Maybe I'm weird, but...

[winoweenie]

Roberto, Roberto, Roberto! you know that isn't what I was trying to communicate to the Mach. As far as the " Yelling Birds ",
" Mister Bs' Family Goldmine " or " Pray-before-Dinner Family ", I've long since departed their mailing lists and found solace and substance in wines less demanding on the wallet. What I said was that there is a quality that is proven in the Lafites, Latours, and Moutons of the world. You can
try to dismiss them as much as you want but they are the benchmark against which ALL wines are judged. Not by the Parkers and Speculators, but the buying public. If they've gone out of sight, price-wise, it isn't the fault of the wineries but the people who vote with their cash. Granted, some of these people are idiots who like to glom onto anything that has luster, but there are far more intelligent people who buy and love the juice, want a 15 to 20 year old Latour in their cellar to share with friends, these are the same ones that in 1855 determined the classification. It must have worked, because as you know, there's been one major revision in all them-there-yars. 40. WW