12/5/19, 8:33 PM - Thank you, thank you, thank you... The real bonus of being in the CellarTracker family. Having someone "in the know" tell you one of your 15 year old gems is still a delight!!! We believe we've been there for others, it's nice to see the "Year We Got Engaged" Caymus SS bottle is still in great shape!!! Maybe this July, 16 years later, we'll crack ours!!!Noroc!
12/1/19, 6:31 PM - BWilla, thanks for the Tasting Note! Keep em coming!... We see your top reviews were on decade old vins. That's how we look at Bin 389. It doesn't even enter its drinking window before a decade in the racks. "Maturing in the cellar" as you say, indeed.Story time, if you care... We have a restaurant nearby us, we enjoy walking to, which used to sell Bin 389 for $50, which was an unbelievable price retail- let alone at a restaurant. We would go in and order 389. We would always bring one of our own from years in our racks... The waiter would present a current vintage, maybe a 2012 or '13 and we would take out of our bag, one of our 2004s or an '05 to open. Then we'd bring home the youngling and put it in the cellar.Wonderful w red pasta, our fav!!! The restaurateur ran out of the batch, ordered again, and raised the price to $110 a bottle... Oh what fun while it lasted!!!Noroc!
11/28/19, 4:44 PM - Agreed. And Heitz is a flat-out fabulous Thanksgiving pairing, not too heavy and tasty as they come. Happy Holidays to you!
11/22/19, 7:16 PM - Ahhh, thank you the kind comments, Killer Jones! We'll keep on keepin-on whether they're read or not, but cool to think someone does spend a minute with our tropes. A while back you wrote of the "typical Napa generosity" of some particular Cali vin, we loved that comment. Great that you even get those Cali's Up North. Thanks for keeping all of us informed and entertained as well! While we're at it, you see our 12 April 2018 ramble on Odd Lot.?. Tried to convey our appreciation for the vin. Take good care, sir.
9/11/18, 11:45 AM - Good day Winedog1, we have a question about this Orin Swift beverage. The gift pack 8 bottle set with book and box runs about $1,000 and one of our local stores has one and told us they'll sell it for $950. OK. But, recently we found out Orin Swift is releasing individual bottles of "8 years in the Desert" next month (2017s?) , and at around $46 a piece... We were told by one of our local retailers that it is NOT the same wine and that the gift boxes are just one year- 2016- and that particular blend will not be made again (presumably to hold the boxed set value and not aggravate those who invested that grand).Our concern, of course, is spending that kind of money and a decade later having the gift set hold its value or increase; and so we are asking, have you heard of such thing? Did you purchase the gift set or just have the luxury of trying a bottle? Asking in the sense of- have you heard of any of this? Thanks.
9/11/18, 11:56 AM - NICE FRIEND! WE WANT FRIENDS LIKE THAT!!! But that is a bit telling, that you tried it and would consider dropping a grand on eight... You really did love it... 96 pts worth!
9/11/18, 6:14 PM - WineDog1, we learned this... Complements to CT User THaas:THaas says:9/11/2018 12:26:00 PM - In response to your question about 8 Years in the Desert: I was fortunate enough to be given a bottle of the 2016 from one of the gift boxes, so I only had the one bottle (label 5, for what it's worth). The 2017 production is going to be much, much higher (2600 8-packs of the 2016 were made, or just a hair over 1733 normal cases, while the projected production for 2017 is 50,000 cases). The blend will be somewhat different, and obviously the sourcing will be broader in 2017 than 2016, and that plus not being totally rare will tend to lower prices; whether $50 a bottle makes more sense than $125 is up to you (personally, I found the price point and sales structure of the 2017 to be a bit off-putting). I did get to try the 2017 in pre-release, and found it to be actually *more* drinkable than the 2016 (seemed like the alcohol was lower and better integrated). Would I pay $950 for 8 bottles of the 2016, versus $600 for 12 bottles of the 2017? Personally, probably not.
