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The wonderfully complicated and all too brief (and happy) life of Pio Boffa
A fond remembrance
There are moments in life when a particular event
happens, that sends ripples across the water.
Such was the moment yesterday when I heard about the passing of a friend
in Italy, Pio Boffa. Pio was just 66 years old, and another victim of the relentless
Covid19 virus.
How does this happen, a little over a month after
another friend, Barone Alessandro de Renzis Sonnino, passed away at the age of
62, also from Covid?
Right now, Michigan and New York states are posting
higher daily new cases than Italy, with half the population. Italy has imposed
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When New York’s Le Bernardin reopened for indoor dining, all too briefly, this past fall, sommelier Aldo Sohm returned from a monthslong sojourn in Austria and Germany, where he had reacquainted himself with the pleasures of riesling, a white wine made from the eponymous grape. “People are so passionate about it there,” the World’s Best Sommelier of 2008 told me. The same cannot be said of Americans, however, who have been resistant to the charms of rieslings, especially those from Germany.
But not long after his return, Sohm hosted a dinner for the Commanderie de Bordeaux. Instead of white Bordeaux the logical choice for a society dedicated to promoting the wines of that French region the group chose a German riesling to accompany the first course. Then, the following week, a group of Burgundy collectors dined at Le Bernardin, and they also ordered a German riesling. “I thought, What’s going on here? This would never have happened a year or tw