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Wine Squares Day 15: Surprise Victory for Billie! Now for the šŸ¦„


Wine Squares
Weā€™re back, you know the rules, and if you donā€™t here they are:

  1. One box is voted on per day. The current box is bolded
  2. Please donā€™t be a fool and comment for a different box or future box, will not count
  3. Winner is top comment after 24 hours
  4. We then advance to the next!

Top 2 runner ups will be posted in the next post!

Runner ups:

Most Underrated Wine Region
– Greece
– Loire Valley, France

Most Overrated Wine Region
– Burgundy
– Provence

Most Underrated Wine
– Barbera dā€™Alba
– Txakoli

Most Overrated Wine
– Meiomi
– Prisoner

Best Grape Variety
– Riesling
– Nebbiolo

Worst Grape Variety
– Muscadine
– Pinotage

Best Wine Label
– Mouton Rothschild
– Emmerich Knoll: Riesling Ried Loibenberg Smaragd

Best Newbie Friendly Wine
– Beaujolais
– Vinho Verde

Best Value Play Wine
– G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo / Barbera dā€™Alba
– La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza / Vina Alberdi

Most Consistent Region
– Rioja
– Jerez

Least Consistent Region
– Okanagan Valley
– Eastern Europe / Middle East

Best Niche Grape
– Nerello Mascalase
– Furmint

Best New World Producer
– Catena Zapata
– Kumeu River

Best Sparkling Wine
– Krug
– Jacques Selosse MillĆ©sime Extra Brut Grand Cru

by AustraliaWineDude

27 Comments

  1. AustraliaWineDude

    Interested if anything beats the 1945 DRC RC?

  3. LongroddMcHugendong

    I donā€™t even know if any exist anymore, but if I could get my hands on one bottle of wine it would be a 1784 Chateau d Yquem, the vintage that Thomas Jefferson bought dozens of cases of.

  4. Extreme-Road1588

    Domaine des Miroirs – for something other than Burgundy šŸ™‚

  6. Sugar_Leg

    If Ratatouille taught us anything, the answer is Cheval Blanc 1947.

  7. Somethingwithplants

    Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru, 1846.

    The central wine in Babette’s feast, the book by Karen Blixen and later turned into Oscar winning movie by Gabriel Axel.

    “Hvad er der i denne flaske, Babette?” spurgte hun med usikker stemme. “Det er da vel ikke vin?” “Vin, madame?” rĆ„bte Babette. “Nej, madame! Det er en Clos de Vougeot 1846!”

  8. mgastl

    1974 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard. Only because the winner will most likely be DRC or d’Yquem

  10. Gomblash

    More of an actual unicorn than a great year of a great wine:

    2016 L’Exceptionnelle Vendange des Sept Domaines Montrachet

    In 2016 the hail damage was so bad in Montrachet grand cru that there was not enough fruit for many Domaines to make their own releases. So seven of the best Domaines (including Romanee Conti and Laflaive) combined their fruit to make about 600 bottles worth that is apparently exceptional.

  13. jackloganoliver

    I still find it ironic that Champagne got “Most Consistent Region” when the champagne method exists only because the region is so inconsistent they can’t declare a vintage every year.

  14. DontLookBack_88

    Thought about shit-posting and saying 1787 Lafite signed by Thomas Jefferson haha, but really itā€™s gotta be the **1945 Romanee-Conti**.

    Super rare given the incredibly low post-war production, last pre-phylloxera RC, and from a fantastic vintage.

  17. Eetabeetay

    1969 Lopez de Heredia ViƱa Zaconia Abocado

  20. Embarrassed-Writer91

    1991 Jean Louis Chave Hermitage ā€˜Cuvee Cathelinā€™

  21. Mchangwine

    Iā€™ve had a good chunk of the ā€œunicornā€ bottles which were all well stored, and while some were phenomenal, others were merely interesting.

    47 Cheval is a very interesting wine, Iā€™ve had it several times including a few times in France with bottles that never moved since release; it tastes like a modern wine thatā€™s old and complex. Iā€™d say itā€™s probably the best of the red ā€œunicornā€ wines if you can find a well-stored bottle. Iā€™m not sure that 82 or 98 wouldnā€™t be better in the long run, though.

    61 Hermitage La Chapelle is great for Syrah lovers. Itā€™s also remarkably rich and full bodied for the era.

    I havenā€™t had either of the 45s and would be highly suspicious of provenance if anyone actually claimed to have either 45 mouton or RC. Iā€™m not sure that the wine at this point in time would be better than RC from good vintages like 61 or 78, which I have had, though.

    The white ā€œunicornā€ wines in my experience have been more interesting than good and Iā€™d rather have other producers as I said in the other thread. The life changing white ā€œunicornā€ wines to try would be either of the Dā€™Auvenay grand crus.

  22. Some-Wine-Guy-802

    Are we talking unicorn amongst the well known wines? In that case it has to be 1945 DRC RC. But for a unicorn of any wine of marketability it is probably Les Jardins Vivants, Prieure Roch AligotĆ©, Vatan Rouge, or Les Gardins Esmeraldins. And yes I realize these are all obscure ā€œnattyā€ producers.

  23. Just-Joshinya

    Any perfectly aged, big vintage Ramonnet Montrachet

  26. tlind2

    1951 Penfoldā€™s Grange. The first vintage of the wine that Max Schubert made in secret.

  27. Dear_Geologist_8231

    1982 Mas de Daumus Gassac. I’ve had two bottles and while, yes, this is a different level than the billionaire bottles listed below, for us mere mortals it represents a milestone of winemaking from our lifetimes: a “first growth” Languedoc pioneer hitting its stride in a great year.