When Alice married into the Van Cleave family, an Appalachian coal mining dynasty, and moved to Baileysville, KY from England she had no idea she would become a Packhorse Librarian. The 1930s were a tough time to be a woman in America and living in the hills and hollers didn’t make it any easier. Marjorie, Izzy, Sophia and Beth; these are the friends that spread books and hope to their rural communities while fighting injustice and abuse themselves. Based on real historical events, you’ll be rooting for these ladies to overcome their circumstances and triumph together as women. A quote from the book informs our tasting today: “Bordeaux bottles are sturdy like wives, while Burgundy bottles are curvaceous like their mistresses.” Learn why bottles have such different shapes and discover an Alfred Merkelbach Auslese Riesling from the Rosenburg vineyard while you learn what punts, necks, shoulders, bodies, opacity, translucence and thickness have to do with how you enjoy your favorite wine.
