Happy anniversary to me and Paul! We celebrated with a fantastic dinner at Blue Hill Stone Barns, where we ate and drank well — and did a little inter-species mingling.

This wine and I got off to a rocky start–but ultimately found a way to see eye-to-eye.

As some of you may already know, I’m housebound thanks to a fractured foot. The bad news is, I’m on crutches for another week and in one of those damn boots for a month. But the good news is, I’ve had more time to catch up some recent wine news to share with all of you.

Yesterday I went to the Uncork New York event at City Winery, an event space/restaurant/bar/winery in Manhattan. Kind of a mistake.

I think this bottle would do a good job of convincing the skeptic that New York can make the kind of well-made, easy-drinking wines that California, Australia, and Chile churn out in vast quantities…now if only they could fix the packaging.