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hm. I didnt get an email! does this release come out in stages like some others do? I don’t think so. They make a TON of wine. I doubt they stagger the release. A lot of options in their portfolio. Hard to choose. The Sonoma County is $39. A great weeknight early drinker in my opinion. February 8th...

2021 Spring Release 2019’s on deck. Thoughts? 2019 Central Coast Pinot Noir 2019 Sonoma County Pinot Noir 2019 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2019 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2019 Terra De Promissio Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019 Westside Road Neighbors Pinot Noir 2019 Olivet Lane Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019 U...

Just wanted to give a quiet PSA to people who may still be following this thread:

I emailed last week and was hooked up with "Joel's Ravenswood Library Mixed Case" that shipped today. no idea what's in it, besides that its all reds and all Ravenswood Library.

anyone notice the Egly that showed up on the website the other day? I dont think I saw an email introducing it but had a significant portion of the lineup: Brut, Rose, VP...

oh man. this is gonna be dangerous!

just in case anyone is new to Wine Berserkers or hasn't heard of these guys at Walter Scott yet... you should jump on whatever this offer will be.

this month is rough. Patricia Green library, berserker day, probably bedrock just a week or two later. yikes.

when will we start seeing 2019s around the US?

some of the early pricing ive seen on those makes me a little nervous. produttori riservas are normally one of my easy trigger pulls but partially that has to do with being able to get world class wines for less than $70. yeah... Its tough because on 1 hand, I think we all know PdB has earned the o...

I would assume you are buying these wines for two totally separate reasons and purchase as such: 1) for you and mom for the first 20 birthdays. possibly a few for you and mom for birthdays when kid is out of the house on their own (30, 40, etc?). this should be whatever you like and will age well. 2...

ive seen these offers come through quite a bit in the last 6 months. ill have to pull the trigger on the next one.

definitely looking forward to 2016 Italian wines (Brunello and Piedmont), 2019 Oregon, and 2019 Burgundy. but I look forward to every release of each of those for the most part. lol 2016 PdB Riservas! Between those and 2016 Brunellos I think that will be about 80% of my 2021 spending. some of the e...

definitely looking forward to 2016 Italian wines (Brunello and Piedmont), 2019 Oregon, and 2019 Burgundy. but I look forward to every release of each of those for the most part. lol

this is a great succession plan for WS. excited to see where this takes it!

big fan of Benchmark. have bought and shipped throughout the last two years. I will add that one or two times I have consolidated shipping only to find out for some reason that something I had bought was not actually in stock at all when I went to ship it several months later. I think this has happe...

tom: this might be a little bit of a "did you remember to turn it on first" question: but did you verify that they are shipping to the correct address? not sure why it would still say "in transit" but might be worth verifying?

for anyone reading, my resolution is to try to learn about the Burgundy Grand Cru btw.

so incredibly tragic. if there is an opportunity for us to help in this situation I hope it will be shared!

this doesnt surprise me one bit. though it is also incredibly cool and generous.

I've always found that wine people in general, but especially the people on this board, are incredibly generous, willing to share, and friendly. its part of why I was drawn to both wine and wine berserkers.

I was lucky enough to snag a couple from the original O&F release, but alas I have already enjoyed the couple bottles I was able to grab. they were fire too. in fact, the cab franc that I snagged was probably my WOTY in 2020! I'm just fingers crossed that maybe there will be one more release so...

i feel like ive been seeing mixed messages on the last few burgundy vintages... can anyone give a quick rundown of the comparative qualities of the last few years?

I wonder if we'll see a demand for . . . mini label printers. You don’t have one? In all seriousness we have had a label maker for about 20 years. My wife’s idea. It has come in very handy—to organize containers of all types in closets and cupboards (its original use), to label kids’ clothing for c...

So awesome. I've been wanting to try PGC for a couple years, and was planning to dive in for BDXII this year. But a library release is even better!! Thanks for making this available Jim. this is definitely the way to do it. PCG age beautifully, so much so that I have hardly touched any of the wines...

now with this method being shouted from the WB rooftops I wonder if we'll see a demand for a countertop wine fridge for 3-4oz Boston bottles and mini label printers . maybe that can be Rudy's next gig. This would be nice. How does everyone do labeling now? ive always just done a glass marker. that ...

I started doing this about 2 years ago in a really limited capacity with a smaller tasting group we had back when I had a job where I had time to do tasting groups and they are awesome. I have at least always kept a dozen or so of the 3oz around since then for when I open a bottle that I know anothe...

dang would have loved to have a bottle of that around! wife's birth year and I bet that was stellar. Did you buy from the Once and Future offer, from Joel's cellar? I was lucky enough to snag a couple from the original O&F release, but alas I have already enjoyed the couple bottles I was able t...

dang would have loved to have a bottle of that around! wife's birth year and I bet that was stellar.

This is such an AWESOME way to taste aged wines with a perfect provenance. The fact that the winery has not marked up the wines at all as they get older is such a gift to wine geeks like ourselves. What a great way to start 2021! It is pretty incredible to be getting 10+ years of age for basically ...

