GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
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So there are several Bordeaux that would be my contenders for leading my inventory in Bordeaux - Malescot St.-Exupery, Cos d’Estournel, Leoville Poyferre, La Lagune, Pichon Lalande and GPL, but it appears that none are even close to Chateau Montelena Estate Cab (the only wine we buy in every vintage).
We better drink faster; we’re getting old!
We better drink faster; we’re getting old!
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Re: UPDATE: "a return to sanity", GPL is no longer my largest BDX holding!
I'm doing this with La Tour Haut BrionBlanquito wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 7:14 pm UPDATE: "a return to sanity", GPL is no longer my largest BDX holding.
After an extensive cellar rationalization over the last couple of years (mostly achieved by selling off certain 'frauds' and fruit bombs), here are my current Bordeaux holdings (all chateau with at least 10 bottles):
Magdelaine - 73 bottles (up substantially from my prior tally, as I continue to backfill this defunct chateau whenever possible)
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
This was a good exercise as I had never done it.
1) Domaine de Chevalier
2) Grand Puy Lacoste
3) Sociando Mallet
I also looked at non-Bordeaux:
Italy = Produttori del Barbaresco
Spain = Lopez de Heredia
Red Burgundy = Domaine de Pavelot
California = Montelena
Germany = tie: Christoffel/JJ Prum
White Burgundy = Louis Michel Chablis
Fun to see what's in the cellar....
1) Domaine de Chevalier
2) Grand Puy Lacoste
3) Sociando Mallet
I also looked at non-Bordeaux:
Italy = Produttori del Barbaresco
Spain = Lopez de Heredia
Red Burgundy = Domaine de Pavelot
California = Montelena
Germany = tie: Christoffel/JJ Prum
White Burgundy = Louis Michel Chablis
Fun to see what's in the cellar....
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
I have 2 bottles of GPL, both 2016.
My top 5 Bordeaux holdings:
1) Lynch Bages
2) Cantemerle (this daily drinker moves up/down quickly depending on current stocks)
3) Haut Bailly
4) Conseillante
5) Montrose
My top 5 Bordeaux holdings:
1) Lynch Bages
2) Cantemerle (this daily drinker moves up/down quickly depending on current stocks)
3) Haut Bailly
4) Conseillante
5) Montrose
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
Wow, DDC at the top, nice. I’m assuming rouge or does the count include the Blanc? I need more pre-03 DDC rouge (I like the Blanc from all eras).RPCV wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 1:15 pm This was a good exercise as I had never done it.
1) Domaine de Chevalier
2) Grand Puy Lacoste
3) Sociando Mallet
I also looked at non-Bordeaux:
Italy = Produttori del Barbaresco
Spain = Lopez de Heredia
Red Burgundy = Domaine de Pavelot
California = Montelena
Germany = tie: Christoffel/JJ Prum
White Burgundy = Louis Michel Chablis
Fun to see what's in the cellar....
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
Hey Blanquito, what were the 16 bottles of GPL you offloaded over the last two years? Sales or drinking? Specifically curious as to whether you have been drinking a lot of 1995 and 2005 GPL as I have a good number of those and wondering about your view of where those are on the maturation curve…
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
I sold off all of my 05 GPL, it’s not a bad wine at all, maybe 90-91 pts in my book, but I didn’t think they’d improve and I didn’t really want them especially given what they fetched at auction. Never lived up to its initial promise (FWIW, Parker felt the same way, substantially downgrading it in his 10 year retrospective on the 05 vintage).marcs wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 1:49 am Hey Blanquito, what were the 16 bottles of GPL you offloaded over the last two years? Sales or drinking? Specifically curious as to whether you have been drinking a lot of 1995 and 2005 GPL as I have a good number of those and wondering about your view of where those are on the maturation curve…
I’ve kept all of my 95 GPL, which is young but excellent in a cool, classic style, probably 93-94 pts but hopefully with more improvement still to come.
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Yes sir!
My favorite GPL.....'95
My favorite GPL.....'95
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1.Magdelaine
2. VCC
3.Prum thanks to an enormous 2019 purchase.
4. Trotanoy
5. Pichon Lalande
2. VCC
3.Prum thanks to an enormous 2019 purchase.
