Doomsday Wine

[Peter Creasey]

Given the doomsday forecast, I decided to finish out current life with a fairly nice wine.

We had the Chateau Haut Batailley '82. Really nice in a very evolved sort of way. Classic cigar box, still viable fruit, cassis, dark berries, no edges, delicious. Only wish I had not decanted it so as to have prolonged its liveliness a bit longer into the meal.

Served with smothered round steak with mushrooms, pasta, field peas.

A good way to celebrate the apparent false alarm doomsday scenario.

. . . . . Pete

 

[Cory Cartwright]

I had a 2006 Clos Rougeard Clos last night and God was all "whoa, let's wait until this wine comes around, at the very least."

 

[Bryan Garcia]

I opened a Vouette & Sorbee Rose (4/12/2010) and it is delicious.

 

[Kay Bixler]

2000 Breton Les Picasses here, with braised squab no less, drinking okay but still needs a few years—'99 is where it's at these days.

Really thought I would be in heaven right now, the dog too—despite what everybody said. Very disappointed.

 

[Marc D]

Beer day here,
La Fin du Monde of course.

I'm still here, but I think the sun was raptured away.

 

[Jay Miller]

A small glass of 1970 Lemorton Calvados.

 

[Cliff]

2002 Roillette regular, the best bottle in awhile.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Jay Miller:
A small glass of 1970 Lemorton Calvados.

We went out to dinner tonight after Andrew's last soccer game (figured no problem finding an open table after 6) and had a bottle of a very fairly priced Taittinger "Cuvée Prestige" with dinner. After all this time of drinking grower Champagnes and sparkling Vouvray, this Champagne seemed... coarse. Quite the surprise and a great way to spend the beginning of The Apocalypse (does anyone care about the semantic drift of that word? In Greek, it literally means revelation, as in the Apocalypse of St. John. Just sayin')

Mark Lipton

 

[Zachary Ross]

2009 Gonon - believe the hype.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Marc D:
Beer day here,
La Fin du Monde of course.

Perfect.

 

[David M. Bueker]

1998 J. J. Christoffel Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Eiswein - if the end had come I would not have cared.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by David M. Bueker:
1998 J. J. Christoffel Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Eiswein - if the end had come I would not have cared.

Are you fully back on the saddle?

 

[David M. Bueker]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by David M. Bueker:
1998 J. J. Christoffel Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Eiswein - if the end had come I would not have cared.

Are you fully back on the saddle?

No, but working on climbing up. Thanks for asking.

 

[Florida Jim]

Curiously, my own.
I guess I forgot what day it was.
Best, Jim

 

[Cole Kendall]

Mantlerhof Roter Veltliner 1999 "Hommage"...would not have wanted the world to end without having tried an RV.

 

[Larry Stein]

1989 Les Roches Chinon at Frances. Sandi and I celebrated our birthdays (13 days apart).