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Had the 00 about 2 years ago and it was drinking nicely already.

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Parker cogitat ergo Bordeaux est.

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Man, dare I say it? This wine, so far at least, is as boring as a 1993 Batailley. I mean, it is just showing nothing so far. I can't even say it is "bad," because there doesn't seem to be anything, good or bad. Let's see if the pie de la whoopie can bring anything out. = direct and proxim...

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OrlandoRobert wrote:2005 Ch. Pierre de Lune, St. Emilion Grand Cru.

A micro estate of only one hectare, made of 90% merlot and 10% cab. Only 200 cases made.

= direct and proximate Parker legacy. I'll put that in his plus column.*

*Yes, I am going to see how many responses in a row I can use this.

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2nd wines of Bordeaux Superior = direct and proximate Parker legacy. I'll put that in his plus column.

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A 1968 Caves Velhas Garrafeira was my aged wine epiphany and it was only 16 years old or so at the time.

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My computer died. I got the flu. I went to Maui. I forgot my AlohaArt password. I'm paddling a canoe four times a week. I haven't been drinking much Bdx lately. The dog ate my homework. That is all.

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When I saw the title I thought you were stylin on a Palmer vertical.

Sounds nice.

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Be interested to hear of the 09 Faizeau. The 05 Faizeau gets two thumbs up from me.

I bought a few of the '10 Cantemerle. I've never tried Cantemerle though I have a magnum of the 01 and an odd bottle of another year I think sleeping in CO.

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Well, it appears Parker as a force for good is winning by a landslide. But ... That's just the popular vote. When I break out the precincts, it appears "force for good" may well win the popular vote, but "force for evil" may actually carry the electoral college. I continue to cou...

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A couple of members posted their UGC impressions in a thread a week or two ago.

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Just catching up. This was unmistakably 2009 in the bouquet. Although this is just 35% cab, the 09, very ripe, very deep and frankly very Californian cab aromas really dominate. This was medium bodied with a lot of tingly tannins in the midpalate. The finish was lighter. So it would be interesting t...

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Human trafficking, or I should say the ending of it, is one of my company's key corporate responsibility initiatives. As for the wine, sorry, I didn't realize the login was needed. Here's the story: CONDO OR WINE? An ampoule, or special, sealed glass container, of wine is listed on Wine.com for $168...

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Latrinal. With or without sanitizing cake? It makes a difference, you know.

Only had a couple of 1990s, small fry at that, but they were for the most pretty good. The Giscours was disappointing but not in a conspicuously hot vintage way. It was just kind of light and insubstantial.

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It's true that if there is some Benghazi conspiracy regarding either the attack, the response or the portrayal of it, it will unravel. A corollary to this is that it is as true that the theory that there is a conspiracy will never unravel. Conspiracy theories are immortal. The undead. There's no sil...

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The 94 Lagrange is another nice St. Julien.

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2004 Penfolds Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon @ $168,000/ "ampoule". I assume it's larger than a standard 750.

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Skip to item #2 if interested.

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I thought the 2000 C-S had it all. I think (hope) I have one bottle left, but I won't be revisiting it any time soon. It's logistics.

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2000 Chateau Sainte Colombe, Cotes de Castillon, en magnum. Well this is drinking splendidly. It's got a little of the kung pao chicken (hat tip Arv) in the bouquet as I sometimes find in ripe merlot. Good cut and depth, medium bodied and medium concentration and perfectly ripe. Appropriately struct...

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I would say secession is an un-American or anti-American thing,by definition, but that would neglect our Central and South American neighbors. Plus, I never play that patriot card. It's bad form.

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By the way, I thought this was a liberal echo chamber, but I keep hearing these discordant notes.

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Pettifogging aside, that's what we're down to now. A couple of ticks off of a tax increase reduction increase(agreed to in a sunset provision by all parties way back when as a budget fig leaf) and it's just like a 50, 70 or 91% rate. That's the equivalence that pledge-takers have made. I want to go ...

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I was just wondering. I seem to recall that the '10s were in general more expensive than the '09s. Maybe it was a currency effect. But the 10s did seem to be at "copulating deity" pricing levels. Then I was thinking, there's the OMG! brand/channel on the internet but is there a OMFG! brand...

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Well they should be for the price.

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I bet Sauternes will go well with lau lau.

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David, that's 30 emails a day to just one woman. I'm sure he had some other email too. I'm not talking past Tom. Reagan raised taxes or agreed to it when he thought it necessary or expedient. If the net is all that matters, then we are all in agreement on the Reagan model. Obama's only talking about...

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I just had a brainstorm, but I owe it to Tom. Tom, you may have laid the cornerstone of the bridge across the "fiscal chasm". It's semantics (but we'll not use that word publicly). Boehner and Co. can sell this bridge to their constituents by explaining that Obama's proposed tax increase i...

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I guess I'm one of the guys that can't get around the directional aspect of a revenue bill. So if I understand correctly, a tax cut is a tax cut, but a tax increase is just a reduction in a tax cut? Now all the hagiography makes sense! I think TEFRA was the largest peacetime reduction in a tax cut i...

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Reagan was/is a conservative icon. But unlike today's conservatives, he could raise taxes with the best liberal Dems, something the would-be hagiographers would like to forget, if they already haven't. Reagan was a pragmatist. He and Tip O'Neill were quite merry bedfellows. Somehow I just don't see ...

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Not when you speak truth to power so often and loudly.

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Seems safe to say there are quite a few non cru classe Sauternes/Barsac that never see the light of day outside the reigion, or at least not in the US? I've read that as a style of wine in general there's not a great market for this wine in the US, outside the few "collectable" names.

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It's OK Jim, I have a spare case of 09 Pavie Mac (BITCH!) I can let you have at a good price.

This is what you get for disdaining the futures game in years past. I took my allocations and I'm now a preferred customer.

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Patraeus just happened to have that ema in his desk drawer, handy when needed. This has got Oliver Stone written all over it.

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I'm not sure why it's relevant to the tax treatment that gains are unpredictable and dividends are not. Cap gains also have a huge benefit from deferral of recognition. And I can borrow against my gains and "realize them" with impunity. My bank won't lend against my future income without c...

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But it's OK to discourage hard work more? I mean where this goes is that all taxes are unfair and ... but even the hypothetical model small gov't must be paid for, even if you only love tanks, planes and bombs. As a shareholder I'm indifferent as to whether my investment is returned to me in dividen...

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^Agreed. Though it's no mystery why it hasn't been "fixed." Hedge fund prinicpals are big campaign contributors I think. Personally though I am not sympathetic to the policy that says once a dollar of income has been taxed it is free to generate infinite capital gains taxed at a preferenti...

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I think this is great - even if it's detoured from the original purpose. I'm not sure who first injected the Benghazi thing here. I guess it was about the possible effect on the outcome of the election. But I would like to go on record as saying that even if just the most innocent mistakes were made...

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Manton, I am interested in your opinion about this especially since you say the dems have "won" and the Republican party of yore isn't coming back. Should the house repubs stick to their no tax rate increase guns and pursue a scorched earth policy or should they accede to rate increases to...

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Manton, we are all about self-indulgence. I personally am weak. You fit right in. Keep righting those wrongs.But don't feel like you have to. Your corrections have been logged by Google's bot and a few others. They'll live forever.

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