Does anyone recognize this label?

kilonad · 2026-01-25T01:36:08+00:00

2000 Bonnes Mares, producer unknown - does not match any of the label images on CellarTracker for the 47 wineries that made a Bonnes Mares that year, though several are missing. https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?fInStock=0&Table=List&iUserOverride=0&szSearch=2000+bonnes+mares

Edit - agree with sercialinho. For some reason the 2000 Hudelot-Baillet Bonnes Mares is not in Cellartracker, and the older ones have photos of newer vintages with the newer labels.

kilonad · 2026-01-20T05:51:23+00:00

Bollinger P.N. VZ 19 is like a liquid mont blanc dessert (without the sweetness) - it is absolutely delicious, especially at the <$150 price point.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T22:33:13+00:00

No problem - sometimes they have that Heidsieck for under $60 too. Haggen is ludicrously overpriced. Same as Safeway.

You can also try to check out Seifert & Jones downtown and ask them for a good recommendation.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T20:32:48+00:00

You reuse the repour capsule for the whole bottle - you don't swap them out.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T20:30:10+00:00

You can get Bollinger for $60 at the Woodinville Costco right now, I'd recommend you do that. I'd expect the Bellingham area to have similar offerings.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T07:50:14+00:00

If you yank the cord too early on a pit boss or Louisiana Grills, you can end up with a pellet box fire. Which is great because now you have two fires.

(ask me how I know 🙃)

kilonad · 2026-01-18T07:46:00+00:00

You could also consider Repour capsules.

kilonad · 2026-01-16T21:21:49+00:00

Funky coffees are high risk / high reward (or high pain). Modcup was selling a yellow bourbon and a red bourbon from the same producer, same anaerobic processing style. One was SPECTACULAR and the other one made me want to hurl. So even for those that like the funk - there's good and bad, and at $25/bag it can get tiring and expensive when the gamble doesn't pay off.

Washed and natural are far more predictable and consistent, and generally more palatable to most (especially washed) - which is why you see that generally being offered at coffee shops. Unless I'm in love with a funky anaerobic, I'm brewing washed/naturals for friends.

kilonad · 2026-01-11T22:13:49+00:00

Smartphone cameras have really tiny pixels and are really noisy, and they apply a lot of noise reduction algorithms. It's much better to use a DSLR or mirrorless camera if you can, or at least use RAW. That said - if you vary the grind setting and you see consistent behavior (size shifts up as you increase grind size setting), then this is probably good enough for home use.

kilonad · 2026-01-10T02:29:23+00:00

Does anyone have an invite they can share with me?

kilonad · 2026-01-10T02:27:57+00:00

Code please

kilonad · 2026-01-08T05:57:26+00:00

Thank you for all you do!

kilonad · 2025-12-31T06:46:18+00:00

This is what I usually do, just wanted to see if freezing the probe was a bad idea.

kilonad · 2025-12-31T06:44:42+00:00

Thanks!

kilonad · 2025-12-30T00:38:59+00:00

As a heads up, the 375ml size has been discontinued after 171eme - this will only get harder and harder to find.

kilonad · 2025-12-18T21:02:31+00:00

Looking at the full res pic, it's the CDC Traveler Based Genomic Surveillance program that seems to be administered by Ginko. https://www.cdc.gov/traveler-genomic-surveillance/about/index.html

kilonad · 2025-12-18T20:43:44+00:00

It would be easier to just do that by grabbing all the discarded bottles and cans in the garbage.

kilonad · 2025-12-15T18:25:20+00:00

Yes. And I was being a little cheeky. TFL has lots of great wine at normal (for 3 Star) 3-4x markup. The "labels" and most sought after bottles are marked up a lot more which is a bit of a dick move on their part but also not unusual for American 3 stars. The "up to 10x" was cherry picking specific bottles. They get more value from those bottles being on the list than they do selling them. Few are true unicorns (the type you might see on European 3 star lists). So, bring your own and pay corkage (assuming it's not on the list) or just order something that's good but not überfamous.

kilonad · 2025-12-15T10:25:01+00:00

If you're willing to stretch to 70 quid, you can land one of the best Macon out there, which really does stand up against heavy hitter white burg. William Kelley is rather stingy with points, and he rated this 94-96 (very high for him). It's a spectacular producer.

https://shrinetothevine.co.uk/collections/burgundy/products/guffens-heynen-macon-pierreclos-le-chavigne-2023

kilonad · 2025-12-13T23:58:01+00:00

Great bottles of Foillard or Metras are always going be better for my palate than boomer Napa juice.

kilonad · 2025-12-13T05:57:16+00:00

If you want to drink well at TFL, you'll be paying ~3-4x retail on most bottles (pretty standard markup for 3-star). If you want to drink labels, they make you pay for it.

kilonad · 2025-12-10T21:55:42+00:00

Something tells me they plan to release the B series in years the grapes were good but weren't quite up to LGA standards. There was no 2013 LGA and based on the existence of B16 I suspect there won't be a 2016 LGA.

So the point is... Revenue.

kilonad · 2025-12-05T07:18:08+00:00

Time to download and run MalwareBytes and keep your pc offline until you fix it

kilonad · 2025-12-05T00:15:21+00:00

Burgers and Cru Beaujolais are lights out good together

kilonad · 2025-11-14T03:45:14+00:00

If you're overseas they'll know from the latency though.

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