Philip Fibiger » drinks http://www.fibiger.org It crossed my mind that you might consider that a possibility... Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 1969 Hermitage http://www.fibiger.org/2006/01/202/ http://www.fibiger.org/2006/01/202/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:40:16 +0000 philip http://www.fibiger.org/2006/01/202/


The last few years at Christmas my Dad and I have gone down into the cellar and rooted through some really old wines he has. Their storage has been decent, but suboptimal, and last year we opened a California red from the early 70’s that had half a cup of sediment in it and had totally turned.

This year we opened a Rhone red from 1969, and it was in remarkable shape. It was still a deep ruby color with hints of caramel brown, and had a really complex finish. It was an excellent wine, and I hope we do this well with some of the rest of his cellar. It makes me want to buy some wines that’ll cellar well and stick them away so that I can open them in 20-30 years with my kids.

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