Thanksgiving and Christmas are usually holidays during which my dad likes to play the game “guess which wine comes from the box”. Every year he puts the $15 boxed wine that we drink every night (holidays included) to the test of whatever nice wine some unsuspecting guest has brought over. The expensive wines always seem to lose.
Needless to say, fine wines are not a part of the Pappas family repertoire.
Tonight, my dad came out of the basement with a grin and hands me a bottle of 1977 Chateau Latour (one of the 5 grand crus). It was a wine that was given to my parents received as a house warming present 25 or so years ago.
Unfortunately, as the image below shows, this wine was about 10 years past its prime and the cork had rotted almost all the way through. Additionally, the wine had thinned to the point that it didn’t even have any legs anymore.
Still a treat none-the-less and I look forward to having the opportunity of tasting a properly aged Latour sometime later in life.
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Please, my box wines are always above $15. More like $17.99
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