A dozen aged Bordeaux (plus 2 Champagnes)

[newsguy]

drew: the offline group is from WS board. check under "Off-line Events." you'd be welcome to attend anytime. next is tentatively scheduled for sat. 3/21. don't know where yet or what the wine theme will be. usually about 10-15 people at these things. always a great time. a small group of them is having dinner thursday night at 7:15 at an italian restaurant in downtown b'more to meet a out of town board member. i can't make it, but let me knof let me know if you want in. you still have my e-mail addy?

engineer: that '96 is one of my top 3 favorite bubblies ever. just incredibly unique. and i think i probably should have put a comma between "cream" and "lead pencil." i told ya this was verbatim from my notes. ;-)

WOW: i will try early to get a date declared for the april offline for the weekend you're here. first choice will be sat. 4/18, with sunday 4/19 as a backup. would that work for you? let me know, and i'll post about it ASAP.