[Leica] IMG: The Remnants of the Afternoon

[Douglas Barry]

Philippe, that sounds a nice lunch,  I love fresh young asparagus.

On the Cotes de Castillon wine - the '07 l'Aurage - we were put on to it 
by Benoit our contact man in St-Emilion and we visited the chateau in 
'08. We tasted the wine in barrel and took a chance on it by buying a 
few cases. It was a great decision. The chateau is one of three owned by 
Louis Mitjaville (including Tertre Roteboeuf) and while we were lucky to 
get the cases before its reputation soared, the '07 is now tiring in my 
opinion and on the decline, but we only tasted one bottle and may have 
been unlucky with it. That said, we're going to finish the remaining 
l'Aurage '07s during our spring dinner in a couple of weeks.

I thought I might have some photos of the place during our '08 visit, 
but checking it out, I can't find it. That said I did find a whole lot 
of photos from our 2010 visit to Bordeaux and it includes d'Yquem. Must 
put some up.

Douglas


On 29/04/2018 11:29, Philippe via LUG wrote:
> 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 :-)
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> 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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>> Douglas
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