"Max Hauser" > wrote in
:

> 1. OK. I know little about wine but want to learn. I know that
> experts are here though I haven't bothered to use search tools to
> learn what they might have said in the last several years, that's a
> lot of work, but I would be grateful if someone could brief me.
> Completely please. You know, about varietals, and Shiraz vs. Syrah
> vs. Sirah, and why Alsatian wines have so many German names if they're
> actually from France (is it fraud?), and what are all those numbers on
> German bottles, and why doesn't everyone put the grape name on the
> label and use English like normal people. Also vintages and stuff.
> Please be concise, I don't have much time to spare. I may need to ask
> follow-up questions, if I have time for those. Oh yes, also, where
> can I get exceptional well-aged but inexpensive wines that few people
> know about but with high ratings. (Those will impress my friends.)
>
> 2. We have a bottle of Silver Oak Cabernet that my nephew gave us in
> 1999 after going to California for his high-paying dot-com job. He
> was new to wine at the time but assured us that this wine was
> advocated by a newsletter that was absolutely definitive. The wine
> got 96 points which means it must be near perfection, yes? He said
> that in the old days people needed years to learn about wine but that
> was obsolete now, all you need is to look up the numbers in the
> newsletter (anyway that's what people did at his dot-com firm). With
> his sharp clothes and the car and new wine vocabulary, he sure was
> impressive. He had his new penthouse too then, and was buying
> expensive wine with the advice of the newsletter. The bottle is
> unopened, it's been carefully on its side behind our refrigerator and
> not too hot (except a few weeks each summer), some stickiness outside
> the bottle but I can clean that off, and still almost three-quarters
> full. I have heard that bottles of this age (five years storage!) can
> be worth big money. What do you think? I want to do something nice
> for my nephew from the proceeds. (After his layoff and the trouble
> over payments, he was living in his car when we last heard from him.)
>
>
>
For that incredible experience qith QPR that is unfathomable one word-
Gibeletti-nobody does wine like Gibeletti
As to the 96 point wine Drink it today! today only.Tomorrow it's toast

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