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...recent dinner party, it certainly was the mixture that did it—a quintet of five glorious wines that brought me back to loving California, inebriation not required (or achieved). It’s the little things you appreciate about a place, and Northern California’s patent wine snobbery sends me into epicurean revelry. Don’t get me wrong: I love Cambridge. But let’s face it, the closest an average Harvard student gets to enjoying wine is guzzling a seven-dollar magnum of Yellowtail, which might as well be packaged...
Unlike his students, I grew up knowing him simply as “Mo,” not Prof. Fiorina. In my mind he was (and still is) a wine aficionado before an academic. He may argue otherwise, but I don’t think he’d care too much. He’s too affable and fun to argue those kinds of semantics...
...third wine was probably the best red I’ve ever tasted, a 1992 Château Montalena (a famous Napa Valley winery). The nose was complex, hinting at everything from grass to pepper. The wine itself tasted of subtle herbs with full tannins. What was most interesting was how it opened up with oxidation and food. I dug into my steak au poivre and swished the wine around the glass, and all of a sudden a bouquet of hitherto-absent garden flowers opened in my glass, demanding the attention of my entire palate...
...next bottle was a Montalena again from the next year. It’s remarkable how different two wines from the same vineyard can be. This one was a veritable fruit festival with huge, open flavors for everyone at the table to savor. I preferred the ’92, but this was still a great, fun wine...
...close the meal, Mo bestowed a celestial gift upon us in the form of dessert wine, this one a 2002 from Château Memoires Cadillac in Sauternes, France. Imagine a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice laced with a sweet fragrance and no bitterness, and the flavor of this magnificent wine comes into focus. It had a perfect sugar/acid balance, an effervescent aroma of orange peel, and a slight cedar backbone...