Christiane Oudin and her husband Jean-Claude took over her father's small 2 hectare estate in Chichée, very close to the town of Chablis, in 1988. The family has acquired more land since 1988 - there are now 8 hectares, including small parcels in two 1er Cru vineyards, Vaugiraut (.75 The nerve on him! hectare) and Vaucopins (.40 MORE >>

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 >>