101.   Meals in Kralendijk, the tiny capital, are excellent at Amadeus or Capriccio, which has a great wine list and northern Italian fare.

102.   More Italian restaurants are opening every day, and Italian wine is becoming a big part of most restaurant wine lists.

103.   Most wine lists are international, spanning South Africa, Australia, the United States and Europe.

104.   Most restaurant diners have never scanned a wine list with the hope of finding something delicious from South Africa.

105.   Most diners, he pointed out, still read the wine list from right to left.

106.   Most important, the wine list is spectacular, and the food is fancy and very good.

107.   No fancy wine list.

108.   Nightly wine tastings are also part of the line up, so they taste a Ridge Lytton Springs Zinfandel while Anne explains changes to the wine list.

109.   Now it is all spruced up with curtains and doilies, and sports an extensive wine list and some very good dinners.

110.   New York has lots of technically correct ones, bistros with the regulation number of banquettes, the right kind of wine list and the obligatory classic dishes.