I can see that. It’s starting to get expensive even with 25% discount. Still a good wine. I treat myself to a couple of cases of Amarone from Waitrose. Blockbuster of a wine. Bought 12 masi conteserra amarone and 12 Tommasi amarone.
I’ve a few cases of penfolds St Henri and RWT that I must try.
Well that prompted me to open a bottle of my 4 year old Catena today. We got through it OK, there's something really likeable about it, it won't be a problem to finish off the other half dozen. But it is mineral, sharp, gooseberries, with very little buttery-ness to counteract, and in my opinion it has zero sobremesa capability, as BTC3 would probably say. That being said, as I say, I am looking forward to the rest, a slightly masochist tendency maybe, which also impels me to Rieslings. Marchbanks should keep off this wine I think.
I’ve decided to terminate my birthday bottle sub-thread early. No-one else seems particularly interested, and that’s fair enough - it was rather presumptuous of me to assume that others would care about my self-indulgence. In addition, I’ll probably enjoy the wine more if I don’t have to make up some rubbish to write!
So here’s a group shot of eight of the remaining twelve. The other four are TBC, but probably a Huet, a Burn VT, a Montus La Tyre and a l’Aurage. Cheers!