On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 8:20:14 PM UTC+2, santiago wrote:
> Tom S > wrote in
> :
>
> > Hola Santiago!
> >
> > I had completely forgotten about sending that bottle of wine to you!
> > I'm glad and honored that you enjoyed it that much.
>
> You can count on that!!
>
> > I don't recall for sure where you are located, but my guess would be
> > Spain.
>
> Correct.
>
> I was there on vacation in October of 2001, right after the
> > NYC terrorist attacks. It was a great time to travel. The airplanes
> > were almost empty because everyone was afraid of ending up in another
> > hijacked plane, and the Euro was 87 cents to the dollar. My sister
> > and I visited Madrid for a few days and took in some touristy things:
> > the Prado; Toledo (where I bought a very nice chef's knife); Paloma
> > San Basilio in "My Fair Lady"; and a pretty good flamenco show. Then
> > off to Malaga for a week where we caught some sun, drank some good
> > inexpensive rose, ate paella, and took a trip to Gibraltar. The
> > little bit of Spanish I had picked up at work turned out to be
> > somewhat useful! Now that I'm back in college I'm actually studying
> > Spanish because it's a requirement for enology majors. I'm OK with
> > the vocabulary, but the verbs are driving me crazy!
>
> Sure English is so much easier on the verbs than Spanish.
>
> The bottle I got was from 2000 vintage so it should be around year 2002, I
> guess. Not really sure and I do not really have the email account we used
> anymore.
>
> >
> > If you're ever in Los Angeles be sure to give me a call or drop me a
> > line.
> >
> Will do!
>
> s.

I also got the 2000 vintage Ch Burbank, good stuff it was. I may be in LA over teh summer for a quick visit. Cheers all here

Mike