At our decadent, lavish lunch of fabulous dim sum, the red Burgundies performed up to their exalted reputations. It was led by a perfect bottle of Ponsot's 1980 Clos de la...

A great night that raised a boatload of money for a worthy cause, the food of Baltimore's finest chef, Cindy Wolf, was superb, as usual. It complemented the range of...

This is actually a wine bar/shop with a tiny bistro attached. I highly recommend it for its classic bistro food as well as wines that can be purchased. I was...

I had a friend of mine bring six bottles of recently bottled 2000 Bordeaux in order to get an early look at how this spectacular vintage is performing from bottle....

Currently, this is Paris's most popular bistro. In order to get a table at this tightly packed, noisy restaurant, reservations must be made weeks in advance. I can not say...

After I washed my mouth out with some delicious Blanc de Blancs Champagne from Taittinger, we had two bottles of classic Bordeaux. Both were decanted at the beginning of the meal....

I have been recommending this restaurant for nearly twenty years. It has the finest wine list in the southern Rhône, and Tina and Guy Jullien's cuisine just gets better and...

This was an enormous array of wines drunk with a magnificent display of dim sum from my favorite Hong Kong-styled Chinese restaurant in northern Virginia, Mark's Duck House. There were...

Two meals consisting of tuna tartar, foie gras chaud, steak au poivre blanc, care d'agneau, chocolate soufflé, pasta with summer truffles, and consumé of lobster were all superb. Between mountain...