Need menu recommendations

[Jerry D Mead]

Martin Ray made them really big, but with any 32 year old wine there's always a chance it has gone over the hill. The best advice I can offer is to have a back-up bottle of something current in the event your 1968 is a clunker. Nothing more unromantic than not having any wine to drink.

Also I would begin with some Champagne or other bubbly to set the mood upon your intended victim's arrival, and which might carry through a first course featuring some kind of seafood or shellfish.

Just about any dark/red meat should work with your old Cab...duck in a savory sauce...maybe with green peppercorns? (no sweet cherries or plums or the like), tenderloins of beef maybe with some good earthy mushrooms, or even a grilled salmon.

Now watch the "food types" come in and contradict everything I've said. (Am I getting gunshy or what?)