[Leica] Wine (WAS: IMGs: At the Exhibition)

[Nathan Wajsman]

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

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> 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
>>>> 
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