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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Remnants of the Afternoon
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 18:41:15 +0200
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Nice to see such thorough research being carried out.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 29 Apr 2018, at 00:56, 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+tasting+remnants.jpg.html
> 
> iPhone 5S. Can be seen large.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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