Fish Tales

 

ST MICHAEL'S, MD-April 25 I was able to sleep in this morning, which was heaven, but Hank got up at 4 to go fishing on the Chesapeake Bay with Pennie's husband Bob. Pennie (our regional sales manager here) and Bob live right on the bay with a beautiful expanse of lawn and a wonderful view. Hank had been looking forward to this part of the trip ever since we started. I also had a great morning, spoiling myself with a pedicure, then later met Pennie at the St. Michael's Food and Wine Festival. Hank had a great morning with everyone catching their limit of one rockfish.

Although we should have been working, Bob talked us into taking a bay tour on his boat and we ended up at the Crab Claw, a local seafood place, for lunch. Pennie manned our table at the wine festival while we played. The weather continued to be great, so we sat out on the restaurant's deck. I had crab cakes and Hank was introduced to soft shell clams...amazingly he had never heard of them before this day. I couldn't even be tempted to try one, but Hank, the ardent fish fan, thought they were great.

Pennie invited all the suppliers from Bacchus, our distributor, over for dinner that night along with several neighbors. She is amazing, cooking shish kabobs for 40 after attending two winemaker dinners this week as well as a four hour tasting. It was a lot of fun, delicious food and lots of different wines to taste as well as plenty of interesting conversation. Hank snuck off to bed at a reasonable hour, but the party went on.