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| "Kent" > wrote in message
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| > "Tom Biasi" > wrote in message
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| >> "Dimitri" > wrote in message
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| >>> While here in Cambria my wine racks were buried under a staircase down a
| >>> flight of stairs. I forgot about my wines. I now have 6 more bottles of
| >>> 22 buck Chuck.
| >>>
| >>> That's 2 buck Chuck (Charles Shaw from Trader Joe's) Cabernet that is 11
| >>> years old. DELICIOUS!
| >>>
| >>> Have you ever accidentally aged some red's ?
| >>>
| >>> Dimitri
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| >> Found a couple of bottles of 1945 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Jeroboam in
| >> my wife's grandmother's house about 20 years. I forgot I had them until I
| >> read your post.
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| >> Tom
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| > As you probably already know, a bottle 1945 Mouton Rothschild in good
| > condition is worth around $5,000. You can sell it on consignment.
| >
| > Kent
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| My 1982 Mouton Rothschild is only worth $1,500/bottle. 1945 was a
| spectacular year for Bourdeaux wines, something I've never been able to
| understand. How could or would that occur in the waning moments of WWII. The
| French are making wine as per usual, and the allied forces are crossing the
| Rhine into Germany.
|
| Kent

About the same way that 1941, when the US got into the whole mess and
Japan attacked and chaos reigned, France produced virtually no wine
of any mention; one of the worst years in the last century. No one ever
said that Bacchus lacked a sense of humor.

pavane