tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post4563531674799949792..comments2024-03-18T04:47:16.199-07:00Comments on The Gray Report: Don't die before drinking your best wines: What I learned when my plane caught fireW. Blake Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17755307711801965966noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-21593864983074302652016-12-14T08:51:28.247-08:002016-12-14T08:51:28.247-08:00Wow, Peter, I'm glad to hear both that you sur...Wow, Peter, I'm glad to hear both that you survived and that you're enjoying these great wines. Carpe diem!W. Blake Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17755307711801965966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-11213517421162305232016-12-14T08:47:29.573-08:002016-12-14T08:47:29.573-08:00After surviving a malady with a nominal 7% surviva...After surviving a malady with a nominal 7% survival rate, I opened that 85 Sassicaia I've been waiting for the right moment to broach. I've also opened that 99 De Vogue Chambolle Musigny, the Mugnier Musigny, the 95 Margaux, the 78 Charmes, the 95 Yquem, the 96 Giacosas, the 74 Stags Leaps, and all the rest of those "great bottles" that I've been saving, some since the Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05179254923931032722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-17223500784742568142016-12-05T13:17:46.049-08:002016-12-05T13:17:46.049-08:00Glad you're still with us, Blake!Glad you're still with us, Blake!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12518530875317856476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-29667504129473186252016-12-02T23:34:00.930-08:002016-12-02T23:34:00.930-08:00I introduce my wine cellar reorganization clients ...I introduce my wine cellar reorganization clients to the late Australian wine writer / raconteur Len Evans and his "Theory of Capacity."<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/10/garden/wine-talk-863393.html?pagewanted=print<br /><br />To wit: Every time you drink a modest bottle of wine, that takes away from the limited number of days you have left to drink the "really good Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099196210297757292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-83574869685947175132016-11-29T17:01:10.843-08:002016-11-29T17:01:10.843-08:00Wow, so glad you're OK, and makes me thing tha...Wow, so glad you're OK, and makes me thing that perhaps I won't save all of those 2011 Taylor Port bottles I have for another decade, and open one in the coming year with some friends :)Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09911398647505242281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-41650080727610708832016-11-28T09:00:32.146-08:002016-11-28T09:00:32.146-08:00Thanks for the link, Miquel. Lyder captured the fe...Thanks for the link, Miquel. Lyder captured the feeling of the flight. <br /><br />I wish I had chatted with Lyder during the 10 hours we spent locked in a room in Costa Rica (boo, United) waiting for a new flight, but we didn't meet. <br />W. Blake Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17755307711801965966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-69411947039529983922016-11-28T08:25:54.544-08:002016-11-28T08:25:54.544-08:00I generally avoid this feeling by not having a pro...I generally avoid this feeling by not having a proper cellar and the tiniest of bottle fridges. Given Spanish summers, it forces me to not keep too many bottles and cycle through those I have a good deal faster. I find this greatly preferable to having to think about such things when in a seemingly doomed aircraft.<br /><br />Miquel<br /><a href="https://wineonsix.com" rel="nofollow">https://Zzzzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194540731851325282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210235767643862872.post-10944643175323094622016-11-28T07:01:49.609-08:002016-11-28T07:01:49.609-08:00Glad you're still with us! And they're def...Glad you're still with us! And they're definitely words to live by - sláinte!TheMotleyCruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13666401172524926284noreply@blogger.com