He doesn’t even realize he’s not gonna taste it
Except maybe a bit in mom’s milk.
As a bit of history — since I proposed to Blondie in Australia, its got a special place in my heart. For our wedding, my uncle from Perth asked “what do you want as a gift”, and I said Australian wine. Cheap Yellow-tail loving me was a little surprised when we got one bottle of wine.
Until I Googled it, a bottle of 1985 Henschke Hill of Grace.
We joked that it was pretty much reserved for celebrating the birth of our first born. Well, that time has come, and its time Mom and Dad got a night out.
There’s a precious few restaurants in town that will permit you to bring a bottle of wine. (Big contrast to Australia, let me tell you.) Probably because its not entirely legal. But some places will let you, and won’t rip you off on the corkage. (PS: Lumiere seems to rip you off on the corkage, so we’re not going there. But never mind, its just not the same after Rob left…) And so, we’re off to have a nice dinner tomorrow.
Pray for us, that the bottle isn’t corked.
8 comments Thursday 12 Jun 2008 | 24601 | SlantyNet - General
Pfft.. no way it can top that ‘wine’ from the pottery bottle we had last week (thanks for sharing that btw, I love crazy stuff like it)..
well, how was it?
Bottle wasn’t corked.
It was a fine, old wine.
I’m very glad we drank it, rather than saved it. Just to say we did it.
….
Of course, after a certain point, its… well… a law of diminishing returns.
A $20 bottle of wine often will taste better than a $10 bottle. (Even if you rule out the psychological factors.)
Maybe even “twice as good”, seeing as there’s some pretty bad $10 wine.
An $80 bottle of wine might often taste better than a $20 bottle. Unlikely that its going to taste “four times as good”, unless its a pretty bad $20 wine, or a fantastic $80 bottle.
But beyond that…?
They had 10 year old bottles of the same type of wine for $950 or thereabouts. Ours was 23 years old.
So we can rest very happy knowing that we’ve properly enjoyed the prize of our wine collection, and that it would probably have cost us four figures if we had bought it at the restaurant. Its probably not 100 or 200 times better than the ordinary table wine we’d buy, but it was good. Very good. It’ll be a story we can keep.
2€ per liter of wine. You can’t tell me that a $10 bottle is 3.333 times better, cause I’ve had a lot of $10 bottles of wine in my time, and this was just as good! Well, almost as good.
http://www.slate.com/id/2193847/
Anytime it’s priced by the liter that’s a good sign, like beer in Munich..
Woa, I missed this drinking. I know what you mean though, we cracked a 1992 Wynns reserve Cab Sav before we came over here. it was ok, not special, and maybe not even worth hanging on to for that long -but the only reason I hadn’t drunk it before last november was ’cause I couldn’t find a good enough excuse… stupid eh? Going to france for a wine trip for my B’day next month… i’ll be working on the per litre rating I think : )
Do you think I should drink the Kaiser to celebrate the birth of my first child?