10/11/18, 5:10 PM - HowellTime, thanks for the comment, we are still fretting over whether to purchase the 8 pack and try it when our elementary-school-age boys turn 21... Here is the - what appears to be one source over many pages- info I have read... Critical AcclaimRP 94Robert Parker's Wine AdvocateDeep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Zinfandel Blend Eight Years (a blend of Zinfandel, Petite Sirah and Syrah) comes bounding out of the glass with notes of raspberry pie, blackberry preserves and fruitcake with touches of hoisin and Chinese five spice plus and waft of underbrush. Full-bodied, rich and spicy in the mouth, it packs in the black fruit preserves, framed by chewy tannins and finishing on a savory note. 2,600 cases were made. Rating: 94+https://www.wine.com/product/orin-swift-cellars-8-years-in-the-desert-8-bottle-set-2016/427685https://www.klwines.com/p/i?i=1352779https://www.grapetray.com/products/13089826/orin-swift-8-years-in-desert-2016Let us know when we can come over and try a bottle! We'll bring a nice one too!!! We could use another wine road trip!!!! ; )~
10/11/18, 6:50 PM - Thanks for all the great thoughts and words, folks. We love this community. Presently we have a Penfolds Bin 389 from each of their birth years put away (and we LOVE Bin 389- NO idea if they will when they're 21), but we'll see if that holds out for 21 years. We know our cellar is good for it, as we have enjoyed 1992s, 1999s and many 2001s & on, from so many years in our storage so far. Noroc to you all!
10/16/18, 7:25 AM - Well thank you for the kind words, Vinomazing, tell us where you are and next time we travel that way we'll endeavor to bring a bottle (or three) and meet & share & enjoy!!! We love this CT stuff, it's almost like being on a cruise ship and dining at a large table with great strangers. Everyone is in a good mood because they're on a cruise and the stories & travel and wine-flow are fantastic! We once enjoyed an Opus One on a line, and the bottle was only $160... Opus One on a cruise ship for less than retail!!! We should have gotten three!!! Here on CT, we're all dissecting silly vins. Just as dynamic and engaging, and everyone should be in a good mood doing it too! We always are! WineDog1, did you ever think your five sentences would turn into a months-long convo? Great stuff! Thanks to all for posting!Noroc!
10/26/18, 5:45 PM - Thanks Vinomazing, for that vendor information. My local shop still has the 8 pack and I am still on the fence. Take care!
10/26/18, 7:14 PM - Thanks so much, I am sick in bed tonight, but would like to do that another time.
11/7/19, 11:21 AM - Well... For good or bad... I found a 2016 gift box and pulled the trigger... Last night I even read Phinney's "poetry" book - story book... he incuded in the set... Read it in one sitting. Glad for him that he makes wine... He's no Don Winslow.Anyway, I think I really liked the "expiration of the non-compete" story, because I draft a lot of those non compete agreements as an attorney... and then D.P. talks about the sweat, tears and blood that he put into this 1st time back to Zin vintage...Also my retailer got me a photograph with him and the winemaker and this box, so that is pretty cool too...In 5 or more years we'll crack the 1st one and see what it's turned into...Loving that it's ALREADY 93 pointer- still in its youth!Oh, and I guess I was feeling a little flush, because along with this set, I bought the Adobe Road Grand Prix Racing Series four bottle set as well... Love being a Detroit Car Guy!!!Noroc!!!
10/22/19, 7:33 PM - Love the Note, thanks. Interesting that prox 60% of CT holders of this vintage of this delicious juice, still have the bottle IN their cellar... We have one, and will to a special occasion in the next year or two for it! Noroc!
10/14/19, 8:25 AM - KFrench150, great note, thanks! We LOVE 389 with rich red-sauce pasta dishes too! Some crushed red peppers in there and this is one of THE best combinations we've enjoyed in the wine world. If you haven't yet, try Stags Leap Artemis with your steak... Wow! Noroc!
