Originally Posted by
BiziBB
Spying Jeff's 90 Grange
I'm interested in whether you mentally mark certain wines to be opened in a particular year or for a paticular even or anniversary.
(I didn't even see the 86 there at first- mentally the 88 and 90 are the only ones I look for!)
(That is, if you don't sell it or decide to hold onto it indefinitely until you feel the need to open it!)
I ask because our own senses including taste and smell probably decline after a cetain point and the pleasure of the wine may be diminished if we
leave ourselves too long, not
only the wine.
No doubt, the occasion for the wines above will be
very special.
Well, for sure, it's better to drink it "too early" than "too late".
As someone (James Halliday?) said when asked how he could could bear to drink a great expensive vintage wine from his cellar, "how could I bear not to"? It costs money to put them in there, but costs
nothing to take them out.