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Dinner with Friends at Petit Louis

I love the 1995 Beaucastel Roussanne Vieilles Vignes. I purchased a case when it was first released, and have drunk six bottles with great pleasure. However, I had a maderized bottle...

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Mark's Duck House, Arlington, VA - Dim Sum with Burgundy Producers

Among the white wines there were no real surprises. It was another great showing for Kistler's 1998 Chardonnay Cuvée Cathleen, a powerful, yet concentrated, structured, super-intense offering with abundant quantities of...

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Another Dumpling Extravaganza at Mark's Duck House

It seems like, when I am in the United States, I need to go here at least once every three or four weeks. As for food, it is always the...

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Dinner with Les Oenarchs, at Charleston, Baltimore

An exceptional meal from chef Cindy Wolf at Charleston highlighted this blind tasting of Barolos. It was very easy to pick out the theme, of course, but the surprise was...

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L'Ami Louis — Paris, France

Of course, like many Americans, I was stuck in France for several extra days, waiting for American air space to reopen and then for the backlog to get unclogged so...

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Dinner at Veritas - '82 Bordeaux Magnum Blowout

Chef Scott Bryan's flavorful, soulful, very pure cooking is obviously designed to make wines show well, and certainly he proved that time and time again at this brilliant tasting of...

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Citronelle, Washington, DC

One of the two or three most remarkable meals of the year was delivered by the magician himself, the boisterous Michel Richard. Michel Richard is the most artistic French chef...

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Dinner with Dear Friends in Washington, DC

I was blown away by the Domaine d'Auvenay Meursault Narvaux. I wish I had bought some. Following that, the 1970 Lynch-Bages is fully mature and needs to be drunk up, but among the...

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Wine Advocate Office Casual Tasting in the Office with a Friend

This was just a fun event to taste a couple of Maryland wines I had in the cellar, particularly two wines that are no longer produced. A tannic blockbuster with...

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