...decided to open up a really old wine - a 1986 cabernet -

[NRaleighLiberal]

Johnson Turnbull vineyards, I think I paid 12.00 or so for it a long long time ago...thinking how odd that my daughter was 1 when they picked the grapes for this wine!

There was a good chance the wine would be dead....but no! First bit of luck - the cork came out in one piece. Really delicious - one of the flavors is a bit like cranberry sauce (in the best sense!).....

So, with wine glass in hand, it is time to cook dinner!

[hrmjustin]

1. Glad you are enjoying it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Thanks there, pal! Hope you are having a nice evening...

wondering where the weekend went!

[hrmjustin]

3. Was watchin football at my brothers after I got back from church.

[loli phabay]

4. 86 is not really old, i have two cases of 70 chateau mouton rothschild, i believe its the chigall

Did have three cases but been selling it over the years. Not really a wine drinker.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. not old for a Bordeaux, but for a Cali Cab it is....but we were pleasantly surprised..

You have quite a collectible there you are selling!

[loli phabay]

11. we got craploads of old wines, whiskey and otjers that have been gatjering dust, may as well sell th

Go to disney or something with the funds.

[DFW]

5. I know nothing about wine but lucked out with a Christmas present a few years back

A friend in France was a big wine buff and I wanted to give him a nice bottle for Christmas. Knowing absolutely NOTHING about wine, I asked a local wine shop here if he had any ideas. He told me he had something even a Frenchman would appreciate. I had never heard of the brand, but I took the German's word for it, and carried the bottle down to Paris. My friend was over the moon, so apparently this was some hotshot vintage.

It was Cheval Blanc 1982, if there are people here who are familiar with the subject.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Wow...that is a really fine, collectible, classic - likely wonderful - wine!!

I've only read about it.....hot shot wine from a hot shot vintage!

[DFW]

8. It must have been

My French friend was not easily impressed, but with this, he was impressed.

I don't drink alcohol, so it was sort of like a blind person trying to grasp a verbal description of a Picasso.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. cost for that wine is likely 800 to 1000 dollars per bottle right now!

[DFW]

12. Mamma mia!!

And I thought I was going overboard at $60! (100 DM, so it was over 10 years ago).

My friends at Heritage back home in Dallas have a wine division now, too, and their catalogs are beautiful, but it's like trying to read Hungarian to me--I understand nothing but the pretty pictures.

[libodem]

10. Big fan of red wine here

So happy for you that it was not a disappointment. Yay!!!