10/15/19, 9:25 PM - Y'all talking about Elderton Command, we know nothing of it, another can't wait to try, now... THANKS! As far as these BBQ & steak and meat comments, we truly do love the SL Artemis as mentioned, but as far as Penfolds, here's a comment from one of our RWT reviews..."...RWT offered a more smoky, dusty, grainy opening than others... As we read more CT notes regarding the nose: (“…not the fruit kind…” “spicy, herbal notes…” “smoked meat in the nose” “leather with minerality” “tobacco, cigar, wet earth”...)..."That sounds like a helluva balance to a strong beef cut to us! Enjoy, good people! But Bin 389 to us is more buttery, silky, smoother than RWT... That's why we LOVE 389 with pesto, toasted baguette, red-sauce pasta and a hint of Italian spice. Just Glorious! Are either of you John Duval fans? We love his Entity and Plexus. We just grabbed a Mollydooker 2007 Velvet Glove for the cellar too. We enjoy its Boxer. Noroc!!! Viaţă este bun.(Beef.?. We just watched the trailer for the new film Game Changers...) Hmmm...
6/2/18, 9:38 AM - So, BBPP, maybe this bottle was off (for a 389)... The fact that we were not as enamored with this particular bottle as we have been with dozens of other 389s, yet we still recognize the quality with which it is made, and the complexity it offers the drinker, we still did give it 91 pts... And 91 is right in line with the score this vintage has received here at CT. We in general think of 389 as a 93 pointer or so... That John Duval we recently had was more rewarding than this 389 we drank last night, but the Plexus is not as good as our memories of our 389 experiences in total... We have to buy bottles from the initial store, not years later unsure of how they were handled for extended times...
9/27/19, 6:59 AM - AlohaShirt, thanks for your comments and insights. We too, have experienced "mediocre" Bin 389 bottles. So strange when some have been downright moving. So perhaps the fake or counterfeit wine comment is legit. Years back, like you say, in the late 90s and early 2000s, we never experienced a bad bottle. Only cork tops, have we seen here in Detroit. But we have seen photos of the screw bottles you mention. Anyway, it's one reason we've bought more John Duval and Mollydooker, we've cracked no poor standouts in these bottlings. So keep on keep'n on, and if we come across any articles about fake 389, we'll post the link here.Noroc!
7/25/19, 4:11 PM - Can't wait to hear about that crack! I hope yours is as perfect as our many 2001 Penfolds have been... Best to you!
6/16/19, 9:38 AM - So is PRP wines and Australia as well? It is the only distributor we could find here in the States and we had a tasting at our home and this Intensio was really good. Memorable even...
6/18/19, 7:15 PM - We would have liked to grab a bottle or two of Intensio from our home PRP tasting a few weeks back, it was US$60. But after back and forth (and emptying both bottles) we bought four 2012 Conte Ottavio Piccolomini d'Aragona Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Colline Teramane at $50 each instead. The Italian just seemed more sophisticated. Not as rich or lucious, but more complex, less tannic vin with no sweet-fruit, and better racking potential. Perhaps also because our friends bought about 6 Intensio bottles, so we can visit there in a few years with something from our cellar and enjoy Intensio too... Noroc!
6/18/19, 7:06 PM - KillerJones, so if you ask us, we think winemakers that expect a bottle to go down for years, and possibly, if not likely, with weight on top of it (other cases) then you get a heavy, thick bottle with a deep punt and a turn slot for the tool that rotates individual bottles in commercial cellars. Ergo, if a bottle is lite, with no deep punt, and no tool slot, this winemaker is putting in that bottle, a beverage ready to go now, not with or expecting any real time in the racks.What do you think.?.
5/7/19, 6:17 AM - Hey, AnytimeWine, thanks for another great tasting note. You find this one at a Kroger-owned place too, like the Odd Lot? We just grabbed one, stupid cheap, like $9 bucks... Should we give it a year or so, buy more...?... Or maybe we'll crack it now and decide...BTW, the 2015 Odd Lot's don't seem quite as bright as we remember a year or two back... Maybe their window is three years not 4+... Anyway, our '15s are nearly gone and we have racked a few '16s... Enjoy!
