This is the line-up for the PWC-10 dinner last Friday, when
we celebrated the 10th anniversary of my wine dinner group, Peter's Wine
Circle. The original concept was 10 successive vintages of Chateau
Pontet-Canet, which would have been 1996 to 2005, if I had been able to obtain
a couple of bottles of 1997. I had located some bottles of 1997 with a wine
merchant in England, but despite a couple of phone calls and a number of
emails, I was not given a quote for courier charges and the order proceeded no
further. As the anniversary approached, I decided to drop the "10
consecutive vintages" and just go for 10 years. Bottles of 1995 were
sourced and this became the line-up. On the day, a friend bought his last
bottle of 1994, which was given to him by Alfred Tesseron (the owner); it was
his first vintage. So PWC-10 ended up celebrating 11 vintages of Pontet-Canet
after all.
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