You are looking at a picture of the post-tasting refreshments at Chateau Fonreaud, Cru Bourgeois Superiieur in Listrac-Medoc. At the moment of the picture, we had just finished the tasting of Listrac, Mouis, Medoc, and Margaux wines. Looks like paradise, yes? Notably fresh acidity countered by grainy medium plus tannins. MORE >>

Unless you often buy at auction, or have been buying and cellaring wine for a very long time, you're probably like me - you drink scores of younger wines for every truly mature bottle you drink. remember asking my friend Peter about this as we drove from one cellar tasting to another in Burgundy a little over a year ago. Fully mature? MORE >>

I recently posted about blind tasting Bordeaux 2005 with Robert Parker. Last week, via the “inaugural edition&# of his monthly e-newsletter, he produced his own summation of the public tasting, which included new, “official&# scores for all the wines tasted. At the event, he had not scored any of the wines. MORE >>

So buckle up and get ready to hear his thoughts on what’s wrong with Riesling from Austria and Australia, screwcaps and their problems, the Loire, California cab then and now, indigenous yeasts, roto-fermenters, small oak barrels, wines over 14% alcohol and why he uses scores! Wine scores. German Riesling. just don’t get it. MORE >>