Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks! Amities Philippe > Le 30 avr. 2018 ? 03:03, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : > > Philippe, that sounds a nice lunch, I love fresh young asparagus. > > On the Cotes de Castillon wine - the '07 l'Aurage - we were put on to it > by Benoit our contact man in St-Emilion and we visited the chateau in '08. > We tasted the wine in barrel and took a chance on it by buying a few > cases. It was a great decision. The chateau is one of three owned by Louis > Mitjaville (including Tertre Roteboeuf) and while we were lucky to get the > cases before its reputation soared, the '07 is now tiring in my opinion > and on the decline, but we only tasted one bottle and may have been > unlucky with it. That said, we're going to finish the remaining l'Aurage > '07s during our spring dinner in a couple of weeks. > > I thought I might have some photos of the place during our '08 visit, but > checking it out, I can't find it. That said I did find a whole lot of > photos from our 2010 visit to Bordeaux and it includes d'Yquem. Must put > some up. > > Douglas > > > On 29/04/2018 11:29, Philippe via LUG wrote: >> Yummy! >> >> I have already tasted/drunk five of them, have four in the cellar (some >> with different vintage years), and would like to know more about this >> C?tes de Castillon :-) >> >> We import Guiness and you do wines, that?s cultural exchange ;-) >> >> Amities >> Philippe, on Muscat d'Alsace for lunch with the first batches of local >> asperges this year. >> >>> Le 29 avr. 2018 ? 00:56, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : >>> >>> We had our annual assessment tasting for my wine club today, in which we >>> try to see what is heading towards decline, and here are some of the >>> empties. Our club is only interested in Bordeaux wine. >>> >>> In addition to these reds that we have stocks of, we also had a tasting >>> of nine differing dry whites with a view to purchase, and two very >>> pleasant sweet Sauternes that we also hold. The highlight was the blind >>> tasting which revealed that none of us have the nous of the Chinese >>> market. The "blind" wine was a decanted bottle of '98 Lafite Rothschild >>> which, while nice and very acceptable, all of us found ordinary enough, >>> and certainly not worth the ?800 a bottle some people will pay for it. >>> We had bought a couple of cases in 2001 before the inexplicable Lafite >>> price frenzy in 2010/11 in China, and sold them during the madness to >>> buy other comparable, but cheaper, wines. It seems we made a good >>> decision at the time. >>> >>> The highlight for me was a luscious '03 Rieussec ( one of the Sauternes) >>> which quite blew me away. Along with a few others, it's not in the photo. >>> >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/wine+tasting+remnants.jpg.html >>> >>> iPhone 5S. Can be seen large. >>> >>> 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