You guys are the best and worst influence! [thankyou.gif] Excited to try several of these great sites across a few vintages. Well now we definitely have to offline post COVID... Max & Jonathon, I’m also in Denver and would contribute and participate! [cheers.gif] Hey once everyone has vaccines ...

Really cool, but kinda overwhelming with my limited experience with Jim's wines, anyone want to pm me with some suggestions? Thanks Several older Patricia Green tasting notes were provided in the Week 3 Tasting for Charity Oregon Wines thread from a few weeks ago. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed a 2006 ...

Really cool, but kinda overwhelming with my limited experience with Jim's wines, anyone want to pm me with some suggestions? Thanks I really like Marcus' rundown of some of these vintages about halfway down the first page: https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2655078#p2655078 IMO, i...

Bump to add: this is not a small release. 100+ bottlings of 750s ALONE covering 20 years of PGC direct from the winery? dont pass this up people!

Well dang this library release is loaded!

Grabbed a few bottles: 2001 Bonshaw, 2004 Balcombe, 2008 Estate Old Vine to start. But I'm gonna have to keep digging here.

https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/Bu ... rary-Wines

James Mc wrote: ↑January 4th, 2021, 6:26 pm I picked up some ‘14 bedrock heritage last order, so that could be great opportunity to get some with bottle age for introduction.

thanks for this tip! emailed Jackie today! what ive learned so far: end of Jan/beginning of Feb is gonna hurt with BD and a Bedrock offering right on its heels.

Question for the Bedrock faithful: if you wanted to introduce someone to Bedrock Wine Co using a recent vintage (18 or 19) for them to drink soon to give them a good idea of the style of wine, what would you choose? Ive had some good young Evanghelos but I was curious what other suggestions people ...

Bleu Provence has a very good wine list and selection. I would suggest checking them out!

thanks for this tasting note! I'm gonna have to search out some Isole. I also was unaware of the info behind the Cepparello. Gonna have to search some of these out, as I like Pergole Torte style but prefer to support a different winery. I will say if its anywhere approaching Felsina Rancia consisten...

Question for the Bedrock faithful: if you wanted to introduce someone to Bedrock Wine Co using a recent vintage (18 or 19) for them to drink soon to give them a good idea of the style of wine, what would you choose? Ive had some good young Evanghelos but I was curious what other suggestions people h...

Matt -- It's "additional products," added because the original set of goods subject to the tariff fell well below the authorized $7.5 billion, apparently in part because exports of affected products to the US fell! https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Releases/LCARevisionNotic...

so is this new tariff basically now ALL French still wines have a flat tariff of 25%, or is this adding a new 25% on top of the original 25% that was already in place for some wines?

I did as well. I haven't had the Reserve yet, but a bottle or two of this might be nice next NYE when the wine friends at the house are drinking Grand Cellier and we can tell the non-wine friends that their bottle is also Vilmart lol I would gladly drink it myself, but after loading up on the other...

so many good choices here. Echoing: Bedrock OVZ (would also add Cali Syrah) Vajra Langhe rosso Occhipinti SP68 Patty green reserve Dirty and Rowdy (especially the Familiar) Felsina and Fontodi CC Hudelot Noellat Bourgogne Adding: Kelley Fox Mirabai Chantereves Bourgogne Rouge Big Table Farm (the new...

Vilmart Grand Reserve today with a pretty good price at $39.99! Meh. They had Grand Cellier for $49.99 a while back, and it’s a much better wine. I loaded up on that one. I did as well. I haven't had the Reserve yet, but a bottle or two of this might be nice next NYE when the wine friends at the ho...

Vilmart Grand Reserve today with a pretty good price at $39.99!

2008 Dom Perignon This was very very good. Fine mousse, nose of brioche and lemon cake that carried through to the palate. This feels well integrated already (although I admit my experience with this level of champagne is not extensive) and nothing feels out of balance or overbearing. it has vibran...

im pretty sure exposure therapy is the only hope here. better get cracking.

I would argue its at least AS easy if not more easy to pick out the differences between younger wines vs older ones. with younger wines you can immediately get a feel for whether the wine has riper fruit characters, rough tannins vs smooth ones, open vs closed down, high alcohol vs low. for example,...

2008 Dom Perignon This was very very good. Fine mousse, nose of brioche and lemon cake that carried through to the palate. This feels well integrated already (although I admit my experience with this level of champagne is not extensive) and nothing feels out of balance or overbearing. it has vibran...

alan weinberg wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2021, 3:54 pm
Mattstolz wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2021, 2:40 pm at 12:00 on New Years I kissed my wife, and at 12:01 I saw 2010 La Rioja Alta 904 on Envoyer. that was as long as it lasted.
the kiss was over by then?

both the kiss and my chance of no purchases till Berserkerday were over by then. haha. then another 2 minutes later we were both asleep!

Troy Stark wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2021, 2:45 pm Pretty typical to see the offers come through multiple times when he's trying to clear something out.

its been like 3 or 4 different wines ive been seeing come through, but especially the Capture and the Aphrodelle or whatever the dry sauv blanc from Bordeaux is

at 12:00 on New Years I kissed my wife, and at 12:01 I saw 2010 La Rioja Alta 904 on Envoyer. that was as long as it lasted.

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