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Opened my first one last night, and had the other half of the bottle tonight. Even with a couple of hours in the decanter yesterday, it was much more open tonight than last night, especially on the nose. Not tight as a drum by any means, but even though it’s starting to show, I’d give it another 3-5...

once saw a 3 pk of SQN that had separated into an almost clear liquid and a coagulated mess. At the time someone on a wine board mentioned that it could be a bacterial issue that caused the "roping" of the wine. the coagulated did look like rope. I've seen both of those issues, but I view...

M.Sysak wrote: ↑January 15th, 2021, 10:18 am wine.com
NCSJAN21
$20 off $50

Any expiration info for this one? The "banner trick" isn't working for me.

Anyone know for sure when HOT and GIRLS expire? Yes, Dave, even hot girls expire. And like most of us, we don't know when until it happens... I'm not expired, MMW, I'm distinguished. Interesting, wine.com cancelled my latest coupon order. No explanation given. Maybe they are finally deciding it’s g...

Anyone know for sure when HOT and GIRLS expire? I thought a post said 1-15 for HOT, but the updated first post says 1-17. I don't see anything for GIRLS. Waiting for RMN to add some cash back before I use them, but don't want to let them expire either.

I didn't see a space on the ROC United site to mark my donation as being in Frank's honor, so I'll do so here. RIP, Frank, and thanks for letting us know, Chloe.

Just checked my Amex offers and I have one for water.com. So close, but yet so far...

From Balanced Wine Selections' BDXI offer, we enjoyed the 2017 Domaine Courbet Cotes du Jura Poulsard last night and tonight. I don't have a lot of experience with Jura wines, and what experience I do have is mostly not poulsard. Maybe I need to change that. This was not a life-changing wine or anyt...

LOL - someone has been isolated with his laptop too long. He went from assigning codes like "Holly50" and "Jolly50" to "Hot50" and "Girls50."

Very strange.

Nope, I just tested it and it happens to me to on that wine, even with enough in the cart. It's not recognizing the wine as coupon-eligible, even with a "9" price, so you also get the message about not meeting the minimum.

First time I've seen this on a 9 wine.

We had the 1996 BAMdA last night and tonight. Many reviews have been glowing, as in the OP above, others less so for this particular vintage. It was my first BAMdA, as several of the bottles I bought on pre-arrival are being held by the merchant hoping for tariff relief before bringing them over, an...

And it's not just wine reviews with content like "this wine smelled bad." Imagine, for example - A wine review that went on to say "this wine was so bad, clearly the winemaker has no idea what he or she is doing." A winery gets cited for an environmental or permitting violation a...

Sorry if it's been discussed on one of these 22 pages and I missed it, but does anyone know if the Amex offers that say "$[20] off of $[200] up to 3 times" can be redeemed in one $[600] transaction, or do you actually have to have 3 separate transactions of $[200] or more? When I used min...

That is phenomenal!

Beyond words. RIP Frank.

New wine.com coupon Hot50 for $50 off $150 Also, for first time buyers at wine access, my referral link is below which includes $50 off your first order of $150 or more with free shipping. http://share.wineaccess.com/v/tyler_3 Any expiration date for that coupon? Jan 15. If you put in the code and ...

Another thing that makes HF unique among European wineries is having Lars here, participating so frequently and openly (even if he has to keep a "house secret" to himself now and again).

Being able to connect with the estate like this is tremendous, and very much appreciated!

I'm no winemaker, but I have been a serious wine drinker for almost 30 years, so hopefully I have some credibility. And, while this is purely anecdotal rather than based on controlled double-blind scientific research, over those 30 years I have found that one key to a bottle's longevity is its owner...

Glad to hear you had an amazing trip, Todd! It's inspiring for those of us who've never been, not to mention good for you to recharge your batteries before BD...

Many of the mencia wines I've had and enjoyed, whether from RS or Bierzo, have an exceptional (that is, unusual in the body of red wines I drink) quality to them that I will describe as some combination of "freshness" or "juiciness," which probably isn't descriptive to others but...

Related question - Does anyone know if CT will compute the median or mean vintage (or both)? I could obviously do it manually, but I'm not going to do that, but it would be interesting to track the average or median age of bottles opened each year, over time.

I'm sorry to hear this news, and sorry I never met him in person, but I enjoyed and will miss his posts. RIP.

Copied below is my post in another thread from a year ago. I thought I'd take a glance at the same stats from 2020. Much is relatively unchanged - "most frequent vintage" even stayed the same instead of rolling forward. The number of white wines we opened doubled, though, and Chianti Class...

