Bacchus wrote:
Excellent. A slam-dunc
It cost me dear in shut eye
In the very early 80's I'd go into a specialist old time claret merchant known as Davis's, normally Friday on the way home. A family business with a few shops here and there in the Thames valley. The Burnham shop near work was tiny, but the claret customers in Burnham, clearly covered the dear manageress's wages, so all had been hunky dory for quite a while.
She was the Mrs Slocombe type of the corner claret shop, very neat, same sort of age, and the place had a good clarety merchant smell about it. In various glass display mahogany framed cabinets she set up (No - not bras and other intimate things, as in the TV series Are You Being Served) all the quaint bits and pieces about famous wines, and some empty bottles over the years, of spectacular wines today, including wine memorabilia from Latour and Laffite and Margaux etcetera. In the doorway of the stock room, she had the boxes, and I do remember this Low and Long building stamp that was branded (rather than black ink) in those days, that was etched into the timber on the small ends of the box.
A customer was on the phone on this occasion, and demanding to have the box delivered. I haven't seen Lynch Bages in the flesh for quite a long time now, and could I trawl that up ? NO.
Even before LB became so trendy with the wealthy for bigger do's, there was a particular demand for this wine.
Yeah OK - I went thru Pauillac piece meal until I found that long low building with the central 2 storey piece, and then kicked myself for not getting there quickly
Thanks for the clue Ba - not a slam !
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