San Francisco & Wine
Old wood is best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. San Francisco & Wine! What a Trip! There are memories and memories, but this one impressed me one night at the Wine Cellar, The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida, USA, when a tipsy old timer shouted: “I surfed from Baja California to San Francisco when there were only nine or ten surfers on the entire Pacific Coast. I spent three-month summer vacations in our High Sierra cabin 60 miles from the nearest road. I drank milk from my own ranch.” “Capital eccentricity!” Validity, absurd and boring, even if I am in front of my own common sensibility”, I said to myself within the huge room of my silence. I hear this when I was enjoying a glass of Robert Mondavi, Opus One 1986, an expensive and very valuable wine. They use only the best of the best grapes. This great wine was born from the collaboration between Baron Phillipe Rothchild and Robert Mondavi, two of the most respected names in the wi...