Gourmet
Wine Journal

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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Dining At Home
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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Dining At Home
Traveling in Australia

Between June 14 and July 5, 2001, while traveling in Australia, I had only one mind-blowing meal, and it was not where one might have expected. The fare in Sydney...

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Restaurants
Birthday of a Dear Friend at the Four Seasons, Washington

Immediately prior to my trip to Australia, we celebrated a birthday meal prepared by Chef William Douglas McNeill at the Seasons restaurant in the Four Seasons hotel. McNeill retired the...

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Restaurants
Birthday Celebration for My Best Friend

My wife and I prepared a great meal. When summer tomatoes come in, my wife makes a fabulous tomato/cheese pie (essentially ground up aged Swiss cheese layered with a bed...

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Restaurants
Dinner at the Petit Louis Bistro in Baltimore

Getting prepared for a three-week visit to Australia, I took three blockbuster Shiraz to my favorite local bistro, Petit Louis, as well as a bottle of 1998 Monbousquet. It takes a...

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Restaurants
Big Time Aussie Night

Getting psyched for three-plus weeks Down Under, I thought I would open a half dozen of the blockbuster Australian Shirazes. I also wanted to do something I like to do...

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Events
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
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