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

Mon Feb 20 04:00:20 PST 2017

There are just under forty of us in the society. We have been buying and 
storing (at no cost) for years, and currently have over 1,000 bottles. Yes, 
we've had difficulty with the supercharging of prices, and paused 
judiciously for a couple of years, but equally, we have bought at times of 
distress for others and benefitted.  C'est la vie.

The very nature of fine wine is its value tends to increase during the 
drinking window as supply diminishes and reputation enhances. Paper never 
refuses ink and the world is full of people who are opinionated about wine. 
We tend to store for at least fifteen years, and, for instance, have sold 
Laffite during the Chinese bubble to buy three times as much equivalent 
wine.  That said, if we do read something that worries us, we have an egm 
and the chateau vintage at issue will be lifted from the cellar, allowed to 
stand upright for at least two days, and tested by at least 12 people at 
minimum.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 5:50 AM
Subject: [Leica] Wine (WAS: IMGs: At the Exhibition)

> Hi Jayanand,
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> 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
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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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