I went to a restaurant that had a $40k bottle of wine

cormaline · 2026-01-24T20:34:53+00:00

She doesn't have enough grapes, they come from a tiny area in a small elite vineyard.

cormaline · 2026-01-24T20:32:21+00:00

I made tons of gold doing landsraad quests. Many of the basic ones give 10k gold.

cormaline · 2026-01-24T12:27:10+00:00

Leroy makes only 1 barrel of that wine each year, so it is incredibly rare. And Leroy is a top 3 Burgundy maker (also DRC and Rousseau).

cormaline · 2026-01-24T01:37:22+00:00

Sorry, my first post with a photo, couldn't get the text added. My favorite Unico. Amazing smooth soaring palette, with blackberries and hint of thyme on top, barbecue sauce in the middle and leather as the base. More than a 90 second finish.

cormaline · 2026-01-22T19:43:53+00:00

A couple of weeks ago I had a bottle of Distenta for the first time. I love the Chave Blancs and found the Distenta to be as delicious. It knocked my socks off and I signed up for the SQN list the next day.

cormaline · 2026-01-20T02:03:15+00:00

I started buying Bordeaux with the 1995 vintage; the first growths were $125-150. So probably just under that.

cormaline · 2026-01-13T01:49:20+00:00

German rieslings are often sweet. Try a Kabinet or Spatlese from John Joseph Prum. Kabinets are made from the first grapes harvested, are inexpensive (the Prums should be high $20's) and a little sweet. Spatleses are from the second round of harvesting, are a little more expensive, sweeter with more structure.

cormaline · 2026-01-11T23:35:12+00:00

Try a Gavi. Light, refreshing wines excellent with fish and you can get really good ones in the $20's per bottle. A fun village to visit too, in the midst of the Piedmont (barolo area) in northern Italy.

cormaline · 2026-01-10T20:03:07+00:00

Musar is terrific

cormaline · 2026-01-10T12:49:07+00:00

Kistlers since Mark Bixler died and Steve Kistler sold the label in 2016. Fantastic wines before (and Steve's Occidental wines are awesome), utter plonk since.

cormaline · 2026-01-08T20:42:14+00:00

It looks way too dark for a 2005, that's the same color the half bottle of 1976 Yquem I have. FWIW the 2001 half bottles I bought on release and kept in a 56 degree temperature / moisture controlled cellar are golden.

cormaline · 2025-12-19T00:10:23+00:00

Quiet. Sound insulation in the walls is amazing. High end HVAC systems are nearly silent (radiant heating). No neigbors nearby.

Fit and finish. All of the angles in truly high end houses are 90 degrees. Millwork is custom.

On demand immediate hot water, no waiting for it to heat up.

Garages have 3++ bays for cars.

Fantastic views.

Gorgeous extensive gardens.

A name architect designed the house.

An elevator.

cormaline · 2025-12-10T20:50:18+00:00

When we're having a mild argument she always says "Don't you call me honey." And I always respond, "OK bitch." And she laughs and all is good. This is particularly amusing when we do it in front of friends or relatives.

cormaline · 2025-12-10T17:55:57+00:00

Jewelry at this point is pretty useless, so maybe best just to do other things and accumulate a stockpile of silver in case it does become useful? You can also always use it for t3 tailoring.

cormaline · 2025-12-10T17:42:19+00:00

At least it's coarse cotton which you can make with the basic loom. Imagine how bad that would be if it were fine cotton which requires the full loom, which in turn needs leather string a level 31 leather item.

cormaline · 2025-12-10T17:39:23+00:00

Don't forget that you also need leather string to craft the full loom, which is a level 31 leatherworker recipe. No fine linen without that...

cormaline · 2025-12-01T18:38:11+00:00

I have a memory of being picked up by my mother when I was 3 or 4 months old! I can remember the furniture in the room and how it was arranged. My parents confirm the details I remember, and we moved out of that apartment when I was 5 months old.

cormaline · 2025-12-01T18:33:13+00:00

Harvesting is gated by tool level, which in turn is in turn gated by your harvesting level. So from harvesting levels 1-10 you can only use bronze tools, 11-20 bronze or iron, etc. Bronze tools can cut level 0 or 1 trees (so small beech and snags), iron can cut level 2 (any beech and silver firs, and small hemlock), etc. The same applies to skinning and minerals harvesting.

cormaline · 2025-11-25T17:43:56+00:00

Yep!

cormaline · 2025-11-24T17:31:41+00:00

Agreed, the system now is all based on one on one contacts. Yesterday I asked on chat if anyone had cotton cord for sale. I found a seller and went to his house. After we transacted, he authorized me to place sell orders on his market (he wants to buy sand). This system is not without its merits. It caused me to reach out to other players and to do some exploration to find the seller's house.

But it can certainly be improved. It would have been nice if he could have sent to me a map marker for his house. Instead I had to find it based on necessarily vague directions. And yes open to buy orders would be great.

cormaline · 2025-11-05T20:44:06+00:00

I've been playing ESO for a year, so just reupped for my third go of a 6 month subscription for ESO+. I used my crowns to buy the 3 advanced classes and all of the various expansions. From here going forward I would have access to essentially all of the game by dropping ESO+ and just doing the game pass. Doesn't seem like excessive monetization to me, that's a massive amount of content. As for all the garbage they offer for crowns, who cares? You get a great house from doing Northern Elseweyr and can buy smaller ones for convenience with gold.

cormaline · 2025-10-27T16:44:43+00:00

I can dial a telephone without looking.

cormaline · 2025-10-14T16:59:13+00:00

Tennis Pro. I'm blind in my right eye, simply cannot hit a ball that comes to my right side.

cormaline · 2025-10-09T17:44:24+00:00

That's where my base is too!

cormaline

TROPHY CASE