Drew Jones

What's an appropriate wine to serve at a Tampa Bay Rays themed party? What wine would be a good gift for a hard core Rays fan?

Florida's Tampa Bay Rays are one of Major League Baseball's youngest teams.  They played their first season in 1998, as part of an expansion that also included the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Originally named the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the team dropped the "Devil" from its name in 2008 and adopted a new logo with a yellow sunburst emanating from the word "Rays," which appears in blue.  Interestingly, that very season, the team's fortunes began to improve drastically.  In 2007, the Devil Rays finished last in their division.  In 2008, the renamed Rays won their division and went all the way to the World Series, where they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies.