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Two little wines I poached off the Lido list last night. Both comfortably under 100 bucks, proving–even on MASSIVE, blingy, $$$$ lists attached to 10k-bottle cellars, there ALWAYS are bargains. Your job is to find them. The Tondonia and orphan and sandwiched between an 09–which I knew to be RIDICULOUS–and an 01–which is equally delicious but in firmly tertiary profiles. 2004 seemed like a wild…

On a bleak and windy autumn’s evening we got together at the Masonic Hall in Harrogate to taste some of the older wines of Penfolds. They came from the private cellar of HMWS member Ian Botwright. We chatted and sipped Joseph cattin’s excellent Cremant D’Alsace Rose which was purchased at the winery during our recent Alsace wine tour, till all the reds were poured. Ian presented the wines. 1.…