So what have you bought lately?

William P · Post by **William P** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:06 pm

2 Malartic lagraviere 2016 - $60.00 a piece
1 Lafon Rochet 2016 - $45.00

jal · Post by **jal** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:55 pm

2016 Bourgogne Blanc Camille Giroud x 1
2016 Bachelet Cote de Nuits-Villages x 2
2017 Louis Michel Chablis AOC x 3
2017 Louis Jadot Chambolle Musigny les Amoureuses x 3
2019 Sigalas Assyrtiko Santorini x 6

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:27 pm

jal wrote:2016 Bourgogne Blanc Camille Giroud x 1
2016 Bachelet Cote de Nuits-Villages x 2
2017 Louis Michel Chablis AOC x 3
2017 Louis Jadot Chambolle Musigny les Amoureuses x 3
2019 Sigalas Assyrtiko Santorini x 6

Here "Les Amoureuses"is now the same price as the second best Grands Crus, being more expensive than Corton or Bonnes Mares!

The talk about white Bourgogne motivated me:

2 x 2017 Philippe Colin Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Vergers
2 x 2017 Thomas Morey Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Chenevottes

And

1 x 2017 Glantenay Volnay 1er Cru Santenots

Nic

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:10 pm

My weakness for lower-level Burgundy grand crus at sub-$100 prices got me again, and I picked up six bottles of 2010 Drouhin-Laroze Clos Vougeot at $90/bottle. Drouhin-Laroze has great old vine holdings, and 2010 is a great vintage, but they have been a bit hit and miss quality wise as a producer. Gotta start having more discipline about that...

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:35 pm

At an SI package sale, I bought 6 more St Innocent 2016 Temperance Hill PN and 6 St Innocent 2017 Temperance Hill PN. I have not tasted the 2017.

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:58 am

Picked up a case of 2019 Roilette Fleurie @ $18/btl, 6 btls of the Roilette Cuvee Tardive @ $21/btl and another case of 2016 Baudry Croix Boisee @ $36.30/btl as these just landed in the Bowler warehouse.

Claudius2 · Post by **Claudius2** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:37 am

All I've bought in the last few weeks in more NV Champagne - this time Nicolas Feuillatte Reserve Exclusive Brut.
Given the Champenois are suffering a collapse in sales volume, I am just trying to keep them afloat for a while longer......

Anyway, this is a lighter, fresher style, with good minerality and acidity, typical lemon/grapefruit flavours, some yeast and brioche, long dryish finish.
I think this producer has improved in recent years (maybe along with the labels and branding).
It cost about USD31 or E26 here in Singapore by 6 bottle case.

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 4:20 pm

So as part of my buying binge earlier this year I actually won some lots at an HDH auction. Shows you how out of hand things got LOL. Now I see something which I bought a full case of offered by HDH retail for $10/bottle less than I bought it for at auction. That really bugs me. I used to laugh at people like me. OK, just wanted to share with you all.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Sat Aug 15, 2020 7:43 pm

We’ve all been there at some point Marcus. Welcome to the club.

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:54 am

I’ll make you feel better marcs, I was shopping in a local store recently where I’ve gotten a number of good buys on both bourbons and wine over the years and they didn’t really have anything of interest but I generally feel sort of bad for entering and exiting a store without buying anything. So I noticed that they had wrapped bottles of what was purported to be the 100 point 2016 Sassicaia as per the shelf talker for $225/btl so I grabbed a bottle and went to the register, told the register boy not to unwrap the wrapper as this was a collectible, got wrung up and paid the $245 after tax and was glowing exiting the store ... that is until I got home and read the receipt and saw that it stated 2017 and then proceeded to rip off the wrapping and felt my anger rise. The moral of the story is to always check before you buy.

AKR · Post by **AKR** » Sun Aug 16, 2020 1:19 am

jckba wrote:I’ll make you feel better marcs, I was shopping in a local store recently where I’ve gotten a number of good buys on both bourbons and wine over the years and they didn’t really have anything of interest but I generally feel sort of bad for entering and exiting a store without buying anything. So I noticed that they had wrapped bottles of what was purported to be the 100 point 2016 Sassicaia as per the shelf talker for $225/btl so I grabbed a bottle and went to the register, told the register boy not to unwrap the wrapper as this was a collectible, got wrung up and paid the $245 after tax and was glowing exiting the store ... that is until I got home and read the receipt and saw that it stated 2017 and then proceeded to rip off the wrapping and felt my anger rise. The moral of the story is to always check before you buy.

Candidly, I don't think that was an accident. There should have been a real price differential, if even the Guidalberto is a cue, which the 17 is being given away out here for $20.

