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[Jackie]

Just checking to make sure this forum is accepting new threads.

J.

[Innkeeper]

Yes it is Jackie!

[wdonovan]

You sure it's working? Haven't seen anything here for weeks. Maybe they DID stop making Bordeaux.

[winoweenie]

I'll start on the 2-granders in the next few weeks. WW

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[hotwine]

Speaking of Bordeaux.... wine-business.com has an interesting item on the sorry (Socialist) state of that region, headlined:

"The Bordeaux and Bordeaux Superieur union has voted to continue to withhold the 2005 vintage unless winemakers receive €1,000 per barrel, despite a sharp downturn in sales."

Gotta love the lefties, who insist on following each other off a cliff.

[TheEngineer]

Damn....I was told the price was gonna be steep for the '05's...I went to my local pusher to night to pick up a few older vintages....these are starting to look like bloody bargains compared to the newer stuff...until no one buys them.....

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[wdonovan]

Hope them Bordeauvians are thirsty or.... that they have biiiiiig basements. I can't see them successfully raising prices beyond reasonable levels, especially with all the competition seeming to cut into their business. After the shelves have been pretty much cleared of 2000s, there has been little 01 or newer taking its place. People haven't stopped drinking reds. They're just getting them from elsewhere. Any thoughts? (Perspective is from my own little corner of USA).


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[Kcwhippet]

Just looked back at this thread, and 1,000 euros a barrel doesn't seem that bad to me, unless I'm doing my math wrong. We have to pay one of our reps in euros, so I know the conversion which currently is .8328 euros to the dollar. That works out to $1200 a barrel, and if there are 300 bottles to a barrel, that's just $4 a bottle. That doesn't seem so terribly outrageous to me - unless I'm missing something.

[wondersofwine]

Another forum is doing tasting notes on inexpensive Bordeaux (or something like that) for April so I will be reporting on at least one Bordeaux. (I have several bottles of the 2000 Chateau Behere but that is the only Bordeaux I own that I think of as inexpensive--maybe $25).

[hotwine]

Bob's math looks good to me, 1000 euros to the barrel looks cheap. Wish I could buy it at that price!

Those I've bought locally include Talbot, Leoville-Barton and Carruades de Lafite (all '01s), and Lagrange and Haut-Bages Liberal (both '02s). Are they plentiful? No, but they show up often enough meet my needs.

Just did a search of Spec's (on-line) in Houston, and they have a fairly decent selection of both of those vintages.

[Innkeeper]

We'll be popping a Les Fiefs and a Puy-Blanquet sometime in the near future.