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Colleagues, friends, and family, please join me in supporting (Fig 01) the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County in providing quality services and programming for individuals with disabilities (Fig 02, 03).   Please sponsor this worthy cause by joining us for a fun day out or funding one of the many sponsorship opportunities. Bedell Cellars , Cara Mia Restaurant Seaford , and LI Wine Dad are providing a Long Island basket of cheer (Fig 04), snacks, and dinner.   A second basket (Fig 05) from LI Wine Dad and Cara Mia Restaurant Seaford is packed with three red wines from Napa Valley, a gift card to Cara Mia, and snacks to round out the gift.   The Bedell wines include First Crush White 2020 , First Crush Red 2020 , and Rosé 2021 (Fig 06).   The Napa Valley wines include Scarecrow Mt. Étain 2019 (Cabernet Sauvignon), Lindstrom Winery Stags Leap District 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon , and a De La Montanya Vineyard & Winery “1776” Zinfandel (Fig 07).   #longislandwineries

As our followers have noticed, this blog has been still for many months; nothing was wrong; the redoing of the front of our home kept us preoccupied and from wine country from the mid-summer till this week.  We are back on the road again, making the pick-up enjoying a few glasses of wine in the vineyards, and filling out the wine cellar for the coming holidays.  Good this Christmas day is at our home this year.  We had so many clubs and past club selections that we needed to do pick-ups on two separate trips.  Between the fall and winter club selection, we brought home over 100 bottles.  The first run on 19 Nov had us bringing home 44 bottles (Figure 1), and the 08 DEC run fetched 55 bottles from 9 wineries (Figure 2).  1 - 19 NOV 2021 WINE PICK-UP 2 - DEC 2021 WINE PICK-UP We still have Channing Daughters Winery and Wölffer Estate Vineyard for one more run before Christmas and delivery from Jamesport before we close out the year.  To balance all this fine Long Island wine, we also h