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[hotwine]

I'm all for leaving room in the new cellar for future purchases, as Rags advises. But I rely more on this board for suggestions on specific wines to shop for, rather than the advice of a salesman, whose job, after all, is to sell me something - anything, so long as it's something, and I don't walk out of his shop empty-handed. He has his mission, which is to make a sale (hopefully, for him, on an item with high margin), while mine is to find good QPR juice.<BR>And personally, I don't buy just one bottle of a new wine to try, unless it's $50 or more. I've been bitten by buying only one bottle, discovering at dinner that we both love the stuff, and returning to the shop the next day to find it sold out. I now buy 3-6, followed quickly by a case, if it's a winner. An example from last week is Les Jamelles Syrah, a very nice VdP d'Oc being given away at $6.99; I bought three bottles of the retailer's half-case allocation, returned and found the other three gone. Went back yesterday and found most of a new case back on the shelves (11 bottles) and cleaned them out.<BR>L'audace, l'audace! Tourjour l'audace!<BR>(Marshal Petain, c. 1917)