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Gonz wrote:
Awesome! I have a humble but pretty decent collection. My favorites are aging, like some Ch. Montelena from various years (their reserve). Plus I love some of the older Clos du Val. Recent favorites include Ch. St. Jean Cinq Cepage (97 or 98 I believe).
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I do love the Montelenas. Hard to get a bad vintage from that winery.
Maybe. But is their recent stuff (the last 3 years, say) worth what they are asking for it? You can get better wines for that amount of money, even at the cheapest (per-case, futures) price.
I guess the market is bearing it, so demand must be high enough to support the price. You definitely can get better wines for less, the key is to avoid those wines with high "snob" ratings from magazines like Wine Spectator or Parker's Wine Advocate. Those magazines are ok to help you avoid a bad wine, but at least Wine Spectator gets paid advertisement from the very wines they rate, so I can't imagine there not being a conflict of interest there. Parker's magazine is probably less biased.
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