KPB
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OK, I figured out how to do this. I'll list four that I scored (98-100), because the next score adds five more wines (I'm just looking at my 2017 TNs and selecting the subset in various ranges of score value):
-- 2007 Domaine du Pégaü Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée
-- 2013 Ovid Hexameter
-- 2012 Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon VHR
-- 2015 Bond St. Eden
If I add one point to the range (97-100), that brings the list to nine wines, with these additions:
-- 2007 Château Rayas Châteauneuf-du-Pape Reserve
-- 2011 Promontory Red Wine
-- 2015 Bond Vecina
-- 2006 Vérité La Joie
-- 2003 Taylor (Fladgate) Porto Vintage
One more point (96-100) gives me:
-- 2013 MacDonald Cabernet Sauvignon
-- 2004 Dom Perignon Champagne Rosé
-- 2015 Promontory Red Wine
-- 2015 Bond Pluribus
-- 2008 Domaine du Castel Grand Vin Judean Hills
-- 2005 Domaine du Pégaü Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée
-- 2011 Cerbaiona (Molinari) Brunello di Montalcino
Some broad comments: I didn't have access to my wine cellar, but was visiting and tasting in California, so that skewed things. Also, as much as I liked many of these California reds, they do seem very expensive to me, relative to what you drink, and I find that on a QPR basis the wines we drink in rhone, or for that matter the majority of wines Yagil showed me in Israel, or ones I tasted while visiting Rome last year, were really better in some sense. You get nearly as high a score and yet spend 1/4 or 1/3 as much money on them.
So maybe I'm a contrarian or something, but I wouldn't say that my highest scores are necessarily my favorite wines. For me, there is an aspect of pure pleasure in the wine that might elevate a wine that you would score 93 or 94 points to the list of "best wines of the year" even though the score is objectively not as high. If I listed my favorites in that way, I would have a list with way lower points, even by my own scoring, and yet wines that I have very happy memories about!
< Message edited by KPB -- 12/19/2017 7:54:19 AM >
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Favorite Wines of 2017 - 
We all look like paupers and plonk drinkers after your post. 
Whoda thunket?
). I would then, of course, need to try all the other Bordeaux first growths, for the sake of comparison. 
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