[Leica] IMG: The Remnants of the Afternoon

[Douglas Barry]

Yes, and you're right, Jayanand. As you know, climate is key as wine 
needs an even cool temperature to mature in bottle, and our cellar which 
was built in 1815 holds a temperature of 13c (55f). We have currently 
over a hundred cases stored in it. However, here in Ireland, we also 
love whiskey too, and make the best whiskey in the world, but we would 
say that, wouldn't we? :-)

For enthusiasts, why put your money into lens glass, when you could put 
it into this type of glass.
https://www.celticwhiskeyshop.com/midleton-30-year-old

Douglas

On 29/04/2018 04:07, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>>
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