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Multimedia Meditations: Vigneron Ignoramus, Esoteric Historian, Armchair Economist, Meme Scholar, Bro Scientist, Runner* (not in that order)

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Humans create dimension around their dreams by placing them on Stage & dressing them in Narrative & Personae. Dramaturgical devices can help us navigate the sense of confusion & loss pervading our current era. This is ~ Tragedy & Farce: Catharsis in the Cosmic Wilderness
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Saw this in theaters when it came out. Didn’t have the historical perspective to contextualize the material, but could see something huge moving beneath the surface. Saw it again knowing the references…smh. I’m surprised this was ever allowed to be made into film.
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It’s probably nothin’
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The United States Government has a 9000 sqft laboratory dedicated exclusively to torturing platonic shapes, numbers, and other entities from the ideal plane
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Neon Genesis Evangelion is animated Cosmopolitan gospel depicting the apotheosis of Man through the union of clandestine technology, alien science & Christian Eschatology. It explores Persona, libidinal drives & the Collective Unconscious of a species faced with extinction 🧵
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Death Stranding is a meta cognitive programmatic allegory about the death & rebirth of America seen through a Gnostic lens. USA liquidation & financial offshoring has led to #BuildBackBetter smart cities administered by private contractors using NatSec blockchain platforms THREAD
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an exegesis of archetypes in History following the illumination of Spirit through a series of Hermetic rituals that harmonize and revivify both Micro & Macrocosm {THREAD 🧵}
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We bought a winery 🍷
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Pretty effing sus that they have the artwork of Theosophist & Rosicrucian Hilma AF Klint in the background 🧐 Wow
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Enter a world of imagination with Meta and explore endless possibilities in 3D. 🚀 🎨
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@primalpoly Market development & growth
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Holy shit. We’re back baby!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Notes incoming… #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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@MarxistRealism Tick Tick Tick ⏰
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@adamscrabble Jake’s available for birthday parties, corporate event, coup d’etats. To book an event dial...
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The dialectic between Man & Technique has synthesized new Realms of Possibility. Discovering Aletheia has propelled Being-in-the-World to something Out-of-this-World ~Himmlisch This is ~ Breath of Fire 3: Or How Stopped Worrying About the Third Temple & Love the Dominion of Man
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Cosmopolity is class solidarity for Bourgeois Technicians, MIC & Sovereignty. Psychic Dictatorship has changed America into an Alien Nation. This is ~ Breath of Fire 2: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Splitting of the Adam & Love the Advent of the Philosopher’s Stone
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It’s getting serious
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Wat did they mean by this?
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In this context Mankind is imagined as a gate. Dasein must move through it to become more authentic. Confined by flesh & instinct, the Light of Consciousness desires liberation from the fixed positions of humanity. The road to Godhood is History
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Fellas at CIA will literally dress up like aliens, break into your home, administer psychotropic drugs & conduct ‘experiments’ instead of going to therapy
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97 Conterno Monfortino is transcendental. The #wine is youthful. Balsamic, cherry, cranberry, blood orange marmalade, bakers chocolate, anise, tar, rose. Insane concentration, balance & integration. Decant now. Hold 5. Keep 50+ 🔥 #winetasting #winelover #sommelier #barolo
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Mourvèdre is getting close
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1.) Peter Thiel is not just a LiBErTariAN billionaire. He has extensive connections to the National Security State. From his time at Sullivan & Cromwell (Dulles bros et al) he parlayed his connections into the Founder’s Fund & PayPal Mafia- Hoffman, Musk, Rabois,Nosek {THREAD}
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I have never made a single cent off of anything I have published here. I have never taken any money from anyone. But supposing I had received money from Thiel, why would that be bad, exactly? I have yet to see anyone explain this
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99 Penfolds Grange is delicious. Blueberry, baked blackberry, black cherry, menthol, camphor, earl grey, licorice, clove. Luscious texture, wild concentration, ripe fruit, bright juicy acid. Drink now, keep 20+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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96 Latour is epic. Black & red currants, pyrazine, hints of bell pepper, bay leaf, tobacco, cedar, pine. Decant now. Keep 40+ #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier #bordeaux #firstgrowth
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Harvest is coming 🌞
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52 Lafite is prodigious. Blackberry, black currants, tobacco, cedar, elegant, cherry, extremely complex. Drink now 🔥 #wine #winetasting #bordeaux
