What did you buy a case of this year?

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Brad Widelock

Brad Widelock
We picked up a case of 2023 Navarro Muscat Blanc in April. The last bottle is in the fridge. Which wines did you like enough to buy a whole case of?

Happy New Year!

Brad
 
I have been buying a number of wines one, two, three, up to half a case at a time, and one or two wines by the case, over the last five or six years, (having pretty much gone through any remaining supplies of ESJ wines during that period) among which: Vermentino from Tablas, rosé from Terrebrune, rosé from La Tour du Bon, white and rosé from Clos Ste. Magdeleine, Cotes de Brouilly from Thivin, Soave from Inama, and so on.
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
...having pretty much gone through any remaining supplies of ESJ wines during that period...
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!! "Pretty much" means you still have a few? I can imagine the sentimental feeling when you open(ed) your last bottle.
 
I haven't bought a full case of any wine in nearly 40 years. Call it wine ADHD, but after several bottles of the same wine, I'm ready to move on.

I mean, I have bought a case of '21 and '22 Max Kilburg Kabinett in the past year, but that's 2x of 6 different wines.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
...having pretty much gone through any remaining supplies of ESJ wines during that period...
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!! "Pretty much" means you still have a few? I can imagine the sentimental feeling when you open(ed) your last bottle.
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I feel sentimental when I open a bottle of ESJ, especially when it's my last bottle of a particular wine. On Sunday, I opened my final bottle of 2006 That Old Black Magic. I no longer have 2007.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
...having pretty much gone through any remaining supplies of ESJ wines during that period...
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!! "Pretty much" means you still have a few? I can imagine the sentimental feeling when you open(ed) your last bottle.
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I've got some stuff stashed in a couple of places. Thinking I'll try to put together one last go-round to my mailing list and see how many of them are still out there.
 
I mostly buy like Florida Jim when I buy at all, which is more rare now. If Steve puts more bottles up for sale where I know they are available, I will probably put together case amounts of the different bottles he is selling, depending on the prices, of course.
 
a couple case purchases for me this year

Bruna 2024 Riviera Ligure di Ponente Maje Pigato. This is a terrific wine and excellent value. Polaner import.

Maccario Dringenberg, Rossese di Dolceacqua “Posau" . A Jan D'Amore import. Lots of interesting wines in this book.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:

Call it wine ADHD
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don't.

i have several wines this year ~ 36 or more. in all but a couple of (red, age) cases, i question my restraint.

i've bored long and hard on this over time, but i like to have a conversation with a wine. it's the opposite of teh tasting mentality. we've been here before.

suffice it to say, let teh hundred flowers bloom. or ten thousand. or teh many thousands -- with teh points.

seek and ye shall find, or some old shit.

fb.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
Bill,
What are those two?
Any info?
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First is Pigato. One of the main white grapes from Liguria. Never seen a Pigato from anywhere but Liguria. I think you'd really like it.

Second is Rossese which is red grape that, I think, is only produced in Liguria. Medium bodied and works with a number of different foods. Dringenberg produces 5 or 6 crus of Rossese. I have only seen the 2 available in the shops I buy from in NYC. The Posea and Luvaira.
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
a couple case purchases for me this year

Bruna 2024 Riviera Ligure di Ponente Maje Pigato. This is a terrific wine and excellent value. Polaner import.

Maccario Dringenberg, Rossese di Dolceacqua “Posau" . A Jan D'Amore import. Lots of interesting wines in this book.
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Bill, how do these compare to punta crena's? The pigato was a 1-to-2-case buy between 2015 and 2019 inclusive and has since gone down to bottles not because I like less (a couple of warm vintages notwithstanding) but because i've discovered i like them with a little age and they started taking up space.
quite remarkable how well they've aged actually: the '16 is perfect right now if one knows how to speak ligurian or north-coastal dialects in the kitchen.
the rossese was probably a case buy only once, but 6-packs for sure - really a handy grape to have around and am in agreement regarding its pairing flexibility. particularly i like with spicy foods where you want a red but most reds will fail. amazing how it transforms within as little as 2-3 years in the cellar, the moment it drops any notions of primary fruit.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Florida Jim:
“ . . . a conversation with a wine.”
I like that.
Me, too.
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Alas, I always find such conversations one sided.
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i think, especially with teh hooch, teh onus on oneself is no more than to provide the continuo. and give teh wine -- hopefully -- time and interest to provide teh lead.

we are all teh prufrocks, hopefully attendant enough to swell a progress, or start teh scene (though teh fatstink cautions, "no fucking points, please"),

over teh many years, i think it is fair to say that both you and jim* -- at least in your reports -- have done exactly that.

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* and actually, i very much dig jim's notes on his own wines, which are very much in this vein
 
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