Another delightful meal at the best bistro in Baltimore (Charm City's only bistro). A meal consisting of their perfect Eggplant Napoleon with goat cheese, olives, tapenade, and very intense and...

To celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary, my wife and I went to our favorite spot for great dining in Baltimore, Chef Cindy Wolf's Charleston restaurant. Once again, when flavor counts,...

I love the 1995 Beaucastel Roussanne Vieilles Vignes. I purchased a case when it was first released, and have drunk six bottles with great pleasure. However, I had a maderized bottle...

What can you say about the amazing cooking of Daniel Boulud? From the opening dish of foie gras and figs, to an amazing Boulud gazpacho of toro of tuna with heirloom tomatoes,...

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...

Among the white wines there were no real surprises. It was another great showing for Kistler's 1998 Chardonnay Cuvée Cathleen, a powerful, yet concentrated, structured, super-intense offering with abundant quantities of...

It seems like, when I am in the United States, I need to go here at least once every three or four weeks. As for food, it is always the...

The menu at this charity dinner included sardines with oven-baked onions in olive oil, pine nuts, and anchovy juice, sea scallops in a corn clam chowder with root vegetables and...

This was the second tasting of these wines, because the first, held several months earlier, was so extraordinary. I wrote this tasting up, for the most part, in Issue 138 of The Wine...