Buying wine has been an issue in our family for years.  We have some friends who are serious wine connoisseurs (thanks to spell check I got this one right) and I’m a bit intimated, although even I can tell the difference between really good and not so good wine.  Nurit has tried to get me to buy more and better wine and a few times we have gone to various wine stores and bought some bottles but it never seemed right.  There was a disconnect between how Nurit wanted to buy wine and how I wanted to buy it. I didn’t feel comfortable buying wines I didn’t know anything about and I could never remember what wines I’d liked in the past.  I wanted to find wines I liked and buy only those wines.  It wasn’t working and when Nurit mentioned buying wine a shiver went up my spine.

Carole’s new wines

Fortunately this all changed when we were in Sunbury visiting Gene and Carole and you can benefit from my experience.  Carole had a $100 gift certificate to a wine store.  So when we were in Savannah replacing Rebecca’s Iphone we went to the wine store.  Caroles approach was completely different than mine (the approach mentioned above that meant that I only ever bought wine reluctantly).  She first determined that she needed to buy at least a case to get the discount and that she needed mostly red wines in the under $15.00 range.  Then she asked Nurit and I, the wine expert in the store and perhaps some other customers, for recommendations and filled up her cart.  When I started to question her method she explained to me that we were buying it for drinking.  At that moment I had an ephipany.  A bottle of wine is like a meal at a restaurant.  Savor it for the moment but don’t make purchasing it into a process like buying a car.  Now I get it.  Thank you Carole for showing me.  And thank you Nurit for tolerating me all those years when I couldn’t see.  Now lets go and buy a case of wine.

one of the “seven deadly Zins”

(Zinfandel)

BTW Nurit recommended the Silver Oak Cabernet (way more than $15), Carole bought it, we all drank it and it was wonderful.

the Silver Oak artistically displayed

with a found food dessert platter.