Our annual attempt to attempt to compete with the Tucson Lunch Bunch

[Blake_Brown]

@Howard Cooper

@Blake Brown

Fabulous dinner wines Howard. Great write up and useful notes on many wines I have cellared. Amazing that there were no flawed wines. How many attended?

11, but we also gave some wine to the chef, the waitress, etc.

Nice

[Karl_K]

@Howard Cooper

@Karl K

I opened a 1990 Taittinger Comtes on NYE and it was more evolved than a bottle of the same I opened 6 months before - bottle variation?

Could be. But, I often find that differences in bottles are the result of one of them being heat damaged. Cannot tell that the wine is ruined, just that it is not quite right. Did you own these from the start or buy them later?

Yes that too entered my mind, good point, it could have been suboptimal storage.

I did not have them from release, but I did get the from the same source. But doesn’t mean they had identical storage.

[Panos_Kakaviatos]

Hello all! My notes and plenty of pictures are here:
http://wine-chronicles.com/blog/haut-brion-and-yquem-and-more/

[Glenn_L_e_v_i_n_e]

Great photos! No girls allowed?

[Randall_McFarlane]

Amy had a conflict.

[Glenn_L_e_v_i_n_e]

Considering the line-up that is a conflict I would have resolved!

[Blake_Brown]

@Panos Kakaviatos

Hello all! My notes and plenty of pictures are here:
http://wine-chronicles.com/blog/haut-brion-and-yquem-and-more/

Extremely well done. I love the names and faces especially with some WBs who I`ve never met, but relate to on the site. Also the individual wine pics and write up are a great way to present something of this magnitude. Kudos/ bravo.

[David_Glasser]

Very impressive report on a great night, Howard. Thanks for sharing!