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Post Subject: Pavie etcPosted by de charlus on: 8/8/2013

Adrian, there's nothing wrong with owning a few cases of 2000 Pavie, as long as you consider it an investment. After the 2000 Primeur tasting in Bordeaux I bought everything I could; my fortunate position within those circles allowed me to obtain a few cases of each 1st Growth and most of the super 2nds, as well as some of the more exciting Pomerols, but I also bought up palettes of things like Clerc Milon, Pavie, Leoville Barton etc and made a small fortune on it all. After all, it was the millennium vintage - even were the quality average, it would still have been a good investment opportunity - but as it turned out, it was the best since 90. The main problem for most people was obtaining sufficient allocations of the better wines to invest in, but if one were able to do that, as I was, returns of 30%p.a. were normal, the 1st Growths and Parker 100s well exceeding that. You did just fine, as long as you're not actually intending to drink the stuff.
I take your point about sensory overload but, what can I say, I'm a hedonist and as such like to pile one pleasure on top of the nest, on top of the next. All that being so, when the Burgundy releases come up, I shall be more than happy to provide investment and/or drinking advice to all who are interested.
It's a great relief that, for the most part, Parker has not been able to foul up Burgundy in the same way that he has almost everything else; that would have been a tragedy, but then, Burgundians are a xenophobic folk who believe that their way is the best way, something that I've seen nothing to contradict.

de Charlus

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