Rousseau 2015

[WineDoc]

In bottle scores from Neal Martin: 98 pts for the Chambertin and 97 points for the Clos St Jacques.

Seems for £1800 a bottle one doesn’t even get a 100 point wine anymore!

[M1tch]

Price doesn’t always equal points, also, if all top wines got 100 points it would make it meaningless.

There was also a good chat in the below thread about wine points as well:

Measuring quality

I’ve been listening to Tick Box Art on BBC Radio 4, about whether and how we should measure the quality of art. I couldn’t help but think how much of what is discussed could be (and perhaps should be!) applied to wine. They raise the important questions of liking vs quality, knowledge/learnedness vs instinctive appreciation. Soweto Kinch, jazz musician, recounted a clever analogy of a non-jazz listener learning to appreciate jazz - one that could well be applied to someone just beginning to ven…

[szaki1974]

I think it is now safe to assume I have not been allocated anything. That is £800 saved…

[mpreston91]

More and more I’m relieved when this happens.

Do I really want it? or do I want it only because I can’t have it?

[danchaq]

Yer not gettin off that easy, offer states notification end of November latest. Four days yet to go…

[szaki1974]

I might have spoken too soon…

[danchaq]

Ah, just opened a letter saying I wasn’t allocated anything. I got a couple Donnhoff going spare if you want to trade

[Alex88]

Looks like there is a single bottle of the 2008 Lavaux St Jacques available:

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[danchaq]

Not anymore (and it wasn’t me!)