Well, that might be a slight exaggeration ....
You see, I had a class in New York City yesterday, and Judi decided to tag along and do fun things - she spent the morning at a turkish bath in the financial district and then saw Spring Awakening in the afternoon.
After my class got out we were going to go to dinner together, but had some time before our reservation, so decided to stop at
Morrell Wine Bar, which is right off Rockefeller Center, as have a drink. It was crowded (like usual) and after getting the wine list we managed to find a spot at the window bench. Judi then pokes me and point to the bar (which is about 4 feet away) and who should be there but
Andrea Immer:
If you don't know who Andrea Immer (now Immer-Robinson) is, she is one of only 14 women in to be appointed Master Sommelier by the prestigious Court of Master Sommeliers, hosted shows on Fine Living include
Simply Wine and
Wine Pairings with Andrea, and her latest effort being "appointed Master Sommelier for Delta Air Lines, for whom she will be choosing all of the in-flight wines as well as developing flight attendant wine training and in-flight video entertainment." It apparently was for one of these in-flight video entertainment spots that she was filming in Morrell's (according to the camera guy we were talking to).
One neat thing we found out was that the wine they are talking about, that you
think they are drinking, is not really what they are drinking. They said they like to talk about wine that people can find where they live relatively easily - which wasn't the case for the wine they had been poured.
So, if you ever find yourself on a Delta flight, viewing a segment with Andrea Immer in Morrell's Wine bar, just keep in mind that the camera man shooting the scene was basically in our lap :-)