5/1/19, 7:31 PM - Yeah, we have 2 left of the '03s... We'll plan on taking them down this year... One of our FAV all time Cabs!
5/1/19, 7:28 PM - So have you tried Odd Lot? Same goodness, or better, we thinks!
6/7/18, 4:01 PM - We couldn't've said it better ourselves! But we wrote a book anyway... Multiple times... Did you buy it at Kroger or at a Kroger-owned store? From our research, Scheid made the deal with Kroger to sell it exclusively there....
1/30/19, 4:11 PM - Judge by a label? Then how would anyone explain Bionic Frog - Right?!?!? We are still buying the 2015 vintage Odd Lot and fear the stores may run out some time soon! YUM! We keep thinking we'll rack-em but we keep crack-en-em! Odd Lot is just great juice! We looked through your tasting notes! The CT community thanks you for your excellent contributions! Folks like you make this "place" fun - great! And we don't say that just because out of your nearly 500 Notes, Odd Lot is in your top 20 or so... Noroc!
11/25/18, 5:27 PM - Hey SRH, thank you for the kind words! We do tend to write books... And we wrote one for Bin 389 as well. Bin 389 for us, is pertinear-heavenly... We have been enjoying it for almost two decades now, since- admittedly- before we even met each other! Glad we found you on CT here, and have enjoyed reading some of your notes as well.Noroc!
11/18/18, 6:26 PM - $25 for a glass or bottle? These were part of that thousand dollar 8 pack limited edition thing...
9/27/18, 6:52 PM - JDavis7551, perhaps Winedog1 likes the style...?... We think Caymus is very sweet, overdone even, and Napa Valley.?. What??? There's not enough acreage for all that Caymus production, in Napa Valley... But, when that's our mood- as opposed to say, a Bin 707 or Don Melchor- it really hits the spot! So we can see a "syrup-sweet" & 93 pts in one wine... Just not always in the mood for that.You?
9/11/18, 11:43 AM - Good day Chipp68, we have a question about this Orin Swift beverage. The gift pack 8 bottle set with book and box runs about $1,000 and one of our local stores has one and told us they'll sell it for $950. OK. But, recently we found out Orin Swift is releasing individual bottles of "8 years in the Desert" next month (2017s?) , and at around $46 a piece... We were told by one of our local retailers that it is NOT the same wine and that the gift boxes are just one year- 2016- and that particular blend will not be made again (presumably to hold the boxed set value and not aggravate those who invested that grand).Our concern, of course, is spending that kind of money and a decade later having the gift set hold its value or increase; and so we are asking, have you heard of such thing? Did you purchase the gift set or just have the luxury of trying a bottle? Asking in the sense of- have you heard of any of this? Thanks.
9/11/18, 11:42 AM - Good day THAAS, we have a question about this Orin Swift beverage. The gift pack 8 bottle set with book and box runs about $1,000 and one of our local stores has one and told us they'll sell it for $950. OK. But, recently we found out Orin Swift is releasing individual bottles of "8 years in the Desert" next month (2017s?) , and at around $46 a piece... We were told by one of our local retailers that it is NOT the same wine and that the gift boxes are just one year- 2016- and that particular blend will not be made again (presumably to hold the boxed set value and not aggravate those who invested that grand).Our concern, of course, is spending that kind of money and a decade later having the gift set hold its value or increase; and so we are asking, have you heard of such thing? Did you purchase the gift set or just have the luxury of trying a bottle? Asking in the sense of- have you heard of any of this? Thanks.
9/3/18, 7:27 PM - Great note, thanks. Ever try Don Melchor? If so, thoughts on that...?
6/2/18, 11:06 AM - Wow, WONDERFUL!!! What a great tasting you must have had! Appears that you had three of our fav's there, Don Melchor, Bin 389, Promis... YUM!!!
