[Leica] IMG: The Remnants of the Afternoon

[Douglas Barry]

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.

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iPhone 5S. Can be seen large.

Douglas