Community Tasting Note

The Kid wrote:

Monday, February 25, 2008 - This is, exactly as advertised, an absolutely terrific wine. Having read in a "bring your own bottle" article in a well known wine magazine that a partcular well known London restaurant's equally well known sommellier would consider allowing customers to bring their own bottle provided the same was an "amazing" wine, I decided to chance my luck with a bottle of G-L 1990. I emailed said sommellier, who promptly responded that I could bring along my bottle for a reasonable corkage fee of the cost of the restaurant's house wine (£20). For fear of the dreaded cork taint, I burrowed into my cellar and prised out two bottles of the marvellous nectar and on the appointed evening took them along with me to the restaurant. It was a matter of chance which bottle was opened first. The first whiff of the wine took myself and my lady companion into a delighted reverie. The junior sommelliere, who poured the first tasting portion fell into a swoon. She was so overcome that it would have been heartless not to have offered her a glass, which the head sommellier kindly allowed her to take 15 minutes in the back to consume at her relative leaisure. The wine itself was absolutely and unbelievably delicious - smooth, subtle, sweet tannins and with a refeshing acidity, even after 18 years in bottle.
The second bottle made its way on the followigng week-end to a dinner party in deepest Sussex in the English countryside. With approprate fanfare and an overblown introduction from me the ottle was opened and ............ pure vinegar.
As Kurt Vonnegut would have observed at such a moment, "so it goes".

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