james laube's wine flights

You'll Know When a Vintage Is Abysmal

Posted: Mar 13, 2007 2:18pm ET

Over on Chuck Wagner’s blog , a reader from Michigan asked why (among other things) my ratings for Napa Valley Cabernet have been so “abysmal” of late. If he’d used the words "critical" or "tough" or even "biased against" 2003, I wouldn’t have minded.

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