Well if my calculations are correct, I believe our average age is 57. Gee, I didn't even know we had this many people, we'd have to rent a convention room if we all ever wanted to get together! : )

Interesting thread that just disappeared. But Margad, if you are reading, the advice you were given was not that great. How long you can keep your sherry depends very much on the sherry. If it is a fino or a manzanilla, for example, it will have a very short life once opened and will have a short shelf life as well. You drink them before the next ones are released. If it is an oxidized sherry on the other hand, you can keep it opened for a long time. It has already spent probably several years exposed to oxygen, which is what you normally don't want your wine exposed to. So you are not damaging it at all by leaving it opened. Postal - maybe it is way too late but I just found this forum. Anyway, white zin? If she likes that, remember that it is a rose. So why not buy her a nice rose? A very nice one, if you can find it, is Estancia Piedra from Spain. They were looking to make a wine for around $10 for the US market. They couldn't come up with anything. But they make a great red. To concentrate it, they bled off some of the juice. This is the rose, or since Spanish, the rosado. This is the way most rose is made, but this juice was left in contact with the skins for a little while so this is actually a light red more than a rose. Goes for under $10 and it is fantastic. It is a big one, however. There are a few from Australia that are also rather large roses. Alternatively, you can get a much drier wine, perhaps more traditional. Something from the Loire will be much crisper with less of the up front fruit. And if she likes the relatively sweet flavors of white zin, you might also try a reisling. Don't get a QBA or Kabinett, get a Spatlese that is halb trocken. Will probably cost you more than $10, but hey, it's your wife. The only down side is that she might develop a taste for riesling, which is one of the world's great grapes.

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WOW - what a wonderful thread! I could write forever about Mom, but I'll give you the wonderful highlights: Mom was 72/73 when she lost her fight with cancer after 30 years. She was tough - well, strong is a better word, because I don't think she had a tough bone/thought in her. She just taught my sister and me, how to survive the valleys with a smile. She knew that part well, when she became a single parent when I was twelve. That just didn't happen in our community, so it was devastating. Mom was raised in a prominently wealthy family of a different race. This in itself was phenomenal, and really shaped her adult life. She had one older sister, with five brothers in between. Granny worked and wasn't fond of having Mom home alone a lot with so many men around - my uncles and their friends were so much older. A family friend worked for a family that was willing to let Mom stay in their home while the friend was able to take care of her. Although the family was so supportive and treated her as a daughter, Mom didn't like not being able to even make her own bed!! All-in-all though, she was able to attend the best schools and learned about having the best of everything - which she always tried to pass on to us. Mom was a career nurse - in college health nursing, and was elected President twice, of her professional association. She was so dedicated to her profession that she founded the local chapter of the association (I helped with that though I never wanted to be a nurse). Later, Mom enhanced her career and became a Nurse Practitioner. We went through that - FUNNY, FUNNY, and FUN. She even pledged her professional sorority much like in college. She was in her mid to late 50s!!! It was so hard - putting an entire med school education in a year or two (can't remember which)!!!! Mom also ran for the first ever school board of our city. She would have won, but dropped out because she didn't want to leave my sister and me alone so much while she was at meetings, etc. This is a testament to her support and selflessness! I mentioned my uncles - Mom's brothers. I'll always remember her saying, "My brothers". She loved them, and so do I. I lived with one when I was very young while my Dad was in the military. They were a special bunch of guys. Each became prize fighters (boxing) and did very well - one fought Sugar Ray Robinson and lost by one point in a TKO!! One by one, they all have been inducted into the boxing hall of fame. Mom was so proud of that, and also all that they did for everyone they met. Mom was like that too. I can't tell you how many students she helped get through college - the ones that were nervous about being away from home; the ones that partied too much and were flunking out (she had so much clout at the school that she was able to talk administrators into letting them continue their studies). In those days, if you flunked out, you couldn't attend another college. She also set up a program with the school so that the Detal students could stay in our home (it was big enough for small apts upstairs). Mom fought her cancer as hard as she could. If this had happened to her today, I think she probably could have beat it. But, they say, the good die young. Mom wasn't that young, and I would say that she was great. I do wish she were here though - to talk to, and share the many milestones I've hit on my own. I really think she would be so surprised at what I've done. I'm not though - she prepared me for it all. I just wish I could share it with her and sometimes, wish I could ask her what to do next. hmmm... Anyway, sorry for the long post. I've often said I would write a book about Mom, and our family - not that we are all that, but there are some great moments. Maybe this will help me get started. Thanks for letting me share!! A toast to Moms everywhere!! gneegirl