I've had a birthday since our birthday and I can confirm that 49 is harder than 48.  Some of you may say that I'm a baby while others may say I'm over the hill. It's all relative to when you get dropped on the playing field. The reality is that everyone and everything we know is moving at the same pace forward into the future as well. OK so much for my two-bit pontificating. We're all working overtime this week with all the great events we've got in store for you. Mother's Day was a big hit and I thought the kitchen did an excellent job putting the food out. Tomorrow night is the big Tapas dinner with Andre. Should be one of the year's best and we'll have the wines from the dinner specially priced that night for those of you who have an interest. As you can see I'm running behind today. I normally send out the letter in the mornings but I'm at RiverGate covering for vacation time so I'm doing double duty. Sorry. The wine classes for Italy and France are slowly filling up. Studying is never as popular as eating and drinking but I promise you the classes will be a great way to learn about the world's two greatest wine cultures and you also get to eat and drink as well! Our second cooking class with Tom Condron is almost full again so if you're on the fence about it you'd better pull the trigger fast. That's it for now. More new stuff next week I promise. If you can't wait come it and we'll show you all the exciting new wines we've discovered this month!