My lady friend has a childhood friend that is an opera singer and lives mostly in Milan, Italy and spends some time in New York City.
Recently for health reasons she was in St. Louis for an extended stay. Her Maestro was flying from California to New York, and decided to stop in St. Louis to visit one of his sopranos and a friend. My girlfriend opened her house to them and had a small dinner party with the Maestro cooking.
I had asked about one of the wines that was brought that I especially liked. It turned out it was an inexpensive wine from one of the local Italian grocery stores. The Maestro then told how he bought 3 Buck Chuck aka Charles Shaw wines from Trader Joes 3 cases at a time. Continue reading “3 Buck Chuck”