What Makes or Breaks a Great Wine

By James Laube
Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008

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.....

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