Cigars and red wine..That's breakfast sorted - what's for lunch and supper?
Eb
It would appear that you've also been 'snorting lines' under that corkscrew!!A Danish cigar smoking friend is arriving tomorrow for a 3 day boys weekend whilst Mrs Bebs is in Holland. Been prepping by extracting bottles and a magnum from the wine cellar, standing up Vintage Port and decanting 1970s Cognac & Armagnac (the corks disintegrate)
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Funnily enough you are not the first person to make that comment about our worktop!It would appear that you've also been 'snorting lines' under that corkscrew!!
Stags Leap!!I’m going through a box of assorted bottles that had been more or less forgotten in the cellar.
The cork crumbled on this when I was opening it, but the wine is surprisingly good. Despite the corky bits.
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Grange 1980!! Wow!Defo not opening this baby… I have kept it horizontal, dusted it and put it back in the box.
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Some nice Americans visited with it and other wines many years ago and I had been saving it. But having opened a few dodgy bottles this evening, I was sceptical about whether it had survived. Very pleased that it has!Stags Leap!!
High end Cali wine… seriously sought after and rare.
Well done for drinking a 1995!
It’s all about storage.Some nice Americans visited with it and other wines many years ago and I had been saving it. But having opened a few dodgy bottles this evening, I was sceptical about whether it had survived. Very pleased that it has!
The cellar in the house in London was pretty good at staying a steady temperature and humidity. Having sold that house, they’re all now in an unheated utility room! Better drink them sooner than later, in my view. There really aren’t many valuable bottles, just bits n bobs.It’s all about storage.
Longer than a year and you really need a proper cellar. Temperature fluctuations are a killer for wine.
A garage or a ‘wine cupboard under the stairs’ will not do.
For long term storage, it has to be temperature controlled.
I must admit on my recent tour around the UK this Summer it was a 50/50 chance of wether it would be good or mediocre.Continuing our tour of disappointing eateries along the south coast, now in Lyme Regis for a bit of knob, and some over priced mediocre fish View attachment 132921
Fingers crossed for you.This was expensive and supposedly very good, the chef is Mark Hix, but my locally chippy does better fish and the vegetables were worse than a school dinner! Into Devon today so maybe things will improve!!