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The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 12:48:06 PM   
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A blatantly obvious thread but I can't remember if we ever had one.

My three reds:

Chave Hermitage 1985
La Mission Haut Brion 1990
Clos de Lambray 1990

Whites:
Yquem 1997 - maybe not the finest Yquem, but my first Yquem




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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 12:59:33 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 1:00:57 PM   
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http://www.cellartracker.com/forum/tm.asp?m=69526

...and it looks like you posted in that one too, although apparently a couple of your choices have since been revised:
http://www.cellartracker.com/forum/tm.asp?m=69526&mpage=1&key=&#69557


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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 1:05:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		My best drunk ever was probably that time in college when I woke up naked in the volleyball sandpit along side a sheep.

Oh, you mean my best wine ever...

Well, according to my recorded wine history here at CT...

2008 Adams Bench Red Willow Cab
2007 Fielding Hills Cab
2008 Rasa Creative Impulse

For white wine, I'd have to say probably...

2009 Maison Bleue Marsanne

That one I've had a few times and each time I'm discovering more facets and am beginning to understand it I think.


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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 1:09:10 PM   
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ORIGINAL: bretrooks

We did have one of these a couple years back...
http://www.cellartracker.com/forum/tm.asp?m=69526

...and it looks like you posted in that one too, although apparently a couple of your choices have since been revised:
http://www.cellartracker.com/forum/tm.asp?m=69526&mpage=1&key=𐾵



Very quick on the research there bret. In my defense the two reds (La Miss and Lambray) I have in the last six months, but not sure why I didn't put the Hermitage. Can I call my lawyer?

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 1:29:29 PM   
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Very quick on the research there bret. In my defense the two reds (La Miss and Lambray) I have in the last six months, but not sure why I didn't put the Hermitage. Can I call my lawyer?

I could find it quickly because the first wine I thought of was a riesling with an unusual name, which I was pretty sure I had posted in a list like this at some point. A search for "Eitelsbacher" brought it right up...

I'd have to think a little as to whether I've had anything at all in the last year which would bump any of my previous choices...


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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 1:36:55 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 1:45:21 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 2:29:07 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 2:33:29 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 2:35:50 PM   
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My best drunk ever was probably that time in college when I woke up naked in the volleyball sandpit along side a sheep.



Lucky sheep I'm sure it was mutual.

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 2:37:59 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 2:48:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ChrisinSunnyside

My best drunk ever was probably that time in college when I woke up naked in the volleyball sandpit along side a sheep.



Lucky sheep I'm sure it was mutual.


I hope it was mutual...

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 2:59:40 PM   
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1998 Vega Sicilia 'Unico'
1994 Colgin, Herb Lamb (I think)

Sentimental favorites:
1997 Insignia - in Key West for Spring Break. Our oldest son flew to KW from Purdue to join us, making it the last time we had all 3 boys at the same time for a Spring Break.

In San Diego, we had gone to dinner at Tapenade. For a dessert wine we had a Beaume de Venise. It was extraordinary. I'm sure we looked like fools, the two of us kept smelling the wine, looking at each other and saying 'Roses, it smells like roses.'

A vintage Veuve Clicquot Grand Dame - on my 40th birthday. Just Joe and I.

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 5:16:56 PM   
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#1 = no doubt, 1961 Chateau Latour  (My wife was born in 1961.)  Mind-expanding.

#2 & #3:  1997 Azienda Agricola Taurino Patriglione (Pulia, Italy) - this was a $30 wine in the late 1990's.  Widely acknowledged as a great vintage for a producer that was not considered top-rank.  CT raters drank it much later and averaged 90 or 91.  We (my wife's family and me) were guzzling it right away, and it opened my eyes to what "good" wine could be, versus all the "grocery-store" stuff in the world.  Many is the time I have since cursed myself for not buying every bottle available.

Then earlier this year I had the 2007 Beaucastel Chateauneuf Du Pape, and I was blown away...  Yes, possibly early here too, but the mouth feel was amazing, and I drank the bottle in solitary contemplation and exultation.  Gave it a 97.  Have since had two more bottles, one (comparatively) very disappointing, probably an 89, and then a 93, very good but not nearly earth-shattering as the first one was.  Can't figure it out - all were from good stores with good storage.

Lots of white Burgundies along the way, but I just can't see rating white wine as high as red; the "bigness," the impact it makes on you - I may well be wrong here, but just seems like a white can't be as memorable, in the end, as a red.








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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 5:22:33 PM   
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I drank the bottle in solitary contemplation and exultation


Sometimes this is the best way. Big ass glass and top bottle of wine is a great way to pass 2-3 hours on your own. I consider it a form of meditation.

Kind of like the "Nothing box" (see below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjnLLw5BTmc

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 5:27:46 PM   
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Sometimes this is the best way. Big ass glass and top bottle of wine is a great way to pass 2-3 hours on your own. I consider it a form of meditation.


