He had just penned a scathing letter to the editor responding to that bombshell report last week that implied astronauts on three occasions violated the so called "bottle-to-throttle" rule.
The three-hour experience at Remy starts by meeting a sommelier in Remy's glass-walled 900-bottle wine room to pre-select wines for the evening and finishes with enough food to skip the next morning's breakfast buffet.
Teams also compete to see who can find the "best" garbage -- a poker-like game in which two bowling balls tops three refrigerators and a message in a bottle trumps everything.