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Originally Posted by RGSchmitt
"The perfect is the enemy of the good,"
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Bob, that's a really good saying. But where our own cars are concerned it would probably need to say, "Perfect is the enemy of good, and good is okay so long as it's almost perfect"
As for Parker and his maturity forecasts, with older wines I tend to look at when he last tasted the wine (or at the very least when the book or tasting note was published, because no one can guarantee what a wine will be like in 10-15 years time, not even Parker.
Lou, maybe that adage should be "Life is too short to drink bad wine", because price is not always an indicator of quality when it comes to wine.
I've been alerted to some real bargains over the years by Parker in the Australian wine market, through his Wine Buyers Guide (the one that covers the whole world and runs to 1700 pages).
He had tasted wines from some obscure wineries which he rated very highly. Many of these were back vintages which were already on the secondary market. But when I first bought the book in the UK back in 2000 it wasn't available in Australia, so no one in the local market was chasing these wines at auction. I picked up a considerable quantity of a particular straight merlot rated at 90+ for AU$11 per bottle, and several other gems at less than $30.