Birthday Present

A friend who has keen insights into my taste recently gave me a case of wine for my birthday - rich, sweet red Mosel from Germany - very late vintage, basically Manischewitz for Schnitzel-eaters. Yummy.

Daniel asked me what it was tonight - this box of bottles of wine in a corner of the dining room. I explained that it's wine that I got for a birthday present. Daniel started lining up the bottles, saying in a May-West-like tone, appropriate to the barroom, something like "I'll have two glasses!" as he lined up two wine-bottles side by side.

As I mentioned, my birthday was very recent. But Daniel had an interesting question about this wonderful present of mine:

"How come you never ate them?"

(February 8, 2012)