100 Wines: A Chronicle, #16 & 17

Here's an interesting and unusual conjunction of wines that we tried in the last week of March, 1984, on the 26 through the 28th, like two days away from 25 years ago. One was a failure, one a triumph.

I remember hesitating for weeks before buying the Chateau Beychevelle 1977, from Bordeaux's commune of Saint-Julien, because I

knew that it might not be t…