one last bouteille call

Dilemmas. We all have 'em. Elaine Benes' was assessing the spongeworthy.

Mine is finding just the right occasion to pop the cork on my last bottle of Bonny Doon Bouteille Call, the elixir that some have described as "not so much a wine as a call to action, an entreaty, an appeal to reacquaint oneself with the pleasures of the sensual world."

On the one hand, it seems a sin to neglect a perfectly good Bouteille Call. Then again, it could be years before the next one comes along....