1945 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1961 Cheval Blanc 1990 DRC Echezeau 1945 Croft Vintage Port 2002 Krug Clos du Mesnil ..read more

When you order wine from the other side of the country (in my most recent experience, via temperature-controlled ground transportation courier to a local UPS, then UPS to my door) how long do you wait to pull a cork to avoid bottle shock? And does it vary by wine type and age? I tend to think young, fruit forward, sturdy wines, travel better than older, delicate, more nuanced wines, but I could be wrong. FWIW: I think 3 weeks is probably long enough in most cases, (probably 2 weeks is long ..read more

Went to post this in the February thread and realized we are now in March. Last night with sushi at home we had a NV Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Brut. What a beautiful bottle of wine ..read more

My nephew is helping with his grandfather's estate, and came across this bottle, which he plans to drink. I was able to give him some general advice on preparing and serving older wines, and limiting expectations (1960 was not a good year for Burgundy; storage may be an issue) but nothing more specific to this wine. Any comments/suggestions that I can pass on to him would be appreciated ..read more

There is a wonderful restaurant group headquartered in Baltimore, called "The Atlas Group." They own/manage restaurants here, in Boca Raton, in Houston, and in a few other places. The restaurants are very good and very well run. Anyway, they are opening a new restaurant in Baltimore on Monday, March 4. It will be called “The Ruxton.” An upscale steakhouse downtown. The article in the paper today says, with regard to their wines: “The restaurant has a 3500 bottle wine cellar heavy on ..read more

what's up with VSO this past year? no Dujac, now AR allocation.... DRC hasn't happened yet in 2024, usually its third week of Jan... the monthly classics catalogue slimmer and slimmer ..read more

Ok. The title of the post is pure clickbait. There’s plenty of excellent Pinot Noir in Sonoma. However… >Topic for discussion ..read more

Ok guys. My palate has gone so far away from certain styles of wine that upon reflection, it occurs to me I have not consumed a single Napa Cabernet in several years — certainly before COVID — and I have zero in my relatively small cellar. (I have had and also have Santa Cruz Mountains Cabs, however.) I don’t want to “break the bank” but I do want a genuine shot at knowing if this is something I should continue to avoid. I’m thinking about purchasing a 2019 or 2015 BV GdLT for near-term ..read more

There's a double mag of 1986 Dominus estate on the shelf @ ~50 minutes. hehe I was posting while intoxicated the movie is Highlander 2 the quickening ..read more

And for those in the medical community, I do NOT mean Tuberculosis… I’m talking about how many bottles/type of wines from your personal cellar are opened in a given time period. Weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, etc. Certainly, management tools like CellarTracker (or other means) are necessary to refine rather specific data. For me, using CT since 2004 has been pretty eye-opening and shown me, to some extent, how my appetite has evolved over time based in part on what I have pulled ..read more