Audio and Wine?

I was fortunate to live in Europe during the late 1960's and early 1970's, and my former father-in-law was the procurement officer for NATO/SHAPE Headquarters in Belgium. In that role, he got to know a man who owned the largest wine distributorship in Belgium, and we were occassionally invited to his house in Brussels. His wine cellar contained some 40,000 bottles of wine, many of which were among the finest available. There were two that wines he served us during a dinner that was particularly outstanding included:
1. 1959 Richebourg (chosen by the Chevalier de Tastevin as the best burgundy in France for 1959);
2. 1959 Schloss Vollrads Trockenbeerenauslese.

The best wine that I have had this year was a 1997 Ridge Late Harvest Zinfandel.

The state of Washington, where I live, is now producing some excellent wines. For those who have not tried the following labels, may I suggest you try:
1. Woodmark Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon;
2. Kestrel (their Signature bottlings which have just been released will be excellent and should cellar very well).
Washington state wines from 1998 were uniformly good to excellent, and were even better in 1999.

One of my favorites is :

Opus 1 1998 ($100) like Avalon Opus.

Glad to hear I'm not alone. Wow, some awesome wines mentioned - I envy those who own the likes of Petrus or are drinking '27 wine. I can't talk at that level. The best I own is a '98 Margaux - (I've no idea what it tastes like :-) and likely won't know for another few years. I had a '98 La Fite Rothschild though - it was fantastic (great structure). Thanks for the recommendations - will explore further. I'm enjoying a well balanced California Zin as I write.

Also, I suspect that wine lovers gravitate more to tube equipment rather than solid state, and perhaps analog. Am I right? I have a tube preamp (Sonic Frontiers Line 3), hybrid amps (Blue Circle BC2 monos), and a somewhat analog CD player (YBA CD1).

Anyway, happy listening (and drinking :-)

I like good Burgandies and Late Harvest Reislings and gravitate towards solid state.

I love good wine, and appreciate all the above suggestions. I was fortunate enough to have a neighbor for several years who was a wine distributor. He would just tell me what I needed and what was great and everything was at wholesale. I got spoiled very fast, and can not really go back to the marginal wines I was previously drinking. My favorites include Cosentino: signature, Poet, and Cab Franc. Chateau St Jean Cinq Cepages is amoung my very favorite--but hard to come by. I used to enjoy Cain Cuvee when it was about $17 a bottle (no one knew about it then). At it's current price it's not such a bargain.