Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stolen my thread, in a nice direction, but stolen nonetheless.... Steve Sent from my iPhone Steve Barbour On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Greg Lorenzo <gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Henning Wulff writes in part: > >> That was one Premier Cru I managed to buy at a reasonable price once. >> I got a bottle of Chateau d'Yquem 1959 (a very good year) for $10.00 >> in 1970. This was in Alberta, where the government liquor stores >> bought wines on futures at the time. I'd come back from a year in >> Europe and had done a lot of wine tasting and auxiliary learning, and >> knew about Chateau d'Yquem. Apparently not that many other Albertans >> did. So I picked up a couple of bottles, and had them with family. >> Remarkable! > > I still have 6 bottles of 1989 Chateau Margaux that I purchased as > part of a futures contract from Andrew Hilton Fine Wines in > Lethbridge in 1988. Stored away to age and then forgotten. I became > rather sensitive to sulfites in red wine in the meantime and so the > wine still sits to this day. > > Greg Lorenzo > Calgary, Canada > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts > with Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information