TN: 1922 D'Oliveiras Bual Vintage Madeira
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:37 pm
I managed to get what appears to be the last bottle in the retail distribution chain in the US until RWC can get some more from the producer. RWC was out, they sent me to the NY distributor, who gave me a list of every retailer who had bought a bottle in the last 2 years. I found one bottle only 6 blocks from my office.
My mother's birth year wine for her 85th birthday celebration. The whole family was there. My niece, age 21 and fresh out of the Cornell University wine appreciation course, absolutely flipped over the fact that she was going to drink a wine that old and she was barely street legal.
PS - the private room at Bottega del Vino in NYC is expensive, especially if you have 13 people and there is a 15 person minimum, but my mother cried so many times (when I said that the DuMol was the same wine they had just served at the White House to the Queen of England, When I mentioned the borth year wine, when my niece gave a little speech, etc.) that it was worth it. You only get to be 85 years old once.
Oh - the TN - I prefer them a little sweeter, but this was very very good, Nutty, acid like citrus, very long finish. So long that I spilled some on my pants leg and you could still smell it 4 days later!
My mother's birth year wine for her 85th birthday celebration. The whole family was there. My niece, age 21 and fresh out of the Cornell University wine appreciation course, absolutely flipped over the fact that she was going to drink a wine that old and she was barely street legal.
PS - the private room at Bottega del Vino in NYC is expensive, especially if you have 13 people and there is a 15 person minimum, but my mother cried so many times (when I said that the DuMol was the same wine they had just served at the White House to the Queen of England, When I mentioned the borth year wine, when my niece gave a little speech, etc.) that it was worth it. You only get to be 85 years old once.
Oh - the TN - I prefer them a little sweeter, but this was very very good, Nutty, acid like citrus, very long finish. So long that I spilled some on my pants leg and you could still smell it 4 days later!