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Old 03-10-2012, 21:38   #16
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I have bought a few wine futures. The last one I am buying was double magnums of a secopnd growth for two grand daughters 21st b-day. They are 7 now and the damn bottles (if you can find double magnums) is over $2000 and it is a SECOND Growth. Drink all of those wines you bought in good health. Enjoy them because very few people can apreciate that quality wine.
Understood. This evening the Lefleur was better than the Margaux.
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My 2010 Kirkland Malbec was pretty okay with the jambalaya I concocted.
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More wine than we can consume (approx 6000 btls), and we aren't going to sell it so we'll just drink it.
How many other 82 bourdeauxs do you have?
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Old 03-11-2012, 04:30   #19
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6000 Btls of seriousness...how many air miles do I have...what's the Burgundy collection look like, any DRC's, La Tâche and Grands Échezeaux make me crazy. Lets do a charity dinner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domaine...n%C3%A9e-Conti
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Old 03-11-2012, 08:13   #20
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French wines?

I've just begun opening my 2007 and 2008 Cabernet Sauvignons, Ancient Vine Zinfandels, Pinot Noirs, and San Giovesses from the Napa, Alexander, and Russian River Valleys - all 91-94 points and OUTSTANDING!

Chateau Montelena (Napa Valley)
Hartford Family (Alexander Valley, Russian River alley)
Hafner (Sausal Creek Alexander Valley)
Gustavo Thrace (Napa Valley Carneros Region)
Sausal (Sausal Creek Alexander Valley)
La Sirena (Napa alley)
Golden Eye (Anderson Valley)

My wife likes the Chardonnays from Chateau Montelena, Hartford Family, Golden Eye, Hafner, and Taylor Family (Napa Valley Carneros Region).

We just enjoyed a Hartford 2009 Lands Edge (they do a lot of single vineyard lots) Pinot Noir with grilled frenched lamb the other night and OMG - IWC gives it 92 points and I've just ordered a couple more bottles because it was so good.

http://www.hartfordwines.com/pinotno...ASC&startrow=1

Our desire to spend the next several decades earnestly searching for that next great glass of wine is part of the reason we'll be moving back to our ranch in NorCal this year.

Anyway, the point of all this is that for you wine lover's out there, it's going to be a GREAT wine sipping year this year.

Richard
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Old 03-11-2012, 08:31   #21
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How many other 82 bourdeauxs do you have?
The simple answer is I don't know. We were well catalogued a couple of years ago, until we were flooded out of our Iowa City home, at that time,we evacuated approx 6000 bottles to the farm. We have not yet placed them all of them in their bins, and we already had couple of thousand in the farm's wine cellar.
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6000 Btls of seriousness...how many air miles do I have...what's the Burgundy collection look like, any DRC's, La Tâche and Grands Échezeaux make me crazy. Lets do a charity dinner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domaine...n%C3%A9e-Conti
For you I took a couple of pic's, this morning. I'll try to post them up, with Nancy's help of course.
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French wines?

I've just begun opening my 2007 and 2008 Cabernet Sauvignons, Ancient Vine Zinfandels, Pinot Noirs, and San Giovesses from the Napa, Alexander, and Russian River Valleys - all 91-94 points and OUTSTANDING!

Chateau Montelena (Napa Valley)
Hartford Family (Alexander Valley, Russian River alley)
Hafner (Sausal Creek Alexander Valley)
Gustavo Thrace (Napa Valley Carneros Region)
Sausal (Sausal Creek Alexander Valley)
La Sirena (Napa alley)
Golden Eye (Anderson Valley)

My wife likes the Chardonnays from Chateau Montelena, Hartford Family, Golden Eye, Hafner, and Taylor Family (Napa Valley Carneros Region).

We just enjoyed a Hartford 2009 Lands Edge (they do a lot of single vineyard lots) Pinot Noir with grilled frenched lamb the other night and OMG - IWC gives it 92 points and I've just ordered a couple more bottles because it was so good.

http://www.hartfordwines.com/pinotno...ASC&startrow=1

Our desire to spend the next several decades earnestly searching for that next great glass of wine is part of the reason we'll be moving back to our ranch in NorCal this year.

Anyway, the point of all this is that for you wine lover's out there, it's going to be a GREAT wine sipping year this year.

Richard
You have it correct. It's all about the enjoyment...

We were in Ireland a couple of years ago, Nancy was there to give a talk. I had sampled my first Guiness (in Ireland) that afternoon, at the speakers dinner we were regaled with pretty special wines, I dutifully sipped the wines placed in front of me, but wanted more Guiness...So I asked our host if he would mind if I switched to guiness, I comsumed 8-10 pints and thoroughly enjoyed every mouthful.
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6000 Btls of seriousness...how many air miles do I have...what's the Burgundy collection look like, any DRC's, La Tâche and Grands Échezeaux make me crazy. Lets do a charity dinner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domaine...n%C3%A9e-Conti
The Burgundy's are long gone, Nancy specialized primarily in Bordeauxs.
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Wine cellar, disorganized.

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How fun for you guys to have so many choices at your fingertips.

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Wow!!!!
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You have it correct. It's all about the enjoyment...

We were in Ireland a couple of years ago, Nancy was there to give a talk. I had sampled my first Guiness (in Ireland) that afternoon, at the speakers dinner we were regaled with pretty special wines, I dutifully sipped the wines placed in front of me, but wanted more Guiness...So I asked our host if he would mind if I switched to guiness, I comsumed 8-10 pints and thoroughly enjoyed every mouthful.
We do not do much Cali wine, we do however have a great vertical tasting of Dominus, starting in the 80's covering 5 years.
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