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- buradayam - 05-31-2004
Please allow me to join the ranks of finding old wines...but it aint my fault, cuz they came with the bride...
What you think of the following wines, good? bad? worth the price of the crushed bottle? worth only the cork salvage?
Grand Vin de Chat Latour 1971
Chat Clarke Baron deRothschilde Listiac 1979
Monte Vertine Chianti Classico 1980
Steinweiler Kloster Liebfrauenberg 1989
Chat de Beaucastel Chat du Pape 1990
Beaune-Greves 1er Cru Dumaine Thomas Moillard 1990
Villa di Monte Chianti 1991
Ridge Calif Geyserville (68% zin 20% carignan 8%sirah) 1994
Chat Lyonnet Lussoc-St Emilion 1998
Thanks for your past and present advice
- winoweenie - 05-31-2004
Looks to me like someone knew a tad about good juice. Not familiar with all these dudes but the quality of he ones I know and have had are top flight. Let me know whenced youse wanna' open the Latuor, Lafite, the Rhones and the Ridge, and being the sweethart I be, I'll come down and help drink them dude-a-roonies. WW [img]http://wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img]
- buradayam - 05-31-2004
I did open one a cpl years ago...Immediately, it was terrific, but after it was exposed to the air for a few minutes, it turned on us.
Am thinking of auctioning them off on ebay rather than take the chance. Thats why I asked if they were any good...or what they are worth.
BTW, am on Cape Cod for the summer, not in FL as my profile shows.
- winoweenie - 06-01-2004
Lots of older wines need to have immediacy in the drinking. The fast track pays off handsomely. Have fun. WW
- Brom - 06-11-2004
"Am thinking of auctioning them off on ebay rather than take the chance"
Let me get this straight:
A couple of years ago, you opened a bottle and it turned out to have gone bad - "after it was exposed to the air for a few minutes, it turned on us".
So now, since you are worried that the wine you got for free might not be fit to drink, you want to sell these potentially bad bottles of wine to unsuspecting consumers? In this way, they get to suffer your disapointment and you will get to enjoy their money?
Have I got it right? If not please clarify.
- buradayam - 06-11-2004
Gee, I never knew that if one bottle is bad, regardless of type or age, then the whole bunch of bottles are bad. Never thought of it that way. I think you are absolutely correct. I should not put them on sale, for they have all turned.
Thanks for pointing that out to me. I will dump them.
- Drew - 06-11-2004
I wouldn't dump them before trying each one...you might have a sleeper that will gratify.
Drew
- newsguy - 06-11-2004
i've gotta say i'm with brom on this one. it seems pretty clear to me that buradayam is saying he wants to auction these bottles off for fear that some of them have gone over the hill. so he would rather somebody else pay to take that chance. if offering these bottles will truthfully include their provenenance and a warning that the buyer is taking a risk, then fine. but this sure comes off as: "i think these wines might have gone bad, so i'm going to sell them." if that's the case, its despicable.
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- buradayam - 08-05-2004
OK...we had the 1971 Grand Vin de Chateau Latour and it was really great!!!
My wife prefers to sell the rest of them, but from the comments heretofor, I think we will drink 'em. On the other hand, they WERE hers before we met. Dont know what to do.
Just thought that I would report to the bd that the '71 Latour was magnificent, cuz we really expected it to bomb...FWIW
- buradayam - 08-05-2004
PS...
found a 1971 ch Lafite Rothschild amongst the others in the wine rack, which I had not disclosed before. Looks like this will be next, as I have decided to work from older to newer...
- winoweenie - 08-06-2004
If you check my original answer you will note the lead-off wine. Don't expect the Lafite 71 to even come close to the Latour. The property was going thru a tough stretch during the 70s' and this was not a shining vintage. One you shoud drink after the Lafite is the Clarke, then the Ridge. The Beaucastel is still a baby.(Sorry Dananne).WW
- dananne - 08-06-2004
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