james laube's wine flights

Assessing Older Vintages Has Its Challenges

Posted: Nov 15, 2006 12:36pm ET

Yesterday, I tasted two flights of 1996 Cabernets as part of a series on older California wines. Each year for the past 20 years, I’ve conducted retrospective tastings. It’s the only way to assess how the wines age, and it’s both instructive for me and useful for people who collect these wines.

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