Some good buys out there these days

A Burgundy dinner is planned with a special grouping of old wines from DRC, Leflaive, PYCM, Salon, etal followed by an auction.

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The owners/proprietors are slated to be present.

The $5,000 tariff is only to cover part of the cost to do the event with the auction proceeds expected to go toward other worthy special interests. The event was priced at $5,500 in NYC so we are getting a "bargain" here.

. . . . . . Pete
 
Pete,
Not sure about the world these folks live in, or yours, but “worthy special interests” doesn’t work for me.
And the price is . . . stupid. Especially when attached to the “worthy special interests” label.
Fools are everywhere . . . evidently, quite a few of them where you are.
You do you, I’ll do me; we be good.
But if this is you, I got to go.
 
The "worthy special interests" term was used by only me as I cannot remember what the worthy cause(s) will be.

The event is definitely unique and different and it will be interesting to see if it will do as well here as it did in NYC...certainly a contrasting environment here than there.

Thanks for speaking freely.

. . . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

The event is definitely unique and different ...
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IDK, sounds like the annual La Paulee and any other number of Big Ticket prestige events that occur all the time these days.
 
I agree with the restaurant allocations going retail; however, the retailers seem to be selling them at the secondary market inflated prices.
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Real things one encounters in the wacky world of wine:

"I'm going with $74.99/btl, and it discounts from there. These are great, beginner-style Burgundies that will appeal to newbies and/or New World pinot fans."

(For 2020 Lamy-Pillot Boudriotte Rouge)

Where do you start? At the beginning.
 
Last Saturday, my wife and I (and another couple) went to The Morris' once-a-month Poulet Frites lunch. Yule was at another table. Corkage is $50, however if you purchase a bottle from their list, it's waived. My friend and I had never tried a red from Guiberteau. We ordered 2020 Les Moulins. Elevage in concrete and stainless steel. Very nice wine. Retail is in the low to mid $30s.

For the Bay Area locals, the Poulet Frites lunch is terrific. AYCE apps (salads/charcuterie/pate, all made in-house) and dessert (save room for the buckwheat doughnuts). The main course is a whole chicken and fries, with a wonderful mushroom/madeira sauce for the chicken. $75 and well worth it. They don't turn tables so you have it for the duration.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
Last Saturday, my wife and I (and another couple) went to The Morris' once-a-month Poulet Frites lunch. Yule was at another table. Corkage is $50, however if you purchase a bottle from their list, it's waived. My friend and I had never tried a red from Guiberteau. We ordered 2020 Les Moulins. Elevage in concrete and stainless steel. Very nice wine. Retail is in the low to mid $30s.

For the Bay Area locals, the Poulet Frites lunch is terrific. AYCE apps (salads/charcuterie/pate, all made in-house) and dessert (save room for the buckwheat doughnuts). The main course is a whole chicken and fries, with a wonderful mushroom/madeira sauce for the chicken. $75 and well worth it. They don't turn tables so you have it for the duration.
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Thanks for introducing me to the Poulet Frites lunch. The charcuterie and salad were awesome. Head cheese for days.

2011 Baudry Croix Boissee showed really well. We also had a '14 Littorai Les Larmes and a '12 La Grands Colline Cornas. All very enjoyable. I'll post notes some day.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
Last Saturday, my wife and I (and another couple) went to The Morris' once-a-month Poulet Frites lunch. Yule was at another table. Corkage is $50, however if you purchase a bottle from their list, it's waived. My friend and I had never tried a red from Guiberteau. We ordered 2020 Les Moulins. Elevage in concrete and stainless steel. Very nice wine. Retail is in the low to mid $30s.
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that sounds high, I've been paying in the low to mid 20s for Les Moulins

it's a marvelous bottling, and an instructive one in that it shows how much of the spice is varietal rather than from lumber. it's the one i mostly stick with among their reds while i struggle with the fancy cuvees. or they struggle with me. or both.
 
Pricing seems to be all over the place, but some vintages are in the high 20s. Except for a couple of outliers ('22 and '24, each from one store in NC and CT), I don't find prices lower than that. As of now, I'm not buying as I don't need more wine.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Beginner-style? Meaning what? That they taste of pinot noir Moroccan cinsaut?
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Beginner meaning:

Just stepping one's little toe into Burgundy. Until this point, said client has not been led into a world of highly curated Burgundy where this particular bottling is naught but a "gateway drug."

Not some penniless guttersnipe who believes one can find any wine worth consuming for under $50 to $75. For starters.

The ascension to empyrean heights has to begin somewhere.
 
Said ascension in the general direction of Burgundy doesn't make sense these days, even with Moroccan cinsault. However, should a neophyte (say, a collector of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon or Aussie Shiraz) feel the need to expand their horizons, an appropriately aspirational elevation in drinking material in the French Pinot Noir direction might be accessible via the Cru Beajolais route. It's kind of Burgundy-adjacent and tastes pretty similar if you don't know what you're talking about. The names are all in French too, and that's the sort of cachet you're not going to find in Morocco. Plus it's a lot easier and way more less dough to get your Wine God certification if you're holding forth after a round of golf in Scarsdale, railing about the vageries of Morgon vs Fleury, rather than full-on bloviating in front of your family law attorney and plastic surgeon buddies, on the topic of why Musigny should be worth two grand a bottle in a world where First Growth Bordeaux is going for one grand on release.

And didn't the Ramones have a song that started with "Hey, hey, drink Boo!joo!lay!"?

- Eden (when I lived in Malibu there was a home development around the corner called Empyrian Heights. You had to show a paid-up NARAS card or prove your voting status at the Academy to be allowed to buy a compound there. I wasn't accepted (too much indie work in my background) but that's okay -- it was the first development to burn in a recent fire, what with all the botox being stored there)
 
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