The favoured wine glasses were made by Reidel, I have a few from presentations. I can see you used to get glasses from petrol station coupon collecting, I am trying to get rid of mine!
I have a bottle of Chateau-Bages Averous from Pauliac 1995, just waiting for decanting when I have my son visit again. Total waste on the rest of the family.
I have been to the Pauliac region and was an overnight guest at a Chateau. The local wine producers brought their wines along for a critique, not by me but by my friend. We had one of those outdoor meals on a 25 foot long table that lasted for 5+ hours. I got chatting with an American lady who was a wine blogger as my French is very lacking.
We left to go to an Argentine Tango dance festival held not far away, the French love A.Tango, got lost on the way and picked up 2 Spanish ladies who guided us, I speak enough Spanish to converse. We enjoyed the dancing and when we got back the meal was still in progress!
We then had to demonstrate Tango to the visitors, the host led us all in doors cleared some furniture and found some Tango music on the radio where upon we did an impromptu demonstration, which led on to rumba and Cha Cha and the Viennese waltz, bed in the small hours, made quite a day of it.
regards
Roy