My son got married today. Small group - 10 people. If you have wines that you really really like, what better time to drink them. I just can’t see saving things. We are collectors in name only, we don’t collect to hoard, at least I don’t. What else is a collection for - to enjoy and to celebrate. You may personally have preferred other wine choices, which is fine, but I know my audience and this was the right stuff.
My son is a white wine drinker, so in addition to champagne to start, it was time to pull out a good white and the only rose I have found that’s worth drinking. My other son and I like big reds, so that that seemed like a good idea as well. Here’s the happy couple. No better excuse to open the good stuff.
From left, front row:
2010 Schrader RBS
2007 Saxum James Berry Vineyard
2013 Sine Qua Non In The Abstract
2009 Paumanok Late Harvest Riesling
2004 Dom Perignon
2013 Sine Qua Non And an Eight Track
1999 Pol Roger Winston Churchill
Mazel tov indeed, young man. What a delight to share great wines on such an occasion. And congratulations to everyone involved in the decision to have an intimate and loving celebration and not a future-burdening extravaganza. Well done all round
Very good, but still a baby. A little drier than the DP. I do not like ultra brut and I find most Krug to be annoyingly bitter, although recently I have had some very good NV. This PR was my last of three bottles and it was outstanding, but I think it is not at its peak. Just beginning to take on tertiary characteristics. I do not have a lot of experience with old champagne, but if I had another bottle and no good excuse to open it, I might wait until its 20th Birthday.
