Family friends of ours continue to have Wine Spectator Magazine sent to us once a month. I hope they get it for free with their own subscription because I don’t have the heart to tell them we really don’t need it. They inform me every year, a little before Christmas, that they’ve renewed our subscription, as they drop off gifts for the whole family. They usually give Chris and me two very nice bottles of wine from their cellar (now, those I can use).
I do peruse the magazine once in a while, and the May cover caught my eye when I pulled it out of the mail box. There was Carmelo Anthony, NBA star, dressed in matching burgundy, corduroy button down shirt and pants, sporting corn rows and elegant glasses, holding a glass of deep, red wine.
According to the article, he’s been into wine for about 15 years and has spawned a wine culture in the NBA. He and his buds, LeBron James, Chris Paul, and Dewayne Wade, enjoy the finer wines. Anthony is on a mission to show people, especially people of color, that the wine style of life is something worth exploring, “whether you are drinking at a $20 bottle price point or $2,000 per bottle.”
My price point is toward the lower end of that spectrum.
My Corner of the Village 