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I not care if you have 15,000 case of this...
and 10,000 bottles of that...What is your most prized bottle of wine>>>>>period.
YOU MUST HAVE THE FULL BOTTLE(S)...if you drank the last one.....
you don't have it anymore, that bottle doesn't count.If you have more than one favorite...sorry...pick ONE>>>>PERIOD.
REPEAT.......ONE..UNO...SINGLE...GREATER THEN ZERO BUT LESS THEN TWO.
ps.....port, sherry etc..DO NOT COUNT......
White...red...cab..merlot...be it from califronia, french, italy, germany...whatever you have you feel is your most prized bottle.....WHAT IS IT?
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1945 Mouton Rothchild
Have you ever tried a '45 Rothschild and if so what did you think? Unfortunately, I've never had the pleasure. It would be nice if we all had the time to jot down what we had over the weekend and overall impressions. This past weekend I had the pleasure of enjoying 2 with some friends 3 bottles of 1981 chateau margaux- WOW!!!!! I couldn't believe how delicious that bottle was. Knocked me off my feet. 81 was a very good year overall I believe, but I had never read or heard anyhting about the 81 margaux. HE said you can still find them under $150- which yes, its still expensive but not for a margaux and it tastes like a classic to me. I'll be looking/bidding at winebid for some at the next auction. Sorry for writing 4 bottles down on my post Steve- I read the title of your intial post w/out reading the actual message and got carried away. then I read the message and saw you only wanted 1 bottle. That will teach me to get a little less excited and read before I jump on the train eh?
If port can't be counted, it would have to be my one remaining bottle of Scott-Clark Cellars La Resultant D'Erreurs 1998. This was always a low-production wine, and a large percentage of cases were destroyed by the producers as the result of an insurance settlement, so there can't be too much of it floating around on the auction scene.
Hello Chris!I'm jealous that you've even seen a bottle, much less own one! This is one tough wine to find! I think I read about it in some magazine last year. There an aura of underworld skullduggery mixed with upper class shenanigins surrounding them...if I'm not mistaken, didn't the two owners (Scott and Clark) meet at prep school (they are both heirs to paper company fortunes, as in Scott Tissue and Kimberly-Clark)? They developed a special finishing filter making use of the latest tissue fabrication research into the weaving of hemp and titanium. However, they ran afoul of the law because the importation or growing of hemp violated several USDA regulations, not to mention a couple of rules administered by the DEA (if you get my drift). Plus the titanium was sourced from the former Soviet Union and it may or may not have come from a decommissioned missile silo and it may or may not be radioactive (which might in part explain the glowing reviews the wine received in the Wine Enthusiast). So it could be that the "insurance settlement" you alluded to above might actually be categorized as "destroying the evidence" but that's for others to decide, not me, not now. At least I'm knowing that I know someone who has a bottle. That's what, one degree of separation?
I'd like to chat more, but I've got to be getting back to work on my next Garden of Eden column. The kids were absolute terrors this weekend and Chet wasn't in a much better mood (he's a big time Giants fan and he's still pissed that the Giants didn't make it into the series and the Mets have turned out to be so lame) so I haven't had time to keep up like I normally do.
Adios amigos!
Eden
Eden, as far as I know Scott-Clark is a 'vin de garage' still run by Tony Scott, cousin of the Wine Asylum's very own Andrew Scott (my source for the precious bottle). I wouldn't be at all surprised as to the details that you refer to--my attitude at the time was pretty much 'thanks for the wine, I'll ask no uncomfortable questions about it.' ;-)Callahan did a nice piece on them a while back (he might have a contact number, I don't), but the details of their various scrapes with authorities escape me. I do know they ran into a bit of trouble a few years back for their experiments with redwood and pine barrel aging for their reds--I'm not sure what became of that program, but the 2000 chardonnay that we had (tank sample) a few nights ago was HUGE (14.5%)--a big change from the elegant, light 1999--and apparently sees no wood whatsoever, something that I find wonderfully refreshing coming out of California. From what I hear Tony's a bit of a 'character,' but the wine sure reflects his 'why ruin good grapes with oak' ethos.
On a strangely coincidental note, my wife roomed at college with a member of the Kimberly-Clark family. I wonder if there's a six-degrees kind of connection there... ?
maybe a bit longer if it is winter! otherwise i am not sure that AC is good enough for longer than a couple of months but I have not tried it.thought about cellar but for all kinds of reasons, bagged the idea.
maybe revisit it..
cheers
nt
(see, I told you it was mt)
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I have 4 bottles that will be very hard to decide when to drink:1887 Yquem
1900 1.5l Latour
1959 Lafite
1983 margaux
Welcome to the Wine Asylum the best place on the internet to talk about wine, and other stuff too!Your question is a real tough one. Can I take some time to think about it?
Best,
Kay
This is a pure botrysized Chardonnay from the Mâconnais that was a gift from the grower in 1986. I'm fond of the region and this has always been one of the consumate wine of the Mâconnais. I have one bottle left and have no idea when I will actually drink the wine. Maybe I'll just leave it for my kids or grandchildren.
sort of like a VT of Chardonnay, right? Last time I was in Paris the dude at Auge was all jazzed about 1985 Mags of that stuff. Did I make a mistake by passing?cheers.
nathan
Brugo Spanna 1975
I'm surprised no one has asked this before.Thanks Steve!
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