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Wine dinners considered – part 1

Aphorisms of Brillat-Savarin

The first of a two-part muse on a topic that may well be of particular interest to visitors to JancisRobinson.com. 

The suggestion to start a wine dinner for our group of friends came from Tom. This was hardly surprising. Tom is the most adult, adult I know. It’s not that he is the most mature grown-up but he is the most qualified and by far the most convincing. Tom knows intuitively what comes next in life and slides effortlessly from one phase of adulthood to the next. Like a migrating shore bird that knows instinctively when it’s time to rise...

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