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Pastimes : Tasted Any Good Wines Lately? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edwarda who wrote (143)	12/30/1998 7:25:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 300

Or is it the hubris that says, "We can do anything"? Yea well, so I can shoot my foot as well.... ...or, I will average down to zero (in my trusty ole bb [flea]stock) He, he, he... sure I can do anything too. What waste, imagine with all the resources they have.... they could potentially match the Rheingau in the Riesling production, quality-wise (maybe). Or how about trying a combination of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon Blanc as they do in that little house in the praire, whatchamacall it? Chateau d' Yquem... he, he, he... I really do not know if they could replicate the same thing, as the grape of their late harvest (Riesling) is different than the Semillon & Sauvignon Blanc combination of the great d' Yquem.... but hey, if that's the attitude, why not give it a try, on a small vineyard. I know in Washington state make good semillon, and sauvignon... all they would need is to replicate the boytritis cinerea, (that causes the pourriture noble, or noble rot). Hmm, come to think about it... with all the bio-genetic engineering I wonder if that could be done... Then again, today, there is only ONE Chateau d'Yquem, the most voluptuous wine in the world !! I like it that way better, otherwise, imagine Lucrecia McEvil would start making d'Yquem style wines like barbie dolls. Forget the whole thing. Not to mention that the most of the "picking" could not be highly mechanized, so I think the world is safe from Ms. McEvil. Wheuuuu ! p.s. I found the note that says the following: Vintage 1784 Discovered in an undivulged querters of Paris by Mr. Rodenstock, (*) this is presumed to be one of the 250 bottles of 1784 purchased by Thomas Jefferson from comte Louis Amede de Lur Saluces in 1788. Engraved in the glass are the words: "L. Sauvaged'Yquem", and the letters "T.J.". Tasted at Wiesbaden on 14 October 1985, Michael Broadbent, in a Christie's catalogue, reports that: "The wine was perfect in every sense: colour, bouquet and taste". (That was a 201 year old wine at the time). The book is : Yquem by Richard Olney, ISBN 0-87923-644-2 page 151 "Vintage Notes"