"She's got a great palate," says John after tasting her rosewater and cardamom rice pudding.
After tasting her lemon-basil gelatin with lime-mint sorbet, they hired Christine McCabe Tentori, formerly of Charlie Trotter's, as executive chef.
Winemakers should be heartened by the conversion of Ms. Lok, the wine broker from Guangzhou, who had primarily consumed baijiu before tasting her first imported wine in 2006.
Success on the track emboldened her to take new risks: tasting her husband's snail appetizer, dining in a restaurant alone and ditching a career as a college lecturer to try her hand as a writer.
In Ms. Mitic's version of the story, the expression on her ancestor's face when she dies "out of joy" is the same as her own when she remembers the pleasure of tasting her father's grapes.
As Ms. Bodo set a pair of Riedel wineglasses down on a cask, it became apparent we would be tasting her wines directly atop the 16 oak barrels that contained the entirety of Bott Pince's current production, a vintage that had been especially limited because of the caprices of Mother Nature.
