The wine critic James Suckling, a veteran Bordeaux expert who moderated the tasting in Bridgehampton, gave each wine 100 points and compared the pair to the heralded 2009 and 2010, the younger wine being the sexpot in that pair.
The "Vixen" is a female fox not a cinematic sexpot or a soap opera star and Janacek's score tells an ingenius tale, populated by forest and barnyard animals, that has become one of the 20th century's most popular musical dramas.