waiting for our 7pm dinner and what a fabulous day we have had at the Palais Coburg, viewing multi-million dollar wine cellars and meeting the celebrities of the wine world. Of course, everyone loved the Roumieu -- the 2008 Merryvale raised eyebrows as some asked "is this new vintage 'fine wine' and what is a good definition of fine wine.'". MORE >>

Its founders, Jesús Barquín and Eduardo Ojeda, recommend that their biologically aged wines, the ones that are aged under flor , be cellared for a few years in order to reach their full potential of complexity and harmony. He likes to cellar Inocente for at least a year, he says. Peter said that the wine was absolutely fabulous. Bliss. MORE >>

If I really wanted to drink a Lafon Meursault nowadays, I'd have to buy a bottle at auction because I've been told that, like many of Burgundy's great wines, these require many years of cellaring before they reveal all that they have to offer. I drank a white wine by Domaine des Comtes Lafon the other night the first time I have ever done so. MORE >>

This, of course, ignores the fact that fino is by definition an aged wine, being anywhere from three to ten years old when it is bottled. The term palma is used by cellarmasters in their classification of the various casks in the cellar. For me, it's definitely a fino-amontillado now. So without further ado. MORE >>

Parker opined after the flight that it was very definitely a Medoc and probably a first growth. When he said, “the worst thing you could do is die with a full cellar,” the room burst into laughter and a smattering of applause. On Wednesday evening I attended a tasting of fifteen wines from Bordeaux 2005. Parker called it “shut down.” MORE >>