I've got 2 bottles of 02 at home.
1 purchased as a gift and the other I picked up at Heathrow duty free in Oct for £14
was meant to be something to drink while I was stuck on a laptop working in my hote room but never got round to it so brought it home again

yet to actually give it a go

I wasnt a fan of Musar, but Ive learnt that taste's, as well as vintages, change with age.

Richard, I went into the store and thought, OK - I'd like to buy 3 or 4 rouge Burgundies and three cheap Calvet '09 generic clarets for house glugging.

The village burgundies have either been picked off, or someone has decided that you get nothing but the scrawny '07 all through the range.

The staff, and quick folks may have cleared that popular and respected instore '05 Gevrey, seen last time on the shelf.

So, climbing up the tree for me, was a puff here as well. TBF to Waitrose though, our store is a bijou one and I didn't go looking till too late.

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Duncan

Yeak GK, I was a fan in the eighties, but I understand your dissapointment in the late nineties or so.

In the mid eighties as the missiles were flying overhead, the wine was a lovely dirty bugger with amazing concentration and spice. Then it was all cleaned up I thought, and lost it's personality, the interesting Lebanese quality suddenly seemed to change to the taste and style of good Spanish cab, garnacha, syrah mixers, which were half the price at the time.

Modernisation ? Currency as well as duty ? A change in the mix or volume, A change of oak because of Isreali import and border supply embargo controls ?
Lets hope it's back to form, because at £9.99 at Majestic, it's worth taking some again.

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Duncan

Dunc,

Already seen half dozen Musar TN`s saying the 2003 is going to be a Great vintage, as they say fill your boots !!

Wish I had bought a six pack now !!

Regards
Richard

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