"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:56:32 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:42:35 GMT, "James Silverton"
> wrote:
>>>
>>>Christian Brothers, sure as hell, is cooking wine!
>>
>>Christian Brothers is still around? I haven't seen CB in years! When
>>I was in my 20's it was *branded* and sold by the glass at an upscale
>>French restaurant I ate at every now and then (for a treat) on my
>>lunch hour.
>
> I forgot to say.... the poor quality of wine (shipping ruins it) is
> why I turn to the hard stuff when I'm out of California and I order
> French wine over California wine when I'm on the East Coast.
>
>
I'm afraid, my friend, that the Bordeaux taste exactly the same in
California as they
do in France, and vice versa. That's also true of the more delicate French
wines, like
Beaujolais. You would potentially have a problem shipping an old wine, with
a fragile
cork, and more ullage than a new bottle. One might be a bit worried about
that.
The consigners, selling old cellars, do ship around the country.

Ed