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4 years
90 Ch. #Musar is phenomenal. An amalgamation of Brunello, Burgundy, Bordeaux & Rhône aromatics, this offer continually evolves in the glass. High tone, vibrant acid, spice, sandalwood, strawberry. Bravo 🍷 Drink now Keep 30 #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier #lebanon
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3 years
47 Giacomo Conterno Monfortino is wild. Strawberry, baked cherry, luxardo liqueur, grape bubblegum, hints of Madeira, embers, tar, rose. Drink now 🔥 #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier #Barolo
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89 Lynch Bages is nuts. Tons of dimension & lift. Black currants, black berry, plum skin, cigar box, truffles, meat, bay, cedar, mint. Drink now. Keep 20 #wine #winelover #winetasting #bordeaux #sommelier
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Krug Grande Cuvée 1.5L is righteous. Large format is the best way to drink #Champagne . Lemon, oyster shell, mushroom, cheese rind, crushed rock, brioche, hazelnuts. Loads of tension, poise & depth. Wow ⚡️ #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier
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98 Gaja Sori Tildin is bonkers. Patience is rewarded with haunting aromatics. Blackberry, cherry, black licorice, earl grey, cured pipe tobacco, cigar ash, potting soil, rose. The nose gave me flashbacks. Decant now. Keep 20 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #winelover #barbaresco #sommelier
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2 years
09 Beaucastel Hommage Jacques Perrin is delicious. Strawberry purée, cherry tart, grape bubblegum, fruit roll up, bacon fat, lavender, fennel. Ripe texture, juicy. Decant now. Keep 15 #wine #winetasting #sommelier #chateauneufdupape
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1 year
Dinner is coming
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97 Ridge Monte Bello is epic. Blackberry, muddled black currant, cedar, eucalyptus, mint. Mouthwatering. Drink now. Keep 20 #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier
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89 #LafiteRothschild is transcendental. Pronounced aromas of black & white truffles, tobacco, cedar, blackberry, currant leaf & gravel. A love child between Haut Brion & Margaux. This bottle is exemplary. Decant now. Keep 40+ 🔥 #wine #bordeaux #winetasting #sommelier #firstgrowth
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90 Lynch Bages is awesome. This ripe #Pauillac is very expressive aromatically. While it smells like a baby Latour, the palate does not possess the elegance or dimension of the 1st Growth. Generous texture almost flashy. Drink now. Keep 20+ #wine #winetasting #bordeaux #sommelier
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90 Pichon Lalande is amazing. Black currants, blackberry, plums, black truffle, bay leaf, cigar box, pencil lead. Great lift, texture & balance. Drink now. Keep 20+ 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #bordeaux #sommelier
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2 years
As transcribed fulgurations of the Logos, Technical Objects are “manafolds” of memory concretized in Space by Time. Since the Dawn of Man, these Apples of Eden have gradually refashioned the lens mediating the Images of Man in our phenomenal world This is ~ The HALchemic Theater
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09 Penfold Grange is young. Blackberry, blueberry, currants, mint, lavender, earl grey, camphor, eucalyptus, dark chocolate. Bright acid, juicy, sappy, structured. Decant aggressively, keep 40+ 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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Started this journey 21 years ago to the day. It’s apropos that we would take over the new winery on the same day. What better way to celebrate than with Henri Bonneau’s Reserve des Celestins? Cheers 🍷
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Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
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3 years
Solomonic/Abramelin magic sigils have been used for millennia to capture higher order intelligences, natural forces, egregores, processes & djinn. Ghosts are running the machine
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@jmrphy Broke: Capital as Intelligence Woke: Mammon as Spirit
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Class is gonna start soon 🎓
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3 years
G Conterno #Monfortino is transcendental. 78 is showing dried cherry, strawberry, blood orange, leather, earl grey, tar, rose petal,mint. 82 is bursting w/ fruit. Strawberry purée, luxardo, balsamic, orange peel, red plums, dark chocolate, English breakfast, tar 🔥 #wine #barolo
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82 HB might be #WOTN . Like 89 plus potted soil, very cool. 89 is epic. One of the best #Bordeaux from the last century. 96 Latour is polished, almost new world. 82 La Mission is strong. Smokey, Ilsay Smokey + currants. Roulot is crazy good #wine #winetasting #sommlier #bordeaux
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00 Margaux is epic. Blackberry, black/red currant, plum, bay leaf, black truffle, tobacco. Channeling St. Julien. Rich, good structure. Decant now, keep 20+ 97 Mortet Gevrey crushes. Baked strawberry, cherry, sous bois, pickled fennel, carrot cake, tea leaf. Drink now, keep 10💪🏼
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90 Angelus is righteous. Blackberry, plums, fig, bay leaf, black truffle, tea. Awesome pungent aromatics, seamless texture, structured finish. Drink now, keep 10+ #wine #bordeaux #sommelier
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3 years
Microsoft’s patent WO 2020 666 lays out the trade. Bio digital Fabian Collectivism. We are the collateral for the bankrupt USA. Corporate operated Circuit Cities powered by the human qubits.
