2014-1 Horizontals

at Eddie V’s
7488 West Sand Lake Road
Orlando FL 32819

March 15, 2014 at 6 pm

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The Wines

This event offered a collection of mini horizontals. They didn’t prove much of a challenge to sort out blind, and nearly everyone got most of them right. The flight winners were the Bonnes Mares, Giscours and DRC.

5 23 1966 BV Georges de La Tour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 125
7 9 1966 Bonnes Mares – Comte de Vogue Red Burgundy 490
9 15 1966 Ch. Leoville Las Cases France Pauillac 140
9 20 1966 Ch. Carbonnieux France Pauillac 85
5 12 1970 BV Georges de La Tour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 150
9 9 1970 Ch. Giscours France Pauillac 85
9 8 1970 Les Forts de Latour France Pauillac 150
5 21 1978 BV Georges de La Tour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 90
7 16 1978 Nuit Saint-Georges – Pierre Bouree Fils Red Burgundy 90
5 26 1979 BV Georges de La Tour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 90
8 20 1979 Grand Echexeaux – Domaine de la Romanee Conti Red Burgundy 1156
9 22 1999 Ch d’Yquem Sauternes Bordeaux tenth 85
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Following the tasting I served three wines blind They turned out to all be the same wine, Troublemaker, a GSM blend. But one had been frozen for two months, and one had been in my trunk for two months. The favorite was the trunk wine, by a narrow margin. The only obviously flawed wine was the frozen one, but I think the damage was simply slight geranium scent from having a bit of air let into the bottle prior to freezing to make sure the bottle wouldn’t burst. Next time I would try it without doing that.

 

Acquisitions

 

1964 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon California 85
1965 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon California 85
1967 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon California 85
1968 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon California 85
1970 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon California 85
1979 Duckhorn Merlot Napa 85
1979 Duckhorn Merlot Napa 85
1980 Duckhorn Merlot Napa 85
1980 Duckhorn Merlot Napa 85
1980 Duckhorn Merlot Napa 85
1980 Duckhorn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 85
1914 Madeira, Bual, Abudarhaml Madeira Madeira 300
1945 Madeira, Bual, Cossart Gordon & Co Madeira Madeira 300
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Treasurer’s Report

Previous Balance 3800
Dues Payable 5000
Purchases -1535
Dinner -1685
Balance 5580

 

Please bring your dues of $1000 per couple to the event.