not a bad christmas lunch

[Ken Gargett]

an old school mate invites me along to his annual doctors' chrissy lunch. we all bring a bottle or two. 

and this year, one of the blokes who could not make it sent along a box of 2005 esplendidos. 

cracking day all round. (afterwards, back at one of the guy's places, he had the most brilliant doberman - a former australian champion dog, it was the most gentle almost timid dog imaginable - sort of a ferdinand the bull dog).

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wookie]

Awesome. Concierge doctors?

[mtd057]

That is an impressive line up! 

[Hookmaker]

How was the Amon Ra? Got a few crates stowed away somewhere, haven’t tasted it for ages.?

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, Hookmaker said:

How was the Amon Ra? Got a few crates stowed away somewhere, haven’t tasted it for ages.?

that was one of the later wines of the lunch hence my recollection may not have been as sharp as required but i seem to remember it was pretty good. 

the first bottle of Selosse and the magnum of Gaja were the absolute superstars. 

[Wailbait]

Good show.  08 Gaja.  Looks bonkers.  Basically murderers row.

[Hookmaker]

7 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

 

the first bottle of Selosse and the magnum of Gaja were the absolute superstars. 

.....I would have imagined ?

[WarriorPrincess]

Where is the picture of the dog Ken???? 

[El Presidente]

20 minutes ago, WarriorPrincess said:

Where is the picture of the dog Ken???? 

It was a big lunch. Ken filled me in yesterday.

On reflection the doberman turned out to be a stuffed  rabbit. Thats why it was so placid.

[Ken Gargett]

5 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

It was a big lunch. Ken filled me in yesterday.

On reflection the doberman turned out to be a stuffed  rabbit. Thats why it was so placid.

says the man who spent yesterday's video terrified of a small possum. 

[Ken Gargett]

2 minutes ago, BoliDan said:

OMG did it settle in? is it making an appearance in the next review? Are you feeding it? Will you train it to bite rob on command?

we are getting close!! 

[gweilgi]

On 12/15/2019 at 10:28 AM, Ken Gargett said:

that was one of the later wines of the lunch hence my recollection may not have been as sharp as required but i seem to remember it was pretty good. 

the first bottle of Selosse and the magnum of Gaja were the absolute superstars. 

Gaja is still a bit underrated in the wider world, thanks be.  When wannabe wine snobs go "ooh" and "aah" over Sassicaia and Ornellaia, I would always go with a Gaja ....

And the '98 Winston Churchill is stonkingly good!

This line-up will take some beating...

[Ken Gargett]

29 minutes ago, gweilgi said:

Gaja is still a bit underrated in the wider world, thanks be.  When wannabe wine snobs go "ooh" and "aah" over Sassicaia and Ornellaia, I would always go with a Gaja ....

And the '98 Winston Churchill is stonkingly good!

This line-up will take some beating...

i did expect the 98 sir W to be a bit better. seen the 02 and 08 in mags recently and both were streets ahead. 

stunned you say that about gaja, but i can only really speak from a local perspective. most serious wine people i know here would opt for the top gaja ahead of most of the supertuscans. perhaps not the 85 sass but in general. i will keep an eye on that. i may have misread. 

[gweilgi]

27 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

i did expect the 98 sir W to be a bit better. seen the 02 and 08 in mags recently and both were streets ahead. 

stunned you say that about gaja, but i can only really speak from a local perspective. most serious wine people i know here would opt for the top gaja ahead of most of the supertuscans. perhaps not the 85 sass but in general. i will keep an eye on that. i may have misread. 

It may be local perspective -- my experiences are largely European.  I definitely noted that in many restaurants, I can get two or three bottles of the Gaja for the same price as one of the big-name Tuscans -- not always a reliable guide to quality, to be sure, but it reflects desirability.