On Apr 1, 2:55*pm, Mark Lipton > wrote:
> Last night, to accompany a dinner of larks' tongues in aspic, I decided
> to open a bottle recently acquired from Bernie Madoff:
>
> 1947 Ch. Cheval Blanc St. Emilion
> nose: Chanel No. 5, durian fruit, frankincense, myrrh, Panama Red
> palate: an iron fist in a velvet glove, hedonistic liquid Viagra with a
> 6 hour finish
>
> A phenomenal wine that gave no indication of its advanced age, the
> screwcap was removed easily with Port tongs and a saber. *The wine
> itself was a startling pink-chartreuse in color with an ullage of 6 m.
> It was decanted into our special purpose Riedel Premier Grand Cru Classé
> St. Emilion decanter and provided an exquisite 35 seconds of pleasure.
> Without question, this was the finest showing for this wine in my
> experience.
>
> After this memorable meal, we settled on a digestif of 2009 Mogen David
> "MD 20/20" as the only appropriate accompaniment.

Either the date has something to do with this review, or some of your
students slipped some funny mushrooms in some of your food :-). I saw
another most amazing review of the new IE9 browser today. It is clamed
they are going to use Firefox code for it :-).

When I first saw the "review" I hoped you had tasted some 47 Cheval
Blanc, because I have a single bottle bought long ago at a price only
a tiny fraction of what the wine now likely sells for, and I hoped to
see some recent tasting notes.