If you don’t watch a lot of TV you may have never heard of the MTV show Pimp My Ride, where old jalopies are transformed during the course of the program into tricked-out dream cars for their respective owners. It’s a bit like Extreme Makeover except for cars. And if you haven’t been hangin’ ’round [...]

Here we track down and taste a 1953 Leoville Barton St. Julien, a 1959 Huet Le Haut-Lieu Demi-Sec Vouvray and a 1971 Schloss Reinhartshausen Hattenheimer Rheingau Spatlese. “We will sell no wine before its time.” The allure of fine old wines has been around long before Orsen Wells uttered those immortal words for Paul Masson. [...]