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:13 am

Probably not and I’ll take this experience as a lesson learned especially since I have access to the 2017 at cost while still readily available via Jersey wholesale.

And between, not sure what kind of pricing you get out west but Guidalberto is $37/btl frontline here on the East Coast and Le Difese (the 3rd label) ain’t that far behind so unless those are 1/2 bottles, I would be snapping those up as I happen to love Guidalberto with a couple of years age on it.

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:49 am

Well I felt like an idiot the other day ordering some Francois Carillon which I thought was Jacques Carillon.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Sun Aug 16, 2020 3:25 pm

Francois, Jacques... it’s all french to me.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Sun Aug 16, 2020 8:56 pm

Hmm. Francois is not French. But maybe it is french.

AKR · Post by **AKR** » Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:23 pm

jckba wrote:Probably not and I’ll take this experience as a lesson learned especially since I have access to the 2017 at cost while still readily available via Jersey wholesale.

And between, not sure what kind of pricing you get out west but Guidalberto is $37/btl frontline here on the East Coast and Le Difese (the 3rd label) ain’t that far behind so unless those are 1/2 bottles, I would be snapping those up as I happen to love Guidalberto with a couple of years age on it.

I haven't really cared for La Difese the times I've had it. I picked up a Guidalberto to see if I like it any better.

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A replacement shipment that was sent to me just arrived this afternoon, after the shipper lost the first one. This was supposed to be held til the heat wave was over....but everything with this has been jinxed. I'm not sure I've seen a package as cooked as this in the last twenty years, when my doorman once left a few bottles of mine in the literal steam pipe closet during a crazy Xmas season. This is seeping, literally hot to the touch, surprised the bubbly corks didn't explode.

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:43 pm

Splurged on a 1998 right bank sampler at the HDH auction

3*1998 Figeac
2*1998 Bon Pasteur
3*1998 Clinet
3*1998 Clos L'Eglise

for $90/bottle all in

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:55 pm

marcs wrote:Splurged on a 1998 right bank sampler at the HDH auction

3*1998 Figeac
2*1998 Bon Pasteur
3*1998 Clinet
3*1998 Clos L'Eglise

for $90/bottle all in

Good catch Marcus. Probably all ready to enjoy too, and for more years. I wish we could find that kind of deal in Québec, but no. An example? Our monopoly alcohol store brought back the two 2016 Pichon on their listing, for 327 and 445 $cad (252 and 342 $usd) each a bottle!

Nic

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:00 pm

I figure they should all be at or around peak for the next five years or so, but will try the Bon Pasteur and Clinet first...the Figeac and Clos l'Eglise should be able to go longer I think.

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:24 pm

Nice prices Marcus!

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:47 am

Nice haul, Marcus. Some good drinking ahead.

jal · Post by **jal** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 2:17 am

6 bottles of 2017 Louis Michel Chablis
6 bottles of 2019 Sigalas Assyrtiko

JoelD · Post by **JoelD** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 4:00 am

marcs wrote:Splurged on a 1998 right bank sampler at the HDH auction

3*1998 Figeac
2*1998 Bon Pasteur
3*1998 Clinet
3*1998 Clos L'Eglise

for $90/bottle all in

Great buy Marcus. I eyeballed that one but didn't do the math quickly enough. Worth it.

I don't like HDH, people really jack the prices up and takes up too much of my time for nothing. I also don't like that I didn't pull the trigger on the 78/86/88/96 VCC sampler for 135 a bottle all in. That would have been a fun one.

AKR · Post by **AKR** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:16 am

marcs wrote:Splurged on a 1998 right bank sampler at the HDH auction

3*1998 Figeac
2*1998 Bon Pasteur
3*1998 Clinet
3*1998 Clos L'Eglise

for $90/bottle all in

I cannot remember exactly when it happened but that Clos l'Eglise vintage has to be right around the time when there was some radical change at the property, and there is a big difference in quality/prices before and after. That nuance may have gotten lost over the years.

Once I remember looking at some 95 Clos l'Eglise, and after realizing that, taking a pass.

You picked up some classy right banks!

marcs · Post by **marcs** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:31 pm

AKR wrote:
marcs wrote:Splurged on a 1998 right bank sampler at the HDH auction

3*1998 Figeac
2*1998 Bon Pasteur
3*1998 Clinet
3*1998 Clos L'Eglise

for $90/bottle all in
I cannot remember exactly when it happened but that Clos l'Eglise vintage has to be right around the time when there was some radical change at the property, and there is a big difference in quality/prices before and after. That nuance may have gotten lost over the years.

