Rick B.: Adventures in Wine
Q1: Where did you grow up?
A1: Chicago
Q2: What are your favorite types of wine? Varietals? Regions?
A2: Southern Rhone
Bordeaux
Napa Cabs
White Burgs
Loire Whites
Q3: What are your favorite kinds of food?
A3: French
Italian
Most everything else too
Q4: What are your favorite restaurants?
A4: Joe's Steak
Q5: What is your favorite wine and food pairing?
A5: Chateauneuf and Osso Buco
Q6: Do you cook? If so, what kind of food and for whom?
A6: Outdoor grill for family and guests
Q7: If you were stranded on a desert island, what one type of food/wine would choose to have?
A7: vintage Bordeaux over 10 years old
Q8: What are your favorite wine memories?
A8: Anniversary dinner with Billicarte-Salmon Rose, 1961 L'Angelus, and 1986 Lafite. Party of 12 in a Winnebago to Ravinia for a picnic - among those consumed were 1961 Lafite, 1934 Haut Brion, and an even older Trockenbeerenauslese. (I had to drive the Winnebago home)
Q9: Do you have any wine-related disasters?
A9: Not having enough sense to taste a wine I decanted at home and funneled back into the bottle to go to a restaurant. Very embarrassing when your own wine, that you have opened, decanted, and brought to dinner is corked.
