My nephew, Steve, is a professional sommelier and for the past three Christmases he has gifted us with a bottle of personally-chosen wine. The first one surprised me because it was so well-packed in a sort of paper mache "coffin" inside a regular shoe-box shaped box. "Kudos to wine.com!" I thought. The next two arrived as unassumingly as the first. Wine.com is onto something.
Come to find out from their site that if you buy the $49/year StewardShip program, there is no mailing fee - free shipping! -- and better still, you don't have to jury rig some kind of packaging to ship it onward. Free shipping - long may there be such a thing!
"Never mind all of that," you say, "What was this year's wine?" It was (note past tense) a Nino Franco Rustica Prosecco, variously described as ...
..."elegant, fresh, lively fruit, notes of BREAD DOUGH and citrus ..."
." touches of greengage and white peach ..."
..."golden color and peach nectar finish ..."
And it was delicious! Our Boxing Day guests commented very favorably on it. Steve's good health was toasted with enthusiasm.
Since all of the above (except the bread dough) would describe my beloved Amour de Paris peach champagne ($5/bottle Trader Joe) I think Dear Nevvie was trying to suggest tactfully that I upgrade a tad. Hey, Steve! Keep trying! You know how stubborn I can be!
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