It’s the brilliant annual event started eight years ago by Wall Street Journal wine critics Dorothy Gaiter and Jon Brecher. They ask people to open a bottle that they’ve “been waiting to open forever.” Why wait? Do it now.
We are opening this evening…:
Black Tower
Qualitatswein Rheinhessen
1993 Imported White Wine
Abfuller Hermann Kendermann GM&H
Weinkellerei Bingen Germany
Anyone have any thoughts?
UPDATE: Opened it and it’s drinkable. Label says it’s a white, but the color is more rose. I wouldn’t buy it again, it’s too dry.
Oh yeah, I’ll finish the bottle, never throw away booze.
Despite the fact that the WSJ started OTBN, they do more to discourage casual wine drinkers because they have 10 friggin’ rules for OTBN. Wine snobs.
What time are you starting? I’ll be there to share!
@Grannymar: 8:00 p.m. CST, but we won’t wait! If you get here early, let the party begin.
What are you opening?
You may want to have some french fries ready because I think Black Tower at its best was never much more than vinegar.
@Savvy: uh-oh. We have back-up1
Oh no, pink wine. I’m always calling Ben a fairy when he drinks pink wine. Me, give me a good monster red. No pink. Too gay.
But I’m glad it was drinkable. Ben and I have had a few highly-touted bottles of like 50-year-old French shit (gifts, thank God, not purchased) which proved to be utter swill.
RULES for OTBN? I think not. Screw those people.
@Gretchen: I’m confused. I thought pink was blush or rose.
Swill? That makes you a wine brat for sure.
Those rules aren’t all that snobby, really. More like common-sense suggestions.
I should have an OTBN evening; I’ve got several bottles that are older than my kid.
@Brian: If you have several bottles of wine unopened, you are one of THEM. Why buy it if you aren’t going to drink it?
One can only drink so much wine during these things. So, you have to come up with rules to fill the time.
@Vintage P: I figured they argue about the wine and how it compares to what they had at the bank board retreat in Bali! Or in Napa…