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• Papies says:

  8/26/2021 2:49:00 AM - impressive Insta Feed we have to say!

• vintage1949 says:

  3/1/2021 6:44:00 AM - Hi Marc, I looked over your cellar and you have a serious problem. A strange disease hits a wine cellar when one has too many bottles of Lafite in it. Something to do with the aggregate of corks, very mysterious. Grin However there is a simple solution-very simple. Simply send-let’s see I did a calculation-about 18 bottles to me eliminating the impact of so many corks that create a serious cork problem which includes corks slipping out, crumbling, and seepage. Am. I a good friend or what! Somebody else sent me the above as a joke. Thought you might get a kick out of it-or hey take is seriously. So how are you doing in Boston? If my damn health was better I would propose flying out for a day and visit with CT’ers such as yourself. I have no idea how old you are-but on this end old-grin 71. Happily I just finished up getting both shots for covid. This will actually allow me to visit with other CT’ers when I am in Florida next year. Can do that as we simply invite people to the condo. Do you have a passive cellar? I used air conditioning on my first cellar. We moved two houses from Lake Michigan. Burrr no conditioning needed. Just wanted to visit and say hi. Dave

• Fred_Bo says:

  8/28/2017 6:39:00 AM - Hi Marc, Have you tried Certan-Giraud 1966? I'm a little torn between buying/not buying as I have never tasted it before the vineyard became Hosanna!

• Rgentile says:

  4/22/2017 9:45:00 AM - Hi E.C. that was quite the night with the Fourrier wines, enjoyed the notes!

• englishman's claret says:

  11/8/2016 8:44:00 AM - Looking forward to it Fred!

• Fred_Bo says:

  11/7/2016 1:15:00 AM - Next time I'm in Boston, I'll make sure to bring a bottle!, Marc! Best regards Fred

• Fred_Bo says:

  11/3/2016 10:57:00 PM - Hi, I live in CPH, Denmark. We're following each other on Instagram. :-)

• Papies says:

  8/18/2016 8:57:00 AM - Hi Marc, re tastings in October I chhave caked BBR and the have nothing really that week Handford wines have a Meursault tasting on the 4th at 630pm in South Kensington. 95£ per person and its with James himself who is one of my favourite . It's less of a glam event and more of a circle of friends tasting but always very good.mikulski, Lafon and co wines. This is part of James tour of burgundy tastings. If you are interested pls email vicky at vicky@handford.net We are def going. Best A Below is the BBR link for you but not much to show in October . http://www.bbr.com/Categories/Events/c/events?q=%3Aevents-eventDate-asc%3AinStockFlag%3Atrue%3AeventMonth%3AOctober+2016&text=&facetPrefix=&pageSize=30#

• Rupert says:

  8/18/2016 2:27:00 AM - Hi Englishman, for a huge range of grand claret by the bottle in London, try Hedonism just off Grosvenor Square (website www.hedonism.co.uk ). Sampler is excellent, but your choice would be more limited.

• short and confused says:

  8/28/2015 10:14:00 PM - Thanks for the note! I would love to get together and drink with you guys.

• Burgundy Al says:

  8/24/2015 9:18:00 AM - Bocuse or Troigros, that's a tough choice! I haven't been to Bocuse in a long time so can't fairly compare, but Troisgros is my favorite restaurant so would highly recommend it. Plus they are moving in a year or two from their current location, so a visit before then is certainly worthwhile.

• partylikeakennedy says:

  6/9/2015 8:52:00 AM - OMG you're right! I've been negligent on the foulness lately. I promise to be better next time!!

• gsquireh says:

  2/6/2015 8:07:00 PM - Thanks you your message. My passion for wine and my early years teaching and writing allow me to have fun with the tasting notes. I love your notes - especially the 02 Leflaive BBM, "This is crystalline minerality from Poseidon's spear luxuriating in the mouth ". I think that is the best thing I have ever read.

• partylikeakennedy says:

  1/28/2015 10:00:00 AM - OMFG LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!! That is amazing. Ha ha! I am laughing so hard in my office at work right now. Thanks for sharing!!

• DonalOB says:

  2/13/2014 11:54:00 PM - and we can open a bottle or two if you pass through Hong Kong.

• cgrimes says:

  11/14/2013 6:29:00 PM - Sorry I didn't get back to you about coming to your tasting. I hope it went well. Life has been a bit crazy lately. Keep me in mind if you have any future CT gatherings.

• Robbie K says:

  11/1/2013 2:28:00 AM - Took your advice Englishman's Claret and picked up a couple of the '09's. The '10's are due to arrive any day now. Interesting to hear that you found the '09 more typical in style. I will have to pop the corks on them both in the coming weeks to compare notes.

• Robbie K says:

  10/23/2013 4:04:00 AM - I see you have a number of different vintages of Talbot. I have a couple of bottles of the 2010 on order. I've heard good things about it. Let me know your thoughts on it when you have tasted it.

• RockinCabs says:

  9/4/2013 2:53:00 PM - Looks like you are having a great 2013 on your mission to drink good old Bordeaux. I would like to try and put together a Boston area offline this fall/winter. Would you like to help? I have a couple of folks I can recruit but need a group of 8 or so for a proper tasting event.