Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jayanand, I am not Douglas, but I have a lot of experience with Bordeaux wines from the years I lived in Brussels, 1995-2000. Back then, I would drive to Bordeaux every year with a couple of other guys, and we would buy from some of the good chateaux in St. Emilion and Pomerol. Likewise, every November one of the Belgian supermarket chains had a sale of good wines. Even Latour and its ilk were relatively affordable?30 or 40 EUR a bottle is not cheap but not out of reach either. Since then, prices of Bordeaux wines have risen to such ridiculous levels that I never buy them anymore. We have lots of good wine here in Spain which, with a few exceptions, is still priced at reasonable levels. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 20 Feb 2017, at 05:46, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Douglas, > Like most Indians my experience and expertise runs towards whisky, but that > does not mean I do not enjoy a good glass of wine when available. Those > vintages sound very good to taste, and trip off the tongue rather well, but > my knowledge is zilch on this subject, so I will take the word of an expert > such as yourself for it! Just a question - the one name I recognize is > Chateau Latour, and I know it is very expensive (never tasted it to the > best of my knowledge), so how do you buy this level of wine? Does your club > buy it early and lay it down, or what? > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > >> Jayanand, Philippe. I have to wear black tie and to be honest it's easier >> in the long run. I'm in the oldest foreign branch of a society for >> Bordeaux >> wines - it was founded in 1954 - and all our dinners have black tie as de >> rigeur. I'm The Donald of it and was re-elected president again that >> night. >> >> For those of you who are interested in wine, we had the G de Guiraud 2013 >> and 2014 as the opening whites. BTW the 2013 is better. Then we had three >> reds - '98 Ducru Beaucaillou, '98 Montrose, and '98 Latour - and we >> finished with a pudding wine 2001 Rieussec. We ate at one of the oldest >> gentlemen's clubs in Ireland and the food was excellent. All very >> delectable and I didn't even have the slightest hangover the following >> morning. >> >> Douglas >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" < >> jayanand at gmail.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 5:18 AM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: At the Exhibition >> >> >> Douglas, >>> You are looking great with your prints! I did not know black tie was >>> still >>> de rigueur for dinners, however formal, we must be living on different >>> planets - here we are happy if they do not turn up in shorts and flip >>> flops! >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: >>> >>> The opening of our exhibition http://www.mermaidartscentre.i >>>> e/exhibitions/details/bray-camera-club took place on the 9th and I went >>>> along. I was a bit overdressed for the occasion, and in a rush, as I had >>>> one of my dinners on in the centre of Dublin a little over an hour >>>> later. >>>> >>>> Myself beside my photographs at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. >>>> Wicklow. Image taken by Eilis Taves using my Fuji X100S. >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Interiors/BCC+ >>>> Exhibitions/BCC+1.jpg.html >>>> >>>> Donal Enright and Malcolm McCamley at the BCC Exhibition in the Mermaid >>>> Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Fuji X100S. >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Interiors/BCC+ >>>> Exhibitions/BCC+2.jpg.html >>>> >>>> Douglas >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information