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- dananne - 12-01-2003
to open up a cheap bottle of jug wine to pour down the sink to appease the wine gods. For the FIFTH straight Thanksgiving, the first bottle I opened was BAD!!!
The list of casualties over the years:
1994 Marques de Murrieta Ygay Gran Reserva Rioja
1999 Sanford Santa Barbara Pinot Noir
1999 Clos la Chance Zinfandel
1989 Chateau Musar (Lebanon)
This year, thankfully, I first opened only a Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau. I was still a bit cranky about it, however, as it ruined my plans for a taste-off of 3 different Nouveaus. Instead, I just opened an Argyle Pinot Noir and was done with it.
It is so very odd, too, that Thanksgiving proves such a horror. In looking over my notes, Thanksgiving bad bottles account for about half of all the bad bottles I've opened! I hardly ever open a bad bottle now that I've got a refrigerated cellar.
Just wierd.
- Thomas - 12-01-2003
The moral of your story--either drink on Thanksgiving only what comes from your cellar, or drink your Thanskgiving wine the night before and let someone else supply the T day wine!
- winoweenie - 12-01-2003
As mentioned once or so before.....PROVENANCE.....So. France Foodie. WW [img]http://38.118.142.245/ubb2/wink.gif[/img](giggle harumppph)
- Kcwhippet - 12-01-2003
Ah, Provenance. What a wonderful single malt Scotch!