Word: glassfuls
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...miles away from the shores of Florida.Chris was as small as a boy, though he was 41. On another shrimp boat, a battery exploded in his face. When he pulled out a piece of plastic, his right eye came with it. Now he wears goggles, which protect his glass eye and the other one, that one he cannot afford to lose. Jacqui stepped onto the Sea Hawk with her boyfriend three years back, and the 39-year-old became addicted to the solitary ocean and what she calls its “serenity.” She ditched the boyfriend...
...Valley winery). The nose was complex, hinting at everything from grass to pepper. The wine itself tasted of subtle herbs with full tannins. What was most interesting was how it opened up with oxidation and food. I dug into my steak au poivre and swished the wine around the glass, and all of a sudden a bouquet of hitherto-absent garden flowers opened in my glass, demanding the attention of my entire palate...
...close the meal, Mo bestowed a celestial gift upon us in the form of dessert wine, this one a 2002 from Château Memoires Cadillac in Sauternes, France. Imagine a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice laced with a sweet fragrance and no bitterness, and the flavor of this magnificent wine comes into focus. It had a perfect sugar/acid balance, an effervescent aroma of orange peel, and a slight cedar backbone...
...there was such a thing as heaven on earth, it was in this bottle, and I had a small glass of it in my fridge, courtesy of Mo. When I would travel to this heaven was up to me, but it was nice to know that I was going to be hanging around the Pearly Gates all whole summer...
...even when heavenly flavors don’t make it to my dinner table, I enjoy my nightly glass of wine. Drinking wine isn’t about getting drunk or anything else you happen to be doing at the time. The flavors are so various and so unlike any other food or beverage you can consume that it demands your full attention. The pleasure of drinking wine stems from identifying these flavors, savoring them in unique combinations, and doing so with a group of like-minded friends...