@matigo And the line of Hong Kong dictates that big trees that get knocked down go to the landfill.
Looks like summer is finally over. Expected to be cloudless and dry (45–80% RH) for the next week.
Holy crap. In a wine dinner of 8 people, we speak:
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- Teochow
- French
- Spanish
- English
And they budgeted 2 bottles of wine per person tonight.
This is going to be ridiculous.
I'm just going to trust that this Brie won't kill me, 3 days past its "use by" date.
@matigo I think there is a lot of that.
As an investment, I suppose there is some sense to it — these products do have a history of appreciating quite drastically. Not entirely sure how much more a 1928 wine would improve though, or indeed if one would even want to drink it at this point…
So for my birthday I went to an auction, got filled with good wine, and won one lot of rather decent wine.
Surprisingly the DRC they poured in the beginning ended up as one of the worst wines of the entire day! The Romanée-Saint-Vivant 1990 and 2007 may be expensive but they’re certainly not worth it.
Even stranger was that they auctioned a case of 1978 RSV afterwards — and someone took it.
Funniest of all was seeing a 1996 Macallan 18 go for HKD 67000. They poured some of that too and it was good, but not that good.