Wine of the Week, and a Great Beer and My First Gnocchi

By "My First Gnocchi," I mean my first time to make gnocchi; I mean, I've eaten gnocchi many times, mainly in its

manifestation as heavy, doughy little indigestible depth-charges. I've always avoided making gnocchi because it -- really they, right? -- felt more trouble than the effort could be worth, and truly the process is a kitchen-wrecker par excelle…