What Wine Would You Most Like To Taste?

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Cwdjrx _) wrote in news:24696-41CA0CF1-571 @storefull-3178.bay.webtv.net:

Cheval Blanc, on my budget sorry I will read about it, same with DRC but if anyone is tasting and near NE Florida I am there.

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I would certainly like to taste one of the great Bourdeaux from 1949, partly because the vintage is excellent, partly because it is the year of my birth (as already stated, an excellent vintage). I have looked into the auctions, and, from time to time, things like Ch Ausone, Petrus, or the great Medocs turn out - at prices in high Earth orbit without escape capsule ... but wouldn´t that be something for a 60 year birthday party with a group of expensive winos[1]? Sorry, that should be winelovers. Expensive wine lovers. As in, lovers of expensive wines.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

Ancient Roman wine, for sure. It was probably sweeter than what we drink today...

To echo that, for some reason I have always been drawn to Cheval-Blanc even though I've yet to taste it. In particular, I would want to taste the

Close runner-ups would be any of the DRC wines from 1978 (great year, it's DRC and my birth year)

Peter

My wishes are much less specific than several of the responses I've seen here. Those spoiled by years of tasting fine wines professionally or as a perq of successful careers or inheritance might find my desires a bit mundane and pedestrian, but we walk in the mocassins we've brought.

First, let me note that I've still got a couple of wonderful memories from my years in Europe--experiences that opened the door to wine and impressed me with the potential of the grape. The most lasting was a night at Lameloise in France during a five day trip that also included Les Freres Troisgros and Alain Chapel. It was my first exposure to "real" Burgundy. Two bottles accompanied that wonderful dinner and, unfortunately as a beginner at the game, I failed to record the details of vintage or bottler--my only recollection was that the first was a Vosne-Romanee (drawing on Hugh Johnson's Pocket Guide recommendation that "there are no bad wines from V-R"), and the second a Grands Echezaux, which remains as the single most memorable wine I've ever tasted. (Just by interpolation, the vintages would have been around early '70s, since the year was 1980.)

That being said, here's my dreams of wines to taste and I offer them without vintage ('cause I'm not smart enough to know the difference.)

1. Ch. Petrus
2. Ch. Margaux
3. A DRC
4. Ch. Y'Quem (I've had a true Montrachet.)

See, I'm not that hard to please. And, my calendar is wide open....

Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled"

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So would I My list would include The Opiminian - a Roman wine reported to have kept for 125 years. I'd like to have had it at, say 30 years. (time travel) The Mouton -45, to compare head on with my -82 A DRC, any... A Tokay Eszcencia, -53, say - compared with a d'Yquem of same vintage? Have to stop, sigh.. Anders

Anders there was a time not that long ago when the DRC could actually be purchased by humans. In the early 80s, I attended a DRC dinner three years in a row in San Mateo, CA that was put on by a local wine merchant named Winemax. It was priced around $400US but certainly worth every penny. It went the way of inflation with the Japanese Yen dominating the DRC sales.

Pantheras stated in part: "Anders there was a time not that long ago when the DRC could actually be purchased by humans."

This is true of most wines. The DRCs in the 60s mostly cost under US$ 20 per bottle. Even the 1970 Romanee-Conti itself (decent, but not their best year) cost under $50 and now sells for well over the equivalent of US$ 1000. per bottle in London auctions, according to the most recent Decanter. The much more recent, but very high quality and highly sought, Romanee-Conti 1985 now brings 34100 Pounds per case of 12 bottles at the London auctions, if you can find it at all. Even the 1985 DRC La Tache is selling for well over the equivalent of $1000 at the same auctions. I believe Chateau Palmer was going for around $US 5 in the early 60's. The

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I remember the WS issue some 10 years ago where both Lafite and Romanée-Conti 1990 were reviewed as new releases. WS stated the per bottle price of USD150 for Lafite, USD600 for Romanée-Conti.

M.

I would like to be around to taste any wine from the 2100s.

Fred.

When the premier tranche of '61s were released en primeur, Lafite caused a storm, because they had broken the £2 a bottle price!! Sigh. What a pity I wasn't interested in wine in those days. Mind you, my weekly wage was around £6 so it's not clear I could have bought much even if I had been interested

All the best Ian (To reply by email PLEASE don't use "Reply to" but use my name at wanadoo.fr) Thanks.

My first case of wine was a very good German wine that I purchased from the German Embassy for $12us. Second case was Chat Belair for $32. And then a case of the 1961 La Tour for $96. The early 60s were a feel good time because we had been in a recession for a few years.

Now I feel like I was ripped off paying $8 us per bottle for the

If I ever hit the lottery, I will try a genuine Tokaji or a TBA Riesling. I would also try a Penfolds Grange to see if it's worth the press clippings.

Dan-O

Anything especially Barolo/Barbaresco & Amarone from the 1930's and before.

Older vintages of Tokaji & D'Yquem and Porto

and Post prohibition -1960 California wines.

"If we could taste the wine in ancient glasses, then we discover where our past is. For reality is decadence, or so it seems, and we were lovers once, in dreams."

I think I'd like to try:

Petrus, Dominus, and any wine James Bond (Sean Connery Bond) ever ordered. Especially when he uses a Claret to catch a bad guy, because henchman can never know anything about wines, although the nemesis is always allowed to have a well-stocked bar on hand.