Waiting is the hard part.

I am sipping the remainder of the last bottle of a Spanish red I got through the Opimian Society. So good that I recall feeling a bit rough on Wednesday because I downed half the bottle on Tuesday evening. The remaining half bottle is still quite drinkable a few days later (with the help of one of those sucker pumps to take out some of the air). Alas, I have one bottle of the Portuguese wine left, and a few whites, and then I am out of Opimian wines until I get the shipment in from the last offering, which will probably arrive at the end or March at the earliest. Sigh, Whitehorse liquor store, I will have to enter your unattractive space yet again, with your flats of Kokanee, and large selections of Yellow Tail and French Rabbit products, and the large jugs just labeled "Red".
I should not complain. It has gotten a lot better in there in the past 3 years. They have some good, well-priced (for Whitehorse) wines, particularly from Chile, and also a few from California and some non-Yellow Tail from Australia. They have gotten some interesting beer in too. I really would like to see a BC/Ontario VQA selection up here. Most domestic wineries do not produce the quantity required to sell to provincial liquor corps (and I've heard LCBO is not such a friendly buyer with some onerous conditions if you are a smaller operation - don't know if that was or remains true). The VQA stores in BC let wineries sell their product in these stores, without having to provide quantity to be available to all BC Liquor stores in the province. I think that may have changed a bit, because I bought some BC wines in a store on Salt Spring recently that also sold imports and beer and hard liquor. If so - great, we should get that up here, or at least offer some good Canadian wines in the Yukon. We had a nice run of Mission Hill wines a few years ago, but they went away and haven't come back. I did so like the Reserve Shiraz. $22, nice price, nice wine, worth every penny. When will the YLC realize that they should hire me as their buyer? Probably never, so I will sit and wait for my good wines to arrive. Four more months...