Our younger son + wife visited, so my sons & I conducted our annual "whiskey exchange":
We tasted all, plus a few others, in very small doses. We needed to be able to crawl, or at least cook.
Dinner was individual Beef Wellingtons, as we have a variety of likes for doneness, Duxelle type, and cheese type. I use excess pastry to put something resembling a person's initial on top of each. The steaks are all close to the same size, but different filet shapes make the pastries look different. I buy a whole tenderloin and cut the steaks myself.
The recipe calls for Madeira (we substituted Port) and brandy, and washed the Wellingtons down with Italian reds.
Most of the steaks were seared in a Griddler for 1 minute, then later baked for 22 minutes, resulting in medium-rare.
This is the type of dish to make once a year, not only because of the effort, but because if we do it too often it loses it's specialness.