susa on Friday ..... 2002 Phélan Ségur 
Deep in the basement ... ..
The last mystery of the human being solved, we may keep all sides for progress of science and research. The Amber Room, for example, was allegedly found in Wuppertal. Wuppertal? The city of levitation train, knocking nipples and the Pope's clothing store of lottery winner Erwin Lindemann. Is proved anything yet, but not impossible.
We would have liked
sublime, secret umwobeneres, but at least a forgotten bunker in an abandoned forest Kujawsko or a dungeon under the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow, but a basement in Wuppertal? Next, probably, the Nibelungen treasure found in an attic in Bonn Dransdorf and the Holy Grail turns up at a flea market in front of Metro in Leverkusen-Manfort ... .. "Olle och deer pot to end the dog has only eaten out of it!".
Since one wishes for her, she remained forever undiscovered, the treasures of mankind. The researchers Let them devote more to the mystery of the lost sock in the washing machine.
Keller finds this case can be quite exciting.
You hold on even a small glass of undefined content in the hands, the labeled volatile and are now nothing but faded label "Brmpftubkert 1004" award, as well as the perfidious helps a Mossad unproven Dechiffriersystem. Whether it's blackberry jam or beetroot chutney is, you will only find out by trial and error. The number is easier to decipher, purely practical is only one between 1989 and 2010 in question, so far, there is evidence that the two middle digits are identical. That leaves 199x or 200x remains, because if the opening hook is a 1 or a 2, which is to clarify ambiguous. The last figure may be by her economic downturn creates a 4 or a 7, it is ever clear Brmpftubkert was either 1994, 1997, 2004 or 2007 conserved; 2007 rule, we can again, because we do not have the reference material, 2007, we have other labels used.
The basement resolution at Aunt Mina was another thing, several meters of shelf full of jars Brombeergelee, Four fruit jam, apple sauce, Einweckpflaumen, all decorated with pretty labels, each labeled with Aunt Minas Kontoristinnenschrift accurate, the content was no doubt "Peaches", "pear", about the time not - "this year".
underestimate no one well-stocked cellar, with professional fifo inventory management, cataloging, inventory and unique modern inventory accounting and unambiguous assignment of the levies on the various funding agencies.
which it is here in the 180 ° Wine cellar, of course, can go out, is here from the start working on right, next to Bordeaux, Burgundy and right down the slow-moving and right next to the door of the wines for every day over there Rhône, southern France, .... Spain here in Italy between shelf ... then there is Germany, Austria, Switzerland, .... ° overseas should have in here ... we divide the first time ... gross. and for the exotic enough for the first time a subject ... .. or two, extra sweet wine? And champagne in the same incubator for? Or rather dynamic storage order, but divided according to temperature zones. Good thing we in planning the next expansion stage have to take into consideration the same.
man to man, just today the trainee free, I write it for the first time anything on a piece of paper, he can then on Monday neatly into the system transmit the RFID tag must indeed be programmed and the wines provided with bar code labels, EAN13 - no discussion.
To the extent it is, I search a little in the Bordeaux boxes and get me a bottle
Phélan 2002 Château Ségur St. Estèphe
a so-called middle-class greenhouse, a Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel. I make myself comfortable in the small tasting area in the basement with a glass of 180 degrees and bring the cellar management neatly on paper, who knows what the Lord everything else hires an intern. Keller key only to reverse course and only have the bosses and the sommelier own.
The estate was bought in 1810 by Irishman Frank Phelan. It had generations before Marquis Nicolas-Alexandre de Ségur then part of the property also included Lafite and Latour. The Marquis is a once given his own contribution, he is one of the key figures who laid the foundation for the contemporary meaning of the Bordeaux wine and during his lifetime as "le prince des vignes," the prince of the vineyard was known. At Frank Phélan is still remembered with the second wine of the house that bears his name.
now is the good of the Gardinier family, former owners of the luxury brand Pommery. And that making wine and champagne making are two worlds that can not be removed, they had to experience pain, their first years were crowned with success and not just acclaimed wines, 1983 had even the full year from the trade be abandoned because it had taken someone with herbicides is not as accurate, not always much help much.
But now you've done your homework on Phélan Ségur.
2002 was one of the rather small cohorts in the first decade of this century, we call these vintages will like classic or restored vintage because the wines are very useful for eating, they do not play through too much power and impact to the fore and overlap the flavors of food, but as equal partners to accompany the meal.
the 2002 Phélan Ségur was a wonderful example of a perfectly ripe St. Estèphe, impenetrable dark red, nose, warm fruit, cassis, blackberry, plum, and oak spice, more medium bodied, smooth, silky flattering elegance, and later formed a fine graphite grade and licorice aromas of violets, medium long very complex finish.
This wine shows clearly that all classifications are just a waste, is important in the glass, and since the wine was more aristocratic and class than many a traditional classified Cru.
Prost!
(And until next Friday)
