Here are a few of my favorites: Channing Daughters 2007 Sculpture Garden 88% Merlot from the Sculpture Garden vineyard (the oldest on the South Fork, planted in 1982) and 12% Blaufrankisch from Sylvanus vineyard, aged in French and Slovenian oak barrels for twenty-two months. million per year. Cabernet Sauvignon, 1.5%

The world of wine is profoundly deep and broad, and there is a hell of a lot of magic to be found outside of the castle of 1961 and 1982 Bordeaux, Monfortino and old Comte de Vogüé Musigny. John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. Natural wines are growing in popularity. think not.

2006 Clarendon Hills Astralis Vineyard Shiraz (Syrah), McLaren Vale. 1982 Wynns Coonawarra Estate John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra. 1996 Clarendon Hills Astralis Vineyard Shiraz (Syrah), McLaren Vale. 2008 Sutton Grange Winery Fairbank Rosé Syrah/Cabernet/Merlot, Bendigo. 2006 Ngeringa Syrah, Adelaide Hills.

Here are a few of the highlights from last week: One woman brought in a Bordeaux from her birth year: 1982. didn’t catch all the details but in the 1980s, her father represented someone’s estate that was short on cash and long on wine thus he ended up with 100 cases of 1982 Bordeaux. It is an assignment! Good times!