Marcel Deiss Riesling '08

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey
Marcel Deiss Riesling '08 --

Tanzer reviewed this wine as being excellent. Some other reviewers apparently agree but many speak less favorably.

Meanwhile, I'm seeing offering prices from ~$11 to ~$28 per 750.

Any thoughts?

. . . . . Pete
 
Where's Thor when I need him? I've yet to have the Deiss moment commensurate with the Estate's reputation in some quarters.

For $11 you may want to take a flyer.
 
Hell, I've paid over $11 for a glass of freakin' Edna Valley Chardonnay on a Tuesday night at the Madonna Inn.

At $11 a bottle of Deiss, just pull the trigger, man!

-Eden (Deiss is nice)
 
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch: just pull the trigger
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E, Fair enough! Except I don't have time to "sample". I always buy in quantity which I didn't want to do with a wine that I might not like.

Another reason for this thread is I was curious if people might have idea(s) why the reviews and pricing are so variable...more so than one would expect.

For the record, I did "pull the trigger" for a few bottles and might (probably?), after tasting, will wish I bought more.

. . . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
-Eden (Deiss is not nice)
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Quite. At a tasting, he made a face and refused to serve someone I know who is obese and black.
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Thanks Oswaldo. It's been edited appropriately, even though I was referring more to the wine than the man. Unfortunately, it's not an uncommon occurence that the people who make nice things turn out to be assholes. I learned early on in the music world to make every effort to separate the person's music from their personality (or personalities in one case). Use of bifurcating situational ethics don't always work, and can even be counter-productive when they're really sweet souls but can't sing a lick (and everyone knows it but them).

Pete, I've never been one to buy more than a few bottles of something, but that's probably why I don't have extra bottles of 61 Petrus laying around in the cellar to serve as a retirement fund. My feeling is that there are so many interesting wines out there that why keep drinking the same old stuff if there's different old stuff I could be drinking. Maybe I should buy cases of Muscadet but it's not as if I'm drinking a couple of bottles every night and at this stage of the game, I'm probably not going to be going thirsty from lack of stuff in the cellar any time soon.

-Eden (I probably should have been laying away stock in AAPL all these years instead, and then I could afford to buy that Petrus)
 
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch: Pete, I've never been one to buy more than a few bottles of something, but that's probably why I don't have extra bottles of 61 Petrus laying around in the cellar to serve as a retirement fund. My feeling is that there are so many interesting wines out there that why keep drinking the same old stuff if there's different old stuff I could be drinking.
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E, I can understand your approach but mine is markedly different.

First of all, I never buy wine with an investment objective. I only buy wine to drink.

Also, I prefer to enjoy/measure/monitor/etc. the progress of wines over time.

Plus, I have a character trait (weakness?) whereby I almost can't make myself pull a bottle of wine that I only have 1 or 2 bottles of...then it will be gone!!

Thus, I buy fewer wines in larger (but not huge) quantities.

. . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
-Eden (Deiss is nice)
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Quite. At a tasting, he made a face and refused to serve someone I know who is obese and black.
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This would be most dismaying. I've only ever met him across a tasting table at events, generally in the absence of large, black men. So I can't defend him against the charge. But he has always seemed polite and openly engaged. I would have expected him to be humanitarian.
 
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
-Eden (Deiss is nice)
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Quite. At a tasting, he made a face and refused to serve someone I know who is obese and black.
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This would be most dismaying. I've only ever met him across a tasting table at events, generally in the absence of large, black men. So I can't defend him against the charge. But he has always seemed polite and openly engaged. I would have expected him to be humanitarian.
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Apparently, no dice.
 
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