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Dream - November 11-04

Do Dreams become true, are they a reflections or an omen to things that will happen or have happened.

I was dreaming to have a nice glass of wine spilled by a wonderful princess. That dream followed me the next day and could not get out of my brain. So, I made it become true myself. I went in my cellar, brought up this nice bottle and started drinking and enjoying. When Kimberly appaeared with her toy box, the second part became true as well. A bottle, a princess that jumped right out of tales for children and a wonderful moment to live. What the hell does one wants more.


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Lou Giroud11-Nov-2004 19:42
Avito says that 1982 was a good year. to this I reply simply "yes & no".
1982 was a year with beautiful grapes and the autumn was so warm that when they harvested, the grapes started the fermentation on the way to the cellars.
The fermentation was too fast and nothing could stop it unles you had cooled fermentation containers. Wonderful taste, soft and easy to drink wines but no tanins and acidity, thus no shelflive and this was a catastrophe. Only those "Châteaux" which had at that time refrigerated fermentation systems made excellent long lasting wines. The lesson was learned and in the following years an explosion of installations of stainless systems with warming and cooling started. This for sure was the end of the bad years in Bordeaux and for sure also the beginning of the computer made wines which are most stereotyped every year in taste and none of interst anymore to my view. The pleasure to discover majestic wines in certain years, different tastes and values is gone. Following one brand is useless. In every year they taste the same, some years they are thicker or thinner, but that is all. The marketing strategies and the heavy demand for those wines makes that it get industrial, the real artist made wine where one can feel the spirit of the guy who made it is lost. Such wine can be found, but to do that you need to move your ass out of the highways of wine business.
Now, to come back to 1982. The best wine I ever tasted from Bordeaux in that year was Château d'Issan and the best in consistance and lifelength where Château Lascombes and his second wine Château Segonnes, the one shown here and that I drink with much pleasure.
jlm11-Nov-2004 19:29
Hum! Monsieur est connaisseur... Techniquement parfaite
Guest 11-Nov-2004 16:20
1982... C'était un très bon millésime!! La composition est superbe!
Donna Lear11-Nov-2004 15:29
The princess reminds me of the clips I've seen on TV for that movie about the crazed doll that comes to life and does, well, crazed things. I love your explanations for the photos .. as beautifully done as the photography.
Guest 11-Nov-2004 15:25
A subtle little number... nice bouquet and rich tones!!!
Guest 11-Nov-2004 14:58
I'm scared of the princess...but I'll take the wine!
Guest 11-Nov-2004 12:26
You must have one helluva cellar, that you can go down and grab a 1982 margaux from it. Can I come over for dinner?