The top wines in your cellar
 

I was just updating my wine list. ;)

I decided that the following wines are the top wines that I own:

California Reds

2002 Anderson Conn Valley ELOGE
2002 Chateau St Jean CINQ CEPAGES
2005 Loring Brosseau
2005 Carlisle Russian River syrah
2005 Carlise Dry Creek syrah
2005 Sea Smoke TEN
2005 Sea Smoke SOUTHING


Australia

2002 Wirra Wirra RSW shiraz


Italy

2000 Elio Grasso Barolo GINESTRA 'Vigna Casa Mate'

What are your best wines?

No French wines,Mon Cheri ?
" Top " is all relative,I suppose.

A few of them:

1999 Château Batailley
2002 Château Haut-Brion
1998 Château La Mission Haut-Brion
2001 Château Margaux
1996 Moët & Chandon Champagne Cuvée Dom Pérignon
2002 Château Mouton Rothschild
1997 Louis Roederer Champagne Cristal Brut
1996 Louis Roederer Champagne Cristal Brut
1999 Chateau St. Jean Cabernet Sauvignon Cinq Cépages (down to only a couple bottles left of this one)
1997 Domaine de Pignan Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée des Bosquets

Great question by the OP. :)

2000 Rosemount Mountain Blue (& maybe still in Lahaina or Beirut? ;))

A selection of 2002 Hunter Valley shiraz (various wineries)
A selection of 2004 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvingnon (perhaps 2 cases?)
A selection of 2004 Langhorne Creen Shiraz Cabernet Sauvingnon (~4 left)

'70 Latour a Pomerol
'82 Pavie

'83 Beaujolais Villages (my birth year)
90/91/94/00/03 DRC Richebourg
99/00/01 DRC La Tache
99/00/01/02/03 Quilceda Creek
00/01/03/04/05 Ch. Lynch-Bages
05 Mollydooker Carnival of Love
04/05 Sea Smoke Botella & Southing
03-05 Radio Coteau various

that's all I can think of as far as superstars go. and NO none of them are for sale, sorry.

This is my current top wine.
It's not what you'd consider to be a legendary wine - it's not even what you'd consider to be a legendary St Emilion Grand Cru.
But it floats my boat - rammed to the gunwales with red and black fruits with an armada of taste that would have Sir Frances Drake postively welcoming the French with open arms.
Hard to get hold of though because Jean Claude Paret only makes a few thousand bottles a year.
Consider selling your wife to an Arab billionaire for the night as a cheap price to pay for a case.
La Fauconnerie Cuvee Prestige, Montagne St. Emilion - 2003

just my reds....

french
96 hg duc du cutiac (bordeaux)
97 chateau de chantigrive (graves) x3
97 chateau crabitey (graves)
97 chateau pavie saint emelion grand cru
99 chateau martinat (cotes de bourg ) x3
2000 chateau d'orsan (cotes de rhone)
2001 chateau du grand caumont (corbieres) x2 (thank you ua ;))
2001 chateau reysson (haut medoc)
2003 louis bernard (cotes du rhone)

california
200 buena vista "tres" cabernet (bottles 48, 59, 50 from the first 100)

1998 Penfolds Grange
1996 Château Cos d'Estournel
2003 Château Léoville Poyferré

These are my long haul wines. I have some other Robert Mondavi Cab but I dont think twice about opening them.

rgds,
drew

I think we need to have a WineDo.

I may propose setting this up a couple of days before the Brooklyn Reality Tour. Maybe Thursday June 19, 2008, in New York.

FYI, in the next few days, I'll post a thread in Community regarding the date for the tour. June 21, Saturday.

where there's wine, there's usually me..plus if we do wine i can write the entire trip off :D count me in.

I would be interested as well.

Any suggestion for my birthyear, 1976? I dont think that was a good year anywhere. Maybe d'Yquem is the best bet.

How did you get the 05 Lynch-Bages already? Or is it just on preorder?

rgds,
drew

I'll have what ddrewboy is having. :)
'98 - set the date sometime in 2018? ;)

Grange Do!

Grange Do!

Sure, 2018 it is. The location will be, of course, SYD. Where else would you drink a great AUS shiraz :)

Until then, I will have to do with St Henri.

rgds,
drew

Best wines include:

2003 Cougar Crest Syrah
2006 Rombauer Carneros Chardonnay
2006 Cakebread Chardonnay Reserve, Carneros
2005 Mahi Sauvingon Blanc
2004 Delas Hermitage Bessards

Just started my collection...well, about a month ago! So I've got a way to go.

the lynch-bages is a pre-order, yea. i split a case with my dad who's a collector, we're just waiting for it to arrive.

1976..IMHO i know this may seem crazy but look for Rhone wines. from the north, like an Hermitage, or the south, a CDP or CdR.
if you can swing it, '76 was a very good year in burgundy but they are pricey AND unfortunately most seemed to peak around 1990-1995.
interestingly enough my first Domaine de la Romanee Conti was a 1976. even in 2000 it was stunning.

