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Châteauneuf du Papes with Friends ... again and again!

For 24 years, I have rarely accepted invitations to dine with producers, simply because I don't want to be beholden to anyone for favors they extend to me. It's a...

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Dining At Home
Châteauneuf du Papes with Friends ... again

It's obvious I can't keep my hands and palate off Châteauneuf du Pape. It is such a great time to be not only drinking the 90s, which are starting to...

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Dining At Home
My Wife's Birthday Dinner

I  believe in the late Richard Olney's advice that great wines require simple food. The meal, prepared at home, included simple soft shell crabs meunière, followed by aged strip steak...

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My Birthday Dinner with Friends from France

I was born in 1947 and have a handful of bottles from that vintage left in my cellar, but I decided to go with youth. A magnum of 1990 Taittinger Comtes...

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Châteauneuf du Pape, Some Fabulously Aged Steaks and a Handful of Friends

Why is it that Châteauneuf du Papes never disappoint, whether they are young or mature? The surprise of the evening was the incredible performance of Pierre Usseglio's 1999 Châteauneuf du Pape...

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Dining At Home
Lunch at Home With Friends

I prepared grilled Copper River salmon while my wife made a sumptuous, heavily garlicked shepard's pie with ground lamb and creamy mashed potatoes. 1998 may be a difficult vintage in...

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My Daughter's Birthday Dinner

On my daughter's birthday, I pulled out two wines from her birth year, followed by two half bottles of 1982 Calon Ségur. The 1987 François Jobard Meursault Les Genevrières remains a wine of...

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Dining At Home
Dinner with Friends at Home

Following a terrific bottle of delicate yet flavorful 1990 Clos des Goisses we drank one of the world's best kept white wine secrets, Domaine des Baumards Savennières. The 1997 Cuvée Spéciale is a...

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TV Dinner at Home

Sitting down with my wife to watch my profile on 60 Minutes II, followed by a one hour profile on the Charlie Rose Show, I thought that just in case they were...

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