les parcelles du potager-conservatoire
ianinfrance wrote:Anyway the translation is done and sent off, and I've finally (after 10 months or so) managed to go through my entire wine cellar, to bring my database up to date. Slightly depressingly I have managed to let a lot of bottles get badly too old. I can see there will have to be some serious oeno-gerontophilia taking place in the Hoare household.
Would that were the case (as the senior Inland Revenue officer said about his Miss Ford, when I suggested to him that she was contradicting herself because she was young and inexperienced)! Sady, I haven't been as assiduous as I should be about checking my wine list, rather than just grabbing bottles. The net result is that I've got - for example - quite a few very minor clarets from 1991 - and worse, two bottles of 1988 Sancerre (which one normally drinks young). What we'll be doing this year is therefore to bring upstairs one bottle of OTT red wine, and a back up of something less exciting, so if the elderly one is undrinkable then we've got the other to fall back on. As for the white, I'll do a similar sort of thing, but with a back up of an open wine box instead. To be honest, I'm not best pleased with myself - a 1972 kabinett Mosel really should have been drunk 37 years ago!StokeySue wrote:Surely after only 10 months slippage they won't be too far gone?
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