Recent content by Tristan Welles

Looks wayyyy too rich for my blood, kinda La Tâche level spiff.

made stranger still by including La T“che.

Once I read it, I thought, yeah, perfect descriptor for 01 Gouges.

You must be missing your national game.

The amount of bottle variation we all experience, and report here, to me suggests it is not very useful pedantry at that. (never mind variation in oysters against expectations). Not so say some don't enjoy the pedantry.

With, apparently, complex food. Or simple food!

better than Barolo Branzino!

oof, this is flat out difficult to read: A PREVIEW OF CHAPTER ONE On the first Monday of April 2006, Kendrick Thomas was preparing to leave his home outside Le Caniveau in Provence for a flight to Alsace, in what is nowadays the northeastern corner of France instead of the southwestern corner...

The '04 Chevy would be worth the trip. Leflaive Maltroie is my own personal bête noire when it comes to oxidation.

Ridder helps fill the void.

I've been buying and keeping 1/2 bottles of Sauternes for 35 years, no issues.

What a dreary article. Robinson starts with the implied promise of telling us about the bargains to be found. But we are then diverted through the usual marketing pitch of Yquem (which we are specifically told costs too much.). All in the cloying Brit-wine style. I'd much rather have...

Good to know, among the very last bottles of wine I bought to cellar.

that's an excellent description of the typicity of Lambrays, as I find it.