One of the on going problems at the de-I menage is wine. Not having wine; lord no we have enough wine for sure. Drinking wine is the problem.
Actually to be more precise, I have a wine purchasing problem. I love the process of finding new wines to buy - especially wines that can benefit from sitting for a while. They don't have to have 20 year aging potential (I'd never get to drink them) just wines that will benefit from sitting for a bit. As a result I buy from all kinds of resources (internet, wineries I've visited, stores).
The problem is my capacity for buying far exceeds my capacity for drinking especially with me traveling so much. As a result my wine purchasing has to screech to a halt because I have no where to store the wine. While one resolution is to invite people over for dinner - except that most of them bring - wine. This usually leads to a net change in inventory of zero.
I recently found however a solution - visits from Elegant International Business Woman. I decided to let EIBW choose all our wines. So I brought her to the wine storage area and was about to go through all the wines when (being the efficient business person she is) she said:
"Just show me the oldest most expensive wines you have"
With that she, she quickly chose the wines she wanted. I'm happy to report that even though we only had three wine consuming meals, with EIBW, Mrs de-I and myself we managed to consume 5 bottles. That's almost a half a case - valuable open space in the storage that just is crying to be filled. Hmmm should I wait for the next internet offer or should I take some gift money and run down to the store?
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feel free to call on me for this service any time.
Not to mention you could bring a bottle or two to Chicago when you come- thus saving a run to the liquor store!
But then Stef I would have to check my luggage. And that would mean I would be conducting my Chicago trips in the same set of clothes for three days while my bag went to China or somewhere else.
You could always ship the wines ahead of you....I'm not saying, I'm just saying! I'd be happy to help consume some myself!
And don't forget your wine drinking middle child & husband will soon be arriving to assist you with this issue...we're very helpful that way ;)
Yeah Pu, thank heavens the Marines...I mean the Air Force...I mean the ex-Air Force...oh whatever...help arrives
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