Maybe it's because Neptune and Saturn and Mars and Uranus are pulling their shots but after I came back from California, I thought someone was playing a joke on me. That person was Fred Dexheimer, past sommelier and present cocktail wine ambassador and he send me as message through facebook. "I am w/ Dr Jay Miller in NYC. He is tasting thru 700 wines this week. He mentioned you yesterday and wanted to meet for a drink! I am not kidding! Would you like to meet him?" I had been seeing Fred's updates telling of his tasting through Chilean wines with Wine Advocate critic, Dr. Jay Miller and when this note popped up I was positive Fred was kidding. If Jay Miller, one of Bob Parker's best friends wanted to meet me, he probably would pack a gun. I started to look for that flak jacket I bought after my anti-Californian wine editorial a couple of years back. Several more emails later, I realized both Fred and Jay were serious. 'Ten Bells!' I threw down the challenge, thinking at least I'd have some defenders around me. 'Ten Bells it is!' Fred wrote back, then added, as long as there was...