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- Bangkok
Priced like that I don't see any meaningful uptick for a good while so why buy now before it's truly reviewed in bottle/tie your money up. A pass for me too.
Bordeaux 2022 EP
- Thread starter Dom Shepherd
- Start date
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- Lancashire, UK
Climens seemed very very expensive unless I am missing something
Rieussec 's new price is insane
Rieussec 's new price is insane
- Location
- Kent
To answer Paul’s question I’m no longer a buyer of Rieussec on principle
- Location
- Aldeburgh
Back vintages are so cheap. I noticed 24 halves of the wonderful 2005 at £400 recently.
Think I’m right in saying you are more or less forced to take rieussec as part of the package
of other Lafite wines. Lots dump it secondary straight away.
Think I’m right in saying you are more or less forced to take rieussec as part of the package
of other Lafite wines. Lots dump it secondary straight away.
- Location
- UK
Given that Batailley 1947 (stylistically comparable to 2022, and the year of their marriage) was served to the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on their silver wedding anniversary, the Castéja family have chosen to commemorate the year of Her Majesty’s passing with a special black and gold label.
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- London
18 emails this morning about 2022 Batailley 
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- UK
I've just reread the 2019 Rieussec thread with a mixture of nostalgia and renewed hilarity.
The Rieussec rebrand was released en primeur at £340 for four 75cl bottles IB – the same format is available today from a respected name for £260, although a determined BBX optimist would prefer an ambitious £515 for their plain carton. Meanwhile a dependable retailer has the 2019 at £149 per bottle all in, so snapping at the heels of the legendary 2001 Climens...
Out of interest, has anybody on here bought Rieussec since its reinvention?
The Rieussec rebrand was released en primeur at £340 for four 75cl bottles IB – the same format is available today from a respected name for £260, although a determined BBX optimist would prefer an ambitious £515 for their plain carton. Meanwhile a dependable retailer has the 2019 at £149 per bottle all in, so snapping at the heels of the legendary 2001 Climens...
Out of interest, has anybody on here bought Rieussec since its reinvention?
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- U.K.
@Dom Shepherd - I trust you have loaded up on larger formats to make the most of the commemorative label !
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- London
I bought two heavily discounted bottles in Calais for about 1/4 of that. One wonders how many extra warehouses they have had build to accommodate all the unsold stock!
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- London, Europe
I was one of the benefactors of a load of Riessec for pretty much free after a load of Lafite-chasers dumped them on the 2ndary market. I think I have about 4 x 12 cases/ I can't recall exact price paid but it was insultingly small. WTF am I going to do with all that Sauternes apart from create gout?
- Location
- Herefordshire
18 emails this morning about 2022 Batailley
Has it shed its Brett character yet? I really didn't enjoy 2014/2015/2016 for its slightly unclean aspect?
- Location
- Herefordshire
Sauternes is more likely to create gout? I'd say the rare meat / g+t's are more of a risk!
- Location
- London and Connecticut
You need to have a word with Neil Holland. He is the Sauternesmeister and even has strategies for consuming magnums of the sweet stuff
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- Kent
The 2022 is clean as a whistle IMHO.
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- London, England
You need to have a word with Neil Holland. He is the Sauternesmeister and even has strategies for consuming magnums of the sweet stuff
Quarter magnums of Sauternes cause less pearl clutching than the same format of Champagne...
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- UK
Sell some to me?
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- Guildford
I've gone in for 6 of the Laroque, and I think that will be enough for me.
- Location
- Richmond
There’s always a mug?
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- London
I've resisted so far due to advancing years and too much wine, but I feel I need to get something so I have a wine to bring to the 2022 vintage Hawksmoor/Piccolino dinner in 15-20 years. Perhaps I'm being too optimistic
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- Aldeburgh
Interesting that my account manager @BBR purchased Batailley for me.
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- Bangkok
It's the 14.2 % on the Batailley which has put me off.
Langoa at 14.2% too.
I really enjoyed LPB's vintage article fwiw and found the website quite easy on the eye on my phone.
Langoa at 14.2% too.
I really enjoyed LPB's vintage article fwiw and found the website quite easy on the eye on my phone.
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- U.K.
Troplong Mondot 2010 probably not for you either with stated abv of 16% !!
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- London and Connecticut
Quite Alex. and for Ch. Leoville Barton you could buy the excellent 2002, which I enjoyed earlier this week, at 12.5% alcohol and over twenty years old for less than the release price of the 2022. Or you could buy the 14.2% 2022 and pay £15 a year storage for two decades... Nuts.
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- Bangkok
Good lord!