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 >>

Neal showed me his root cellar, where he grabbed a bunch of his potatoes for our lunch. He opened a bottle of wine for us to share, the 2005 François Gaunoux Meursault 1er Cru La Goutte D'Or. More conversation with Neal Rosenthal: Finished with our tour of the grounds, we went inside the house for a look around. BG: Nice! BG: Yup. 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 >>

Although ready to drink now, the vibrant acidity of this wine will reward additional cellar aging. have always enjoyed the French Meursault and some Pouilly Fuisse, but the Clos Du Bois Calcaire is now on top of my Chardonnay list. Made me feel good, I don't win that often. The wine list offered about nine different Chards. MORE >>