November

It’s time for selecting wines for the onslaught of holiday events, and I will recommend a few here as well as some more next month.

October

Was ’94 a bad year in Bordeaux? The critics seemed to say so, and it has gotten that reputation, but this month I’ve tasted several ‘94’s and they are quite good – especially given that their prices are considerably less than those of the more highly rated vintages.

September

On the occasion of our last dinner in Canada with some great friends I decided it was the appropriate time to open one of the oldest and most prestigious bottles of wine in my collection.  I had purchased a 1975 Mouton Rothschild several years ago from a wine store in St. Louis that was liquidating an old collector’s cellar for him.  I can’t tell you the price of the wine because my wife reads this, but suffice to say I only bought one bottle.  This was the night to open this wine.