David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2284
 | | 09/21/2005 2:22 PM |
| | This wine can be found with minimal legwork. I called a distributor in the NY region. They pointed me toward a few stores they knew recevied the wine. After a few calls, I found a shop that had 8 bottles of the '02. Needless to say, that store now has none. | | | |
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David Sullivan
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2276
| | 09/21/2005 5:32 PM |
| | Show me where, I would like to get a few more. | | | |
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David Sullivan
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2276
| | 09/21/2005 11:19 PM |
| Quote:
This wine can be found with minimal legwork.
NOT | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:12891
| | 09/22/2005 12:35 AM |
| Quote:
Quote:
This wine can be found with minimal legwork.
NOT
depends on your definition of minimal   | | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2284
| | 09/22/2005 1:41 AM |
| | About 15 minutes or so on the phone. First to a distributor in my region who I knew had the wine. Second to a list of stores that received the wine that the distributor so graciously provided me on a "cold call." | | | |
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Eiger
Grape Sorter
Posts:359
| | 10/07/2005 1:24 PM |
| | FYI - Doug Wilder at Vinfolio is selling 2002 DP for $60 - one bottle limit. | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2284
| | 11/11/2005 3:43 PM |
| Popped the first of the 8 bottles I got a few months ago last night w zekeboston. Well, it was actually his bottle.
Boy - I'm glad I found some of this. Very smoky nose just out of the bottle and closed on the palate. After about 40 minutes in the glass, began to emerge to show fruit and some spice. The smokiness of the nose also blew off. I felt like the wine wanted to give me more and that after a couple hours in the decanter, it would be have really been strutting its stuff.
I just wish it wasn't so hard to come by. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Destemmer
Posts:76
| | 02/07/2006 6:01 AM |
| | At $45 on the list it's a good pick up. $60 plus shipping and tax is too much for this bottle. Well made $45 bottle but there are others at $60+ that are better. For instance, 02 Eloge, KL, Pride, Etude. | | | |
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Petersc1001
Sacramento, CA
Grape Destemmer
Posts:78
| | 02/07/2006 5:14 PM |
| | Question...other than the KL...don't all these (pretax and shipping) cost $15-$20 more per bottle? | |
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Randy Wigginton
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5512
| | 02/08/2006 1:45 PM |
| This mailer should be coming out soon.... | | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2284
| | 02/08/2006 3:15 PM |
| | If anyone is not taking their allocation (and I can't begin to imagine they won't) please send me a PM. I'd be glad to take some. | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 02/08/2006 10:22 PM |
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This mailer should be coming out soon....
I thought I had recently posted it. I know I got something. I can't see where I posted it though.
I'll try and find the offering and post it (again). | | | |
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JimmyV
Central Connecticut
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5112
| | 02/08/2006 10:43 PM |
| | I am on the list, and I have not received an offering for the '03. But when I do, if there are extras, mdriver gets first crack . | |
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Paul Soals
Grape Stomper
Posts:104
| | 02/08/2006 10:58 PM |
| I know I signed up for this list sometime last year too, so far I haven't seen anything in my mailbox.
Being a newbie to the whole wine thing, I completely missed out on the 02's. Here's hoping it doesn't happen again. | | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2284
| | 02/09/2006 1:10 AM |
| | Thanks, Jimmy! | | | |
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Randy Wigginton
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5512
| | 02/11/2006 1:30 AM |
| | I haven't received anything... and I know I'm on the list. | | | |
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davidandrose
Aurora, CO
Grape Puncher
Posts:939
| | 02/11/2006 3:57 AM |
| I too have been on the list for a few yrs. I show my last purchase was late March, but I show the same purchase and arrival dates. Their website says Offer letters are mailed (snail mail) in early February providing mailing list members with an opportunity to secure Entre Deux Meres prior to early spring shipments.
May give a call on Mon if the letter isn't sitting at work. | | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2284
| | 03/04/2006 6:10 PM |
| I popped my first one of these last night. Didn't even begin to open-up until 90 + mins in the glass. Once it did - whoa baby! Screaming nose and palate of dark, rich fruit. This wine was very extracted and in a blind tasting I think I would have incorrectly labeled it a shiraz. I dunno - maybe I'm crazy.
Anyway, I'm not touching any of this for a few years. The way this wine was drinking last night, I did not enjoy it. | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12501
| | 01/02/2008 12:36 PM |
| $50, retail.
Chocolaty, soft tannins, very nice. No rush, youthful, but very much approachable. I would say a 91 pointer, fun bottle of wine, tasty, not very complex or deep, but a very much enjoyable bottle. Drink or hold is fine. | | | |
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