The Semi-Annual Mea Culpa: 12 Wines I Should Have Reviewed, Oh, Months Ago, All California

I have used Wordsworth's lines so often -- "The world is too much with us, late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" -- that I won't allude to them on this occasion but merely issue an apology and assert that sometimes I just can't keep up with tasting and writing. In fact, this post is probably the first in a series of "mea culpa" c…