I'm heading to my other happy place: the beach.

We all have a need to be understood, without translation or explanation.

leek fritters with an Italian bubbly, spicy cauliflower with a chilled Valpolicella..

There were a lot of wines I wasn't allowed to sell, because they were on 'restaurant reserve'.

At family gatherings, he'd go 'check on the cows.' Gradually, we'd all volunteer to help him 'check on the cows'.

So if you have some time on your hands, give 'nothing' a try. Bonus points if you play Cool and Green and Shady.

Next weekend, we had planned to be hosting a wonderful party/tasting, our 8th annual Drink Pink. Drink Pink sprang from a love of delicious crisp rosé, coupled with a strong desire to help eradicate cancer.

From the beginning, the plan was to make 'aromatic wines with balance and structure'. In other words, these are just not your garden variety, black as ink, overly extracted Cabernets. Nobody is likely to describe them as having gobs and gobs of unctuous fruit. But graceful, balanced, complex, sumptuous beauties? Yes.

But lately, and always at the exact same spot in the Adams Street meadow, we've been encountering one pleasingly plump bunny who doesn't run away.

Standing the requisite 6 feet apart, we tasted some things George had unearthed from his 'archives' and some other things I'd had shipped in from Sicily. That was the most fun I've had in quite a while!