Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

I know France well, and had certainly tasted some fine Médoc wines in the past. But, true confession: Before a trip there last fall, I honestly couldn’t have pinpointed the region on a map ...