What are the three ages at which to sample a wine to best understand its progression?

[Brian_Tuite]

@RyanM

@Cris_Whetstone

Just open things and try them.

Apologies for my overanalyzing @Cris_Whetstone but I’m an engineer so it’s a bit out of my control

You’ll be happy to learn that my first “drink now” case arrives Tuesday.

@RyanM

Case 2

Focus: Drink now
Retailer: WineBid (thanks @JustinP and @Mikko_Tuomi!)

• 2010 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Grézeaux
• 2011 Bruno Clair Marsannay Vaudenelles
• 2005 Château Branaire-Ducru
• 1995 Château d’Armailhac
• 2007 Chateau de Beaucastel Cotes du Rhone Coudoulet de Beaucastel
• 2000 Château Lafon-Rochet
• 2011 Domaine Pavelot (Jean Mark & Hugues) Savigny Les Beaune La Dominode
• 2003 H. Donnhoff Norheimer Dellchen Riesling Auslese #18
• 2014 Louis Michel Chablis Vaudésir
• 2005 Michel Lafarge Beaune Greves
• 2006 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco
• 2010 Stony Hill Chardonnay

I guess now you can add “retailer” to your list of variables as auction purchases are always a crapshoot with regards to how the wine was stored all it’s life. Sorry.