On Dec 10, 2:11�pm, "Bi!!" > wrote:
> On Dec 10, 12:44 pm, DaleW > wrote:
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> > On Dec 10, 10:53 am, "John T" > wrote:
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> > > we'll use them as> Guinea pigs on this win
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> > > will be interested in the 82 showing.
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> > > And Thalabert often performs above it's pay grade, haven't you found?
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> > > Yes Bill, but this was a serious step up.
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> > Thanks for notes. I hope my lone bottle of '99 Thalabert shows as well
> > as this! I agree that it was often an overachiever , I;ve still got an
> > '85 ( I know that's pushing it)
> > Your bottle of '83 La Chapelle showed better than one we had a couple
> > years ago.
> > I tend to find Jaboulet has more bottle variation than most, even in
> > the flagship bottlings.
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> I have a ton of La Chapelle from the late 80's through 2000 and the
> vintages are textbook examples of vintage variation but I haven't
> noticed a lot of bottle variation. �I always bought case lots so that
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I'd say the La Chapelle shows it less than the other wines, but I
still have run across very very different showing from different
bottles, even though both should have had good storage. That can be
true of any wine,but I seem to have run across more with Jaboulet,
even La Chapelle (actually the Thalabert seems more consistent to me).
Of course, my calling it bottle variation might be a subconscious
Jaboulet bias, as I strongly feel their larger negociant bottlings
(Les Jalets, P45) are poster children for bottle variation (or to be
more correct, batch variation, as I strongly suspect they are not
consistently the same wine).