4. Trotanoy
5. Pichon Lalande
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
If Prum is in Bordeaux, it takes my #1 slot.
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Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
One day I will learn to look at the title of the thread. Figeac now goes into fifth, but it’s a long way back from fourth.
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Happy to expand this to all wines...
My top producers in order (irrespective of white, red, desert or all of the above, with 30 bottles or more):
1. Ridge (by far.. nearly all red, but a few chardonnay and stickies)
2. Produttori de Barbaresco (nearly all riservas)
3. Magdelaine
4. Huet
5. Sociando Mallet
6. Grand Puy Lacoste
7. d'Issan
8. Niellon Chassagne Montrachet (various bottlings)
9. Branaire Ducru
10. Pichon Lalande
11. Thivin Beaujolais (various bottlings)
12. Levet Cote Rotie
13. Edmunds St John (various reds)
Top Champagne:
Roederer
Top Dessert:
Ridge Essence
Top Tuscan:
Lisini
Top Barolo:
Elio Grasso
Top Oregon:
St. Innocent
Top Red Burgundy:
tie - Jadot and Felettig
Top German:
Selbach Oster
Top Spain:
Riojanas
My top producers in order (irrespective of white, red, desert or all of the above, with 30 bottles or more):
1. Ridge (by far.. nearly all red, but a few chardonnay and stickies)
2. Produttori de Barbaresco (nearly all riservas)
3. Magdelaine
4. Huet
5. Sociando Mallet
6. Grand Puy Lacoste
7. d'Issan
8. Niellon Chassagne Montrachet (various bottlings)
9. Branaire Ducru
10. Pichon Lalande
11. Thivin Beaujolais (various bottlings)
12. Levet Cote Rotie
13. Edmunds St John (various reds)
Top Champagne:
Roederer
Top Dessert:
Ridge Essence
Top Tuscan:
Lisini
Top Barolo:
Elio Grasso
Top Oregon:
St. Innocent
Top Red Burgundy:
tie - Jadot and Felettig
Top German:
Selbach Oster
Top Spain:
Riojanas
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All wines:
1. Prum
2. Lynch Bages
3. Krug
4. Cantemerle
5. Haut Bailly
6. Conseillante
7. Produttori del Barbaresco
8. Montrose
Then the following are all a few steps behind but within 1-2 bottles of each other:
Angelus
Beaucastel
Bouchard
Canon
Clinet
Dom Perignon
Gruaud Larose
Haut Brion
Palmer
Pichon Baron
Pichon Comtesse
Pontet Canet
Raffault
Taittinger
Talbot
VCC
1. Prum
2. Lynch Bages
3. Krug
4. Cantemerle
5. Haut Bailly
6. Conseillante
7. Produttori del Barbaresco
8. Montrose
Then the following are all a few steps behind but within 1-2 bottles of each other:
Angelus
Beaucastel
Bouchard
Canon
Clinet
Dom Perignon
Gruaud Larose
Haut Brion
Palmer
Pichon Baron
Pichon Comtesse
Pontet Canet
Raffault
Taittinger
Talbot
VCC
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
Have you long been a Haut Bailly fan, DG? It seemed like an under the radar chateau until kinda recently, despite making consistently great wines since the 60’s or longer. The 79 is one of those largely unheralded gems.
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Blanquito...
I have the '79 HB ...I promised to pop with Orlando Bobby...Swing down sometime!!
I have the '79 HB ...I promised to pop with Orlando Bobby...Swing down sometime!!
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Nice! I'll bring a '75 Haut Bailly.robert goulet wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 10:15 pm Blanquito...
I have the '79 HB ...I promised to pop with Orlando Bobby...Swing down sometime!!
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Blanquito wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 10:17 pmNice! I'll bring a '75 Haut Bailly.robert goulet wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 10:15 pm Blanquito...
I have the '79 HB ...I promised to pop with Orlando Bobby...Swing down sometime!!
Let's Goooo
Re: GPL is [no longer] my largest BDX holding!
Bruce Bassin turned me on to Haut Bailly shortly before he died in 1998. I bought a bottle here and there and it just kept growing on me. I’ve never had older ones.
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