Indeed, and you know - it was a surprise.  A lifelong "theme" of mine is the feeling that the best parties are often spur-of-the-moment type things, not some huge, long-planned grandiose affair, but rather just a chance meeting of people (most likely with a love of alcohol).  Or, mayhap, one's solitary encounter with fermented/distilled joy.

I'm left feeling that perhaps that one day I was just *really ready* to have a good wine....  Like being in the proper mood to see a movie - it can make a huge difference.

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 5:43:31 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 5:53:47 PM   
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Indeed, and you know - it was a surprise.  A lifelong "theme" of mine is the feeling that the best parties are often spur-of-the-moment type things



You need to get your tush to London - We are very good at "lunchtime meetings" that just seem to happen without any warning.

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 6:22:50 PM   
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You need to get your tush to London - We are very good at "lunchtime meetings" that just seem to happen without any warning.




I will practice with J2K, and then we will take over the world...muhahahhahahhahahhaaaa!!!

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 7:04:34 PM   
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Best wine consumed like a proper gentleman....a 1994 Chateau Angelus (consumed in 2009)
Best drunk was my girlfriend and myself naked after splitting two bottles of white zinfandel.....for some reason I remember this better than the Angelus

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 8:16:34 PM   
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ORIGINAL: pjaines


quote:

ORIGINAL: Old Doug

I drank the bottle in solitary contemplation and exultation


Sometimes this is the best way. Big ass glass and top bottle of wine is a great way to pass 2-3 hours on your own. I consider it a form of meditation.

Kind of like the "Nothing box" (see below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjnLLw5BTmc


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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 8:23:50 PM   
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Honourable mentions to:

1999 Quilceda Creek Cab S.
1996 Remirez de Ganuza Gran Reserva
1997 Dominus
2000 Woodward Canyon Estate
1989 La Fleur de Gay

Whites:

2005 Hartford Court Stone Court Chardonnay
2007 Alban Viognier Estate
2008 Woodward Canyon Chardonnay
1990 Ch. Barsac

Bubbles:

1990 Pommery Cuvee Louise
2002 Deutz Blanc de Blanc

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/27/2011 9:01:47 PM   
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After reading the title to this thread I thought pjaines was going to explain that time he woke up on the subway without his shirt covered in puke.....

Best wine consumed like a proper gentleman....a 1994 Chateau Angelus (consumed in 2009)
Best drunk was my girlfriend and myself naked after splitting two bottles of white zinfandel.....for some reason I remember this better than the Angelus

Why ... does he usually wake up on the subway with his shirt covered in puke?

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/28/2011 7:45:43 AM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/28/2011 9:07:32 AM   
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1982 Perrier-Jouët Champagne Cuvée Fleur de Champagne Rosé

Best Bdx I've ever had
1959 Mouton--had this wine twice, first time around the wine was amazing, second time around was very disapointing.
2005 Cos (From the CT Wisconsin Offline)
1996 Latour

Best White Bdx I've ever had
1983 Laville Haut-Brion

Best Dessert/Sweet wine I've ever had
1995/1997 Yquem

Best USA wine I've ever had
2002 Bryant Family Cab

Best Spainish wine I've ever had
2006 Bodega Numanthia Termanthia

Best Italian wine I've ever had
1997 Flaccianello

So far from memory. I'm sure I could come up with a lot more if I looked back at my tasting notes.



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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/28/2011 10:37:28 AM   
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1982 Haut Brion - for me it is THE reference point wine by which all others are judged.

Honourable mentions to:

1999 Quilceda Creek Cab S.
1996 Remirez de Ganuza Gran Reserva
1997 Dominus
2000 Woodward Canyon Estate
1989 La Fleur de Gay

Whites:

2005 Hartford Court Stone Court Chardonnay
2007 Alban Viognier Estate
2008 Woodward Canyon Chardonnay
1990 Ch. Barsac

Bubbles:

1990 Pommery Cuvee Louise
2002 Deutz Blanc de Blanc



Great post, Stirling. There are some beautiful lists in this thread, and I'm feeling choked-up reading them. Makes me want to see if I can get my hands on quite a few of these wines.

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/29/2011 9:25:59 PM   
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2000 Antinori Guado al Tasso
2005 G Conterno Cascina Francia Barolo
2003 Pontet Canet
2006 Emilio Moro Sancho Martin
2007 Hourglass Blueline Cabernet Franc

If I had these 6 in rotation and only these 6 on a regular basis, how long would it take before I took them for granted?

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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/31/2011 2:06:36 PM   
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RE: The best I ever drunk was.... - 7/31/2011 6:30:48 PM   
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#2 & #3:  1997 Azienda Agricola Taurino Patriglione, 2007 Beaucastel Chateauneuf Du Pape


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