Given your career, I'm sure you've had the opportunity to taste a number of truly great wines. If you were to get "nostalgic" and do a retrospective evaluation of your experiences, which wines stand out as truly memorable - and why?
Looking Back
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malachi
, Jun 24 2003 10:39 AM
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Jancis Robinson
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Posted 25 June 2003 - 06:55 AM
This will have to be written intuitively rather than reflectively. I think I will always remember the bottom of a a particular magnum of Cheval Blanc 47 left for me at the end of a v OTT dinner in Burgundy in Sep 94 as I flew in from London. It just seemed heavenly - and better than any other example of this wine I have been lucky enough to taste.
Then there was the 1811 of the array of Yquems opened by Hardy Rodenstock at an extraordinary event over a week in Sep ?99? in Munich - quite amazingly like raspberry creme brulee.
But there was also a bottle of regular, pre-transformation Charles Heidsieck NV that was nothing special as a wine but was drunk lying in tropical vegetation looking up at the southern sky on an island off Tahiti in 1988 that tasted pretty damned wonderful. ...
Then there was the 1811 of the array of Yquems opened by Hardy Rodenstock at an extraordinary event over a week in Sep ?99? in Munich - quite amazingly like raspberry creme brulee.
But there was also a bottle of regular, pre-transformation Charles Heidsieck NV that was nothing special as a wine but was drunk lying in tropical vegetation looking up at the southern sky on an island off Tahiti in 1988 that tasted pretty damned wonderful. ...
