The verdict is that Suzanne Goin’s Slow-Roasted Wild Salmon with Cucumber Yogurt is a winner all around, perfect for kicking off the 2012 season at the Hollywood Bowl.

For me, the gift that keeps on giving is wine with cellar potential, wine that improves with age, despite the controversy sparked by a famous wine critic who says aged wines aren’t necessarily all they’re cracked up to be.

If you’ve ever dined at a mom-and-pop Italian restaurant, you may have sipped wine from a jelly jar. It’s not always about the wine. Sometimes it’s the experience—in this case, a rustic, Old World experience.

How about the next time you choose a wine from the retail shelf, you reach for the one wine that’s not only good for your heart, but for everyone’s heart? That would be Colby Red, a delicious yet inexpensive California red wine crafted by famed winemaker Daryl Groom, with help from his 15-year-old son, Colby.