When So Few Make the Difference

By James Suckling
Posted: Friday, December 29, 2006

One of my big surprises this year was how a handful of wines can make a reputation for a vintage. What I am speaking about is 1996 in Bordeaux, and how the five first-growths made the reputation of what.....

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