Wine Sediments

July 31 2006

My weekly Wine Sediments post is excerpted below:

Inthe name of duty, we’re sometimes asked to do things we don’t want to do. Whenit comes to wine though, the “pain makes you beautiful” school of thought makesheeding that call of duty just a tad better. And if the wine doesn’t make youbeautiful, it at least enriches the palate.

Atmy blog, http://www.goodgrape.com, I chronicled a recent trip to the Central Coast ofCalifornia and the dozen or so wineries that I visited resulting in thepurchase of 21 beautiful bottles of wine. The trip included other stops alongthe way, sort-of Central Coast greatest hits, to include the Monterey aquarium,Hearst castle and the Big Sur. But, let’s be honest, if you’re a wine lover,and you’re going to wineries, the wine is the main course and everything elseis just garnish.

My lone – and grave -mistake in this tale of conspicuous spending is that, in order to save a grandtotal of $72 in shipping costs, I sent my wine home via UPS ground. The sheerridiculousness of this is crystal clear in retrospect, but at that moment,after twelve wineries and a nearly twice that many bottles of vino purchased,saving a few bucks seemed like a sane idea. But, alas, as otherbrothers-in-arms of idiocy find out when they are penny wise and pound foolish,the end results cause twice the anxiety and double the chagrin. Read: heatwave.

You can read the rest of the post here.