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Dinner Chez Parker - Benefitting Camillus House, Miami, Florida & My Neighbors Foundation, Parkton, Maryland

This meal at our home sold for nearly $150,000 to a group of wine lovers I know well in Miami, Fla., who are very generous contributors to charity events. The...

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Dining At Home
Dinner with Friends - Chez G-Man

Dinner with Friends promoted Spanish flavors, so I brought some older Spanish wines from my cellar....

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Dining At Home
Dinner with Friends - Chez G-Man

Dinner with Friends promoted Spanish flavors, so I brought some older Spanish wines from my cellar. We started with a relatively dull, austere and uninspiring 1998 Krug Vintage Champagne. Luckily, the 2012...

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Restaurants
Magdalena Restaurant - The Ivy Hotel

By and large, the California Chardonnays performed overall better than the white Burgundies, although I was super-impressed with Louis Latour's 2009 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru White Burgundy, with loads of quince, white...

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Restaurants
Vito's Ristorante Italiano

Our casual wine group got together for a delicious lunch at Vito's in Cockeysville. We started with their assorted appetizers, which are standard fare there, but the chef's homemade/handmade ravioli...

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Restaurants
Wing & Barrel Ranch - Benefitting the Navy SEAL Foundation & Sonoma County Charities Cuisine prepared by Owner Chef Charlie Palmer Executive Chef Levi Mezick of Harvest Table

With Chef Charlie Palmer's superb yellow fin tuna tartare, I set out a selection of California's better Chardonnays along with some white Burgundies. As the scores attest, this was a...

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Events
Magdalena Restaurant - The Ivy Hotel

Magdalena, with British chef Marc Levy manning the kitchen, has the potential to be one of the finest restaurants in all of Maryland. The restaurant and the luxury boutique hotel,...

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Restaurants
Restaurant Daniel Château Latour Retrospective & Dinner

With special guest Frédéric Engerer, administrator of Château Latour, and Florence Rogers-Pinault, the owner's daughter, this special meal set up by The Wine Advocate turned out to be a spectacular evening of...

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Events
Blackberry Farm

This was a magnificent meal at Blackberry Farm, a place that had been on my bucket list for a while. It is considered one of the most luxurious and tranquil...

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Restaurants
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