"Mark Lipton" in :
> Max Hauser wrote:
>
>> Sounds like Ridge Monte Bello.
>>
>> Fans of that wine have been known, on reaching a certain
>> age, to renounce buying any more of it, on actuarial grounds.
>
> Max,
> What is your take on those who say that MB has undergone a stylistic
> change since '90? I don't have enough first-hand experience to say one
> way or another, but people like you and Claude K. are well positioned
> (IMO) to weigh in on this issue.
>
> Mark Lipton

Ask me in 2015 when the first ones may be ready to drink. ;-)

I don't know, Mark -- in two senses: First I have not noticed a conspicuous
change, second I have not heard the comments you allude to. (References?)

I've bought that wine on and off since the '80 vintage but I don't taste it
often enough to say offhand. One of the tasting groups has some deeply
involved members who have followed this wine a very long time. PD
graciously joins sometimes if we are tasting that wine, and comments on his
wines. All blind tastings, of course. PD catches the vintage at once, at a
sniff, but then he knows these wines better than anyone else. (He usually
comments a bit on the features of the vintage, at that point.) I've posted
results of one or more of these tastings, but I don't recall if they spanned
before and after 1990. Certainly, some of the early 1990s MBs drink
impressively now. Always, lots of concentration, lots of wood ... Claude
K. is in another tasting group, and I don't recall whether he follows that
wine -- mostly we taste and talk about Burgundies.

Again, I'm interested in more info about the style assertion (here or by
email).