We went Italian tonight early, ended up Japanese late. Basically, we ate three dinners. Yikes! Ciao Vito was excellent. The food, immaculate; the wines, exquisite. The highlight wine, the 2004 Bressan Schioppettino from Friuili, was ridiculously good: a wine that behaves like Château Rayas CdP, a fine Chianti Classico and a great Volnay all at once. But the Charles Joguet Chinon Rosé 2009 we started with was quite tasty.

Zilla was tasty; we ate more food and drank a ton of sake with Marcus Pakiser. Whoa, what a lesson!

I really liked our trip to Biwa, an Izakaya or Japanese tavern. More sake and delicious scallops in sake lees.

Their Ramen was sick, the best in fact, but wow, too much sake.

Finally chillin' at home. A long & wonderful day.

Anthony Garcia
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