My best friend, who I will now mention her name – Candice, came over my house tonight and delivered my early birthday present. What more could a wine buff want? The Wine Bible by Karen McNeil. We ate some thinly sliced pepperjack cheese from Whole Foods and a couple pieces of a French Baguette I picked up earlier at Citarella. There were half a dozen yellow mangoes on my dining room table, so we ate one of them as we flipped through the pages of the book. She attempted to read the first chapter of the book, while I opened a bottle of semi-sweet wine purchased during my trip to the Finger Lakes region – Americana Vineyards November Harvest. Six ounces later, we were feeling the effects of the wine, and decided to close the book and continue reading at a later time…
