What Wine Would You Most Like To Taste?

Most of us have heard of a wine we would like to taste, but are very unlikely to have the chance to do so. Let us limit ourselves to wines that might still be drinkable, although I and most woud like to taste ancient Greek and Roman wines that were highly valued in their day. Also you must drink the wine soon and can not sell it, so value and increasing a collection are not an issue.

I would most like to taste the 1727 Rudesheimer Apostelwein from the cask in the Ratskeller in Bremen. Of course this old cask has to be refreshed from time to time to replace evaporation loss, but only very little is ever drawn out for tasting. Michael Broadbent has been allowed to taste it and describes it in detail in one of his books. The taste is quite different from anything else you are likely to taste from Germany. Broadbent rated it as 2-star for pleasure and 5-star for interest.

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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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jcoulter
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Nils Gustaf Lindgren

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

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uraniumcommittee

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

1947 Cheval-Blanc 1947 Huet Le Mont Mileu

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

Peter

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megatron2k02

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

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Anders Tørneskog

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

1959 Yquem cost me about $11 per bottle when it first came on the market, and 1961 Lafite-Rothschild also cost about $11 per bottle. In the 1960s and part of the 1970s it was no great burden for most people with a high middle income to have very good wines all of the time and top wines several times a year. Even a school teacher could afford some decent wine. Most of my best wines were bought before there was such extreme inflation in wine prices.

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Michael Pronay

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

Fred.

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Fred

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.

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Bill Loftin

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

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cochrand

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

1945 Bordeaux-only had Latour

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."

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Joe Rosenberg

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.

K
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Kevin

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