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Once I got home, due to this suspicion I looked for reviews of the wine and they are pretty dismal for the price I paid. What's more, it appears that 2007 is the "lost" vintage - how come there are no reviews of the 2007?
IMO, you are exceedingly wrong. However, each to his own.
Who are you going to trust? Parker who didn't even begin writing until he was in his 30's or me who has been drinking top wines since he was 16 and whose family has had top wines in their cellars for at least 200 years?
Who are you going to trust? Parker who didn't even begin writing until he was in his 30's or me who has been drinking top wines since he was 16 and whose family has had top wines in their cellars for at least 200 years?
So I made my third trip to the wine store in the last week. A few days ago I tried a 2007 Clos la Madeleine and it was decent.
As you know, I'm willing to try Burgs, just not willing to randomly try them by the bottle.
Just got two cases of Loring, including a case of 1/2 bottles, for those nights when I want just a little more. My Sea Smoke, which is about a case, isn't coming until December. Expecting another delivery today, two case of Stefania.
Ah, yes. Wine delivery season
.... for the merits of the "expanding your palate" notion, how come you are willing to buy cases of other wines unseen, untasted, and un-assessed by anybody except for the winemaker (who, I'm assuming at the time orders are placed in advance, has no concrete idea how the wine will turn out), yet scoff at the apparent risk of single bottles of international wines that have been put through the rigors of importers, distributors, and critics? (I ask more for discussion purposes and not as a critique of buying habits.
Oh, well indeed, I shall trust you. Thank you very much for all your help and I one day hope to enjoy a wine that does not come in a box. I shall certainly ignore all other writers and only read Hugh Johnson. I mean, I almost picked up a book by a woman once! Can you imagine? Her name is also funny. Jancis.
2007 Bordeaux has only just been released and few people would be drinking it yet, hence the lack of reviews unless they come from the published reviewers who sampled en primeur. It is not as good a vintage as 06, so there should be some relative bargains out there. That said, don't just trust the online reviews - keep sampling to see what you like.
oh right. he was in some sort of medical emergency, so couldnt make it. no wonder there were so many banfi wines.
The pichon comtesse is the 2nd wine of Pichon Lalande. And in '83 you can be sure that a Ch Margaux '59 that had been stored underground would not be bad at 24 years old. I just drank one of my Margaux 1979 and it's still perfect at 31 years old. My cellar stays between 50-60F naturally so the storage is perfect but some of the California wines were really past their prime like the Heitz '78 and Jordan '76. IMO these should be drank at 10-15 years old. The German whites from '76 are still perfect (mostly auslese) although one Eitelsbacher '75 spatlese was still very good when I drank it.The d'Yquem and ports will outlive me.