5/28/18, 7:12 AM - When you say should have bought several bottles-you never know... we would ask, do you use cellartracker when you're standing there at the store? We have found that it is a most valuable resource when we are deciding what or how many to buy and certainly if you would have opened it to read a few of the reviews about this really good RMPS Bourbon barrel aged Cab, you may have been influenced to- as you say, buy a couple... Just trying to say hey it's worked for us in the past, maybe it can work for you too...Unfortunately sometimes it extends our time in the wine-isles by many tens of minutes... OK, that can actually be really fun too!You see it as a solid "B" wine ~ 85 pts, yet you described it as "liked a great deal" and "excellent" ... Interesting... To us that would be a bit of a gap... Happy Memorial Day, hopefully you're enjoying another grilled steak and great steak wine today!!!
5/23/18, 9:12 AM - Just seeing your 2012 note, here... And we- just a few days ago- reviewed our 2008 bottle. We know just how you feel, as we too, were underwhelmed.As far as your wanting a BIG OIL TANKER of a wine, we have some you might enjoy, in our 92-98 scores from our modestly priced vins in our couple of tasting notes... Maybe Penfolds Bin 389 (a big buttery red, she once called it) or Don Melchor (The Don certainly delivers) from Chile or a nice MollyDooker. Heitz Martha's Vineyard is big (but pricey) too... Salud, CT Friend!
5/20/18, 5:41 PM - Great Note, Matt. You use the word "balanced" and that's what we think of with Don Melchor, as we stated more than once in our February review of the 2003 vintage. We'll hold our '12s for many more years.Great stuff!And thanks for saving the Tolstoy novellas for us! LOLNoroc!
5/9/18, 7:38 PM - Love the descrip... Nice but not wow... We've often thought that about a vin, but never put it so succinctly.
4/26/18, 3:00 PM - Right on! And if you have Kroger stores nearby, grab an Odd Lot to see what yumminess can be had for $11...!!!...
4/26/18, 2:57 PM - Great Note, thanks for the creativity and experimentation, inspired beverage enjoyment!
1/16/18, 5:43 PM - Thanks for both of your comments, we have enjoyed Penfolds Bin 8, 9, 389, 407 and 707, maybe some others too... Don't think we've tried the Bin 28 yet and we know we have not yet hit any St Henri (one store near us has two 2006s for $89 each). So thanks for the heads up, we'll get into that! BSmith457, we hope your last 2001 RWT offers you just as hauntingly original notes and embers as our did for us! We think our bottle may have held out for another year or a couple... But it drank wonderfully last weekend, as noted above.
4/15/18, 5:13 PM - Thanks for your note and kind words, Arturoonwine. And so glad you enjoyed reading our novella. That's about all we write, is the stories... Our Dom Perignon, Bin 707, Cramele Recaş Uberland and our most recent Odd Lot "tasting note" are stories that matter to us. With a name like Odd Lot, we went a bit overboard on our descriptors... Your tasting notes of all those aged, 90+ wines make us want to hang where you're sipping! You obviously have a great cellar, with one of these RWT gems still in it, and we too, actually procured another 2001 RWT so, what the heck, we did buy another... Enjoy yours when you crack it this year. Tell us CT readers a tale, when you do! While we are most likely nowhere near each other's domicile, sounds to us like a table we'd like to share to hear & offer stories of travel, wine and life...Noroc!
4/7/18, 5:13 AM - Stevey, we just grabbed 3 of these in 2018- years after your great review. Cracked one; were knocked out by the 94 point CT review we gave it. Take a look at our Tasting Note if you like. A stunner of a wine; well racked, it still has years to go, we believe.
3/30/18, 8:02 AM - You can vacu-vin in for a week? We have found we don't like the way wine tastes after 2 days of keeping it vacu-vin'd... Maybe it's just us, and we'll concede, often times that second day does add some friendliness, but beyond that, it simply has not really worked for us...Can you lay a vacu-vin'd wine down on its side and put it back in the racks? No leakage? Maybe that's what we're doing wrong, leaving it in a dark but warmer cabinet. Either way we guess it's good because these days it's got us to the point where we often enjoy the whole bottle in one sitting...
