There were two good ones in yesterday’s edition: Marguerite Fields’s “Modern Love” column; and Toby Cecchini on the Black Velvet. A sample from the latter:

Rogue Ales’s Shakespeare Stout, with more heft and sweetness, made a much better foil for the Nicolas Feuillatte nonvintage brut, a lean, lighter-bodied wine with solid acids that lifted coffee aromas out of the stout. For Oliver’s own Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout, with a nose of caramel and toast, we brought out another big gun, Henriot’s 1990 Cuvée des Enchanteleurs. A basso profundo from grand cru vineyards, lush and fat with roasted hazelnut and clove, it made for a heavyweight title bout in a glass that had us both blinking hard.