I am scared, however Alfert would need to break the world record for building the longest tunnel, in order to succeed
He is always welcome to visit though, should he come to Copenhagen
I also have smaller verticals of Magdelaine and Figeac
The funny thing is, Sociando and Magdelaine are amongst my deepest verticals. I have the Maggie with some nice old years like 70, 75, 82 and 85, up to 2011. Would have to go count for total vintages. Among some of the popular Board wines, I have a straight vertical of Gonon back to 2007, a run of Levet back to 2004, Baudry back to 2005, and a mess of Ridge. Lanessan is all over the map, too.
This is one of those questions I struggle with all the time: What am I building the vertical for? I realize that wine collecting is almost as much a hobby as it is about actually drinking the wine, so from that perspective I get it, but what am I going to do: have a bunch of people over and drink 20 vintages of Chave Hermitage? While that sounds AWESOME, I don’t have enough wine friends that would appreciate this (or that could reciprocate the offer with a similar wine, for that matter).
So if I’m just going to end up pulling my one bottle of 1994 and taking it to dinner with me one night, why am I spending time hunting vintages in auctions to build the vertical? I don’t have the kind of cash to build a vertical by the case - as fun as that sounds - so once I pull a single bottle… then what? I need to hunt it again at auction … or is the game ever over–did I win? I do consciously avoid bottles that are part of a vertical in my cellar for fear of “breaking up the vertical” … which brings me back to: what am I doing this for?