Angela and Carole became friends in the Napa Valley, where they both lived a gracious lifestyle that involved holding down jobs and chasing around their toddlers between impromptu dinner parties with other wine-drinking moms.

Angela eventually decided to head back to civilization, and works for a digital media company in LA. She spends most of her spare time shopping for wines to match her shoes, dissing the designers on Project Runway with her daughter, and chatting up the hot wine guy at the local fancy deli.

Carole decamped for New Orleans, where she was chased out of town by Katrina; did a stint in Atlanta where she earned her certification as a bona-fide sommelier; and finally got tired of her adventures and returned to roost in Napa, where she's back to that gracious lifestyle.

Wine Giques is their labor of love, a way of keeping their friendship alive, and of course, a great excuse for drinking a tiny bit of wine every single day.

The photo is by Tristram Biggs.