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TN: 1989 Ch. Lynch Bages
My wife and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary last night(married in 1989 for those who don't care to do the arithmetic), and as is customary, we shared a bottle of the 1989 Chateau Lynch...
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Link to article on French wine sales in USA-6th straight montly decline
Link to article on French wine sales in USA-6th straight monthly decline while table wines continued to grow in general: I just put me 2000 Bordeauxs in my cellar....but I bought them over 2 years...
 
September Lunch Notes
Notes from the last wine lunch (tasted blind): 2001 Pemberton Valley Winery Pinot Gris - an oddball from an area with no other wineries that I know of, but near the site of the winter Olympics a...
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Re: Chemicals in red wine
Is there anyone out there who can tell me the name of the chemical(s) in red wine that makes it red???? Also by chance: How about the name of the chemical(s) that make red meat red? This is more...
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TN: value in a Viognier
Well, to be fair to him, most of his portfolio that I've tried has been from the Rhone Valley. His selections there I find to be very high quality with good "typicity." YMMV, though. Funny, isn't it?...
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Boxed wines redux
Two Buck Chuck is better than most box wine. However, it is owned by Franzia so it is basically just box wine in a bottle. Let's call it gourmet box wine. Dimitri
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Q&A with Bonny Doon Wineries founder/proprietor Randall Grahm
Watch out for flying cigars, outrageous comments and great wine! Join winemaker and wizard Randall Graham, proprietor of California's (and the world's) Bonny Doon Vineyard in what is sure to be a...
 
1999 Clos du Marquis
Mark, Low-acidity wasn't a defining part of the vintage to my mind. There were some wines I thought quite fat- mostly Right Bankers such as L'Angelus, Clos Fourtet, La Gomerie, La Tour Carnet. And a...
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Da Blues - OT but see par 15 - longish
Woke up this morning found this in de (sorry - the) email... Cheers! Martin
 
Robertson's Well
Does anyone know where I can buy Robertson's Well in New York or anywhere in the USA? Thanks.
 
Help please: Ch. Bernard Raymond
I forgot about a few bottles of Ch. Bernard Raymond 1966 in the back of my cellar. It is Graves Appelation Controlee - from Portets(?) Does anyone have any idea whether it is likely to be worth...
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TN: Anastasia's Delight
Hi folks, Still around, thought I'd drop in a TN today. :-) We arn't big sweet wine drinkers, but just over a year ago we visited Margaret River in Western Australia. While we were there, we dropped...
 
Bordeaux wine red
Excellent Bordeaux wine year 2001 we have over 200.000 bottles. Interested?
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[TN] Wedding anniversary
Xina and lindgren one found they were about to have been married 22 ys (sorry bout the mixed tempi) and decided to go for an over-nighter in a place you´ve never heard of, Tomarps Gård, near a town...
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syrah as table grapes
My local kick-ass produce stand (run by Larry, the same Larry as in ) had some obviously red-wine grapes for sale today with all the other produce (like onions and bell peppers and stuff like that)....
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