On Nov 18, 5:09*am, "Gregory Morrow" >
wrote:
> Nancy2 wrote:
> > On Nov 17, 1:26 pm, Goomba > wrote:
> >> Has anyone ever used a mail order wine company to send gift wines to
> >> friends or family for Christmas? Any recommendations on good
> >> companies to deal with? Anything special I need to be aware of?
>
> >> I'm stumped as to what to send my step-mother for Christmas. If she
> >> needed or wanted anything she'd just go get it. Christmas gifts are
>
> > "Harry and David" get kudos from me - my brother & wife send me a
> > towering bunch of boxes every year. *Other than that, I like to send
> > gift boxes from our sorta local Amana Colonies, which are only 20
> > miles away.
>
> Yup, I'll be putting in my Amana order soon, when I was a kid we'd go there
> to eat at one of the communal dining rooms (kinda like the Amish places
> around Lancaster PA) and then go salivate at the beautiful furniture at the
> Amana stores... then we'd visit the then - new Herbert Hoover Presidential
> Library in Long Branch

West Branch ;-) The Long Branch is a saloon in Cedar Rapids. ;-)

and meander back to Western Illanoy via the back
> roads. *A pleasant Sunday excursion...sending those Amana boxes to family
> now brings back those lovely times.
>
> Amana stuff is top - quality, also reasonably - priced and shipping is free
> within the Midwest area and very reasonable further afield...Amanans are
> Iowa folks of very fine character, as peeps go Iowans in general are the
> "real deal":
>
> http://www.amanameatshop.com/
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

Maytag Blue is available through Epicurious and Amazon, to name a
couple.

N.