left this until the last minute, and then went to Slope Cellars , one of my absolute favorite Brooklyn wine stores. We also drank the 2005 Cellars Unio Roureda Llicorella Blanc , a white wine from Priorat made entirely of Pedro Ximenez, of Sherry fame. Thomas ' house recently. That would be the theme. Marsanne, obscure? MORE >>

We’re back with Part Deux of our interview with John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar ( part one is here ). How do you make a screwcap-sealed wine taste and smell like rotting cabbage or burning rubber- put it in the cellar for a few years. German Riesling. And I really don’t understand why. The Loire. MORE >>

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 >>

We came upon several cellar workers who were bottling a 1995 Gran Reserva. At this point, bottles of 1988 and 1991 are comparatively blasé. 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. for Crianza, €5.50 MORE >>

Here is what we know: Regnie is the most recent addition to the group of Cru Beaujolais appellations, gaining its status in 1988. As it warmed a bit from cellar temperature the floral smells became more prominent and the juiciness of the raspberries was more pronounced. There isn't much out there that I could find. MORE >>