GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

BY GEORGE SOLTES

With the ferry galleys open for business, at least some of the time, we can again enjoy a nice glass of wine during the passage. Sure, it costs $9, the vintage is questionable and the glass is plastic…but wine is wine, and any deficiencies are more than made up for by the galley staff’s gravity-defying pours, filling the cup up to the brim and beyond, laws of physics be damned. Consumption strategies vary: Take a gulp at the register? Tiptoe back to your seat and hope that smooth seas and surface tension hold it together? Whatever the method, let’s all raise a glass to the ferry sommeliers and their generous pours. Just make sure to raise it very slowly.

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