Visit to Vatan

[MarkS]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
... I keep waiting for an occasion special enough to bust out a $300 bottle ... nothing seems quite right, so I keep waiting.

I think road trips are in order!

 

[robert ames]

i continue to be confounded by people being reluctant to drink a bottle become it has become "too valuable".

if you went to a restaurant where they had 2007 clos neore for something like 75 bucks it would be opened in a flash and you would talk of your good fortune for years.

 

[Jayson Cohen]

originally posted by robert ames:
i continue to be confounded by people being reluctant to drink a bottle become it has become "too valuable".

if you went to a restaurant where they had 2007 clos neore for something like 75 bucks it would be opened in a flash and you would talk of your good fortune for years.

This.

Price in secondary market for such wines goes up. Fact of life. Unless you are going to sell it or create a shrine to worship it, it is there to drink.

 

[Bill Lundstrom]

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:

originally posted by robert ames:
i continue to be confounded by people being reluctant to drink a bottle become it has become "too valuable".

if you went to a restaurant where they had 2007 clos neore for something like 75 bucks it would be opened in a flash and you would talk of your good fortune for years.

This.

Price in secondary market for such wines goes up. Fact of life. Unless you are going to sell it or create a shrine to worship it, it is there to drink.

I have hard time opening wines like Vatan or Truchot Martin not so much because of their value but because, once uncorked, there's one less in the world.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:

originally posted by robert ames:
i continue to be confounded by people being reluctant to drink a bottle become it has become "too valuable".

if you went to a restaurant where they had 2007 clos neore for something like 75 bucks it would be opened in a flash and you would talk of your good fortune for years.

This.

Price in secondary market for such wines goes up. Fact of life. Unless you are going to sell it or create a shrine to worship it, it is there to drink.

Well, I'm not much for selling on secondary markets, in any event. I'll have to find a way to get some non-geeks over for a wine dinner to share one with me.

Counfounding people is one of my Meyers-Briggs attributes.

 

[robert ames]

and we all know how bogus myers-briggs is. . . .

 

[Jayson Cohen]

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:

originally posted by robert ames:
i continue to be confounded by people being reluctant to drink a bottle become it has become "too valuable".

if you went to a restaurant where they had 2007 clos neore for something like 75 bucks it would be opened in a flash and you would talk of your good fortune for years.

This.

Price in secondary market for such wines goes up. Fact of life. Unless you are going to sell it or create a shrine to worship it, it is there to drink.

I have hard time opening wines like Vatan or Truchot Martin not so much because of their value but because, once uncorked, there's one less in the world.

If you bring the Truchot, I’ll bring the Juge.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:

originally posted by robert ames:
i continue to be confounded by people being reluctant to drink a bottle become it has become "too valuable".

if you went to a restaurant where they had 2007 clos neore for something like 75 bucks it would be opened in a flash and you would talk of your good fortune for years.

This.

Price in secondary market for such wines goes up. Fact of life. Unless you are going to sell it or create a shrine to worship it, it is there to drink.

I have hard time opening wines like Vatan or Truchot Martin not so much because of their value but because, once uncorked, there's one less in the world.

If you bring the Truchot, I’ll bring the Juge.

Speaking of Juge, I thought older years we're difficult to find (if not impossible), so was surprised seeing it at auction recently.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
I have hard time opening wines like Vatan or Truchot Martin not so much because of their value but because, once uncorked, there's one less in the world.

Whatever happened to spontaneous generation??

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by MarkS:

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
If you bring the Truchot, I’ll bring the Juge.

Speaking of Juge, I thought older years we're difficult to find (if not impossible), so was surprised seeing it at auction recently.

Juge collectors get old, too. Or run short on money. Or envy the illiquid capital locked up in their liquids. Or, are Juge buyers impervious to these things?

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by robert ames:
and we all know how bogus myers-briggs is. . . .

So you're not really confounded? Ah, you sly dickens.

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by robert ames:
and we all know how bogus myers-briggs is. . . .

So you're not really confounded? Ah, you sly dickens.

sorry, i'm not tracking. . .yes, i am confounded by people that won't drink wine simply because it has gone up in value. . .which really has nothing to do with myer's briggs being considered completely bogus by psychology world.

 

[BJ]

I don't think that is uniformly held. A lot of therapists use it as a framework at least. With many caveats.

 

[Jayson Cohen]

originally posted by MarkS:

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:

originally posted by robert ames:
i continue to be confounded by people being reluctant to drink a bottle become it has become "too valuable".

if you went to a restaurant where they had 2007 clos neore for something like 75 bucks it would be opened in a flash and you would talk of your good fortune for years.

This.

Price in secondary market for such wines goes up. Fact of life. Unless you are going to sell it or create a shrine to worship it, it is there to drink.

I have hard time opening wines like Vatan or Truchot Martin not so much because of their value but because, once uncorked, there's one less in the world.

If you bring the Truchot, I’ll bring the Juge.

Speaking of Juge, I thought older years we're difficult to find (if not impossible), so was surprised seeing it at auction recently.

Which vintages? Where?

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by BJ:
I don't think that is uniformly held. A lot of therapists use it as a framework at least. With many caveats.

there are few things that are universally held--for instance, we have the anti-vaxxer crowd.

therapists may use it. psychologists not so much.

 

[Salil Benegal]

originally posted by robert ames:

therapists may use it. psychologists not so much.

Yup. About as reliable as astrology.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
Speaking of Juge, I thought older years we're difficult to find (if not impossible), so was surprised seeing it at auction recently.

Which vintages? Where?[/quote]

04 & 05 at K&L. Thought these were supposed to be 'rare' and surprised to see them priced so reasonably.

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by robert ames:
. .yes, i am confounded by people that won't drink wine simply because it has gone up in value. .

But psychologically you understand economics and the 'dear-to-me' concept?

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by MarkS:

originally posted by robert ames:
. .yes, i am confounded by people that won't drink wine simply because it has gone up in value. .

But psychologically you understand economics and the 'dear-to-me' concept?

yes, and whilst i may feel wistful about drinking say my last bottle of verset cornas, i know that i would feel 10 times worse if i found that had kept it long enough to find it in decline and had missed its time of maximum glory.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by robert ames:
yes, and whilst i may feel wistful about drinking say my last bottle of verset cornas, i know that i would feel 10 times worse if i found that had kept it long enough to find it in decline and had missed its time of maximum glory.

This.

Pull corks, drink well, have no regrets.