine Reverdy-Ducroux, Sancerre Rouge Beau Regard 2018
Chateau Cantemerle, Haut-Medoc 2018
Chateau Senejac, Haut Medoc 2016 x2

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 5:49 pm

Nice haul, Danny, I had the 2016 Larose Trintaudon recently, it's every bit as good as the great 2015.
Good to see the 2019s hitting the shelves.

Dandersson · Post by **Dandersson** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 5:53 pm

Yes Ch, Larose Trintuadon 2016 is amazing! Super QPR.
The 2019s will be very interesting to try. High hopes and many of them should be lower in EtOH compared to 2018. Will report when I try them.

PghMike · Post by **PghMike** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 6:23 pm

1x 2016 Pavie Macquin
2x 2016 Sottimano Barbaresco Curra

Bout $66 each after a 100 off 300 coupon at WDC.

Dom_P · Post by **Dom_P** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:15 pm

6 x La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza Reserva 2015
6 x Chateau Thivin Côte de Brouilly 2020
6 x Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Muncagota Riserva 2016
6 x Chateau Cantenac-Brown Margaux 2016
4 x Castello Banfi Rosa Regale 2019 - A sweet sparkler for the wife

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 2:31 am

I’m back on the buying freeze wagon. Bunch of stuff from my last few posts showed up this week and I’m not going to have room when the 2019s start arriving.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:54 am

Yesterday in Salem I got:

Cristom
Spring Club Shipment
2 2019 Jessie Vineyard Pinot Noir 750
1 2016 Arcus Vineyard Pinot Noir 750
1 2016 Marjorie Vineyard Pinot Noir 750
1 2015 Hirschy Vineyard Pinot Noir 750
1 2015 Arcus Vineyard Pinot Noir 750
1 2017 Mt. Jefferson Cuvée Pinot Noir 750
2 2019 Marjorie Vineyard Pinot Noir 750
1 2015 Jessie Vineyard Pinot Noir 750
1 2020 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 750
1 2018 Estate Syrah 750
Added
6 2012 Mt. Jefferson Cuvée Pinot Noir 750
6 2016 123 West PN 750

St Innocent
Spring Club Shipment
2 2018 Pinot Noir Momtazi Vineyard
3 2018 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard
1 2018 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard Terrace Block
2 2019 Chardonnay Freedom Hill Vineyard
2 2019 Pinot Blanc Freedom Hill Vineyard
2 2020 Riesling Temperance Hill Vineyard
Added
9 2018 Pinot Noir Momtazi
6 2018 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard
6 2018 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard Terrace Block
9 2018 Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard
6 2019 Pinot Blanc Freedom Hill Vineyard

barsacpinci · Post by **barsacpinci** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:32 am

Needed to get out of the house, so rode the Metro downtown. Stopped at Calvert Woodley and Weygandt
2012 Belle-Brise
2015 Doyard Clos de l’Abbaye