Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 C?tes 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 ? 00:56, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : > > 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+tasting+remnants.jpg.html > > iPhone 5S. Can be seen large. > > Douglas > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information