Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning Wulff writes in part: > That was one Premier Cru I managed to buy at a reasonable price once. > I got a bottle of Chateau d'Yquem 1959 (a very good year) for $10.00 > in 1970. This was in Alberta, where the government liquor stores > bought wines on futures at the time. I'd come back from a year in > Europe and had done a lot of wine tasting and auxiliary learning, and > knew about Chateau d'Yquem. Apparently not that many other Albertans > did. So I picked up a couple of bottles, and had them with family. > Remarkable! I still have 6 bottles of 1989 Chateau Margaux that I purchased as part of a futures contract from Andrew Hilton Fine Wines in Lethbridge in 1988. Stored away to age and then forgotten. I became rather sensitive to sulfites in red wine in the meantime and so the wine still sits to this day. Greg Lorenzo Calgary, Canada _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4