Thanks Charles!Museum Wines 30% off full price today only
Dorset efficiency, Mr. T.![]()
I ordered late Monday evening, delivered just now (Wednesday). Hard to beat.Just to add that fulfilment of my order from Museum Wines was completed within 23 hrs.
I know that it was a snap timeframe sale and this info may be useless but that is good service.
I may have bought a case of 2017 white Hermitage for a touch less than £40 a bottle…Just a case of Clusel Roch Grandes Places from J&B which was more than fairly priced.
Last week Russ.Has the J&B sale finished?
Must have slipped off the mail list!Last week Russ.
Ditto!Just to add that fulfilment of my order from Museum Wines was completed within 23 hrs.
I know that it was a snap timeframe sale and this info may be useless but that is good service.
On the basis that I received an email yesterday punting a wine for £245/6 in bond, that I had just bought for £136.18/6 duty/VAT paid, I guess so!Has the J&B sale finished?
I've not tried gonon 2017, but of the 17's I've tried, I've really liked them for early drinking, which these days is a big plus, admittedly we're not talking grandes places level but it wouldn't surprise me if it was at least approachable if not at it's best.I succumbed to the 2017 Clusel-Roch Grandes Places, as well as to a couple of bottles of the 2012 Luigi Oddero Vigna Rionda at the final day’s discounts. (Having not been impressed by Gonon’s 2017 Iles Feray, albeit at release, and given that JLL wasn’t charmed by their 2017 St-Joseph, hopefully Clusel-Roch did better in 2017!)
Hmm. It will be approachable I suspect (in its rather aloof, manly sort of style), but I suspect nowhere near its best.I've not tried gonon 2017, but of the 17's I've tried, I've really liked them for early drinking, which these days is a big plus, admittedly we're not talking grandes places level but it wouldn't surprise me if it was at least approachable if not at it's best.
Typically I find it a big step, though I can see that in some vintages Viallière might be more appealing. Grand-Places is a very mineral, powerful (although not necessarily ”big”) dry, rocky sort of wine, whereas the Viallière is a more subtle, violets and sweet-fruits sort of wine. Of course these are mere characterisations rather than absolutes, but you can see why in certain vintages one might be the sort of wine that might grab someone’s fancy over the other.Is the Clusel-Roch Grandes Places typically a big step above the Viallière (as per Mark’s tasting of the 2022s) or can the Viallière be of similar merit? (I noticed JLL preferred the 2021 Viallière to the Grandes Places and he has praised some recent vintages of the Viallière as being STGT.)
Mark, how were the 2022s in general? Did you taste Rousset’s Picaudières?
I ordered late Monday evening, delivered just now (Wednesday). Hard to beat.
Assume the last word in this sentence was an auto-correct from "months".Am now awaiting an L&W delivery from DHL due sometime in the next 90 mins.