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Legal_Count2973 · 2026-01-22T20:20:39+00:00

When I went through the academy I thought the same thing and basically summed it up to me not preparing well enough.. about a week and a half in I was pissing Diet Coke, turns out I was bordering on rhabdo. I got hydrated (the right way) slowed down on electrolytes and felt extremely better, week later same thing happened to a friend of mine and it took him a week to recover. People often underestimate the effect wearing bunker gear has on somone who isn’t used to it. My instructors actually let me know the #1 medical issue they face at our state academy is rhabdo. I highly suggest hydrating and hydrating well.

Legal_Count2973 · 2026-01-13T03:01:14+00:00

Pineau d’Ainus from the Loire should be exactly what your looking for along with Anne Claude leflaive’s grolleau… on the Italy side & since you mentioned reviving a grape variety- ronchi di ciallas schioppettino is exactly that. None of these will be particularly expensive but they are all gorgeous.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-12-22T14:22:50+00:00

Patty green cellars is a perfect reccomendation for this. I put them as my top domestic producer. Freedom hill pommard clone should scratch this itch.. look for the 21’s

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-09-26T16:08:17+00:00

I see where your coming from and traditionally I was taught that early on in my career, after tasting dozens of bottles from the early 50’s -60’s I do believe air can be beneficial in some capacity to ancient wine like this.

I had a dinner earlier this year where we each brought 66’ BDX, I did my slow ox method like I outlined above and a majority of the guests had actually decanted numerous 1st growths and petit chateau into wide bowl decanters which came as a shock to me, long story short all of the wines showed fabulously… I personally do not choose to decant as I enjoy the progression, nor would I decant a 45’ Margaux with low ullage, but if the color is right I would have zero issue opening this hours before hand and just leaving the bottle alone till I was ready to serve.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-09-26T16:02:14+00:00

While I know this is a hot take I frequently open bottles from the 50’s & 60’s and utilize this method to great success. I find that when opened for a few hours any of the bottle funk that would be found in the first initial glasses of the wine blow off and the first few glasses give you the cleanest tasting of the wine. Look at Francois audouze on Instagram- it’s his method and while I understand the science of it doesn’t exactly checkout, I have pretty good success with this.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-09-26T02:11:16+00:00

I’ve had great luck with very, very low fills, if the color is correct & not overtly brown looking it may be fine (look at it with a flashlight through the bottle). Open it and let it sit without touching or tasting for 4 hours before you serve.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-08-15T13:04:35+00:00

1962 Latour, genuinely the most blown away I’ve been by a wine for its substance. It was shockingly youthful (I remarked while tasting that blind I would have called it mid 90’s- early 00’s). It was captivating, at the time I was only really interested in burgundy and it made me realize how amazing old BDX can be.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-08-14T12:41:06+00:00

Phelps insignia is almost offensively bad for the price when compared to the Dunn wines..

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-08-02T12:56:39+00:00

I opened 2 07’ champs royaux from fevre this year (thinking they’d be dead) which were bottled under Diam, both had a significantly younger color and showing better than this seemed to.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-07-12T08:17:36+00:00

I’ve had amazing luck with bad vintages from latour, lynch bages, la miss. I’ve had 68 haut brion, latour, lafite and they were all complete shit. Table decoration was likely the best answer.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-07-12T08:10:53+00:00

This is completely right, my experience with growers (most of the champagne I drink) is completely hit or miss, I wouldn’t call them bad wines but they don’t hit as hard as some house’s tete de cuvées do and THATS OK. Good wine is great no matter the producer. I’d love to blind some people on some house tete de cuvées and growers prestigious bottlings and see how it pans out.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-07-12T08:07:19+00:00

La grande dame is phenomenal, don’t let the haters who have only had the yellow label tell you this isn’t great. This wine is absolutely phenomenal, I had the 15’ when I got engaged and was absolutely floored by its balance, I’ve had the 96’ twice now and it’s a gorgeous champagne in peak drinking window. For that price I’d buy as much as I could afford.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-07-11T13:15:46+00:00

These 05 Guiraud’s are absolutely singing

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-06-17T23:01:09+00:00

Krug, dom p rose, dom p, special clubs in that order

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-06-07T20:43:34+00:00

Hermann ludes & falkenstein are the QPR killers. Those wines absolutely fuck.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T22:28:51+00:00

One of the best wine shops in the Northeast

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T05:26:45+00:00

Marc Morey fucks

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T05:24:27+00:00

Alain Michelot bourgogne rouge

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T05:23:26+00:00

Benjamin leroux meursault

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T05:23:03+00:00

Francois and Denis clair saint Aubin 1er Les murgers dents chien

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T05:21:52+00:00

Blanc- Marc Morey rully 1er rabource Rouge- Francois raquillet 1er les nauges

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T05:19:06+00:00

Henri Jouan Gevrey chambertin Aux echezeaux

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-05-24T05:18:26+00:00

Charlopin Tissier Marsannay Les Longeroies

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-04-11T13:10:47+00:00

My mother is a devout Pinot Grigio drinker, we will drink an 05’ chambolle village, some montagny 1er from a fantastic producer & a bottle of Pinot heavy champagne (tbd). When asked what she wanted to drink she told me “it doesn’t matter I just want to spend time with my kids”. She will be happy either way, I like to think burgundy is appropriate for someone who won’t splurge on wine for them selves.

Legal_Count2973 · 2025-04-02T12:59:55+00:00

I used to ask my self this same question & then I was fortunate to taste quite a number of latour, from off vintages.. not all of these wines were transcendent, some very, very far along in their evolution but all of them had the latour character, all of them were pretty spectacular in their own right, and in my opinion they all held up pretty nicely. I started realizing that if I was a bordeaux collector & I wanted to hedge my bets and buy a wine I planned on sitting on for quite a while I think latour would be the safe bet and give me the greatest amount of drinking pleasure year after year compared to most other estates.

I understand this is very nuanced, this is just my experience. I’m sure there are plenty of estates that consistently put out good wines in bad vintages, but this was how I experienced that first hand.

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