Open that bottle

News too depressing...looking for some good news? So am I, so join folks all over the world this Saturday for Open That Bottle Night!

Who knew, I could have been celebrating for the last ten years but was clueless. Are you like me with a bottle or two secured away just waiting for an occasion? Or just hoping someone will stop by and give you a reason to uncork one or more. I tend to hang on to wine waiting for the right moment but somehow when cooking a nice dinner the wine sometimes gets overlooked when your cooking for a bourbon guy.

Open that bottle night was conceived by Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, husband and wife wine critics who jointly penned a column in the WSJ

called "Tastings" until 2009. They encouraged their readers to open a symbolically significant bottle and write about the experience.

Sounds like the perfect preparation for Oscar weekend, so I will be rooting around since the other half always reminds me of my accumulated stash and find the right bottle to enjoy this Saturday. What will I be toasting to...surviving grocery shopping, or maybe surviving the snow predicted to fall, or just because I have a bottle to share. It may not be outstanding but then when is a glass of wine satisfying. I might take a page from the Oscars and enjoy the following movie

toasts:

“May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.”

Dragnet (1987) – Pep Streebeck (Tom Hanks)

“Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with."
Mahogany (1975) – Brian (Billy Dee Williams)

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
When Harry Met Sally (1989) – Harry Burns (Billy Crystal)

“I'd like to propose a toast to all the special 'f' words - to friends, family, fate, forgiveness, and forever.”
My First Mister (2001) – Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski)

“This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.”
The Bridges of Madison County (1995) – Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood)

"Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches."
How to Make an American Quilt (1995) - Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder)

“May those who love us, love us. And those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping.”
Keeping the Faith (2000) – Paulie Chopra (Brian George)

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”

The Notebook (2004) – Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling)

“It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”
A League of Their Own (1992) - Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks)

“That's the beauty of the world, there's always something to put your life into.”
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) – Axeman (Tommy Lee Jones)

"Na zdrowie,"