Made it 22 and a half hours.

Do you have any idea how long it takes to catch a fly with a pair of chopsticks?

1978 "Domaine de L'Hermite" (Gray) Hermitage NV Ployez-Jacquremart Extra Quality Brut Possibly others TBD, especially if the Hermitage is shot. The Hermitage was DOA. Drinkable, but pleasureless. Brownish-red, mostly acid with a wisp of something that probably was very good in its day. 20...

A couple of stills in lieu of any video:

Sadly I have no video. I prepped the cage, gave it 10 minutes in the freezer (coming from the fridge), and it was clean and easy at the stroke of midnight EST. First try, no spillage. Good fun.

Happy New Year to all!

The answer to the original question is....

Yes!

not sure this matters at this point given what clearly happened in the interim, but JLL rated the 2015, 2016, and 2017 all very highly in a march of 2018 tasting (wrote that the 2016 would be bottled in April 2016 which I guess never happened?). not notes on 2018 or 2019 - yet. unsure if anyone els...

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"Just"

Hrrmmm...

It will hit a good amount of Bordeaux and N. Rhône, all S. Rhône, Cognac, and Armagnac. Piling those on top of German riesling, Burgundy, and the portions of Bordeaux and N. Rhône already hit is terrible.

It sounds like that adds sparkling wine, brandy, and still wine > 14%, is that what people are getting from this? I could be wrong, but it looks like "sparkling wine" and "effervescent wine" are considered two different things, and this adds only the latter. Somehow, Champagne s...

Yes, it looks like this latest move adds both the "over 14%" and the "big bottles" categories, which had previously been exempt, to the tariffs with a whopping 12 days' notice, for French and German wines. 2020 going out with a bang. This is a major move, in the wrong direction. ...

1978 "Domaine de L'Hermite" (Gray) Hermitage
NV Ployez-Jacquremart Extra Quality Brut

Possibly others TBD, especially if the Hermitage is shot.

Unfortunately, I don't read this as good news. All of the rhetoric about not escalating and imposing fewer tariffs than we could all seems to relate to how much the US is escalating the dispute (by less than the escalation the US accuses the EU of), not to any relaxation of existing tariffs. And &qu...

"If you could go back in time and collect one German riesling consistently over the years...?"

Yes! Yes, I would. Way back.

One of my first case purchases. My last bottle was probably 20 years ago — but, I’m not at all surprised it held up so well. I wonder how the Beringer Knights Valleys are doing from that era. Another good one that flew under the radar was Gallo’s Northern Sonoma Estate. I think it was only made for...

I had so many of these, and the '92, back in the day (not so much the reserve). If only I'd saved a few... Oh Dave...the Winemaker’s Reserve...91/92/94 are legends!!! Hell..95 and 97 too! Like $25 back in the day? Back when $25 was in the budget, but only as a splurge.... But the "regular"...

I had so many of these, and the '92, back in the day (not so much the reserve). If only I'd saved a few...

Dennis, I don't know much about the difference(s). Our source offered them within a month or two of one another last Spring, and the price difference was a buck. If you keep and want to review the offers, the one was March 9 with "very important" in the subject line, the other was May 12 w...

Thanks for the note, Dennis. This was made in two separate bottlings. I bought both and just received them in my Fall shipments, and I'll likely check in on one in 2021 so it's good to have a data point. From your photo, the one you had is the late-bottled version, AP 5/97. There is also an AP 3/96....

I like to be diverse in what I try , so that I don't miss out on discovering something I might really love, be it a new producer, a new region, a new grape variety, etc. And my inner wine geek does get some some pleasure from being able to say that I have indeed tried wine from X country or Y grape....

With Christmas Eve afternoon snacks, I decided to try sabrage for the first time, because one can't go through life having never sabred a Champagne, right? But I didn't want to risk anything fancy of a first try, so it was a Garagiste bargain bottle - "Marquis de la Mysteriale." Opened on ...

My cellar is very diverse. I have wines from all over France. This is the key. I am much more diverse by region than by country. Excluding daily drinkers (which would certainly change the numbers (Chianti and Spain would be much higher and Burgundy and N. Rhône lower for example), but I don’t inven...

GMTA, as we opened the 1993 last night. Your notes describe our wine closely as well. A nice Christmas Eve treat!

Done!

They also have Graham's 20 at $56, which becomes hard to beat after a decent coupon code and StewardShip.

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