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Surveillance Capitalism + Attention Economy X Faustian Contract = Human Instrumentality. Assembling the mind of god with the quantum of the soul
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It’s happening. Hard to find a WOTN
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13 Coche Dury Meursault is one of my favorite Chardonnays. Meyer lemons, baked limes, assorted apples, beurre noisette, crêpe, hazelnuts, gastronomic. Amazing tension & concentration. Decant w/ impunity, keep 20+ ⚡️ #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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86 Ridge Jimsomare Zinfandel is epic. Bright acid, ripe cherry, strawberry compote, cranberry, orange peel, green tea, sous bois, mint. Mature style is toward Burgundian fruit & tension. Drink now 💪🏼 #wine #sommelier
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These feel good buzzwords bandied about by infotainment are cover for new modes of production (eg. novel data production, harvesting & synthesis) by way of a bio digitally convergent blockchain smart contract milieu
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96 Dom Perignon Rosé #Champagne is amazing. Strawberry, lemon curd, fine herbs, chervil, creme fraiche, brioche, oyster shell, watermelon candy. Drink now. Keep 15+ #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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4 years
15 Penfolds Grange is the real deal. A #wine of amazing depth & structure, it’s surprisingly drinkable. Ripe, juicy blueberry, cranberry, strawberry. Mint & eucalyptus on the finish. This blend of #Shiraz & Cabernet always over delivers 🔥Keep 50 #winetasting #sommelier
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95 Vega Sicilia Unico rocks. Ripe blackberry, muddled red plums, strawberry tart, black tea, dill, fennel, cedar, jamon, clove. Luscious texture, bright juicy acid. Decant now, keep 30+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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05 Chave #Hermitage is prodigious. This ripe & powerful #Syrah is showing baked strawberry, cranberry, muddled cherry, bacon fat, clove, fennel, lavender, rose, red & green peppercorns. Structured & phenolic, decant now. Keep 10+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelier #rhonevalley
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2 years
It’s just for animals, right?
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“Now, scientists at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University have developed the first non-invasive technique for controlling targeted brain circuits in behaving animals from a distance.”
