Thank you Elizabeth and my most esteemed friend and colleague Linda, Duchess of Stand Oil.
Linda, my birthday wishes includes your convincing Bill Whitaker to get a summer place here in Maine. Tell him I'm some wicked good at cookin' lobstah, ayuh! (Even though that reads like a Maine accent, you have to say it with a New York accent.)
Thirty-four years completed. A Ste.-Emilion Bordeaux from a good year is near its peak of maturity at 35 years. I guess I'm more like Vintage Port. The '27 Taylor is just comin' round
