Happy Thanksgiving!

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...