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A First Look at Bordeaux

Posted: Jul 19, 2007 11:05am ET

I was at one of those rare-wine tastings at a friend’s house in Portola Valley--sniffing and swirling, sipping and spitting--when a woman at the table asked me, "How far is Château Latour from Château Lafite?" (We were doing a comparison of those two first-growths from 1865 to the present).

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