This dish needs a wine that can match well with the ginger and berries, ... A very good choice would be a big pinot noir. A lighter style of pinot wouldn't hold up to this dish.

There is nothing about making wine kosher that needs to be different than making any other wine -- except for the fact that only Sabbath-observant Jews can actually come in contact with the wine and touch it. You need a kosher crew in the cellar to make the wine.

There's no question it's a good thing.

There's no question it's a good thing. Quite frankly, if the people coming here have the money to buy a $50 bottle of pinot noir, they should have a place like that to stay if they choose.

[And, of course, there are mushrooms.] I love porcini; it's my favorite, ... It has a similar texture to the duck, so it works well in this dish.

I have a thing about duck, ... It's a culinary addiction -- when we eat out, my 'I'll have the duck' is so commonplace that my wife doesn't even bother to roll her eyes anymore.