{"id":71,"date":"2007-10-15T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-10-15T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T19:41:41","slug":"a-trip-down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"A trip down memory lane&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for information on some sleeper vintages, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DE1F3CF93AA35752C1A96E948260\" target=\"new\">this article from the NYTimes<\/a>, written in 1988.  Some choice excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In this context, even with the weak dollar, quite a few famous Bordeaux reds are relative bargains. Take these three excellent Margaux, for example: the 1982 Chateau Giscours sells in New York for about $25, the beautiful 1985 Chateau d&#8217;Issan for $16 and the 1982 Chateau Palmer for about $17. Admittedly, the 1985 Mouton-Rothschild costs $55 and the 1982 about $100, but there are literally dozens of good buys among even among well-known chateaus and good vintages. <\/p>\n<p>Still a &#8221;sleeper&#8221; vintage is 1981. There is plenty of 1981 Bordeaux around, and the prices are right. Some examples: from Saint-Julien, Chateau Leoville-Barton, $16, and Chateau Gloria, $12.25; from Pomerol, Chateau Petit-Village, $15; Chateau Prieure-Lichine and Chateau Rausan-Segla, both from Margaux, $13 and $16.50, respectively; from Saint- Emilion, the Clos des Jacobins, $19 and L&#8217;Angelus, $16.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For reference, an &#8217;82 Palmer these days sells for $250+ while an &#8217;82 Mouton will set you back $1000+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for information on some sleeper vintages, I came across this article from the NYTimes, written in 1988. Some choice excerpts: In this context, even with the weak dollar, quite a few famous Bordeaux reds are relative bargains. Take these three excellent Margaux, for example: the 1982 Chateau Giscours sells in New York for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}