Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

PhilR

I had a 1995 Mouton in 2005 and it was completely closed. I've avoided ten-year-old bordeaux ever since.

PhilR

It's been a long time since I posted anything on here, hope everyone's well. I'm thinking of visiting Burgundy in early October. Can anyone give me any tips on where to go / what to do? I expect they'll be harvesting so it's maybe not the best time to visit, but that's when I'm going none the less. ...

PhilR

Hound, thanks for asking, I had a mildew hit last year which wiped out the crop. The weather wasn't the best anyway is it happened. However, as I noted on my blog: http://an-english-vineyard.blogspot.co.uk/ (which I intend to start using again) I'm determined to make wine this year that I can drink,...

PhilR

The closest I get Alex is, "yeah, it's nice"...

Closest I get to my better half appreciating a wine, not me respecting her, although I'll take that

PhilR

Could be fun. Would have to wait until I can afford such indulgences though... will bear it in mind for when I can though.

Cheers

PhilR

Hi Ian, hope you're well. I haven't been on here in a while because I've not been buying much Bordeaux lately but your notes were a very nice vicarious experience!

PhilR

Ah fair enough

PhilR

Cheers Tom - yes thanks and same to you.

Alex, yeah that's interesting I'd like to read that article actually - don't spose you've got a copy you could email? Hope you're well and still drinking fine wines.

Phil

PhilR

Hi There

Haven't posted in ages but I thought I'd see if anyone knew more about this (maybe Alex?) apparently some people think the organisation that have bought L'isle Verte are a cult:

http://bordeaux-undiscovered.blogspot.c ... e-dry.html

Phil

PhilR

Ah, cheers. Not that interesting then, although worth a go if it turns up somewhere.

PhilR

I was just reading about Empress Josephine and she had this wine in her cellar, along with a lot of Bordeaux. Interesting that it's AOC Chateau Grillet and is owned by a single estate (monopole), I'd not heard of that before. Apparently they make just one white, has anyone had it? http://www.vinolea...

PhilR

Hi Iain

£206.15 all in (duty/VAT) and free delivery - from here: http://www.nickollsandperks.co.uk

Works out at about $28/bottle delivered by my calulations so a bit cheaper.

PhilR

Sounds good. I've enjoyed other Poujeauxs I've had.

Just ordered a case of this

PhilR

If had the $$, I'd spend them elsewhere. Pretty sure you wouldn't get the specific wines written up, but something undoubtedly less valuable but from the same producer. I dunno, for $1m I'd be expecting first growths. Say the book itself takes up $300,000, that leaves $700,000 / 100 / 12 = $583 per...

PhilR

http://bordeaux-undiscovered.blogspot.c ... -book.html

What do you think? I think it's pretty ridiculous to be honest.

PhilR

rjsussex wrote:About £5.50 in UK from a nice old-style merchant/importer.

Which one?

PhilR

Drank this last night (from magnum.. see 1984 thread ). Good fill level, cork came out quite easily - almost too easily - but the top of the cork was sound and there was only partial staining up the side of it. First sniff was a bit disconcerting, vaguely vinegary, but this soon disappeared to smell...

PhilR

From what I've read, '84 is seen as an off vintage in general for Bordeaux. However, I read (albeit by someone from Haut Brion on their website) that Haut Brion made a nice wine that year. Having just bought a magnum of the Haut Brion '84 and with plans to drink it soon, I wondered what people thoug...

PhilR

Alex, can I put you on the spot and ask what you think about the 6, 7 and 8 vintages?

PhilR

I might be tempted to splash out and join in. What sort of date were people thinking about so I can look in to sourcing some GPL?

PhilR

Glad people like it.

It may be a caching issue with the other computers by the way, try clearing your cache. If you don't know what I mean, searching for "clear cache x" in Google where x is your browser; should give you instructions.

Phil

PhilR

I just got an email from a blog I'm subscribed to about this, with this blue-tinged image: http://bordeaux-undiscovered.blogspot.com/2009/02/wine-and-art-chateau-mouton-rothschild.html I had a bit of a search and other places have it as a brown-tinged one, e.g: http://blog.sigihiss.com/?p=860 Person...

PhilR

Ah OK, ignore the email I just sent you then!

PhilR

Ah, I'm afraid it was a case of user error. I wasn't clicking "add" after selecting the moderators group. OK, typing those messages again...

PhilR

OK I'll have a look in to it

PhilR

Is this the "mystery pauillac" that I asked about a while ago on BWE?

http://groups.msn.com/BordeauxWineEnthu ... age=149911

If so, let me know how you get on. In fact, let me know how you get on whether it's that or not.

PhilR

Hi Eric

It looks like the accented characters aren't being displayed at all in FF3 or IE7.

In fact I've just looked in the database and they're not in their either, so they're getting lost somewhere along the line.

PhilR

I've sent a couple recently but not had any replies (to the moderators group), they're not appearing in my "sent items" though and I'm wondering whether it's some kind of configuration change I've made that's affected this. Can you guys just confirm whether you've recieved mesasges from me...

PhilR

Has anyone had the '97? I liked that, sort of a pure and well-made kind of wine but quiet.

PhilR

It ended up being still quite strong, a bit like squeezing the tea bag against the mug instead of letting it brew slowly to make tea. I think overextracted probably describes it. Too oaky for me as well, a bit like an over oaked Rioja, but without the vanilla strains.

PhilR

Note "Posted from CellarTracker" link.

It's working!

PhilR

2004 Château de Reignac - France, Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur (1/28/2009) Strong nose, unmistakeably Bordeaux, some cherry and leather. Cherry follows through to the pallete but it's really overloaded with oak and tannins. Admittedly it's young but it's far stronger/harsher than other 2004s I've h...

PhilR

See inbox!

PhilR

Joe, thanks. Actually that's what I used before when I set up a one-off chat. In which case that's excellent cos everyone found that easy to use and liked it.

I think I'd change the colour scheme to match though but that's great news.

PhilR

I'm not averse to it personally. I think it's interesting to see how busy people have been on the forum. I spose it depends on how much you value your post count. Re. the favicon, this is now done. People may have to delete their browser cache (including history of sites visited in Internet Explorer...

PhilR

I'd be interested in this, but I can't stretch my budget to Grand Puy Lacoste '95 at the minute. If we can decide on something a bit cheaper I'm in. Maybe the '04? Or something more esoteric.

I did actually by a Chateau de Reignac the other day... that might be a bit controversial though

PhilR

Tim, yes a "favicon" that's a good idea. I'll see what I can come up with and maybe post some ideas here... I think maybe the wine glass icon could be good Alex, yes this has been mentioned elsewhere and is planned to be set up a bit further down the line. Re. the red icon, that takes you ...

PhilR

Thanks Scott and Roberto and Jim. It's nice to do some work for something I'm interested in rather than just something I have to do "to get money". Eric's having to put quite some time in to this as well though so it's a joint effort. I'm going to extend the post title to 85 chars based on...

PhilR

I see. I think this board won't return searches if you enter a word that's too common though (try searching for "TN") I could always change the coding to allow it though. I think we should discuss this later once we've got the remote posts up and running.

PhilR

I've just heard back from Eric and he's got it working his end, just needs to set it up so CT users can use it from their accounts.

The idea is it'll post straight to this forum with the "TN: " prepended to the subject.

Nice.

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