Check your sanity at the doorstep

2006 Bourdy rouge is working for me tonight. Much more approachable than 2005 on release. 2004 Nigl Riesling Privat is in a good place, too. Don't know that it's crazy inducing, but happy stuff nonetheless.
 
Not being one given to swooning, I find it difficult to identify wines that'll provoke lunacy. I will say, though, that wines that have rocked my world in various ways this year were a '61 Beychevelle, most of Chidaine's '08s and Baudry's '10 Rosé. I'm staring at 3 cases of wines just in from Envoyer, however, and planning ahead for Turkey day, so this list is likely to undergo revision before long.

Mark Lipton
 
A cheap Italian rosé, drunk out of a plastic cup, sitting on the ramparts of a hilltop medieval fortress town, watching the sun set on the plains of Umbria.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
A cheap Italian rosé, drunk out of a plastic cup, sitting on the ramparts of a hilltop medieval fortress town, watching the sun set on the plains of Umbria.
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That would be a bulk rosé poured out of a re-purposed 2 liter no-name bottled water container (green in color) while perched in the open window of a rented apartment over hanging the Grand Canal. The tourists in their gondolas waving as if we owned the place.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
A cheap Italian rosé, drunk out of a plastic cup, sitting on the ramparts of a hilltop medieval fortress town, watching the sun set on the plains of Umbria.
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Been there, loved it.
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by MLipton:
most of Chidaine's '08s
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I've heard a lot of positive things, but are these perhaps closing down? I finally got around to an 08 Les Bournais last week and it seemed a bit awkward.
 
Come to think of it, cheap Patagonian Malbec (a very different creature from Mendozan Malbec) served in plastic cups in a long abandoned shepherd's hut, on a now uninhabited (except the penguins) island in Tierra del Fuego accompanied by wood grilled steak, chicken and sausages was pretty darned bliss inducing.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by MLipton:
most of Chidaine's '08s
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I've heard a lot of positive things, but are these perhaps closing down? I finally got around to an 08 Les Bournais last week and it seemed a bit awkward.
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They could be. Though it has been the '08 Le Bouchet that I have consistently been impressed by, and that was still wide open as recently as a month ago. I haven't had the Les Bournais.
 
Though news like this doesn't do much for the sanity:

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