Liam Furlong I opened a 40 yo Hermitage for my 40th a couple of weeks ago, it was amazing.
Craiglee make wines that can age, really age, and I count myself fortunate to have had my special day brightened with that drop.
Now for the story, it would have been 7-8 years ago when I was at the cellar door and saw the 1984 Hermitage on a shelf. When tic-taced for an hour or so as to whether or not the bottle was even for sale, but upon proving that it was in fact my birth year, and telling my sob story about having not had a birth year wine (which was true until a couple of weeks ago), I was finally entrusted with the responsibility to care for that sacred drop. Thank you so much for being willing to share such a special wine with a random visitor.
I now have to take all of the wines that I bought that day and move them back in my cellar a long way... 10 years was never going to be enough ;)
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