100 Wines: A Chronicle (6)

Now we're talking! Our first great red wine from Bordeaux!

Don't laugh. The year -- 1974 -- vies with '72 and '77 as being the worst of the decade. Robert M. Parker Jr., never one to mince words, writes, in the last edition (the fourth) of his book about the wines of Bordeaux: "Should readers still have stocks of the 1974s, my sincere condolences. He goe…