Bern's about to get fucked up. There is a restaurant on Miami Beach called the Forge. It made the top two or three in Wine Spectators great steakhouses. I went there after hurricane Andrew. WS said be sure to ask for the reserve list. We asked for the reserve list and while I was reviewing it, some dude with a French accent came up and took the list from me and said "you can order nothing from this list" and walked off. I was like WTF and the waiter explained they had a huge insurance claim for wine after the hurricane. The restaurant said the wine was damaged and the insurance company said prove it. The only way to prove it was to open it, but the insurance company wouldn't pay for the opened wine. I wrote a letter to WS and I got a return letter from Marvin Shanken and a phone call from him. I explained to him what happened and he said he contacted the owner of the Forge and the owner wanted to talk to me. I called the owner Al Malnik, who graciously said the next time I was in, he wanted to buy me a glass of wine... I was like what about that $1000 meal I just had...