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CELEBRATIONS WITH OLD WINES & GOOD FRIENDS
We were recently evacuated from our home in Montecito for nearly a month. During this time we stayed in many places including the homes of friends. Once we were back in our home we decided it was celebration time. AN ANNUAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION The first was the occasion of our long term great friend, […]
Click here to read entire article »ENCORE: DEAR SANTA, WE’VE GOT A LITTLE LIST
In the very early days of the online Underground I posted an article I had published in 1983 in the print version of The Underground Wineletter (Volume V, Number 5) and added a postscript with some new wines to add to that list. Just to show that great old wines never fade away, the […]
Click here to read entire article »DON’T GET YOUR KNICKERS IN A TWIST!
DOES ALL WINE TASTE THE SAME? YOU BE THE JUDGE! I recently posted an article entitled The “Judgment of Princeton” (to read that article click here). This was an account of a recent blind tasting of New Jersey wines vs. French wines. A friend also sent me a recent article featuring the Judgment […]
Click here to read entire article »GERMANY 2010 – A SPECTACULAR VINTAGE
Imagine if Philippine Rothschild had said that today’s supermarket Mouton Cadet was the equal of the 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, the estate’s flagship wine from a famed vintage. Hanno Zilliken, owner/winemaker of the famed German Saar estate Forstmeister Zilliken, made a similar statement, comparing his 2010 wines to a cellar aged 1983 gold capsule Auslese, a prized late harvest wine from a highly praised vintage.
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