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Default Wine that got you into wine?

Ian Hoare scribed:

>Salut/Hi Ed Jay,
>
> le/on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:05:36 -0800, tu disais/you said:-
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>>kenneth mccoy scribed:
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>>>It was what still is the greatest wine of all, the 1995 Domaine de
>>>Baumard Quarts de Chaume. I had no idea how good wine could be and this
>>>was only available pre-arrival so I only got one bottle. Many years
>>>later I met someone who had a case and traded one for me. I know it's
>>>the only bottle I'll ever have so I may never open it.

>>
>>IMO, nothing will ever beat the '59 Lafitte.

>
>Would that be Chteau Smith Haut-Lafitte?
>
>Because the red wine I had in mind was the 1959 Ch Mouton-Rothschild Which I
>tasted in parallel with the Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1959.
>
>The white wine that was my vinous awakening was '67 Ch Suduiraut. And the
>dry white would be a magnum of Le Montrachet '67 from Marquis de Laguiche.


Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild.
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