When a friend and I were hosts to a John Kerry fund-raiser, she breezily talked about having Lorne and her husband pick up the wine and gather signatures.
Echoing a famous blind taste test of wines from California and France in 1976, known as the Judgment of Paris, nine wine experts gathered at Princeton University in 2012 to compare revered wines from France with wines from New Jersey that cost, on average, about 5 percent as much.
At that tasting 25 years ago, nine judges, all prominent French food and wine people, gathered in the enclosed courtyard of the Paris Inter-Continental Hotel and tasted 20 wines, red and white, French and American.
When we returned to the hotel suite, I arranged the stockings on the fake fireplace, put out bowls of snacks, opened a bottle of wine, and gathered plastic cups from the bathroom.
"(Birth Stone)" (2008) has about four dozen dark green wine bottles gathered into a circle on the floor with a brick-red marble placed over the mouth of each.
What if the wine panel could gather together a bunch of these more restrained wines and identify our favorites?
The professors also held wine tastings to gather more information.
The air smells of fruitcake and wine as crowds gather at an outdoor stage for festive singing and dancing.
A small group of students sip wine as they gather around their instructor, Paul Vandewoude, in the kitchen of the Miette Culinary Studio, which specializes in cooking classes for no more than 10 students at a time.
It requires creativity, thoughtfulness and dedication to gather wines that may not return as big a profit as the more expensive choices on the list.
