Ian S wrote:One I'd like to try? I'd have to say a German riesling TBA. Despite buying two halves from auction a few years ago, I never got to try them, as a friend took delivery for me, but before I got to pick them up, he had a diabetic friend round who found themselves in difficulty without insulin and he had no sugar in the house - before he remembered the TBAs. So I never did get to try one, and have yet to see any more at the sort of price I got them for. C'est la vie.
Really, a diabetic without insulin, in a house without anything other than a TBA?
Remiinds me of when my sister was in Rome and bought me a special bottle of wine. Because my sister was not going to be in Edmonton for a few months, her friend's father, who happened to be in Rome and was heading back to Canada, offered to take it. He comes through Edmonton on his way north and does nothing. He drinks it. Apparently he had some friends over and he "accidentally" opened the bottle. Fast forward a couple of years when I met him and his daughter at a dinner at my aunt's place he tells me the same story. Politely, I listen, nod, and ask him what was the wine. "I don't remember, but it was really good." My sister didn't remember the wine as it was recommended by the store. This is the sister who sent me a bottle of Palmer's second wine, a 1986 Reserve du General (now called Alter Ego) so it is left to my imagination as toi what it was.
Mahmoud.
Yes we have to believe friends and family, even if everyone else is going
That story reminds me of the 1990 Grange release, which is when Grange went crazy town. I was away studying in Darwin and asked someone to pick me up a bottle and I'd pay him for it when I got back to Adelaide, as he was getting a few himself and I had nowhere to store one up in the top end. He said, "No problems". End of the year rolls round and I get back to Adelaide, and broach the subject - noting that 1990 Grange was being heralded as one of the greatest Granges - and he had a terrible case of amnesia about our agreement. Ce'st la vin.
Chuck wrote:Penfolds 1990 Bin 90A Penfolds 1962 Bin 60A. Owned one and had to sell to finance my habit. Like selling a child.
Carl
Do you reckon Penfolds are making classics anymore?
I'm not sure. Haven't bought any Pennys since prices went thru the roof a decade or so ago. Matter of fact I have been selling Pennys for years reinvesting in higher QPR wines and older wines from auction with prices half that of current vintage. Read John Riddoch for example. I'm into QPR especially with prices as they are and on a limited budget. All wine is good; just some better than others with only marginal quality improvement with hefty price increments.
BTW I'm celebrating my 60th with family and friends at Chianti Classico here in Adelaide on Saturday night. Great Italian food. They allow BYO at $25 corkage so I'm looking at doing a 90A and some other awesome wines from the cellar. Only problem is I like to share great bottles with just one other and with the numbers attending each will only get a small taste.
Carl
Your worst game of golf is better than your best day at work
