John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. But being younger than the gentleman I just mentioned, I do not have the same reserves of old vintages of white Burgundy or white Bordeaux in my cellar, and so premox has really hit my collection hard. Are these wines forcibly better? MORE >>

The cellar work can be dangerous. French critics, you know, do not visit cellars. never give bottles for that, I prefer to receive people in the cellar. Winters now are closer to the 1970's when I was a kid. This is the final post about my conversation with Jean-Marie Fourrier. BG: I want to ask you about farming. MORE >>

We came upon several cellar workers who were bottling a 1995 Gran Reserva. The oldest we tasted may have been a 1955, followed by a 1961, a 1968, and a 1970. When my pal Deetrane read the post from the other day about tasting the 1976 Lopez de Heredia Bosconia, he was flooded with good memories. Great prices in the shop though. Oh boy! MORE >>