Corrine had a very glamorous life before AXA, working as a top sommelier and wine director for several prestigious restaurants in London and the world. Our lunch was catered from the well-respected and very popular Au Bonheur du Palais restaurant in Bordeaux. Lazlo arranged a dinner at one of his favorite restaurants, ?s MORE >>

had never had these wines and I dont know if they are at all available in New York (though I see that restaurant Bouchon in Napa has them). They opened the 1993, a 14-year -old Morgon which threw minerals left and right as if it was in some battle on Mars and then it dissolved into an elegant peony, ants and all. Anyway, its lunch. MORE >>

Clark and I and our esposed ones sat down for dinner one evening a year or two back, at a good little restaurant here on Bainbridge Island, with some reasonably young bottles from my cellar. vaguely recall we popped 1996 Pol Roger, 2000 Raveneau Montee de Tonnerre, 1996 Roulot Tessons and 1993 Mugnier C-M Les Fuees. Do check it out. MORE >>

No, not at my home this time, but at the restaurant called Home in Manhattan's West Village. Opened by David Page and Barbara Shinn in 1993, this place functions as an example of their food, wine, and environmental philosophy: local, sustainable, delicious. Anyway.how was the restaurant? Delicious! have no excuse, really. MORE >>

In 1993 the bartender at the now-defunct French restaurant where I waited table graduated from Reed College in Portland, and he knew about Oregon pinot. Fast forward about 10 years and most New York restaurants who take wine seriously include an Oregon pinot. 2004 was a tough year to make wine in the Willamette Valley. MORE >>