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The James Bond Of Burgundy

Meatpacking District as gold magnums of Champagne clink in the background. It’s a Last Supper-inspired meal for the French-born winemaker, part of his multicity tour to promote a $395 coffee table book called . As saumon à l’oseille arrives with a rich pinot noir, Boisset begins to explain his selection, an unusual blend of grapes from Burgundy and California called JCB No. 3. After inhaling deeply from a particularly wide crystal goblet that’s part of his new collaboration with Baccarat, Boisset admits that this dinner has caused him to miss the ten-year anniversary of his marriage to Gina Gallo, the third-generation face of the family behind the world’s largest wine producer by volume, E. & J. Gallo. During their

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