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- catkins - 05-11-2003
In the late 70's/early 80's, a friend of my mom was going to a dinner party. He found a wine that was a dark red tint and a few little bits of grapes in the bottle. He asked the host what he was drinking, the host did not know. He has been searching for almost 20 years. He said it was a red wine, but I think it was a vino negro.
Who is right? Is there a web site that I can purchase it?
- winoweenie - 05-12-2003
Hi Catkins and welcome to the board. Don't know how you found the site or who told you about us but this has to be the toughest question ever posted on this board, if it's not a prank. This could be any red, unfiltered wine from anywhere in the world. Tell your friend to start his own Quijote quest and drink wine twice a day until he stumbles on this jewel again. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img] WW
- Bucko - 05-12-2003
I don't think I want ANY wine with bits of grapes floating in it. Yikes!
- stevebody - 05-13-2003
Cat,
This won't be what you want to hear (read, whatever) but this is what I tell my customers who maintain one of those quests for a semi-mythic wine they remember almost nothing about: Move On. There is a literal OCEAN of great wine out there; certainly more and BETTER wine than was being made in the late 70s/early 80s. For your friends own good and happiness, tell him/her to start an active habit of attending wine tastings, buying inexpensive bottles to try, make friends with a nice person in a wine shop who can provide suggestions, and knock it off already about that bottle, about which your friend has WAAAAAY too little information to expect anybody to identify it. From the description, my best guess is that ti was an old bottle with a lot of sediment in it and, while it may have been good, I GUARANTEE there is a far better bottle sitting on a wine shop shelf, right this moment, with your pal's name on it. Tough love, my friend. We all had that perfect guy or gal we fixated on in grade school but, eventually, you have to get on with life or resign ourselves to being miserable and loveless forever. Tell them to try more wine and fall in love all over again.