james laube's wine flights

What Makes or Breaks a Great Wine

Posted: Apr 9, 2008 6:39pm ET

I woke up this morning to an empty, sediment-stained bottle of 1957 La Tâche on the kitchen table, bottle number 00010 of 18,848 bottles. That means it came from the first case of that fabled wine, of which some 1,570 12-packs were produced.

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