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Chris’s Life-Changing Wines

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1971 Krug

"At a Masters of Food & Wine seminar in 2003, I sat with a couple of older ladies in the back. After the tasting, we collected all the extra glasses of this Champagne—its aroma was like vanilla ice cream—and drank them."

1990 Romanée-Conti La Tâche

"I was at a party in Napa Valley last year and the host sent me to the cellar to pick anything I wanted. This wine stopped me in my tracks just with the smell—cremini mushrooms, black truffles."

Torres Sangre de Toro

"I was living in a crappy apartment when I picked up a bottle of this at the supermarket in 1994. It was ripe and raisiny; I had never been to Spain, but it tasted like how I imagined Spain to be."