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Dinner in the Countryside Near Mt. Fuji at Yashima

Chef Toshiji Yuki is considered the greatest modern day chef in Japan, and the Kitcho restaurant in the upscale Hotel Seiyo Ginza is one of Japan's finest restaurants. Chef Yuki's...

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Oenarch Dinner

With the sumptuous food of Baltimore's top chef, Cindy Wolf, we did a blind tasting of 2000 Piedmontese wines. This is a very ripe, concentrated, somewhat atypical vintage. I suspected...

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Hedonist Dinner Two, Hotel Seiyo Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

I suppose it's unfair for one person to have two meals of a lifetime within three days, but hey ... someone's gotta do it. The menu was exactly the same...

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Hedonist Dinner One, Château Robuchon, Tokyo, Japan

One of the highlights of my trip to Japan was the opening of Joël Robuchon's luxury restaurant in Tokyo called Château Robuchon. Ten years ago Joël Robuchon was considered by...

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Repertoire Restaurant, Hotel Seiyo Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Repertoire is a European restaurant in the Hotel Seiyo Ginza, which was my base of operations in Tokyo during my week of tastings, symposiums, lectures, etc. The Japanese chef, who...

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Dinner in the Countryside Near Mt. Fuji at Yashima

This restaurant not far from Mt. Fuji is considered one of the finest of the traditional styled Japanese restaurants. Shoes are removed and there are no tables as guests sit...

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Symposium for 150 Japanese Winemakers and Sommeliers

Mount Fuji, Japan One of the objectives on my trip to Japan was to visit the viticultural regions of that country and taste the first modern-styled Koshu, a historic Japanese...

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The Oenarch Dinner - Bicycle Restaurant

A fun night that allowed me to recalibrate my palate (after my return from the Rhône Valley) with a bevy of brilliant 2001s, primarily from California. This was my first...

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L'Ami Louis

A good, but uninspiring bottle of 1990 Dom Ruinart Champagne was followed by a disappointing bottle of Bressy's 2001 Rasteau. The wine selection was redeemed by a brilliant bottle of 1998 Clarendon Hills Kangarilla...

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