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Even better 'wines of the century'?
17 Sep 2009 by Jancis Robinson
Recently I published tasting notes from late 1999 entitled The best wines of last century? but, amazingly, last Friday night on the outskirts of Copenhagen I attended a fine wine dinner that yielded some major additional candidates for this title. If I tell you that I awarded three scores of 20 out of 20 in a row, that will give you some idea of the quality of the wines served.  The host has been collecting top-quality wine for the last 10 years or so, having been introduced to the delights of really fine wine by an elderly mentor who, one weekend on a remote Danish island, opened such delights for him as Latour 1961, Mouton 1982...

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