miltiades wrote:Oracle wrote:miltiades wrote:On my 60th birthday a couple of years back when in trying to open a bottle of Petrus 82 I dropped it on the kitchen floor and it smashed !
I had saved that precious bottle for years and was earmarked to be drunk on my 60th .
You should have seen me on my knees on the kitchen floor !!
That's why you should always have a bottle in reserve ....
Deerie me ... come and share a pitcher of my "Village Red" ... is good tonight
Chateau Petrus 1982 isn't a vintage that one has reserves available !!
Miltiades dear .. have you read of the countless studies carried out with label-swappings on wines, which indisputably prove even the cheapest plonk would meet with approval from the best-nosed wine-snob if the "price was right" or the Chateau label correct! ....
Don't be fooled by appearances ....