I came across the Lenndevours blog sometime ago, perhaps as long as three years hence. It was a casual occurance and I went along my business. Later, my husband also found the site and began to correspond with Lenn via e-mail given their mutual interests of wine, particularly Long Island wine, and technology.

This correspondence grew over the course of several months and we began to inquire about meeting up. However, fate intervened on each occasion. For any event at which Lenn was to attend, we had other plans and, similarly, he was unavailable to attend the events we did. It seemed ill-fated that we would ever meet in person.

However, I can now say that I have actually met the man and he does exist! As Lenn noted on his blog, he co-hosted a tasting of mature, Long Island wines with us on September 23 at Grand Cru Classes. We tasted twelve wines from the 1995 vintage, which was a terrific opportunity to experience these special wines.

We were also blessed with the company of Neil Dorosin (Brooklyn Wine Guy), Joe Watson (Vine Wine Bar in Greenport) and Chris Watkins (Roanoke Vineyards).