These notes were taken at the table of an extraordinary dinner held by a generous fine wine collector at his house outside Toronto in December 2006 in aid of a local art gallery. This was the fifth annual Stonefields dinner, designed to raise money for a good cause from local patrons and habitués of the event.
One of many notable aspects was that two-star chef Alain Dutournier and his team flew all the way over from their Paris restaurant Carré des Feuillants. Local ingredients were sourced by the talent Toronto chef Jamie Kennedy at whose restaurant I had...