WINE

 

I started collecting wine when it was not popular to do so. With the help of Sam DiGiovani, Happy Hollow Liquors, I would buy a few bottles at a time & store them in a small, 5' X 8' fruit cellar in the house next door. As my collection grew I utilized a basemen bedroom in the house I owned across the street. August Grasis & I would order Wine Futures. We would acquire wine cellars for sale.

 

When we built Camelot we created a first rate cellar that at one time housed over 6,000 bottles of wine + my cigar collection.

 

 

This is a circular cellar built under our circular Formal Dining Room. The outer circle holds many times more bottles than what you see. The ceiling is many feet thick & serves as a tornado shelter. It has been written up in the local papers.

 

We transferred over 2,000 bottles to our Aspen cellar, have donated much to charity auctions and we are now down to several thousand bottles. Enough left for my widow to go trolling.

 

We have a Wine Dinner Group consisting of: LW, August Grasis, Bob White, Dean Lawrence and our significant others that just celebrated it's 25^th year of annual dinners.

 

We take turns hosting and the menus:

 

are only overshadowed by the wine that the 10 of us bring:

 

 

"In Vino Veritas" In wine there is truth.