All bottles were properly stored and had no cork or other issues.

Chateau Haut-Brion 1970 is holding well and likely will last at least
several more years. I read some reports several years ago that
suggested it needed drinking soon. I can only conclude that there is
more than usual bottle variation, or some of the wine was poorly
stored. The color is still deep with only little indication of age
around the rim. The bouquet and taste are intense and are of dark
fruit and cassis with some spice and tobacco. The wine is smooth, has
very good balance, and has smooth medium tannins.

Rauenthaler Baiken Riesling Auslese 1971, Freiherr von Simmern, A.P.
Nr. 33045 007 72 is a most remarkable wine from a very great vintage.
It is now old gold in color and very bright. The intensity of taste
and bouquet is extreme. It could easily be mistaken for a BA . The
main fruit is apricot with some yellow peach. There is enough clean
old Riesling petrol character to add interesting complexity. There are
also hints of honey, wild flowers, and spice. The wine was not so
remarkable early on. It went through a very long dumb stage. It is now
extremely well balanced and is very rich and sweet.

The Farnum Hill Summer Cider (sparkling), Poverty Lane Orchards,
Lebanon N.H., USA, contains 7.5% alcohol. They also make other ciders.
I must say that I was not expecting much. Although apparently decent
ciders were made in the US in the 1800s and early 1900s, I had never
tasted a modern one that I liked. Most I have tasted are swill that
taste as if they were made from cull apples that have fallen to the
ground that even hogs would refuse to eat.

This was a quite decent cider. There is no mention of how the fairly
light sparkle was obtained - most likely from added CO2. However the
bubbles were small and slowly released. The color was very light
yellow. The cider is made from a mixture of classic cider apples
native to Europe and the US rather than the cheapest apples that can
be found. The bouquet is of very intense apple skin - by far more
intense than most apples sold in stores. The cider is fairly dry.
There is a clean apple taste, but the intense apple bouquet is the
most remarkable feature. This cider might go well with pork or perhaps
a traditional US Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.