[TN] Chateauneuf du Pape - old ones ...

Nils, thanks so much for notes from this brilliant tasting. Heck, I'd pay the 400 SEK and take the plane, practically!

What's RMP?

Don't know if 03 is much of a reference for anything, but of course the difficulty is slightly older may already be sleepy, or out cold. Maybe more interesting ones to try, though.

l[snip great notes]

I'd be thrilled to taste a bottle of this one. The older Fortias have an impressive reputation.

I'd be interested in finding out which particuliers were in business at that point.

Have you made the stop at Mont Redon? I'm not much impressed by their recent efforts, but they have an extensive library that IIRC goes back quite a long way, and they will sell old mags if you promise not to transport too far. [! That's what the owner said anyway, in practice it may be different] Also one of the few makers of Marc de CdP, and a good one too.

Thanks again, and I'm very jealous of the event!

-E []

"Hehe, Robert M Parker - M_rten holds a special, not unfriendly, grudge against Parker ssince the latter claimed iirc that Bourgs should not be left more than 12 years before drinking ..."

I wondered, but the 40K bottles threw me off. Wow.

"No, I have so far not visirted CdP, but I will, if only for a few hours, June. My prospects are less ambitious than Mont Redon ...."

Not much to write home about these days, but in times of yore, another story.

-E []

Nils, is this not the week you arrive in Paris?