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1998 Bordeaux Blind Tasting for Executive Wine Seminars, NY

My notes on all of these wines have been published several times in The Wine Advocate. There were no surprises at this tasting, except for the fact that a vast majority...

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Events
New Year's Eve, 2001 at Chez Parker

There were no surprises at this New Year's Eve bash except that these bottles of 1982 Bon Pasteur and 1982 Cheval Blanc were less impressive than usual. Previous tastings have revealed how variable the...

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Dining At Home
Relatives and Friends Living Nearby are Invited Over for Hors d'oeuvres

Normally what I do is just pull out a huge assortment of wines that make no rhyme or reason but allow people to taste through as many different kinds of...

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Dining At Home
Dinner at Veritas - '82 Bordeaux Magnum Blowout

Chef Scott Bryan's flavorful, soulful, very pure cooking is obviously designed to make wines show well, and certainly he proved that time and time again at this brilliant tasting of...

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Restaurants
Citronelle, Washington, DC

One of the two or three most remarkable meals of the year was delivered by the magician himself, the boisterous Michel Richard. Michel Richard is the most artistic French chef...

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Restaurants
Dinner with Dear Friends in Washington, DC

I was blown away by the Domaine d'Auvenay Meursault Narvaux. I wish I had bought some. Following that, the 1970 Lynch-Bages is fully mature and needs to be drunk up, but among the...

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Restaurants
Wine Advocate Office Casual Tasting in the Office with a Friend

This was just a fun event to taste a couple of Maryland wines I had in the cellar, particularly two wines that are no longer produced. A tannic blockbuster with...

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Restaurants
Le Bernadin, New York City

This was a small get-together with a dear friend to do a blind tasting of just four wines and see if the restaurant's top chef could match both the whites...

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Restaurants
Mark's Duck House, Arlington, VA Another Dim Sum Fix

Except for a disappointing white Burgundy (again!), everything that we tasted was pretty much up to snuff or even better. Pétrus, which is often somewhat underwhelming after bottling, has turned in...

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Restaurants
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