Lee smiled, and shook his head in delighted surprise. "You're the second person I've met here from New Orleans," he said. "If it isn't obvious, that's where I was born too," he added quickly. "My mother was first generation American, and it was my grand-père that immigrated from France, mom's father. He had a vineyard there, and he loved wine. So I came to my obsession with it genetically," he said with a wink.

"Mom did her basque cake with vanilla cream, but I wouldn't turn down any of that," Lee told Sabine with a soft laugh. "Which reminds me, have you met Nick?" he asked. "The two of us bonded over beignets when we first met."