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Appreciate the heads up, will take a minute to find my All Blacks jersey.

Great question/topic. My collection is either a bunch of singles (not enough data points) or young and trying to avoid. I'd say my go-to right now is the Carlota III, looking forward to the restock.

I’m not good at this but PLPC was front of mind here.

Had an Aussie exchange student when I was young (35 years ago) for a few weeks. She asked for vegemite and we called all over town to find it. She was thrilled and cute enough to get me to try it. It was the most vile thing I’ve ever eaten and still remember the flavor all these decades later. 0/10, strongly do not recommend

Sparkling water, champagne if I have the time as the effervescence helps keep my palate fresh. Otherwise, coffee and dark beers are in the regular rotation with the occasional cognac/cocktail late night combo.

As someone painfully ignorant in matters like this, using Carlota as an example - if it’s been awhile since you last produced a batch, what is the thought process/approach in making it again? Same source material? Blend to a profile? Make the best tasting blend regardless of prior profile?

My schedule is irregular at best (married, kids, job, etc), so I stock the range and will choose on time available.

Does anyone else run the HygroBug from Thermoworks? Can't live w/o my Thermapen, so far these have treated me well. https://www.thermoworks.com/hygrobug/

This is like a great episode of Curb, it almost hurts but you can't stop.

I check for mold every so often which is kinda the same thing?

I’m going to be hilariously bad at this and I can’t wait.

Great news all around. Looking forward to spending some money!

Great review! These are on my 2025 must find/try list.

Took me close to 10 years to really dial in what wine I prefer - and I was able to sample a lot of wine much more regularly than I can cigars. I've found preferences and while it would be great to find one marca that stood above them all, I hope that never happens. The journey is the destination.

This looks like the US wine market (unfortunately).