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I commented on the bulletin board about how abysmal the food was at this restaurant, but the views are magnificent, the wine list extraordinary, and the quality of the service...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Mar 2002

Private Dinner in Bordeaux

This was a dinner and blind tasting with the famed Bordeaux group Les Oenarchs. The meal, prepared by Chef Frances Garcia, formerly of Chapon Fin, included a salad of lamb...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Mar 2002

Blind Tasting of Primarily 1999 Red Burgundy with the Burgdogs

I was invited to donate some New World Pinot Noir pirates to a blind tasting of highly regarded 1999 red Burgundies. The participants, called the Burgdogs, were all big-time red...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Mar 2002

Date With Decadence, Charleston Restaurant, Baltimore, MD

This is an annual holiday luncheon I host for good friends and wine lovers where three flights are served blind and we then proceed to embarrass each other. However, I...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Dec 2001

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...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Oct 2001

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...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Oct 2001

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...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Oct 2001

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...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Oct 2001

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...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Oct 2001

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