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Markus S

"If it’s on sale, it’s on sale for a reason and you should probably skip it unless you’re going to drink it that week or that month."

Gee, I got 10% off a case purchase once. Those wines must be $hit.

Markus S

. . . Chinese market, and that has fallen apart. . . . FIFY - My very good inside sources advise me that it is really, really bad, even worse than reported. Streets are deserted, businesses are shut down with the expectation that it will last at least two months, schools are shut until at last May ...

Markus S

I think the most interesting thing in this thread is how many people agree with the OP. For what it's worth, I've discussed this with folks who are seriously into wine, and I've gotten several similar responses. One of these folks has a theory that aged wine is an emperor's new clothes situation, a...

Markus S

It seems that the majority of responses are saying to "just drink young wine." I completely agree with the view that the best wines are the ones you like, but the point of this post is more to try to understand what it is that people like about aged wines. Do people that enjoy aged wines just not t...

Markus S

Surprised you are happy with a big-scaled vintage.

Markus S

Alex G wrote: ↑
February 17th, 2020, 4:23 am
Not one of the 20 or so wineries I buy from regularly has decreased its prices.

Nor have any of the 50 or so wineries which regularly send me offers.

Not one.

+1

I've only seen increases.

Markus S

With old wines you'll be missing fruit. Perhaps older wines are not your thing?

Markus S

...."US wine consumers will enjoy the "best wine retail values in 20 years.""

Excepting all the tariffed wine, of course!

Markus S

"Skiing" vacation, or Drinking one??

Markus S

Miss your Italian notes, Bob.

Markus S

Richard T r i m p i wrote: ↑
February 13th, 2020, 4:04 pm
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2009 JP Brun Terres Dorees Moulin a Vent = Maybe it's a M-a-V thing...but I normally love the wines. Ripe with reddish fruit that's a bit washed out. Bright and high toned to the edge of VA.

To me, Brun tends toward high-toned.

Markus S

Shay h arnoy wrote: ↑
February 14th, 2020, 7:32 am
So is this supposed to be declining in price still? I haven't anything amazing but am tracking a few.

Gone now. Two and done.

Markus S

Imported to the US? New producer to me...

Markus S

Michel Abood wrote: ↑
February 10th, 2020, 11:33 pm
... But yeah, I haven't slept since October.

...as your avatar clearly shows.

Markus S

I purchased nothing from BD and I have not had fraudulent charges. (Did I win for least helpful post yet?) [thumbs-up.gif] Not using your card, not being online, living in a house without internet and using only cash is perhaps the only way to avoid fraud of this kind. But how many of us are willin...

Markus S

So much fraud....so little time. I imagine the credit card companies fraud departments are kept working overtime with all the fraud happening out there, now on an international level and tied to criminal gangs and hackers.

Markus S

yah yah, a score is a score is a score. Still just a number, but a diamond is forever!

Markus S

Interesting. I like Porro's wines, but don't think I would ever think about aging a Porro wine for 46 years.

Markus S

It's kind of strange to me - NY and CA are both ironclad blue states yet they have such different approaches to consumer fairness. It's not just in dimensions around wine/booze where CA is totally on another planet, but all kinds of stuff. East Coast - West Coast, not blue-blue. Different fashions,...

Markus S

mmarcellus wrote: ↑
February 8th, 2020, 9:32 am
... I don't think the company was completely prepared for how onerous the provisions of the NYS law are.

Oh look, there's an emoji for that:

Markus S

I just reported what the media said. Do not forget, prices are determined/chosen by merchants and producers. They apparently increased prices.... Then customers buy or not... You are free to draw your own conclusions (including the media got it wrong... your choice) and they did not mention anythin...

Markus S

Dão or a white Rhone, Catalonian Garnacha Blanca, aged (15+) Tannat....endless possibilities.

Markus S

Markus, from your name and photo I always assumed you were Scandinavian, but g-d if that doesn't look just like upstate NY, a place where I misspent some of my youth, much of that time in hamlets. And of course it's a long and winding road from Hartsdale to Wawbeek to Honeoye to Wellsville to Olcot...

Markus S

And I like that they were trying to open in a "hamlet". We too rarely see that word any more. New York State is full of hamlets, people forget that but that is what we call them. Not towns...not villages...they are a term of usually a place that has old roots, but never became incorporated into any...

Markus S

Ditched the landline?

Markus S

Well, the only island I can think of that has a variety of reds & whites is Sicily, so if I'm going to be stuck on island for the rest of my life, it might as well be there.

Markus S

Enough of wishlists, I want tasting notes!

