Well I guess I can’t name the two 2009 Cotes du Rhone from Kermit Lynch and Domaine La Milliere, since they’re too common, and everybody must have had a dozen great 2001 Vieux Telegraphe so it’s almost humdrum, and the 83 Rieussec doesn’t count because we all know that people overrate Sauternes, and the 74 Freemark Abbey Petite Syrah was just plain poorly paired with the food. So that leaves the 76 Stoney Hill Chard and the 60 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges De Latour that were both revelations, but I can’t pick both.
This is worse then desert island discs. Excuse me, desert island files.
This one’s easy - Saturday night (my wife’s B-day) we had a '71 Castell 'In Villa Chianto Classico Riserva that was one of the best mature chianti’s I have ever had the pleasure of consuming - and at 40 years of age, no imminent signs of any decline. I had paired it up with an '88 Monsanto CCR, which drank well, but was absolutely torched by the Castell.