Hep, you should make the trip...SoCal is much closer to you than NYC!
I assure you, DG, that eery bottle I have would be best appreciated by wine snobs. My friend Pierre hand-selected each and every bottle for me. He knows wine better than anyone I have ever known and he knows wines that most of us will never even see or hear of in our lifetimes. That's why I just let him point and say, "Oh, you MUST have this one!" And I put it in the cart, no questions asked!
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