Re: Your most expensive wine, ever ...

Sure, Bill - but after these increases I've not shelled out that kind of money. My normal level is still 10-15USD - which means no more Ch. Margauxs or Montroses. But - there is plenty drinkable wine around, a certain Roodeberg from South Africa wasn't too bad this summer. Anders

Paarl Roodeberg used to be made in a totally different style. I'm not sure if anyone is old enough to remember it, but it was quite different before they banned SA imports from BC in the late (I think) 80s, in support of anti-apartheid sentiment (always thought they had a major stick in their logic spokes with that one - stop importing wine and who did they think it would hurt? The white winery owners - well, yes, a bit, but it was the black pickers that were out of work in a much shorter time frame. But I'm sure they were grateful for the support, right?)

I have tasted Roodebergs back into the 70s that were ageworthy, interesting wines. The stuff they made more recently is Beaujolais nouveau in comparison.

interesting

BN? Not quite, this I had was pretty full bodied, with a fruity, smoky taste and hints of black berries and some oak. Probably not what they were in the 70s - but surely not BN. Maybe you should give the 2001 a try, if you find time away from your habitual grand wines... :-) Anders

I did say 'in comparison'. None of the Roodeberg made these days will last 20, or even 10 years. Shame.

And believe me, I drink lots of modest stuff between forays into the older stuff in the cellar.

Had a bottle of 99 Ulysse from Etna yesterday, and a 94 Kalimna Shiraz.

Having a bit of a garden dinner this afternoon to taste the 2001 Vieux Donjon for possible purchase, as well as what I hope will be a decent Pouilly Fume and a couple of other things. It's just that I tend to post notes on the more interesting things, which are often, but not always older bottles, and just drink the current stuff without bothering to post a note.

For which we all are grateful, I'm sure! Andrs

;-)

Only one year, in fact.

M.

Jeez, Ian. That's _truly_ depressing!

Or does the "?" refer to Krugerrands? Fifteen of those gives you enough leeway that you might last quite a long while - even if that's a retail _case_ price!

Give us a little hope here. We aren't all _that_ far behind you - know'msayin'? :^/

Tom S

Salut/Hi Tom S,

le/on Mon, 04 Aug 2003 06:07:33 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Nope, a fact of life. I'm over 60, and can't expect to have much sense of taste left after 75 or so. Call it 15 years. So that means all first and decent 2nd growths from good years won't be ready, neither will vintage ports nor top Hermitage nor Cote Rotie, same goes for some of the best Italians, and that just about boils down to many of the world's most expensive wines.

Err nope, it refers to the fact that Microsoft STILL doesn't know how to configure its software correctly!

I had configured my reader to encode in ISO-8859-1 (us ascii) unfortunately your reader can't recognise the headers and decode it correctly.

However just to see if you can get along with this, I've reconfigured to utf-8 and the ISO 8859-15 charset.

Nope, no hope my friend, I was talking about €15 - 15 euros. No doubt in the States there are plenty of expensive wines that will have reached their peak in less than 15 years, not so many here.

ROFL!!

And moreover refuses to default to the "industry standard" for digital transmission of English language text (i.e., ISO-8859-1) and so paints itself into the proverbial corner...

Mark Lipton (posting from a domain currently under siege as a result of Win*-related security holes...)

"Mike Tommasi" ha scritto

Nils already gave the right answer, but you (and many others) may find this link useful. I started using it for file extensions search, actually they're almost all acronyms, then I started using it for anything from "HTH" to "ROTFL"

HTH, Vilco

"Mark Lipton" ha scritto

Win*-related

And as a result of very lazy sys-admins: the patch preventing all of the crap was out since 3 weeks before the virus outbreak. One could forget to keep it's PC windows-updated, but admins are admins for a reason, or at least they should...

Vilco