3/30/18, 7:54 AM - Nice Note. Caymus a steak wine...?... While we've never thought of Caymus as 'gritty' with the girth to counter such food, the flavor profile is certainly large & powerful, as smooth-satiny Cali Cabs go... OK, so we'll 'buy' that steak comment, but we'd like to ask you to check out Stags Leap Artemis with a NY Strip, and if you do, please tell us what you thought! Noroc!
3/26/18, 9:20 AM - Pilot 360, what would you score it then? We certainly hope the 2001s will at least last through the summer, before their decline... We just grabbed another one of these, the same wine seller that we bought our original from back in 2005 or so, still had another 2001 that we could have bought back then... It was still laying in his cellar rack, so we gave him $81 and grabbed it to move it to ours, and to probably consume this year.
3/23/18, 7:05 PM - So, what's your preferred stopper? We use the Vacu Vin... Seems to hold a bottle for two days or so but we've never tried to lay a bottle on its side w the VV.Great note, thanks for all the details.Oh, and we love your cellar, we have a fair amount of similar vins, even if off a vintage or two... Noroc!
3/22/18, 9:15 AM - Thanks, carisua78, we were in Chicago recently and visited Binny's, a GREAT wine store, and saw one of the ones you mentioned. We'll look into them and hopefully be able to locate and try them soon. Thanks again, for your recommendations.BTW, we just went back to the local cellar / seller and bought his last 2003 Don Melchor, still for $46.... So looking forward to these two! And we got another 2001 Penfolds RWT, which we also enjoyed our cellared bottle of, earlier this year.
3/21/18, 4:34 PM - Sean7711, thanks much for mentioning the Ilatraia in your review. A wine I had never heard of, saw your review, looked into and bought a half dozen 2009s. We have cracked one. Wow, that's a winner! We wrote about it here on CT. Thanks again!
3/11/18, 9:41 PM - Thanks for your Note. We were in Chicago this weekend and came across this bottle at Binny's. While there we saw your comments and thought we'd stick one in the cellar... Maybe we'll get to it in a year or two... Looking forward to that!!!
3/6/18, 8:30 PM - Never even heard of Elderton, will look into it. Thanks! But our Williamson Wine from Healdsburg CA, comes straight from a former Penfolds winemaker...
3/6/18, 8:35 PM - We have been seeing Penfolds' St Henri for $69 (plus shipping) to $89 at local stores, but have not pulled the trigger yet because (1) Mollydooker Boxer is $26 and we gave that like 91 pts so why spend $80...?... And we left a note on our 2001 Penfolds RWT, did you read that novella of ours?
3/6/18, 12:05 PM - Just about the most fun we have had reading a review on CT, thank you for it!The fact that happens to be for one of our favorite vins, regardless of vintage, just adds to our enjoyment...Penfolds has inspired us to lay down some creative text regarding a few of its beverages as well!Keep up the tough work of enjoying Penlfolds and telling the rest of us about it, please!
2/4/18, 9:31 PM - Great note, you wrote, in a few words, what took us paragraphs to lay out, regarding the '15 vintage..Salud!.
2/4/18, 1:00 PM - Thanks for the Note. So what do you think of the QPR then? From what we see this wine is typically over $30-$34 a bottle... We put one biytle in the cellar after a tasting and wondered- that one in and of itself, of the two total cases worth or so we bought- whether we wanted to include the Taken when we actually got them in and purchased them. We did, after all, and it'll probably sit for us for a while... If we recall- with the nights' discounts- we paid about $24 or something...
2/3/18, 6:21 PM - Just the thought of scoring a wine 92 points, while you still say it'll get better with time, we are so glad we have six of these in the cellar and we're going to hold them for a few more years before we crack the first... But we really "can't wait" though, because we have never tried this vin... Exciting! Small victories in life!!! Salud!
1/29/18, 5:19 PM - Thank you for such a great note, we will do just what you said and hold our bottle for a couple more years!Noroc!
