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Expatriate Irishman John Larchet brought his wines to San Francisco’s new Four Seasons Hotel last week. Both the wines and the hotel are great additions to the city. Wednesday’s gathering of the Anthony Dias Blue’s Bon Appetit Tasting Panel brought together key Northern California retailers and restaurateurs and members of the press for a comprehensive tasting and following lunch.

The most famous fortified wine of all, Porto, is as Portuguese as a Lodi Zinfandel is Californian. So how must the Portuguese feel now that wineries around the world have seized the word – which, of course, is the name of a city in northern Portugal – dwarfed the "P", amputated the "O" and slapped the four remaining letters onto millions of bottles of a very sticky, ruby-red fortified dessert wine.