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2000 Margaux is lights out good. Blackberry, black currant, plum skin, black truffle, bay leaf, Worcester sauce, pencil lead, cigar box, wet tobacco, pyrazine. Decant now. Will improve over 10. Keep 50 🔥 #wine #winetasting #bordeaux #sommelier
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That’s all Folks 😉
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00 Conterno Monfortino #Barolo is monumental. Luscious, concentrated fruit buttressed by juicy acid & ripe tannin. Strawberry tart, dried cherry, grape bubblegum, balsamic, sandalwood, black tea, mint, rose. Improves over 10. Keep 35+ 🔥 #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier
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99 Quintarelli #Valpolicella is awesome. Ripe strawberry, luxardo cherry, blackberry tart, black tea, earl grey, balsamic, expensive leather, garrigue, lavender, spice. Luscious, dry style. Sophisticated. It’s in a sweet spot #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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01 Ridge Monte Bello is insane. Blackberry, black currant, cassis, tobacco, cedar, gravel, pine needles. A love child between CA & #Bordeaux . Drink now. Keep 10 #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier #RidgeMonteBello
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2 years
89 Haut Brion is monumental. Black currants, cassis, granite, bay leaf, tobacco. Great concentration, aromatics, balance. Drink now, keep 35+ 🔥 #wine #winetasting #bordeaux #sommelier
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This is the way 🥂
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3 years
07 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne is excellent. Lemon brioche, Meyer lemon tart filling, hazelnut bear claw, powdered sugar, oyster shell, chamomile, honey, bee pollen. Drink now. Keep 20 ⚡️ #wine #winelover #winetasting #champagne #sommelier
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01 Biondi Santi #Brunello is epic. Dried cherry, luxardos, strawberry hard candy, cranberry, muddled raspberries, balsamic, earl grey, black tea, lavender, rose, potting soil. Luscious fruit balanced by juicy acid & integrated tannin. Decant now. Keep 20+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting
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2 years
It’s happening
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4 years
Epic tasting. Will have tasting notes soon 🤙🏼
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3 years
Tuscan Tasting. Meditations on #Sangiovese 75 Il Poggione #brunello wins
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3 years
Bouchon in Yountville is a great place to grab a bite
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95 La Tâche is righteous. Strawberry, cherry, delicate spices, loose leaf tea shop: oolong, green, earl grey, sous bois, mint, cocoa nib. Transcendental. Singing now. Keep 20 #wine #winetasting #sommelier #pinotnoir
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4 years
05 Leoville Barton needs a decade. Monolithic, dense. Don’t drink. 95 HB was ripe almost new world. More #Pauillac than #Graves . Drink now. 90 Margaux was very floral, tobacco, currant. Drink now. 90 Tig was good. 98 Madonna ready to go. #winetasting #wine #sommelier #bordeaux
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Busted label, but 90 Gaja #Barbaresco is lights out good. Dried cherry, orange peel, cranberry, muddled plums, rose, tar, sandalwood, expensive leather, black tea, earl grey. Amazing texture, great integrity, juicy, balanced. Drink now, keep 15+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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05 G Conterno #Barolo is awesome. Strawberry taffy, cherry, blood orange, English Breakfast, leather, mint, rose. Decant now. Keep 20 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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@AutistLvsMatter He gettin’ big
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Monetary policy for the last century has had devastating results on the middle class. This phenomenon has deteriorated at a faster clip since 1971
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10 Valdicava #Brunello is awesome. Strawberry, cherry tart, earl grey, black tea, rose, potting soil, balsamic,mint. Decant now. Keep 20 years 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelierpie
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86 Yquem is 🔥The A5 of dessert #wine , it’s is so good you want to drink more than is physically possible. Lime tart, baked lemon pie, grilled peach, mandarin orange candy, jasmine, citrus blossom, honey, maple syrup, torched sugar, creme brûlée, crepes. Drink now, keep LONG TIME
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96 Latour is sublime. A fusion of #Pauillac & #StJulien the wine has immense concentration and lift. Black currants, tobacco, cigar box, clay, white & black truffle, cedar, tomato & bay leaf. Drink now, keep 30+ #wine #winetasting #sommelier #bordeaux #firstgrowth #ChateauLatour
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03 Ducru Beaucaillou is awesome. Warm vintage pushes St. Julien toward a Pauillac style. Black & red currants, plums, bay leaf, pyrazine, black truffle, Worcester sauce, black tea. Rich texture, well delineated tannin, juicy. Decant now, keep 15+ 💪🏼 #wine #bordeaux #sommelier
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00 Leovile Barton is in a great spot. Black & red currants, plums, black truffle, bay leaf, cedar, pungent tobacco, gravel, earl grey. Ripe fruit, pronounced aromatics, good structure, borderline new world. Drink now, keep 20+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #bordeaux
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1985 Ridge Monte Bello in 5L is a religious experience. One of the best domestic wines I’ve had in a long time. This will go another 20 years easy 😍 #santacruz #PBFW2019
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75 Talbot is epic. Pungent, mature, fresh. 00 Gaja is in a great spot. Cherry, strawberry taffy, black tea. 00 Daniel Rion opens up in the glass. Great tension. 03 Ducru is monolithic black fruited & cedar, dense & one dimensional. 93 Beringer is nice. Chase Spleen was DOA
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Mark Valin
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The corporations is a necromantic agglomeration of souls working toward an algorithmic solution whose charter is SPELLED out. The office worker is a program working with others in the microbiome of an immortal Titan feeding on Mammon/ life force. Sounds pretty esoteric to me 🧐
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@Paul_Heron_
Paul Heron
4 years
@apex_pl If there’s nothing esoteric about capitalism then there’s nothing esoteric in anything.
