Aux Amis De Vins

Friday was dinner with Y at French Aux Amis De Vins in Ginza. We caught up with the last few years of our lives. She had quite interesting chapters in hers, perhaps enough to write a book on. Interestingly, it includes a brief marriage (it did not last the honeymoon)...

She is still her usual self. Or at least the self that I did know.

Y certainly had her own mind and is at odds with the mainstream Japanese way of life, at least with her family. At least the herd's thinking or somewhat myopic views of "my way is the right way, therefore its good for you". Is this not the way of mainstream society in any culture?

The evening was helped along by a pretty smooth and spicy 2001 St. Joseph Cotes du Rhone, principally of the Syrah (Shiraz) variety.. St. Joseph is located north of the Rhone valley and Syrah the main variety planted.