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Get ready for Thanksgiving

I love Pinots for quaffing and light hors d’oeuvre noshing and I love the rich, full flavors of many Spanish wines for Thanksgiving dinner. With so many questions about what to drink with turkey, Reuters Life! asked us what we liked. Click here to read the article.

A dinner to celebrate 1961’s half century

by Al Buchanan & Maureen Downey Purple pagers Al Buchanan of Chicago (left) and Maureen Downey of San Francisco met at a wonderful 1961 dinner I was lucky enough to host in New York last month. Below is their joint account of it. My own notes, together with those on some other red bordeaux that […]