[Leica] IMG: The Remnants of the Afternoon

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Impressive. Seems a great way to buy and enjoy wine. Here we focus on
Single Malts, India being a whisky drinking country.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 4:26 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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+tastin
> g+remnants.jpg.html
>
> iPhone 5S. Can be seen large.
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> Douglas
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