Will the wines from the early 21st century, when mature, taste as the wines from the 1970's do now? Last night I had dinner with a friend and we shared a bottle of 1999 Chateau Simone Palette Rouge , $48, Imported by Robert Chadderdon Selections. absolutely loved the wine and I was still thinking about it this morning. Except vampires. MORE >>

As Jeremy Parzen , a scholar of many things, including Italian wine, can tell you, Barolo and Barbaresco emerged in the 1970's as the places where the finest Nebbiolo wines were grown. But it wasn't always this way. Many great wines were and continue to be made in other parts of Piedmonte. But then he said "No really, you're okay Brooklynguy. MORE >>

Of the mature Monte Bellos, the 1970 exhibited a gorgeous nose of delicate tobacco with the wine in a lovely place, mature yet still very much alive. Paul Draper is, without question, one of the world’s great winemakers. The road to Monte Bello. The four-and-a-half mile road to Ridge starts as two lanes. But nothing is as small as 0.9%. MORE >>

When it was steak time, Peter said that if not for the salsa verde he would want something like a 1970 Mouton. The other night my friend Peter came over for dinner. We was supposed to have flown from New Orleans to France, but he said something about a Volcano and he couldn't fly. can't tell you how many times I've heard that one. alcohol!), MORE >>

The other thing that savvy collectors can do to protect themselves from potential fraud is to look for the underrated, top vintages, such as 1962 or 1966 in Bordeaux, 1979 or 1986 for red Burgundy, or 1970 or 1979 for maturing Piemonte wines. John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. MORE >>