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Subject: [Leica] wine tasting...
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:36:19 -0700
References: <79D02295-AF7A-456D-8063-30A80E501BE4@gmail.com>, <5CC2FA545F7A4CFEBC14D245399086B3@Family>, <p06230908c7dddac36815@[192.168.1.5]> <COL119-W16FBDA972D3B1FA74491E0821A0@phx.gbl>

Stolen my thread, in a nice direction,

but stolen nonetheless....

Steve

Sent from my iPhone
Steve Barbour

On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Greg Lorenzo <gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com>  
wrote:

>
> Henning Wulff writes in part:
>
>> That was one Premier Cru I managed to buy at a reasonable price once.
>> I got a bottle of Chateau d'Yquem 1959 (a very good year) for $10.00
>> in 1970. This was in Alberta, where the government liquor stores
>> bought wines on futures at the time. I'd come back from a year in
>> Europe and had done a lot of wine tasting and auxiliary learning, and
>> knew about Chateau d'Yquem. Apparently not that many other Albertans
>> did. So I picked up a couple of bottles, and had them with family.
>> Remarkable!
>
> I still have 6 bottles of 1989 Chateau Margaux that I purchased as  
> part of a futures contract from Andrew Hilton Fine Wines in  
> Lethbridge in 1988. Stored away to age and then forgotten. I became  
> rather sensitive to sulfites in red wine in the meantime and so the  
> wine still sits to this day.
>
> Greg Lorenzo
> Calgary, Canada
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