JEKEL WINES FROM BORDEAUX

[Jerry D Mead]

I bet you're looking at one of those gift/educational 6-packs...that contains one bottle each of the five Bordeaux varieties...Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot...plus one bottle of the blend of all five, labeled Meritage...all from the same vintage.

They don't do them every year, and when they do only in excellent vintages, so you can hardly go wrong.

It is one of the few opportunities to taste all those varieties, from a single producer, from a single vineyard source, anywhere in the world.

I'm proud to tell you, I'm the one who suggested to the Jekel/Brown-Forman folks that these collections be made abailable...and they've become an extremely valuable educational tool for wine education classes (as well as a good drink).

And no...this was not a set-up. I don't know Paul.

JDM