| Mark Lipton |
Nils Gustaf Lindgren wrote:
> Mmmm, not old, really, vintage of 2002, so, is ... (feverish calculation,
> ending in slightly blue smoke venting from selfīs ears) a couple of years
> only. But Iīd love to see it evolve, and perhaps a tasting with a few
> Germans, possibly a light Alsatian ... say in 2007, or 2008 ...
Keep in mind that the ones I tasted in Dec. 2001 were from the 2001
vintage! ;-) Yours, by contrast, are "aged."
> <chidingly> But Good Herr Doktor Professor, we DID. Donīt you remember an
> unlabelled bottle, produced under exhortations to complete silence (password
> is swordfish), a very dark fluidum ... sssh ... this is not supposed to be
> generally known ... and self remarking, This has a very mineral nose (I did,
> I swear I did, I had, in 2001, an opinion of a wine in front of Mark Lipton
> and Mike Tommasi) and you answered, yes, itīs funny how it sort of
> leaves/passes through teh fruit and becomes only mineral ... something of
> that kidney ...(the comment after the ellipsis was mine, not yours).
> </chidingly>
Oo..er.. Nils, you have the best of me. I have no recollection of that
incident, but after a day spent in the presence of the infamous M.
Tommasi and your esteemed selves anything is indeed possible (though
Tour de bon was the first stop of the day, ne c'est pas?)
Mark Lipton
p.s. That trip was the impetus for me to start keeping detailed tasting
notes in a notebook. You see why now. I am now a much more tedious
tasting companion than I was then! :P
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