What bottle of wine did you NOT open today

WINE TALK
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Okay, this thread will probably land with a thud, but yesterday’s experience inspired it.

I had planned to open a half bottle of Krug GC with dinner. All day long I floated around buoyed by gleeful anticipation. Then I started cooking, trying to keep all the balls in the air and time everything perfectly, and completely forgot to chill the bottle.

I briefly considered the desperate ice-water emergency chill, but by then the mood had passed. We wound up skipping wine entirely with dinner.

So: what wine did you plan to open, and why didn’t you?

Did you pull an Alfert and drop it?

Did your guests annoy you enough that you decided they weren’t worthy?

Did someone arrive with a bottle of plonk they insisted everyone try?

Did you pivot to beer?

Did you stare at a prized bottle for 15 minutes, decide it “needs more time,” and return it to the cellar for your heirs to deal with?

Let’s hear the stories of the bottles that got away.

Cheers,
Warren

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At our place, it’s usually my wife mentioning she’s been taking Tylenol for the painful joint du jour. There are some bottles I’m not gonna open if I’m drinking alone.

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all of them

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Maybe we’re reaching the same age. I was just telling Marybeth while hiking today that I’ve come to accept that not a day goes by when something doesn’t hurt. Fortunately, it still hasn’t affected my lifestyle or kept me from doing the things I enjoy.

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I have this dilemma that I’m acquiring wines I’ve never tasted in current vintages. Every time I go to grab one I go this “This needs time” and I proceed to put it back :joy:. Happened today with a G. Mugneret VR.

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Favorite line of a song, from The Tragically Hip:” no one’s interested in something you didn’t do.”

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Rayas 2010. CellarTracker says 4 bottles. Bank account says 4 bottles. Buddy came over, I decided it was time for a go. Can’t find any of the four.

I’m hoping they’re in Switzerland.

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For me it’s usually something on the older slider that I’ve been pining over all day. Then the time comes and I realize that I wouldn’t really care for an intellectual experience.

The inverse is also true where I will have no intention of opening something supremely cool/interesting/deep and then the time arises when maybe wouldn’t normally make sense for me given the crowd, cuisine or otherwise. Those bottles just knock it out of the park

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Sorry Warren this just makes no sense at all. Call yourself a Berserker!

Honestly I am disappointed in you.

Brodie

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A recurring “reason” is the feeling I want to include the wine in a particular tasting flight, theme, comparison, etc.

But of course I have 5x or 10x or 20x as many wines that are suitable for such gatherings as I have such gatherings.

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Presumably the bottle was already cool from the cellar/wine refrigerator, or was it really room temperature? Can always pour the first glass a bit on the warm side and then have the bottle ready by the time the next glass occurs.

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So true. I’m so ashamed!

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There’s always tomorrow.