Markus S

Mark Colendich wrote: ↑
February 6th, 2020, 9:48 am
Long time supporter of Rhys. Mt Pajaro is near where I live in Corralitos, CA

Any tasting notes?

Thanks,

Mark

You're a lot closer to it than many of us. Can you meet someone at the vineyard and sample a bottle?
That ought to be a cooler area than on top of Skyline Drive, right?

Markus S

... Nothing suggesting Fleurie, though it is definitely Beaujolais. Coudert is kinda outlier Fleurie, so rather atypical of the appellation. I've had better luck with these than you, maybe 2-3 points higher, and have drunk down a mixed 8 bottles of this and the regular cuvee, with fairly consistent...

Markus S

Shoot, this is a $400 book. Not too many people going to be reading that one!

Markus S

Since this is a forward-looking thread, anyone drink theirs yet?

Markus S

I don't think I would want to waste a $75-100 bottle of good Port on 'bad' wine, but that's just me.

Markus S

I always thought of Condrieu/viognier as the too trendy school kid who was the free spirit from art class but also a genius at math. Prices have always been high and the quality middling-to-average, but I think it is going in a better direction. Like the others, I drink about 1 a year, usually when ...

Markus S

David Glasser wrote: ↑
February 3rd, 2020, 9:03 pm
Because for most people Gamay doesn’t push the same buttons as Pinot?

But if you are talking of "Burgundian", gamay is PERFECT, and much more in line than nebbiolos or southern Rhones which will have a heaviness of alcohol that Beaujolais seldom reaches.

Markus S

"I wonder when BerserkerDay is this year. It's usually in Winter." I think it's the timing. January is such a busy month and Nobody wants to buy wine they can't ship yet, and people are looking forward to Groundhog Day when they can drink the same glass of that 1968 Sercial they've been toking on f...

Markus S

With time they won't be "better," they will be on a different planet, if you ever sailed in rough conditions or like stories of ships battling the waves you'll see what I mean. When you open the wine too young for the Marine character to have emerged, you blew it. Ships & waves? Signs and cosigns?

Markus S

Lol wot? Instead of buying two $50 Burg cheapies, he can get one L’Arlot and get a pretty serious expression of Burgundy. Loved seeing the producers you mentioned to help out OP. Oh wait... If there's anything worth LOLing about in this thread, it's the idea that burgundies less than $50 are crap, ...

Markus S

Why no mention of an actual and obvious part of Burgundy: Beaujolais?

Markus S

Things that make you go hmmmm....
No experience with the Aeris/Rhys project, but carricante can be long-lived.

Markus S

Sounds like a great everyday drinker.

Markus S

Just a 'casual sipper' around these parts. Except they cost <$50 on release. Except almost no one is able to source them at that price after the 2012 vintage. In 2013 I tried my typical retailers, including Flatiron where I got the 2012- no one I contacted was getting any. In 2014 I set wine-search...

Markus S

I suppose for around $15US it is not a bad value, but buying Bandol blanc in the states will set you back around $30+. I tend to like them, but for the most part many remain not as interesting as their reds and are poor value propositions.

Markus S

Brent S wrote: ↑
February 1st, 2020, 3:41 pm
Except they cost $500.

Just a 'casual sipper' around these parts.

Markus S

Order full allocation every year since 2014. Took a case this year - was offered 15. Kept to a case really for the shipping. Still have a few of the 2012 from the first release - think syrah and grenache. Time to pop those soon. Just opened the 2012 syrah and thought it a bit young. Lots of brine, ...

Markus S

Jim Brennan wrote: ↑
January 31st, 2020, 4:07 am

Scott Brunson wrote: ↑
January 30th, 2020, 3:01 pm

Brian Tuite wrote: ↑
January 30th, 2020, 12:01 pm

What Trousseau?
The one in the next offering I guess.

a forward thinker!

Markus S

Can we wishlist wines to drink with Sally?

Markus S

Good one!

Markus S

Too rich for this baker's son : I'll leave you high rollers to debate this one. But one of the most memorable Bordeaux I had was the 1989.

Markus S

Carlos Delpin wrote: ↑
January 29th, 2020, 12:47 pm
Robert, we need to take this chat offline and continue it with great wine in an art filled, architecturally appropriate space.

And deprive us Berserkers of being enlightened?? Heavens no!

Markus S

David K o l i n wrote: ↑
January 29th, 2020, 5:39 pm
Not enough allocation to justify the shipping charge. I blame myself

Shipping is reasonable. You want ridiculous shipping, check out Zachys.

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