Please. This is seriously out of control!!!

Good lord BSD, nicely done!

More coming today and tomorrow, too!

Need someone to "sign" for them?

"Today, we showed the resolve of the United States. Today we made a statement to the world... That you can hit us, you can knock us down, but we're gonna get up. And when we do, we will find you and kick your ass!"
- Robert E Clark II, Cpt USN, Commandant of Midshipmen May 1, 2011

had 2010 Beaux Freres "Beaux Freres Vineyard" last night.
young still, but lots of cherry. left about 1/3 in the decanter on the counter. will try again tonight.

Drinking a Behrens 2008 Labor of Love right now.

And just got my Hobel shipment.

my wine shop owner friends had a tasting sunday and said behrens labor of love was the ****

Hobel arrived today. Now I just need to figure out where to put it. Anyone wanna buy some wine so I can make room? I just can't drink it all fast enough.

After Katrina, Brennan's restaurant had to have an expert come sample and assess whether the wines in their cellar were good or ruined for insurance purposes.

BSD... do you need an "expert" to come sample your wines? I offer my services, sir.

Considering the collection, he needs two experts. I also volunteer my servies. Free of charge.

Shafer Relentless 2012 Wine Spectator wine of the year. Buy it while you can! Pretty affordable for a wine good enough to take the top spot.

Picked up a few bottles of Shafer

Vineyard House 06 & 07 tonight. Mmmmm,

I can find Shafer Relentless for ~$60/btl right now. It's good, and I like it, but I think there are better syrahs out there for less money.

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That stuff is incredible! Only have one bottle left, but going to visit them again next weekend so will buy more if they have it!

Only have one bottle of Hobel Cab but since it's our only one and it's 2009 obviously it won't be opened any time soon. I can only assume it's awesome, as with pretty much anything else TRB puts his hands on!

Damn son, you go to Napa more than I do!!!

Taking some friends of ours that have never been, should be excellent! 750 Wines, here we come!

750 Wines...the name gets my taste buds excited and makes my wallet tremble!

No doubt, gonna have to try and take it easy this time, last time we took home 6 cases. Think we're going to try and limit it to 3 maybe.

Love David and Monica though, great people and we're really excited to see them again and taste more greatness.

They are pretty awesome people. David is in a band out there but I always miss nights they play since we are there on weekdays. They do a lot of the fundraisersin Napa.

I was supposed to be in Santa Rosa this weekend but got sick and cancelled. Oh well. I was there twice in October so skipping a month won't hurt too badly.

Yep, we were fortunate that "Cheers! St. Helena" was going on this summer when we were out there and got to hang out and check out David's band. Scotty down at Silenus is the drummer in the band, super guy too. David and I talked musician crap for a good while, we had a blast!

Awesome. Sounds like a good time. I really need a house out there so I can hang more!

After being sick for way too long, I finally got my sense of smell back and opened up a 375 of 2009 Maybach Cabernet Sauvignon. One word...wow!!!!!

1995 Far Niente tonight. We will see how it's held up.

1995 Far Niente held up great. Moved on to 2008 Fantesca Cab now on 2006 Chimney Rock Elevage. Good evening.

BSD I know his will be an impossible question but it seems your cellar and mine are similar. Favorite wine year after year?

You're right, that is a tough question! My cellar is 70% Cabernet so my favorites will tend to trend that way.

River Marie Chardonnay is by far my favorite white.  Thomas Brown (owner/winemaker) also makes the Maybach chard from the same vineyard which I have never had, but just got my first bottle this week and will probably drink over the holidays.

For the reds:
Realm To Kalon Cab
All the Pott wines (and his Seven Stones)
Maybach Materium Cab

From a value standpoint, Myriad and River Marie Napa bottlings are a must every year.  And I'm pretty sure that once I start opening the Scarecrow and Schrader I'll be adding those to the list.  

Funny that you mention Fantesca, they left me a message yesterday.  It seems I haven't ordered this year.  

The scarecrow and Schrader will definitely hit the list. My cellar is also 70+ % cab. Realm To Kalon there too. Have you tried Barrett and Barrett or Ausomet. Those hit my wheel house pretty well. Of course Colgin is there too.

How about Cabs in general distribution? Any favorites there?

Love it. BSD...what do you do for a living?

The post was lost in the crash, but whomever suggested VonStrasser, thanks! Just picked up two bottles of the 2008 Cab at Spec's with a 5% discount for a Spec's Card. Will likely drink one in the near future and cellar the other.

Can someone point me to website where I can get historical region grades and/or specific wine grades? Total Wine publishes this in their catalog, I just don't have one handy.

Von Strasser was me. I hope you like it. Its a staple in my cellar and Specs will always have it.