Oh this is gonna be great!

One of our best buddies, Patricia from Lauber Imports, will be pouring the wine at our tasting this Saturday (3-6pm at our store across from the Post Office in Greenport). Pat is terrific at this - a real expert who is about as non-pushy and certainly non-snobby as anyone we know. She is also taking us on a little trip to her favorite Italian vineyards and this is just going to be great.

We learned that one of the wines will be from Collio, Italy and we mentioned this to one of our customers who also said "Count me in! This is going to be great"!  He proceeded to expand on a few trips he had made to that region some years back, the Alps in the distance, big time vistas, simply incredible food and the wine...my oh my.  We looked the region up online (here is a short overview) and found ourselves intrigued.

Yesterday our friend came back in to find a wine for poached salmon dinner night and we chatted a bit about his Italian trips, ancestors and local folks who he knew who had family come from that region (far north and east) and the weekend past with present family underfoot, all cool days, sunny and followed by a full moon that hung forever.  He painted a picture for us, and in talking about such things and we thought about the upcoming wine tasting a bit differently. We thought about the wines Patricia is going to pour for us and how they represent vineyards and ultimately real people who care about things like the grapes of course but of the quality of things that they enjoy; family, family history, the land, the pleasant and beautiful days and the full moons basking the land in that wondrous light.  It seems to us that if you deeply care about one thing you generally care deeply about a lot of things. Just a thought.

Enough daydreaming. Back to work.