This bottle was purchased from WineBid.com at a huge discount three years ago. We took it out over the weekend to prove that Randy Dunn's Howell Mountain cabernets can age as nicely as any Bordeaux. The wax capsule on this bottle was lightly chipped, but the cork, perfect. MORE >>

He started St Innocent in 1988 and has been making some of the more highly sought-after wines from the Willamette Valley ever since. We return to Shea Vineyard on this, the fifth and final night of our Oregon Pinot festival. festival that took place right here in the confines of our own apartment. But a festival nonetheless. Amazing. The 13.8% MORE >>

The first thing I saw on the ample wines-by-the-glass list was a 1988 López de Heredia Vina Tondonia , which I instantly ordered for $20 because of the nostalgic pull from my honeymoon trip, previously described here in my last guest post. Dee and P were happily surprised at how much they liked the wines. The North Fork of Long Island. MORE >>

The 1988 Closel Savenni è res Clos du Papillon was complex and beautiful, and the Chidaine Montlouis Clos Habert and the Pinon Vouvray Moelleux were great too. And as far as I know, 1988 wasn't a particularly great vintage - just a normal working class year in the Loire Valley. The Italian wines - I didn't taste 'em. And under $25. MORE >>

ordered a bottle of the 1988 Dominus, which unfortunately was funked. After sniffing and tasting the 1988 Dominus at Henry's End, I realized I had to send my first bottle of wine back, ever. As it turns out this was the second bottle of 1988 Dominus from the same cellar that had gone bad. screw cap debate. It was not the cork. MORE >>