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Larry wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Can you be more specific on the wine? AFAIK, they have three straight cabernets - Yellow Label, Presdients Selection and Platinum label.

I can't really guess from the price you quote, since they sell for very different (apparently unrelated) amounts here in the UK.

Hi Steve,

I love the brown label (President's?) but it's a bit pricey for everyday wine ($28 CDN) If your Pound is about 2 - 2.5 times our rate then we're talking about 10-12 Pounds I guess.

The Cab. I was talking about in my post was the yellow label however. What does it sell for over your way?

Larry Stumpf, S. Ontario, Canada

Yellow Label sells for as little as $A10 here if you wait for the right special. We still don't bother. In that price range, probably Stepping Stone CS and Jacobs Creek Reserve CS are as good as anything.

Tiggrr

I like a very inxpensive red with my spaghetti & other red meat talian dishes. It is just a bit sweet, full bodied (altough not veryomplex s you probably guessed. Her'es a sleeper under $10.00 Try a 1968 French Cotes du Rhone. unbelievably good for the price & I have a few bottles put away for years or so. It fills the mouth & will certainly age well for 5 or 10 years.

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Oh The cheap red is Carlo Rossi Paisano very simple, but enoyable

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Aha. You probably got it, Emery. I was trying to imagine a 35 yr old CdR from a vintage I'd never heard anything about. Even the '67s , from a well-regarded vintage both South and North Rhone, is probably pushing it except for the biggest Hermitages. I can't imagine any CdR ( even Fonsalette, Coudelet de Beaucastel, or Clape) going more than 15-20.

Dale

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Dale,

I've known a Rasteau or 2 that might go the distance. And of course, Vacqueyras was a Village in those days, up to '88 IIRC. Gigondas, too? When did they get the separate appellation?

Still, of course I take your point. I'm not going to argue for aging even the best CdR that long! ;)

Still, what happened to '68??

-E

Vacqeyras 1990, Gigondas 1971.

M.

An execrable year throughout Europe. And, as we know, the French have the attitude of simply not mentioning tnhese vintages after a certain time.

M.

An execrable year throughout Europe. And, as we know, the French have the attitude of simply not mentioning these vintages after a certain time.

M.

Thanks on both counts, Michael.

-E

We could debate which was worse, 1968 or 1965, while drinking a glass of 35 year old Beaujolais Nouveau......

No doubt paired with oysters on the half shell...

Mark Lipton

35 year old oysters???

st.helier

This has become somewhat of a rare specialty in France, a couple of

3-star restaurants occasionally serve 40 year old oysters. They require a massive hammer to open. I have not tasted them yet.

On the other hand, I would not drink a 40 year old BN with them.

Cheers Andrew, I'll try to find the giant oysters for next summer, OK?

Mike

1965. 1968 actually was quite good in Rioja & Ribera.

M.