Showoff. :p

speaking of grange >

http://www.evobistro.com/ in northern virginia has it by ounce for $15

lol hey i got lucky and was in the right place at the right time :)

not sure what mine would be
 

but some of my favorites are:

'96 Ridge Montebello
'85 Bollinger RD Champagne
'96 thru '05 Talbott Sleepy Hollow Chardonnay, and '95 thru '03 Talbott Diamond T Chard
'96 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cab
'88 Ruffino Reserve Chianti (gold label) - this has aged spectacularly well, unfortunately I only have a couple of bottles left :-(

Probably the best in my cellar (although i'm not at home to check my list)

82 Petrus
82 Latour
86 Grange
90 Grange
88 La Mouline
89 La Turque

Jeff

Spying Jeff's 90 Grange :rolleyes: I'm interested in whether you mentally mark certain wines to be opened in a particular year or for a paticular even or anniversary. (I didn't even see the 86 there at first- mentally the 88 and 90 are the only ones I look for!)

(That is, if you don't sell it or decide to hold onto it indefinitely until you feel the need to open it!)


I ask because our own senses including taste and smell probably decline after a cetain point and the pleasure of the wine may be diminished if we leave ourselves too long, not only the wine. ;)

No doubt, the occasion for the wines above will be very special.

Well, for sure, it's better to drink it "too early" than "too late".

As someone (James Halliday?) said when asked how he could could bear to drink a great expensive vintage wine from his cellar, "how could I bear not to"? It costs money to put them in there, but costs nothing to take them out.

IMHO, there's always going to be great wine produced, so why not enjoy what you already have in your cellar, in order to clear space for that next stellar bottle you're looking for :)

2002 Ghost Horse Cabernet (and no you guys are not having it for wine doo)
1988 Chateau Meyney
Several vintages of Viansa Ossidianas when they were great wines
1994 Gundlach Reserve Cabernet, we just drank one in 04 and it was excellent
2000 Van der Hayden Late Harvest Cabernet

I am not familiar with this producer although I have a bottle sitting in my cellar. In general, what does it resemble?

rgds,
drew

The last saturday in Feb is OTBN. the 8th annual. from the columnists of the WSJ.

I have offered this year to open 0.75 bottles from my cellar for each attendee.

I don't keep real close track of what is down there, but I know there is interest in opening the

55 bechelville
61 cos
89 latour
90 mouton
90 hospice de beaunes(don't remember whose)
77 dow
96-9 la pavots

which would be about right for 12 people.

That's easy. Without question the top wine in my cellar is:

1982 Petrus -still have 5 bottles left!

During the 2004/2005 hurricanes down here, protecting those bottles was a higher priority than getting the shutters up!

I'll be totally honest in saying I don't have a clue. When we got married in 94, the manager of the store we bought all the liquor for the wedding at told us to hold on when we returned the unopended stuff, and handed us that bottle saying to hold on to it for a few years.

It's in my winelist online, and every few months one person or another sends an e-mail offering me considerable sums of money for it.

There's a few that get the most attention, that's probably the top one (or was until recently, one of the others has been getting a ton of attention). It's the interest so many others have had in it that have kept it in the bottle instead of being tasted. I may hate it, don't know, but it's the outside interest that put it on my list.

Everything else on my list I've had, and unfortunatly, wish I had stocked up on more of it,especially the first one before the price went up 300 times (yes,three hundred) what I paid for those two.

Mike,
Which list are you referring to? It's public at least to some degree, so is it for membes of a particular cellar?

Is there a similar list or 'stock exchange' list of wines and their market value for people whose cellars are their basement? :)

With 30,000% potential return being offered, no wonder you are thrilled with your purchase!

Great thread and a WineDo sounds like a great time....

According to my Odyssey Wine Cellar Management software my tops are:

Lets DO it

Since UCBeau is coming in for the Brooklyn Tour, and some of you are local (sort of) :p, let's have a BYO Wine Do on Sunday evening June 22, 2008. Time: 6:00

Feel free to bring one of the wines you've already posted; or, surprise us.
I know an inexpensive place downtown that will host us. They have great burgers too. Details to follow.
FYI, good quality store bought bottles are ok.

Who else can make it?

Me and Anna can probably make it, can't plan that far in advance, but will certainly bring some bottles.

Would love to join if I'm around! But if it's from my cellar, you're gonna have to drink Riesling...

An early start so I can still make it to work on Monday would be great. :cool:

Charles shaw reserve 2003 is my best wine :p.
I'm in if I'm around that day!
Cheers!
Howie

Since it's summertime, white is ok. If this is a sweet riesling, bring it as a dessert wine.

All wines are acceptable, except 2 buck Chuck. :p

lol i propose an excluded list:
charles shaw
black mountain
bear's lair
trellis
napa river
santa barbara landing
crane lake

:D

Put me down as a maybe. I have to do some checking first.

drew

We could just get wild and crazy and rule out anything with an animal on the label... ;)

Starting to sell them
 

because I am trying to pay for a wedding, and we are waaaay over budget...

My best bottles are:

1999 Screaming Eagle
2000 Chateau Lafite
1999 Harlan Estate
1987 Dunn Howell Mountain
1995 Leoville Las Cases

I've tasted one of each, and to be honest, I actually liked the Dunn the best!

Doh!