A fter shopping at Klicker's for a bag of frozen Bing cherries, I decided to drive a bit further, out along Isaacs and visit Charles Smith Wines, home to the wine-marketing genius of Winemaker, Charles Smith.

Over the summer, I attended a barbecue and shared a bottle of Smith's '08 Eve Chardonnay. Today, I was on a mission to find another bottle for a picnic with Wine Guy. This has become a summer event, to find a quiet spot on Wolf Fork Creek, Patit Valley, Dayton, for a picnic and share a bottle of "water-rapid" chilled wine. We just let nature do its thing; prop the bottle between granit...