Open that bottle night

Tomorrow, as per the good folks at the Wall Street Journal, is Open That Bottle Night. Time to open that bottle that has beden drawing dust awaiting, "the right time" That time which never seems to come.

While not my oldest or necessarily best, I am taking the opportunity of having several people over to open (with some foie gras which also demands a last chance) a bottle of 1989 Gauthier-Lhomme Domaine du Viking Vouvray Tendre. What is your's?

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Joseph Coulter
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Actually we're celebrating my wife's 50th birthday tomorrow with my two brothers and their wives. Highlights will be 1982 Ch. Haut Brion, 1987 Caymus Special Selection and 1991 Ch. d'Yquem.

Joe Giorgianni TheWho.org

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Joe Giorgianni

I'll be jumping the gun by a day and opening an '88 GC Burgundy tonight with a duck salmis a la Hoare that I prepared this week. I have two to choose from and I haven't decided which one to open yet.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

I still have four bottles left of the 1970 Pichon Lalande. Unfortunately they haven't been stored in the best of conditions, and should have been opened long ago.

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Ken Blake

Ken Blake wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I opened my last bottle of the '70 Pichon Lalande on this past Valentine's Day with my Wife (PL is her favorite wine). Other than the fact that the cork crumbled and we had to filter the wine, it was excellent. My storage is very good (except for the low humidity of the desert) and your wine may be different since you said it wasn't kept in the best storage conditions. I still would be optomistic.

Fred.

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Fred

Well, in the interest of having an excuse, we invited a couple of friends over and defrosted a rabbit, served roasted on a bed of potatoes, almonds and pancetta with Ricard and gooseberry sauce.

88 Haut Bailly (Pessac) Deep and tarry, classic black fruit, cigars and some mushrooms, nice and long. Opened well over time, I should have given it some air but was afraid to. Lovely wine. 89 Haut Bailly: Corked. Phaw. I find it really depressing to keep a wine for 20-odd years, then it's no good. The cork itself was flawless, level great, just plain contaminated.

-E

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Emery Davis

Marci and I celebrated by opening the 2005 Teruzzi& Puthod 'Carmen Purhod' we brought back from Italy last October. Served with Mussels and Chorizo and some crusty Tuscan bread.

The wine is a Sangiovese vinified in white and some terre di tuffi. Probably the best of the half dozen wines we brought back with us. Rich golden color, lots of pear and melon flavors, some minerality. Wonderful mouthfeel, almost like a off-dry Muscat.

Made me wish we had brough back more.

Regards, Jon

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Zeppo

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