From Decanter.com:

Daniel Johnnes‘ second La Paulee event has just taken place in San Francisco – with a who’s who of sommeliers and chefs in attendance. More than 300 of the western US’s most devoted Burgundy lovers paid US$1,400 a head for a seat at the Westin St Francis hotel in San Francisco last Friday.

[....] It has become an annual event in New York, but this was only the second La Paulee in San Francisco – the last one being 2003.

[....] The six-course dinner was prepared by star chefs Daniel Boulud, Michael Mina and Traci Des Jardins of San Francisco, and Regis Marcon of St-Bonnet-le-Froid in France.

An auction netted US$300,000 to benefit the San Francisco and New York branches of charity Meals on Wheels. Magnums of Domaine Clos des Lambrays 1947 and Domaine Rousseau Chambertin 1962 each fetched US$10,000.

{10 Mar 2008}