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« I should have my head examined | Main | Come with me to the fish market and the kitchen » Monday, July 16, 2007Over-the-hill gang?
After years of storing wine in a cool corner of our fieldstone cellar, we're installing one of those fancy cabinets that controls temperature and humidity. It isn't nearly big enough to hold everything, though, and deciding which bottles get to live there is proving a little tedious. Fragile wines have first dibs, then come ones we paid a lot for, or that just need long keeping. The triage, which took most of the past weekend and will use up another before we're done, produced some surprises. Among them, the quartet of classed growth geezers whose group portrait appears above. Left to right, that's 1970 Château Léoville Las Cases, 1966 Château Mouton-Rothschild, a magnum of 1970 Château Giscours, and 1970 Château Calon-Ségur. Two look pretty sound, but the others show signs of wear that could mean they've gone 'round the bend (note the suspiciously low fill on the Mouton). Bordeaux of this caliber is meant to last decades, but only when very carefully cellared. These wines should really have been consumed years ago, and there's no reason to hold them any longer. Over the next few weeks we'll be pulling the corks on these and letting you know which we drank and which we wound up sprinkling on the salad. Posted by Stephen Meuse at 03:51 PM
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