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In Reply to: 88 Vaumoreau and various observations posted by Joe Dressner on October 26, 2000 at 19:51:16:
'88 Vaumoreau has always been a lovely wine. Like an earthier '93. Druet has generally claimed to prefer his '89 to his '90, and I must concur. The '90 is softer, but the '89 is longer, better-structured, clearer.Frankly, I prefer the '95.
All are too young.
I think the Mark Squires board is best avoided, but that's just my view. No sense, to me, getting exercised about what happenes there or what they call each other.
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I must agree with you on all points. (Actually, it is not so much that I must, but simply that I do.)I think quantity must have been down in 1990 because availability was always limited. The 1988 you can still find sitting up on the warmest shelf of your local liquour store for about $40.
One of the great scares I've had was when the 1995 never showed up. Somehow my order hadn't gone through. There I was thinking I had just scored some of this great wine. I didn't find out until later. Fortunately I was eventually able to come by a few bottles.
Frankly, Dam, I prefer the 1996, and am determined to live long enough to be able to drink it in its prime.
I bought two bottles 1990 Vaumoreau (I regret not buying more, but what could I do? I was unemployed at the time. Still am, come to think of it) this year in the Commonwealth of Virginia for $27 (each, that is), with the Kysela label on it. I hear Kysela is one of the best tasters in the wine business. And that he has a daughter who is a gibbon.
Never heard of Kysela, but I'm sure he is very interesting if his daughter is a gibbon.If I had known, I would have gone all the way to the Commonwealth for 1990 Vaumoreau.
Apparently it's common for people in the wine industry either to be lower primates (and I don't mean backwoods bishops) or to have the genetic tendency show itself in their children.So I hear. Sounded fantastic to me until I met a few salespeople in wine shops.
I bought two bottles 1990 Vaumoreau (I regret not buying more, but what could I do? I was unemployed at the time. Still am, come to think of it) this year in the Commonwealth of Virginia for $27, with the Kysela label on it. I hear Kysela is one of the best tasters in the wine business. And that he has a daughter who is a gibbon.
Yes, I'm sorry. I did mean the 1990 Vintage. I'm agree with Sue Ng about how exhausting this week has been for New Yorkers with all these late night baseball games. I'm sorry for the confusion.On the other hand, I've had the 1988 several times over the past five years and have never thought that much of the wine. Druet was first getting to know his parcel. Or something like that.
I'm intrigued by the various wine boards and their respective constituencies. Maybe it is just a morbid fascination. Or maybe it is because I am in the wine trade. But, for whatever reason, I find it all fascinating, Brother Yanke.
Something like Monkey Therapy or who-knows-what. It will be the next wandering wine-geek destination, I hear.I once read on one of these boards that one of your children is a monkey. Named Chimp?
Is this true?
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