Once I remember looking at some 95 Clos l'Eglise, and after realizing that, taking a pass.

You picked up some classy right banks!

I think Madame Garcin bought Clos L'Eglise in 1997 and the 1998 was either the first or second vintage after the shift...it has good reviews all around.

The Figeac is the biggest prize of that haul but the Clinet and Bon Pasteur will be nice drinkers too.

AKR · Post by **AKR** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:42 pm

Aha. That is good. I would have thought a label change would have been order with new ownership.

Chateau Vin · Post by **Chateau Vin** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:44 pm

marcs wrote:Splurged on a 1998 right bank sampler at the HDH auction

3*1998 Figeac
2*1998 Bon Pasteur
3*1998 Clinet
3*1998 Clos L'Eglise

for $90/bottle all in

That's a darn good haul for the price, marcs...I just have a lone bottle of 98 Clinet from 98 vintage...

Racer Chris · Post by **Racer Chris** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:28 am

Traded for work done:
Quantity Vintage Wine
2 1983 Château Cos d'Estournel
2 1986 Château Gruaud Larose
2 1989 Château Haut-Marbuzet
2 1986 Château Meyney
2 1986 Château Rausan-Ségla
2 1986 Château Talbot

JCNorthway · Post by **JCNorthway** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:18 am

I like your customers, Chris!

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:54 pm

Racer Chris wrote:Traded for work done:
Quantity Vintage Wine
2 1983 Château Cos d'Estournel
2 1986 Château Gruaud Larose
2 1989 Château Haut-Marbuzet
2 1986 Château Meyney
2 1986 Château Rausan-Ségla
2 1986 Château Talbot

Even better than Marcus 1998 haul!

Nic

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:10 pm

You are Bordeaux Wine Enthusiast of the week, RC!

Musigny 151 · Post by **Musigny 151** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:34 pm

Rauzan is fantastic

Comte Flaneur · Post by **Comte Flaneur** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:13 pm

Well done Marc and Chris for your impressive hauls.

I Recently bought:

One case of 2009 Leoville Barton for £804 in bond
One case of 2016 Duroche Gevrey Chambertin villages for £385 in bond
And then a couple of half cases off piste:
2017 Heugumber Gutedel, Weingut Ziereisen (Chasselas) for £74ib
2017 Jacobus Riesling, Weingut Peter-Jakob Kühn for £92ib

Racer Chris · Post by **Racer Chris** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:22 pm

JimHow wrote:You are Bordeaux Wine Enthusiast of the week, RC!

I also picked up a single bottle of 2015 Chateau d'Arsac locally for $34 to see if I like it as much as the 2015 Labegorce and Siran. That will be opened tonight.

Racer Chris · Post by **Racer Chris** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:27 pm

I've been on a bit of a Riesling exploration lately so I bought these this week:
1 2019 Dr. Hans Von Muller Riesling Spätlese (Mosel)
2 2018 Dr. Konstantin Frank Riesling Dry (Finger Lakes)
1 2017 Schlink Haus Riesling Kabinett (Nahe)
1 2019 Schlink Haus Riesling Spätlese (Nahe)
2 2017 Chateau Ste. Michelle & Dr. Loosen Riesling Eroica (Columbia Valley)
2 2017 Trimbach Riesling (Alsace)
2 2016 Willm Riesling Reserve (Alsace)

Ianjaig · Post by **Ianjaig** » Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:25 pm

I really enjoyed the 09 d'Arsacs that I dipped into over several years. Somewhat unMargaux like IMO (compared to the Labegorce), but great value.

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:09 am

Brought home a 6pack of the 2016 Vietti Barolo Castiglione as I find this to be one of the better entry level Barolo’s year in and year out.

Frederico · Post by **Frederico** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:27 pm

A very restrained August:

1x Spottswoode Estate Cab '16 $245
3x Castelgiocondo BdM '15 @$37
2x Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve @$61
2x Ulysse Collin Les Maillons BdN @$69
2x Ulysse Collin Les Pierrières BdB @$72

All in Canadian dollars

jckba · Post by **jckba** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:11 pm

Sharp pricing on those Ulysse-Collin champers and especially so since they are in Canadian dollars as that makes them roughly 1/2 the price they are here in the states!

Frederico · Post by **Frederico** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:23 am

jckba wrote:Sharp pricing on those Ulysse-Collin champers and especially so since they are in Canadian dollars as that makes them roughly 1/2 the price they are here in the states!

Yeah, those prices are very good. That wine shop had a summer sale this weekend and the Ulysse Collin are on clearance sale. Even at regular prices, they are still good.