Three related wine stories this week:

— A wine collector friend staged a tasting of older Burgundies at a hotel near his home. At the appointed hour he learned that the hotel's air conditioning had gone out, and the room he was to use was nearly 90 degrees. "No problem," he said, "we'll move to the patio." But the hotel told him that no glass was permitted on the patio.

— At a patio diner party, the host provided plastic glasses for the wine, but ...

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