sons/daughters & wine

Salut/Hi Larry,

le/on Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:03:48 -0400, tu disais/you said:-

We don't have any children (readers of "Stand on Zanzibar" and those who were adult in '67 may understand and perhaps sympathise), but I have two nieces. My elder niece and her husband are both interested in wine and blessed with palates and they received a decent dowry from my cellar for their wedding. My idea was that they could discover the sort of wines they liked and perhaps look to me to help out in deepening their collection.

Larry, My kids are not old enough yet however I have an 85 and 87 Montebello in the cellar, the birth years of my daughters for their 21st birthdays. Of course I am not going to give them, we are going to open them ! bb

It is fortuitous that my elder son and I share a birthday, twenty eight years apart. For his twenty first next year I have a 1995 Chateau La Marzelle Grand Cru Classe St. Emilion put away, and I have just acquired a bottle (sadly only one) of the "best for twenty years" 1998 Penfolds 407 which should be about right for our 30th/58th. He is currently in his first year at Brasenose, Oxford, and is the only fresher on the Oxford Union wine tasting team. As a consequence of this activity he comes into contact with some pretty high profile representatives from the UK wine industry, and he is showing signs of answering the question "What does one do with a history degree?" by considering a career within the industry. So, collecting? Yes, I hope so, and if he would like to invite his old dad to sample and advise, that will be just fine.

Regards,

Ian

The heck with the kids - you can buy old vintages now for less than the cost of new ones that need years in the cellar! Of course I note that you are also in Canada, which means that like me, you don't have access to wine auctions.....damn!

Bill (with maybe a case of 75 Beychevelle and Branaire left....)

*sniffle*.... nup. Both my boys (18 & 23) show NO hankering for wines (despite my trying), and the girl (34), well, she is one of the Chardy set, and occasionally quaffs an acceptable red. So I have my entire cellar to myself..... ok... well a few bottles stowed for significant grand children related events...:>)

Regards Matt

Ahh - a Brunnerite!

I like The Sheep Look Up as well.

Must try and find them and reread them one of these days.

And I always thought you would be in you early to mid-30's Swooper! Shows the folly of making text-based impressions. ;-)

BTW, I am not in the family way, and don't anticipate being so for at least 5 years. Maybe I should get in early.

But of course you mustn't forget the third part of his informal trilogy, "The Shockwave Rider," which has the distinction (among several) of having introduced the term "worm" to the world of networking...

Still powerful stuff, as of my last read (years ago now).

Mark Lipton

Oh! Please adopt me!!! :o))

Monika

lol...... don't tempt me...:>)

Hooroo......

Hmmm..... so do my posts show immaturity..... or am I holding my age well ?...:>)

Actually, interesting social scenarios have occurred as the daughter is my wife's child from a previous marriage, and she is older than me. When Becky (daughter) was younger, we copped some starnge stares. I remember when Becky was 17 and wanted to see her fave band at the local watering hole. She was too young to get in alone so I accompanied her. The looks from some folks were priceless. Age variation not being _that_ bad to make me look like a dirty old man (I was very late 20's at the time), but old enough to see folks thinking to themselves, what's the older guy doing with that gorgeous young blonde. :>). This is OT, so, I DO remember finding a corner up the back so as to not impinge on her independence and working my way through a tried and tested aussie drop....Wirra Wirra's Church Block. It couldn't have been too bad, as I do remeber being dragged to the dance floor by Becky and her mates to dance to "Barnesy's screaming.

Name is Mat ? I hope you are NOT in the family way, or medical history would be re-written...:>)

Hooroo.....

No you must just be one of the hip happening dudes of the wine industry, ala those two arty farty guys who always poo-poo the establishment in Oz. Ben Canadier and Greg Duncan-Powell if I recall coreectly, big mutton chop sideburns and trendy glasses. O and those wine books that always talk about "smells like grandpa's shotgun after he shot a hare", and on the palate is like Aunt Miggin's cattle dog after he'd been in the horse bath. You know the ones.

Haha, that does sound like an interesting situation. So if she is 34 now, so that was 17 years ago, so u must be late 30-ishish. Well that's a lot younger than 54-ish (ie had 34 year old at 20). So my assumptions were correct. That's years of training for you.

O I could be a Mat-ilda. No I just meant with family. Not a bun in the oven. I'm the Mat from Frankston way who always asks beginner questions and about el cheapo (for this group anyway) wines from Dan Murphy's (local wine seller). We've spoken before both in the group and via email. I've been a bit too busy for actual converse in usenet, but holidays u know.

So hello over there in the Dandenongs Swooper, and I hope the shop and the vineyard (hehe) is going well.

Mat.

I have a 27 year old daughter who I nudged in that direction a few years ago by giving her a few bottles from my cellar that needed to be drank and a few that needed a few years. Her cellar has grown to about 75 bottles and I always give her a case of mixed stuff when she and her husband visit. My 21 year old son is on his way to law school and has storage issues but he has developed a good palate over the years and our 16 year old is really getting a good into to wine. Bi!!

• My two daughters were born in '68 and '71. My son-in-law was born in '66. I have several bottles from those years that I kept for them -- just for the helluvit!

The '68 is a LaTour and that was a terrible year in Bordeaux.

earle

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The only 68 Bordeaux I've had was an Haut-Brion. I had it around

1985.

It was completely undrinkable--brown muck.

• What year were you born?

earle

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