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Last bottle regrets?

by Bruce Hayes » Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:33 am

Do you ever get a sort of wistful, sad feeling when you realize that you are about the open your last bottle of something?

You may hae started out with a case or perhaps just two or three, but those bottles have given you pleasure, to one degree or another, over a period of time and, when they are gone, they are usually gone for good.

My lovely wife is making a Sunday roast beef dinner tonight and, what brought all this on, is I plan on opening a 1998 Darenberg Dead Arm Shiraz: the last bottle from a case of six I purchased a while ago.

While I am excited to open it and see how it has fared after 13 years, there is also a certain degree of sandness mixed in.

Am I alone in these conflicted feelings?
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by Paul Winalski » Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:40 am

I felt that way when opening my very last bottle of 1989 Hattenheimer Wisselbrunnen Riesling Spaetlese by Adam Albert. It was a fantastic wine from first release and only got better with age. 1989 was, alas the last vintage for this great estate as poor health forced Heinz Albert to retire.

I also felt that way when I consumed the last of my 1985 Lynch-Bages. The critics said that although very pleasant, the wine didn't have the structure to last and should be drunk up early. Indeed it never closed down--instead it was drinking well at first release and continued to give pleasure well into its second decade.

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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by R Cabrera » Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:29 pm

My last bottle, drank last year, from a 6-pack purchase of 1990 Vieux Chateau Certan. Not the biggest blockbuster out there, but It was the wine that got my passion rolling on buying and drinking more Bordeaux.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by Rahsaan » Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:35 pm

For the longest time I would buy one bottle of everything, maybe sometimes two or three. So yes, I get this feeling all the time! Even now I rarely buy more than six of anything.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by David M. Bueker » Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:38 pm

I'm preparing well in advance to regret my last bottle of Truchot. It will have to happen some time.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by Tom Troiano » Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:44 pm

Aren't you guys familiar with Last Bottle Theory?

Last Bottle Theory
The last bottle of an unobtainable wine is always the best bottle.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by Steve Slatcher » Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:54 pm

Look on the positive side. It is better to regret opening the last bottle than to curse because the wine is shot and you have several bottles remaining.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by James Roscoe » Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:31 pm

I absolutely understand the feeling. I wonder if I should admit this here, but in the end, it's only a bottle of wine. :oops: I guess the memories are half the fun for me. :wink:
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by Lou Kessler » Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:43 pm

While in New York a couple of years ago i brought and opened what I thought to be my last bottle of 83 Chave Hermitage which turned out to be fantastic even to the NY wine geeks at SF Joe's place for dinner. :D :D Last month while straightening out in my wine cellar I found another bottle of the 83 Chave that I didn't know I had. I hate to think of drinking this bottle and finding that it doesn't come close in quality to the one in NY which would be a bummer. But as somebody said it's just wine.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by Michael K » Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:40 pm

yeah.....2002 Clos Rougeard ....Haunting and fragile......every bottle was like that.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by Jon Peterson » Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:45 am

The past Christmas dinner and for my son's 21st birthday, I opened the last of a case of 1989 Leoville Barton, not only and wonderful wine that was at it's peak, but my very first futures purchase. I think I can recall what happened to each of those 12 bottles over the years, the second to last was opened on a 100 foot Hatteras Yacht in the middle of Baltimore's Inner Harbor on July 4th...I could go on and on.
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Re: Last bottle regrets?

by JC (NC) » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:09 am

Like Rahsaan, it has been my practice to order wine mostly in one, two or three bottle quantities--rarely a half case--so I have last-bottle blues all the time. The 2002 Digioia-Royer Chambolle Musigny was one such regret--I think I had purchased about three bottles of this. It was a village wine that drank like an excellent 1er cru and had beautiful floral fragrances.

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