No sooner had Mia Van Der Water, the petite sommelier at North End Grill in Battery Park, New York, poured our first glass of Burn Cottage Pinot Noir 2010 than she explained with pride how soon this restaurant had managed to open after superstorm Sandy. “Fortunately, we are on the Brooklyn electric grid across the water, so we were only closed for two days,” she said. “And we all wanted to reopen as soon as possible to reassure all those who live and work round here that life was going to get back to normal.”
米婭?范德沃特(Mia Van Der Water),這位在紐約炮臺公園(Battery Park)里的North End Grill餐廳里工作的體態嬌小的侍酒師,一邊為我們倒上第一杯2010年份的Burn Cottage黑比諾葡萄酒,一邊很自豪地介紹說這家餐廳在桑迪颶風之后迅速地重新開業了。“很幸運,我們用的是布魯克林電網,所以也就關門了兩天。”她說,“我們所有人都希望盡快重新開業,以便讓在周圍居住和工作的人都安心,讓生活盡快回歸到正常的軌道上來。”