See my tasting notes on all these wines in Four decades of California Cabs.
I'm sure all of us wine lovers, not just Americans, have much to give thanks for – not least the fact that we can choose from more and better wine than ever before, in a range of styles and flavours that, thank goodness, is once again widening. Furthermore, as I argued in Wine – the affordable luxury, in real terms we have been paying less and less for it – so long as we leave trophy wines to be fought over by the world's...
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