No more Y d’Yquem 2011 in F after 10/23?
Dec 1, 2014, 11:01 am
#16
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Oxon, UK
Programs: Mucci des canapes, Skywards Gold, BAEC Gold, IC Plat Amb, Accor Gold
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Flew from SYD-CHC at the weekend and the purser told me that they had run out of Grange on the BKK-SYD sector. She seemed a bit surprised by the demand until I told her the approximate retail cost of a bottle. Her comment, 'I was thinking of buying a bottle to try as it was so popular but I don't think I'll bother now.'
It was very good.
It was very good.
Dec 2, 2014, 2:40 am
#17
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Oxon, UK
Programs: Mucci des canapes, Skywards Gold, BAEC Gold, IC Plat Amb, Accor Gold
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Sitting in the QF lounge in Sydney for 2 hours waiting for a domestic connection and feeling bored I decided to try and work out the average price of the wine in the EK F list for their Australian flights. It works out at US$110 per bottle - $180 if those wines also on the J list are excluded. It is not possible to be completely accurate as two of the wines are not commercially available but estimates were made from closest equivalent or vintage.
The figure is skewed by the Penfolds Grange at present (retails at around $500 per bottle) but even so half the wines are priced at $100 or more.
The purser on my flight today took my suggestion that some of the reds should be decanted seriously and is apparently going to suggest it as a unique EK enhancement.....
The figure is skewed by the Penfolds Grange at present (retails at around $500 per bottle) but even so half the wines are priced at $100 or more.
The purser on my flight today took my suggestion that some of the reds should be decanted seriously and is apparently going to suggest it as a unique EK enhancement.....
Dec 2, 2014, 12:34 pm
#19
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Oxon, UK
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It is the 2005 (opened a decade or two too early). It is lovely though (particularly after an hour or two) - not sure stocks will last long enough to sell any 
Dec 5, 2014, 3:46 pm
#21
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Oxon, UK
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And gone again
No more Grange on the Australian routes after today (according to services by flight) - either they've run through the stock or have decided to take eternaltransit's suggestion! Hoping for the much reported inaccuracy of the services by flight information as I'm travelling on Monday 
No more Grange on the Australian routes after today (according to services by flight) - either they've run through the stock or have decided to take eternaltransit's suggestion! Hoping for the much reported inaccuracy of the services by flight information as I'm travelling on Monday
Dec 10, 2014, 2:21 pm
#22
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: BOS & SFO
Programs: Alaska MVP Gold
Posts: 675
Ce n'est pas français 
The nationality of the wine doesn't bother me at all (generally prefer new world wines and EK have had some stunners in the past - Torbreck RunRig and the Curly Flats pinot come to mind). I will be trying the riesling but it will have to be very special to match the Y
The nationality of the wine doesn't bother me at all (generally prefer new world wines and EK have had some stunners in the past - Torbreck RunRig and the Curly Flats pinot come to mind). I will be trying the riesling but it will have to be very special to match the Y
