Desiree and I celebrated Valentine’s Day a bit early by sharing a glass of sparkling almond wine last evening. The wine (which is on the champagne side of things) tasted surprisingly good. I normally sip only a little champagne on celebratory occasions, finding the flavor and fizzle more an obligatory novelty than anything. Last night, I drank two glasses of the sparkling wine. Best of all, we chilled the wine outside in a snowbank alongside the back deck. We call this the “big refrigerator.” There is a special satisfaction in pulling a bottle of wine from a snowbank in our winter landscape before pouring glasses for a toast.
Our Valentine’s Setting
The Big Refrigerator
Sparkling Almond Wine
—Mitchell Hegman
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