Fickle Palate Archives: March 2008
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31 March 2008
The Saga of the Best Bottle of Wine I Never Drank - Part 2
No one had brought much more than pocket change along because we’d never expected the chance to go shopping way, way, way out here in the wilderness. We pooled our meager holdings and bought as much beer as our money would buy. We drank the beer that night, supplementing our small but newly purchased supply [...]
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24 March 2008
The Saga of the Best Bottle of Wine I Never Drank - Part 1
We all have wine memories. Memories of a particular event when wine was shared with loving friends or family. A wine that was so well matched to a particular menu that the two together, the food and the wine, elevated something perfectly wonderful into something sublime. A shopping excursion or tasting adventure. If a memory [...]