My first tasting this year was at Cave Augé. Their Extra Brut 1995 vintage Champagne is one of the best Champagnes I’ve had the luck to taste. total of five tastings, many glasses of wine, and one of the more amusing versions of Blondie’s “Call Me” made for a wonderful Parisian celebration. MORE >>

The daughter was there in the Lafouge cellars, inside her mommy's belly, when her mommy tasted this very wine (and spat, thank you very much). recently had a 1995 La Chapelle and it was fantastic. I've been thinking a little bit about birth year wines lately. What do you do, though, if your birth year was a bad vintage? It's terrible. MORE >>

My father kicked him out of the cellar and said to him "My job is to make wine, your job is to taste it, not to tell me how to make it." Neal Rosenthal came to visit in 1996 and he tasted the wines and said that the wine was good, but not overly exciting. He was tasting the 1995's. Denis. It remains with them today. MORE >>

While Blaufränkisch is hardly a household wine term, it has risen from nothing in 1995 to, well, more than nothing. tasted through over a dozen of the top examples at a recent press event organized by David Schildknecht (pictured, right), critic and writer for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. euro) a bottle. Things have changed. MORE >>

Overall, the tasting was an excellent way to judge overall quality of the region’s wines, and in the case of some older members, a dramatic demonstration of how remarkably quality has improved over the last twenty years. It was curious to discover that according to Mr. Bissoli, every country seems to have a “taste profile.&# MORE >>