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So last night, June 13, we celebrated the fourth anniversary of our Wine Media Guild Dinner at the prestigious Four Seasons Restaurant in Manhattan. Wine Writers inducted into the Hall in Fame include Gerald Boyd, Stephen Spurrier, Tom Stevenson, and posthumously, Leon Adams.

I was pleased to see fellow member Peter Sichel give a rousing thank you on behalf of Stephen Spurrier, who I first met at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers in Napa several years ago and now see at En Primeur.

Members are encouraged to bring their favorite special bottle, and at the end of the dinner I was pleased to see that fellow member Philippe Newlin brought a bought of Disznoko 6 Puttonyos Tokaji Aszu, a sweet wine from Hungary. It was incredibly delicious and a special treat!

I am so honored to having tasted all the wines of Disznoko during a special scholarship I received from AXA, which took me to Disznoko in Hungary, Chateau Pichon Longueville in Bordeaux, Domaine D'Arlot in Burgundy, and even Mas Belles Eaux in the Languedoc.

You can read about my incredible experience at Disznoko here

You can read on Christian Seely's blog about the color differences vintage to vintage of Disznoko here

You can read about the entire AXA trip here

Christian Seely, Managing Director of AXA Millesimes and host of the trip, is featured  along with other Bordeaux celebrities in the 2011 Bordeaux issue of Decanter magazine in story called: "The Camera Never Lies" in which photographer Colin Hampden-Whie took stylized portraits of Bordeaux's leading players. Mr. Seely was shot at Chateau Pichon-Longueville. In the photograph, the space looks enormous, yet Mr. Seely is photographed  in a reduced way just in front of a doorway.

According to the photographer, "the portrait was about near-perfection, as Mr. Seely said that if a wine were perfect it might become boring. In this portrait we have a beautifully symmetrical image with Seely in the middle, but there is a deliberate mistake - the left-hand door behind him is not quite open fully. In keeping with his Britishness, he sports his trademark bow tie."

You can see the picture in the Bordeaux 2011 issue.

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