Today is the start of the 3 day wine trade exhibition Vinexpo and there are wine events all week and more. Apart from one day on which I cannot drink (as I am on call duty), I have got myself into wine tastings and dinners on all the other evenings of the weekdays. Apart from this, I will try and wangle my way into the main exhibition to have a look and taste (even though this will be in the little remaining time after work till the exhibition closes for the night).
The week went off to a good start, as I had been able to get into the Taylors 1863 Single Harvest pre-release tasting. This was remarkable not only for the 151 year old wine, but also for the half century 1964 as well as the Taylors Scion (which actually came from the year 1855). The introduction to these venerable old wines was a short flight of their 20yr, 30yr and 40yr old tawnies. Just adding up the ages of the wines tasted last night yielded the grand total of 450 yrs. Now that must be as good a start to any week of tasting as ever.
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