J u ly / a u g u s t 2 0 1 8 1 1 9 cheers meaghan maurice Drinks? Ahoy! Hoist the sails and uncork. By Ralph Hersom S ummer fun on the water calls for refreshing libations in hand, but you can never trust that a few whitecaps won’t cause a red wine spill. While under the sun, one also needs to heed attention to alcohol levels more closely. We all know how soon noon turns to evening on a day drinking sail. For these excursions, I stick to whites from Portugal and Italy, and rosé wines from Provence and France. The Dory white from Portugal is a blend of Viosinho, Alvarinho, Arinto and Viognier in an unoaked style that is wonderfully aromatic and refreshing. Il Mandolo Roero Arneis is an excellent white wine from the Piedmont region. Produced with Arneis, a white Italian wine grape grown in the hills of Roero, this will be your favorite go-to summer white to re- place the often consumed, but rather uninteresting, Pinot Grigio.