The tasting room is large and spacious, yet what sets the room apart from others we’ve seen is a large, unusually ornate tapestry that looks as if it would be better situated in an Roman museum than here, in a rather rural region where baboons, instead of birds, feast on the grapes. Welcome!” Thelema Mountain Vineyards. News S. MORE >>

Since 1983 the Conseil des Grand Crus Classés of 1855 (Médoc & Sauternes) have hosted a dinner honoring the International Press to open the world’s premier wine and spirits exhibition, Vinexpo Bordeaux. Fabulous opening dinner at Haut-Brion last night for the press. Que about the Commanderie de Bordeaux. seem to recall bagpipes. MORE >>

We drank several outstanding wines from the 1983 vintage, considered to be very difficult, an off year. And no one felt guilty for saying that although it was undeniably excellent wine, it didn't make our hearts leap the way the nose on the 1983 Clos de la Roche did. This was not a business lunch. The wines were very special. MORE >>

While the pig was being dissected, Brian, the head Dottore of Dalla Terra who I met for the first time, approached us with a bottle of 1983 Ockfener Bockstein Auslese. My friend got a taste. Taste? held out a 1997 Michel Farauds Domaine Cayron Gigondas and dramatically posited, "And now, to taste death. on the street? MORE >>

While the pig was being dissected, Brian, the head Dottore of Dalla Terra who I met for the first time, approached us with a bottle of 1983 Ockfener Bockstein Auslese. My friend got a taste. Taste? held out a 1997 Michel Farauds Domaine Cayron Gigondas and dramatically posited, "And now, to taste death. Taste? MORE >>