1/30/18, 2:27 AM - How funny, being from Detroit, a nice 9 iron across the 'narrow straight', we practically 'feel' Canadian... We are there often and we bought ours at the LCBO also! We LOVE their glossy "Vintages" and "Food & Drink" publications. Canadian coins spend freely here, eh.We see in your notes, that you're a fan of Mollydooker and Penfolds RWT (we wrote notes on them) so you enjoy Aussie vin. We aplaud your taste & will review your other notes to find new gems for us! Thanks.Salud!
1/30/18, 6:44 AM - Darren, we have really enjoyed some Canadian Niagara white wines & icewines, and cellard some over the years,. It's a fun area to vineyard-hop! On our Yalumba Cigar, if memory serves, with the exchange rate, when we bought it last year at the LCBO, we paid about $22USD... We have served Red Diamond to guests but don't know a lot of Washington state wines yet. Excited to get into their Pinots. We LOVE Duckhorn's Migration Pinot (from Cali though). We're eager to hear what you think of our notes on Penfolds RWT & Bin 707 as well as Mollydooker's Boxer. Take care.
1/30/18, 6:41 PM - Boxer is the only MD we have had, to date... But years in the cellar mellowed it out, sir... We'll look into the others you mentioned. Thanks. You ever try John Duval, Plexus or Entity? We are intrigued by those, but never have we seen them...Cheers!
1/30/18, 5:35 PM - Thanks for a great Note! Wife says "find more" Hubby says "baby, that's my kind'a'chore!" LOVE IT! We just bought a case (they come in boxes of 6) and we'll get to our first probably around year end. We also have enjoyed Brancaia's TRE, and wrote about it on CT... Noroc!
1/30/18, 5:32 PM - Love your five year old review, just seeing it now for the first time... It really makes us WANT to try this wine, we will go looking!!! We LOVE big Aussies, if you care to read, we wrote notes on 2001 Penfolds Bin 707, 2001 RWT & Moollydooker's Boxer- like to hear what you think of our comments... Do you know the John Duval vins? Entity or Plexus? Salud!
1/30/18, 5:30 PM - Love your seven year old review, just seeing it now for the first time... It really makes us WANT to try this wine, we will go looking!!! Also great comments on Penfolds Grange. We have yet to enjoy that beauty. We do LOVE big Aussie vins, if you care to read, we wrote notes on 2001 Penfolds Bin 707, 2001 RWT & Moollydooker's Boxer- like to hear what you think of our comments... Do you know the John Duval vins? Entity or Plexus? Salud!
1/19/18, 8:01 PM - We just grabbed a 6-case of the 2009 vintage Ilatraia. We enjoyed the 2013 Brancaia Tre and wrote about it. With your comments here, we may just get into one of our six "new" 2009s this year!
1/18/18, 3:27 PM - Nice Note, care to score it then?
1/14/18, 4:22 PM - Thanks for your note. Your two reviews of the Cab! Right on, maybe with more time it might make it to 90 for you? We will try the Cab indeed. Thanks! We bought the Shiraz not the Cab for two reasons (1) we enjoyed the Shiraz at a tasting and thought, 'nice wine' and (2) the $10-$11 Cab we go to these days is the Mondavi Private Selection Bourbon Barrel aged, which has been made in 2014, '15 and '16. We have a bunch in the cellar at present... The Bourbon aging takes what we would probably think was a bland, regular Cab otherwise and really does give it some, dare I say, complexity... Have you tried that one yet?
1/10/18, 4:49 PM - Thanks for your comments! We have a quiet house this weekend... We have decided, it's time... To crack our 2001 Penfolds RWT... It has been in our cellar for nearly thirteen years. We can't WAIT to enjoy it! We'll pull it tomorrow to stand it up, then open it Saturday, decant for prolly 2 hours (with a quick taste prior, of course) and pour on!!! We are so eager and intrigued... Pasta, cheeses, our homemade sausage, and RWT. Saturday night!
1/14/18, 12:02 PM - PJHR, you wrote about the "killer nose" and we'd love to read more about what you meant by that and see your comments as it relates to our description of the nose on this yummy beverage...
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