Set the Dials on the Bordeaux Wayback Machine

Remember Peabody’s Improbable History from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show?  That dorky kid, Sherman, who’d probably be an internet billionaire today, would do whatever Mr. Peabody, the dog, told him to and off they’d go, visiting Attila the Hun or the Spanish Inquisition in the Wayback Machine.  They’d screw history up but manage to get it all back together eventually and the whole result was some fine campy humor that delighted my juvenile mind.

Some of you are asking right about now, what does all this have to do with wine from Bordeaux?  Making connections between 1960’s cartoons and fine French wines is why I’m the author of this column and you are merely the reader.  At least that’s what I have Brad Prescott, publisher of IntoWine.com, believing.  And he signs the checks around here.

Alright.  Here’s the connection.  When you drink a Bordeaux, a really fine Bordeaux, that has been aged properly, you’ll travel back in time and think you’ve gone to wine heaven.  In a sense, you will taste a time and a place that no longer exists.  You’ll recall where you were and what you were doing when the wine was vinted and bottled.  It’s like a connection to history.  Pretty cool, huh?