We've all heard of peopel paying huge amounts for an 1804 bottle of Chateau Margaux, only to find it tastes of vinegar - has anyone ever tried recreating period wine using the grapes and methods of the time ? I'd pay for a bottle of 'mock' Caecubian, or an 1850s Hock - wouldn't it be great to taste a wine as experienced by our predecessors ?
Mike Gooding
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Wouldn't you first need to have vineyards of old franc de pieds vines?
That seems obstacle enough to me...
-E
cwdjrxyz wrote on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:43:15 -0700 (PDT):
I dont want to pay for ancient wines and I'm not well enough known to be offerred them :-( However, I sometimes wonder if they are as good as writers say or is it just sentiment that would be disproved by a blind test if anyone could bring themselves to do it?
DaleW wrote on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:07:31 -0700 (PDT):
Oh, I haven't done it but I just wondered if a taster would say a hundred-year old wine was "still very good" if they did not know in advance what it was. Blind tasting of these expensive items is probably impractical but I still suspect that sentiment plays a large part in the comments.
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