Upwards of 500 euro around here. Even the cheapest Gaja bottling is 95 euro
I checked my cellar and found a few more bottles of the most controversial wine ever made. I haven’t tried it in a while but it tastes like a good old bordeaux.
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For reference, two prominent critics nearly came to blows over it:
Parker and Robinson in war of words
Anyway, no surprise - Parker was right.
I thought this would be interesting for discussion but probably long forgotten.
This thread had me thinking about some of the best wines I’ve had in my life. There was a small wine shop in the town I attended college that had a dusty backroom where an hour could be spent hunting for forgotten decades old bottles. My favorites were always grower champagnes which he had an abundance of for quite reasonable prices.
Today I decided to try and hunt down a bottle of Ulysses Collin only to be floored by how unbelievably hard to find and expensive they are now. Extremely sad as they might be my favorite wines from the area and are now well beyond my reach for all but the most special occasions
Personally i think it's hard to beat a Amarone, bought this from the vineyard, on my road trip last year. Drunk with Xmas dinner.
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I've had that wine many times and from many vintages. Typically around 20–25 years old. (Friends of mine in Berkeley are avid wine collectors, and they religiously buy a few cartons from Oak Ridge each year, including the Zinfandel.) It's a phenomenal wine, and one of my all-time favourites, too!My absolute favourite is Oak Ridge Reservé 2019, Zinfandel
That is one badass wine!
I had a case of the ‘86. I think I killed the last one about a decade ago.I guess my favorite when I want to splurge. Everything they make is very very good. the Cain five make me laugh at Opus one.
https://www.cainfive.com/
Dang,I had a case of the ‘86. I think I killed the last one about a decade ago.
Back in the day, when I lived in the Bay Area, ex and I drove up to Santa Cruz Mountain Winery. Their Bates Ranch cab was grown on a plot adjacent to Ridge’s Monte Bello vineyard. I picked up two cases of the ‘86 there. I think I still have a few bottles left, and they are just hitting their stride. For a quarter of the price, they give up very little to the Monte Bello which at the time was described as California’s first legitimate first growth. Opus was still finding its feet, but even thirty-plus years ago the hype machine was in full swing.Dang,
I cant keep a bottle to last longer than 3 months in the house.
Here are a couple of notable wines I’ve enjoyed in the last couple of days with a friend:
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I’ve said it before on this thread, but the wines of Montenidoli are among my very favourites in the world.
Elisabetta Fagiuoli is a winemaking legend; 88 years young, 53 vintages at Montenidoli, and she still travels the world to show her wines and talk to importers and consumers (in London atm for the Real Wine Fair).
https://www.openingabottle.com/elisabetta-fagiuoli-on-her-52-vintages-and-counting/
The wines translate their grape and place with remarkable fidelity. Displaying beautiful precision when young, but can also be cellared for many years, gaining depth and complexity over time.
They sit happily alongside the very best white wines of Italy, at a fraction of the cost. A quick google tells me you can pick up either of the cuvees in my picture above for about $25-$30 per bottle in the US. Not bargain basement stuff, but for the quality they are quite astonishing value.
A little wine biz secret for you right ^there^.
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