james laube's wine flights

To Spit or Not to Spit at the Grand Tour

Posted: May 1, 2008 4:31pm ET

It was my first vertical of Château Lafite Rothschild and I wasn’t about to spit out anything. A formal sit-down tasting at one of the early California Wine Experiences, the host, Baron Eric de Rothschild, had chosen 10 great vintages of this famous first-growth, dating to the 1940s, to share with about 1,000 of us.

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