The goal is eventually to have dinner together twice a year, but we need to build our cellar in order to do that, so we meet once a year for now. Buying newly released wine for the cellar is the easy part. don't hear Corton-Charlemagne mentioned in the same breath as Puligny, Chassagne, or Meursault in terms of quality. Corked! MORE >>

The same is true in the cellar, where visitors can see all formats of barrels and all types and ages of wood, including cherrywood which Gian says is excellent for producing a long-lived wine from the Corvina grape as it accents the wine’s natural cherry flavors and softens the harsh youthful tannins. And New York? Day 2. MORE >>

John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. But being younger than the gentleman I just mentioned, I do not have the same reserves of old vintages of white Burgundy or white Bordeaux in my cellar, and so premox has really hit my collection hard. Are these wines forcibly better? MORE >>

liked the 05 the best, it was very Meursault-like, rich and fabulous, and the 08 more than the 07. Jean-Marc practices organic farming; in the cellar he uses 15% new oak, mainly from the Allier forest, which integrates seamlessly into the wines’ silken, perfectly harmonious structures. Africa looking like that!). More soon. MORE >>

Old vintages, stored undisturbed in Neal's underground cellar. To an oasis of perfectly cellared wine and delicious wholesome food. We drank three mature white Burgundy wines, one from Meursault, one from Puligny, and one Corton-Charlemagne. This past weekend I participated in one of the greatest wine events of my life. MORE >>