So how was the wine???
It was 50, not 60 years old. I can do arithmetic except for the part with numbers.
A 59 Chateau Margeaux. I’ve been working my way through a case I got in a bequest.
It was at least 30 years too old. You can tell it was wonderful once, but it’s watery. However it has NO rough edges.
We decant it because there is an astonishing amount of sediment. All the corks break as we extract them, but so far we haven’t hit a bottle where the seal went bad. We’ve stored it on its side, as my father did. I’ll bet the corks haven’t been dry a minute since they were put in.
We’ll finish the case between now and Lent.