Kevin from the Chess Website

Last on line in 2017. Who's old and cold and stale now?!

Fresh off the vine "wine" would be grape juice.

I have some 2008 Apogee from L'Ecole No. 41, purchased in 2011. It is ready to drink now and will still be very good if I leave it in the cellar another five years. We've been drinking one or two bottles of Bridge Press 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon every year since our supply fell to a dozen bottles (we bought about four cases in 2011 and 2012). We have two left. We might drink one on our wedding anniversary. The last bottle will still be good in 2024, but it will grieve us to have no more of what was a favorite wine for several years.

Wine doesn't last that long in this house.

It takes discipline to tuck it away and let it sit. Once we had six to eight cases cellared. Didn’t last, but now there’s a rule: when something comes out of the cellar, another bottle must go in. I maintain three cases. The oldest in there are some 2007s.

Sounds like a good rule. It also sounds like there should be cellared wine and just regular purchased wine for general consumption. This is getting complicated.

@Ziryab Did you ever think GothamChess, Hikaru, Botez sisters, ect. …

et cetera, ., etc.

Ever heard of a typo knucklehead?

"Its age is irrelevant."
I complain at restaurants if the wine they serve is too old. Gotta be fresh off the vine, baby!

Last on line in 2017. Who's old and cold and stale now?!

Fresh off the vine "wine" would be grape juice.

I have some 2008 Apogee from L'Ecole No. 41, purchased in 2011. It is ready to drink now and will still be very good if I leave it in the cellar another five years. We've been drinking one or two bottles of Bridge Press 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon every year since our supply fell to a dozen bottles (we bought about four cases in 2011 and 2012). We have two left. We might drink one on our wedding anniversary. The last bottle will still be good in 2024, but it will grieve us to have no more of what was a favorite wine for several years.

Wine doesn't last that long in this house.

It takes discipline to tuck it away and let it sit. Once we had six to eight cases cellared. Didn’t last, but now there’s a rule: when something comes out of the cellar, another bottle must go in. I maintain three cases. The oldest in there are some 2007s.

Sounds like a good rule. It also sounds like there should be cellared wine and just regular purchased wine for general consumption. This is getting complicated.

We buy a lot of Kirkland brand wine at Costco. Much is less than $10 per bottle and is reasonably good. I'm in a wine club at Vino, our local wine specialty shop, that gets me one white and one red every month with a cost at or under $32. I pick them up two or three times per year. All are good, some of the whites exceptionally so.
We also buy somewhat better wines for drinking, too. A few years ago, we had wine almost every day. Now, bourbon for my wife and Scotch for me is the norm. Summers we have more mojitos, beer, mint juleps (sans sugar), and martinis on days that I mow. We try to emphasize quality over quantity. Getting drunk stopped being fun decades ago.

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Kevin from the Chess Website

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