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"Old Europe" has more millionaires
Earl Evleth wrote:
Like wine, some years are better than others. Evidently 1931 Good, 1932 Bad, for people. Well, since I was born in 1929, I hope you all will be appropriately deferential to any opinion I may express. -- Ron (elder statesman wannabe) P.S. Earl, I, too, enjoy your balanced and amiable postings on life in France. |
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On 26/12/03 16:43, in article , "Ronald
Hands" wrote: Earl Evleth wrote: Like wine, some years are better than others. Evidently 1931 Good, 1932 Bad, for people. Well, since I was born in 1929, I hope you all will be appropriately deferential to any opinion I may express. Yipes, you outclassed us all "1929 One of the finest vintages this century. Red Bordeaux from this year is sought after the world over. Glorious, full-bodied and fragrant, these wines are a pure delight now and will continue to develop with style well into the next century. The star was undoubtedly Chateau Latour which has been showered with a wealth of superlatives at tastings ever since." -- Ron (elder statesman wannabe) P.S. Earl, I, too, enjoy your balanced and amiable postings on life in France. That was a while back, I do too much politics now. My wife complains that I am getting mean in my "golden years". By the way I never have tasted a wine that old. The list at http://www.gotogifts.co.uk/system/index.html had no Chateau Latour, nor any 1929 wines. When we first lived France and drove around in the mid-60s I bought some excellent Bordeaux wines for not much, less than $10 a bottle. Now the run to much. At that time, when my reseach director came on a trip to Paris, we took him and his wife to the restaurant on the lst floor of the Tour Eiffel. We had a bottle of Batard Montrachet, the restaurant price was not too high ($20). The current prices around around $300. It really is a great white but I would not have the courage to spend that on a bottle of wine now. Anyway, you can brag about being a living equivalent to the Chateau Latour. And I feel like Coca-Cola, sob! Earl |
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Earl Evleth wrote:
Anyway, you can brag about being a living equivalent to the Chateau Latour. Thanks. I needed that. It's so much better than having the year of my birth associated with the start of the Great Depression. :-) -- Ron Hamilton, ON |
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Ronald Hands muttered....
Earl Evleth wrote: Anyway, you can brag about being a living equivalent to the Chateau Latour. Thanks. I needed that. It's so much better than having the year of my birth associated with the start of the Great Depression. :-) Having had to live with October, 1939 for 64+ years, I can only expect that it was better than September of the same year. As for the French vintages of the period, the French military, ceretainly not deficient in numbers or equipment (and not so poor in morale or motivation as some here have suggested), but governed by the idologically and politically bankrupt and generaled by the inept and unable, saw to it that the French delivered much of the better bottlings over to their new masters with whom they cooperated at at shocking and disgraceful level....cooperation at lower levels having serious postwar consequences, while among the affluent and "connected" it even led to rewards. History may note that even the Italians, partners in the Axis, presented more obstacles and cooperated less in the arrest and transportation of Italy's Jews than did the French who have left for the future all those grainy film clips of French police and paramilitaries rounding up and sheperding Jewish refugees and "home grown" French Jewry into the German maw. For folks who must wear those tarnished and tawdry mementos on the national lapel to argue over head scarves serves only to highlight the charade in which culture occupies a higher priority than character, an excess of the first hardly outweighing a record in which the second continues to run well on the deficit side of the ledger. TMO |
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