An Odd Tale of Bad Wine Service

About 1990, when I was with The Los Angeles Times, I got a phone call from a woman who was bothered about an experience she had had at a Newport Beach restaurant of some renown.

She and three friends had gotten together for a Friday afternoon lunc...

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