I personally likej half-bottles, unless they're an excuse for having a bad wine-by-the-glass program. FORGET ABOUT WHEN YOU SAY YOU'LL ORDER A HALF-BOTTLE... WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU DID I...
Pretty mediocre wine. It would be worthwhile for you to buy a few bottles though, just for the containers and caps. Then you can buy a full bottle of something _good_, pour 3/4 of it into the small bo...
Tom,
Absolutely. Last week I bought 2 bottles of 98 Monbousquet from $42, 2 bottles of 98 Figeac for 44$ and 2 bottles of 99 Beaucastel Chateaunuef du Pape for $51. They seem to be properly cared ...
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A bottle lying down takes up as much room as a bottle standing up. The same is true for two bottles, or two million bottles.
... you obligated to purchase a bottle of wine or can you just sample along the way? I can drink just so many bottles and don't want to bring run of the mill bottles home .(through customs)
I re...
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Hi Archon, Mark,
Just to chime in, I checked a couple of Font de Michelle bottles, the Gonnet and the tradition (in '88 and '90 anyway) are in the same bottles, only the lable...
In answer to all... easy Jeep Cherokee, luggage on the roof, bottles wrapped in towels in plastic crates in the boot + ready boxed. As far as customs go I have been stopped once, I took a couple of VI...
Looking what everyone thinks the best time to drink the following bottles
1987 - Chateau D'Armiallac 1988 - Chateau Coutet Sauterne 1st Cru 1990 - Laurent Perrier Grande Siecle 1.5L bottles 1...
... let your boughts sitting for a couple of weeks after the purchase? I've noticed that when I buy some bottles, the worst of all of them is usually the one I open the day of the purchase.
Glad...
... side and rotated at least once a year. The older an eiswein, the higher the price.
I currently have 6 bottles of a 2002 eiswein that we brought back from Germany with us. We are saving them for ...
There're are still a few bottles out there, but not for long. Don't worry though. I hear the 1999s are excellent.
Tom S
I have been told that with most bottles that you can buy in a store, standing them upright wont hurt. Jeff
...n afford to put it down in a climate controlled cellar. I would also recommend buying at least a couple of bottles. The good thing is that you can start saving now for the bottles that are coming onto...
...ehter a wine list. Most of the wines are in $20-30 range with about a 1/4 of the list being higher and 3-4 bottles well over $100. Being in Chicago, I don't think that you could go much lower tha...
...never seem to quite what they should. And it is important to remember that recorking is not done on flawed bottles. So my 1966 most likely suffered in the year after it was recorked before I got it. A...
...Most of the wine offerings on wine-searcher are from specialty merchants that impose pretty high prices on bottles with the intention of selling them slowly to people who really need that bottle etc. ...
...er canned them. When I pulled them out of the water it seemed that some of the brine had leaked out of the bottles. I was wondering if they would still be good to eat?...
Simultaneously so is it going to be selled in blue bottles with a big yelow happy face on them ?.
a possible slogan than could be
" our grapes make the difference "
...n returning, I retrieved a few cases of wine that I'd left behind before my trip. Amongst the various bottles were some my wife and I picked up on our honeymoon to the west coast of the USA in 19...
hi!
can you please tell me where can I find some second-hand line for bottling wine, some 100-200 bottles/hour, not too expensive?
any information valuable, TIA!
best regards,
...ception_, rather than birth (assuming that the dates match up) - you can still find a few rather nice 1971 bottles!...
...s for the replies. My follow-up question is this. Does anyone have a cabinet-type cellar that fits 350-500 bottles AND is quiet enough to put in a living room without it being irritating?
Blues, D...
...Advanced Tasting Program. It's a wine club operation that Ridge offers in which members get a pair of bottles about every six weeks throughout the year of limited production Ridge wines. Typicall...
...t me put that caveat out there until I can figure out the facts, but my understanding is that only 50 half bottles of that one were made. That is what Parker published anyway....
I have bottles of Red
Chateau Haut-Brion 1976
Opus One 1981
Opus One 1982
Opus One 1983
Can anyone tell me when these wines can be open and how long can they be cellared?
Thank...
...e stored at room temperature or does it need to be refridgerated? If so, how long? I have been keeping the bottles in the fridge, but then you have to remember to pull them out an hour or so before di...
...have to know about it, now do they... I think I'll stop in at the local wine shop and grab a few half bottles.
Happy Hollidays to you too!...
...idiotic. I mean, if someone has a few cases of 98 Mouton, how crazy would it be to trade just one of those bottles for an historic bottle of 73... granted the contents aren't what we'd wish,...
...the meade when it was bottled. This would allow me to test the aging at various stages without opening any bottles. Does anyone have any comments on this idea?
Thank you for your time, Rodger Cast...
... investment looking for profits?
It is quite possible that you'll be better off buying the wanted bottles when you need them......
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