Fifty Wines That Shaped My Palate, 1984-2014

I started this post as a way of commemorating my 30th anniversary in wine-writing, reached, as My Regular Readers know -- bless your little pointy heads and may your tribes increase -- early in July. Initially, the concept was "Fifty Great Wines," but I decided that choosing 50 "great" wines from 30 years of tasting would be an impossible and probably j…