Wednesday 29 April 2020

Aged Wine

I decided it was finally time to open the oldest bottle of red wine.
I think it is 5 years old but could be a lot more.




This old bottle had wax sealing the cork.  I'm not sure where it came from.  Could be from my son-in-law.  The last bottle of K's red wine which we opened, after 10 years, was very drinkable.
This is not Ks wine but a bottle given to us by someone, someone close I should think, looking at that hand waxed bottle


Here goes the sommelier, dressed in his best blue overall


A nicely stained cork



And an undrinkable glass of red wine



The finest vinegar.
And that's where it went, into the big vinegar barrel




18 comments:

  1. Oh shame! Did you end up drinking water instead?

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  2. Drat. I thought you were going to say it tasted wonderful. Never mind.

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    1. I was sure if be able to drink it, but this had tipped over the edge. Big disappointment

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    1. We should have opened it years ago, it might have been drinkabe back then

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  4. What a disappointment for you both. At least you can use it as vinegar :)

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    1. We have a barrel of good homemade vinegar and this will help the flavour of that

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  5. -chuckle- Sort of goes with everything else, hu? *uckin' COVID-19. And now this. >:-((((

    Any idea when Greece will begin to open up?

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  6. And you use the same glasses as moi!

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  7. That’s disappointing
    But at least you’ll have lots of vinegar with which to pickle things

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    1. We have loads of good strong vinegar. K makes it now instead of wine!

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  8. Oh well. No shortage of wine in Greece, though? Ha ha. -Jenn

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    1. The gatherings have temporarily halted but the wine still flows

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  9. I've got the same glasses, £1 each from John Lewis. Good to have some wine vinegar I suppose even like this kind of wine vinegar it can be used for something.

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  10. We use a lot of vinegar, for pickling olives of course, but in cooking too.
    My husband frets over his vinegar barrel almost as much he did his wine.

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