On 07/28/2011 06:39 PM, James Silverton wrote:
> What is supposed to be better about "open barrel"? Or perhaps, I should
> ask what is different in the taste?

Dunno, I gathered it was about old techniques. Or maybe just exploring
the possible. The wine was not a run of the mill CdR but that probably
had more to do with 37 months sur lie than anything else.