QR Wine Thread
Mar 5, 2024, 2:46 am
#32
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Singapore
Programs: BA Gold. KrisFlyer Gold
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Interesting. That has all the hallmarks of a 'we can't really be bothered' wine list. Or - perhaps more charitably - a "we don't really know what we're doing" wine list.
Top notch champagne, a prestige Bordeaux, an interesting rioja, and a great port. Accompanied by 4 other reds, whites and a sticky that are totally out of place and have business class written all over them.
Top notch champagne, a prestige Bordeaux, an interesting rioja, and a great port. Accompanied by 4 other reds, whites and a sticky that are totally out of place and have business class written all over them.
Mar 5, 2024, 7:39 am
#34
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: NYC, FLL
Programs: UA PP 1MM, Marriott Bonvoy LTTE, BA Gold
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. Disappointed in the whites (and missing the Two Hands Ares Shiraz), but the QF F lounge in SYD pre-flight had an excellent Chardonnay. 
Mar 6, 2024, 11:12 am
#38
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
Programs: QR PC Platinum, TK M&S elite, UA silver, ITA Voltaire Executive (lol), Marriott Bonvoy Platinum
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Perhaps I’m biased because I’m USA-based, but I’m a little peeved that it seems that all routes *except* the North American ones have gotten LP Alexanderia and us yanks are stuck swilling down gosset . I have a few QR segments next month, so hopefully the good stuff will finally be available to us.
Mar 6, 2024, 11:30 am
#39
Join Date: Feb 2022
Programs: QRPC, BAEC
Posts: 682
Perhaps I’m biased because I’m USA-based, but I’m a little peeved that it seems that all routes *except* the North American ones have gotten LP Alexanderia and us yanks are stuck swilling down gosset . I have a few QR segments next month, so hopefully the good stuff will finally be available to us.
Not saying LHR/BKK isn’t usually filled with excessive drinkers either so I don’t think it’s to do with flight length or anything.
Though when I asked the Purser back in Dec (when it was re-introduced) she did mention they basically ran out stock for the 2006 vintage (we are seeing the 2007 ones now).
Mar 6, 2024, 11:43 am
#40
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
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Perhaps they did the math and considering one LP Alexandra bottle is probably the equivalent in price to BA’s entire wine stock for a LH J flight…
Not saying LHR/BKK isn’t usually filled with excessive drinkers either so I don’t think it’s to do with flight length or anything.
Though when I asked the Purser back in Dec (when it was re-introduced) she did mention they basically ran out stock for the 2006 vintage (we are seeing the 2007 ones now).
Not saying LHR/BKK isn’t usually filled with excessive drinkers either so I don’t think it’s to do with flight length or anything.
Though when I asked the Purser back in Dec (when it was re-introduced) she did mention they basically ran out stock for the 2006 vintage (we are seeing the 2007 ones now).
And as a slightly off topic aside, on a QR 380 flight to BKK last year, there was a group of (very friendly) brits in the bar chugging down LP Alexandria faster than a frat guy drinking jungle juice at the delta chi daylong! Good fun but I figure the LHR and BKK 380 flights must go through a ton of that to say the least.
Last edited by fender5787; Mar 6, 2024 at 4:41 pm
Mar 6, 2024, 11:52 am
#41
Join Date: Feb 2022
Programs: QRPC, BAEC
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And as a slightly off topic aside, on the only QR 380 flight I’ve taken to BKK last year, there was a group of (very friendly) brits in the bar chugging down LP Alexandria faster than a frat guy drinking jungle juice at the delta chi daylong! Good fun but I figure the LHR and BKK 380 flights must go through a ton of that to say the least.
Mar 6, 2024, 12:15 pm
#42
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: NYC, FLL
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Very true. I’ve never really noticed that many excessive drinkers on the USA flights compared to European and Asian flights. But again, anecdotal evidence so who knows the metrics. I do believe, however, the last time I was served LP Alexandria on QR (last June I believe) it was the 2007 but earlier in 2023 it def was 2007.
Mar 6, 2024, 1:27 pm
#43
formerly wchinchen
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Honolulu
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Perhaps they did the math and considering one LP Alexandra bottle is probably the equivalent in price to BA’s entire wine stock for a LH J flight…
Not saying LHR/BKK isn’t usually filled with excessive drinkers either so I don’t think it’s to do with flight length or anything.
Though when I asked the Purser back in Dec (when it was re-introduced) she did mention they basically ran out stock for the 2006 vintage (we are seeing the 2007 ones now).
Not saying LHR/BKK isn’t usually filled with excessive drinkers either so I don’t think it’s to do with flight length or anything.
Though when I asked the Purser back in Dec (when it was re-introduced) she did mention they basically ran out stock for the 2006 vintage (we are seeing the 2007 ones now).
Mar 6, 2024, 4:48 pm
#45
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
Programs: QR PC Platinum, TK M&S elite, UA silver, ITA Voltaire Executive (lol), Marriott Bonvoy Platinum
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Ahhh…but seeing how this label has become nearly Ptolemaic for many us of, that there’s been a veritable library of posts about it, and when it’s on QR wine list, I feel like a sailor seeing the lighthouse that this label is, emerging out of the darkness that’s the rest of the list, I don’t see the problem calling it Alexandria….(sorry, I’ll stop with the horrible history puns)