Every so often, a meal is worth its own post — the ones where the place, the food, and the wine come together into something we’re still talking about years later. This is where you’ll find those: a chef’s counter tasting menu at Frog by Adam Handling in London, nine courses with wine pairings at 1890 by Gordon Ramsay, a reserved-months-ahead pairing lunch at St. Francis Winery in Sonoma, and family-run winery lunches in the hills above the Amalfi Coast and on the slopes of Mount Etna. Some are formal tasting menus, some are just a table set outside in the sun — what they all have in common is that we’d sit down and do it again in a heartbeat as it was worth every bite.

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