And one day you spend $75 on a great producer's villages Burgundy from 2004, and you realize that it might be true that good producers make good wine in all vintages, but there are better ways to spend $75. For example, I really like the Loire red wines from 2007. One of the things I used was a vintage chart. still have it, actually. MORE >>

2007 McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Lovedale Semillon, Hunter. 2007 Kilikanoon Mort’s Reserve Riesling, Clare Valley. 1999 Pewsey Vale The Contours Riesling, Eden Valley. 2007 Seppelt Drumborg Riesling, Henty. 2007 Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Vineyard Riesling, Frankland River, Great Southern. Day One. MORE >>

This is just the second release of this wine (Benoit Tarlant began making it in 1999) and already it is one of my favorite Champagnes. Awesome wine, and it's the same price as a newly released 1er cru red Burgundy from a good terroir. White Burgundy is tough to buy, I think. love it in 2007, and it's drinking better than ever. MORE >>

If I'm buying an age worthy wine, a good red Burgundy, for example, I'm a believer in buying three bottles and drinking one when young in order to know the wine in that phase of its life. remember asking my friend Peter about this as we drove from one cellar tasting to another in Burgundy a little over a year ago. And that's fine. MORE >>

He told Mary that I would be in Burgundy and boom - we had an invite to Domaine des Croix for dinner. She served an excellent 2007 Albert Mann Riesling Schlossberg Grand Cru with a lively green salad, and a dark and stormy, and still probably too young, but layered and delicious 1999 Alain Graillot Hermitage with the boudin noir pie. MORE >>