[Leica] IMG: The Remnants of the Afternoon

[Philippe]

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 Côtes 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 à 00:56, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a écrit :
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> 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.
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> 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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> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/wine+tasting+remnants.jpg.html
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> iPhone 5S. Can be seen large.
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