A neighbor down the street is an attorney, a sports lover, and all-around good guy. He’s also, I learned quite some time after meeting him, a wine collector.He has a cellar in his basement that contains some 3,000 bottles, much of it from European countries, and a considerable amount from vineyards in California whose owners he has come to know personally. If you guess that my first visit to his cellar included a fairly long dissertation on wines, you’d be right. And my wife and I enjoyed it greatly.The point is that we often don’t find out how interesting people