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Mark Valin
2 years
00 Vega Sicilia is righteous. Baked blackberry, strawberry tart, black cherry, rendered bacon fat, cured meat, roasted fennel, camphor, mint, lavender, crushed granite. Spanish Cote Rotie Dense, luscious, expressive. Decant now, keep 35+ 🔥 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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Mark Valin
2 years
17 Tempier Migoua is righteous #Bandol . Blackberry, muddled red & black plums, iron filings, granite, lava rock, black tea, earl grey, garrigue, lavender. Will improve over 5. Decant now. Keep 25+ #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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Mark Valin
2 years
168th Ed. Krug Grande Cuvée is the perfect t #wine for a celebration. Dried lemon, orange, baked apple, gingerbread, marzipan, honey, brioche, flower blossom. Immense concentration, drink cool, let it evolve in glass & bottle. Keep 20+ ⚡️ #winetasting #champagne #sommelier
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Mark Valin
3 years
Dream within a dream. Cells within cells
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@EBBerger
Edburg🌴
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Mark Valin
4 years
10 Flaccianello 1.5L is f#€king great. Strawberry purée, cherry, balsamic, sandalwood, rose petal, black tea. Decant now. Keep 20. One of the best wines in Italy 🔥 #wine #winetasting #Sangiovese #winelover #winecollector #sommelier
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Mark Valin
2 years
18 Jamet CdR is righteous. Strawberry purée, cherry tart, cranberry rollup, clove, molé, pipe tobacco, lavender, rose petal, salt water taffy, cracked pepper. This #wine is out of control, approaches ripe Barolo & Hermitage qualities. Buy the shit out of it 🔥 #winetasting #syra
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Mark Valin
3 years
Last bottle of 2000 Pichon Lalande is epic. Blackberry, black currants, pencil lead, bay leaf, tobacco, cedar. Great texture & structure. Decant now. Keep 30+ #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier #bordeaux
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Mark Valin
3 years
96 Latour is powerful. Black & red currants, ripe pyrazine, bay leaf, cigar box, gravel, Worcester sauce, beef. The bottle is a touch muted. Decant now. Keep 35+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #winelover #sommelier #bordeaux #chateaulatour
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Mark Valin
1 year
06 Chateau Pavie St. Emilion is prodigious. Ripe plums, muddled blackberry, cured tobacco, marinated beef, bay leaf, black truffle, earl grey, pencil lead, toast. Ripe, crème de cassis, cocoa wafer, well made. Decant now, keep 20 💪🏼 #wine #sommelier #bordeaux
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Mark Valin
1 year
04 Cheval Blanc is youthful. Black currants, plum, cassis, black truffle, bay leaf, tobacco. Polished texture, mostly primary, well made. Wait 5 or decant aggressively now. Keep 25+ 💪🏼 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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Mark Valin
2 years
85 Mouton Rothschild is powerful. Blackberry, black currants, red currants, cigar box, black truffle,bay leaf, ripe pyrazine. Great aromatics, balanced. Drink now. Keep 20+ #wine #winetasting #sommelier #bordeaux
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Mark Valin
1 year
96 Leroy Genaivrieres Vosne Romanee is haunting. Strawberry, cherry tart, watermelon candy, rhubarb, fennel, allspice, sous bois, mint, cocoa nib. Immense aromatic dimension, evolving, bright acid, concentrated, seamless. Drink now, slowly, keep 20+ 🔥 #wine #Burgundy #sommelier
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Mark Valin
2 years
00 Bruno Giacosa #Barbaresco is amazing. Ripe strawberry, luxardo cherry, raspberry, red plum skin, blood orange, balsamic, sandalwood, rose, violets, tar. Rich, bright acid. Drink now, keep 10 #wine #winetasting #sommelier
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