Los Angeles: Seeking (Non-Baller) Tasting Group - INTRO DINNER 8/22

Inspired by this thread (Where is the best place to find a wine tasting group/club? - WINE TALK - WineBerserkers), I was wondering if there may be similar interest in LA for a group that would meet approx. 1x/month to focus on bottles in the $30-$60 range. There’d also be room for occasional cheapie themes (Baudry, Clos Roche Blanche, Bourgogne, Muscadet, whatever) and maybe even pooling resources for a “Junior” Baller Wines night. Whatever folks are looking for.

Let me know if any interest.


ROLL CALL FOR INTRO DINNER, 8/22 AT 8PM AT “A FOOD AFFAIR” ON ROBERTSON:
THEME: VILLAGE LEVEL OR 1ER CRU BURGUNDY

  • Levi +1 bringing (i) 2006 Digioia-Royer Chambolle Musigny Les Fremiers VV, (ii) 1988 Domaine Château de Beaune Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Les Lavières and (iii) 2010 Henri Prudhon St. Aubin 1er cru Rouge Gorges
  • Doug +1 bringing (i) 2013 Maison Patrick Piuze Chablis “Forêts” 1er Cru, and (ii) 2011 Pascal Marchand Morey St. Denis “Les Millandes” 1er Cru
  • Chris +1 bringing (i) NV Billecart-Salmon Brut Sous Bois and (ii) a Lucien Muzard Santenay
  • Scott +1 bringing (i) Champagne and (ii) TBD
  • John +1 bringing (i) 1998 Grivot NSG Les Boudots, and (ii) 1999 Latour Beaune Vignes Franches
  • Jesus bringing (i) 2008 Simon Bize SLB guettes, with back-up of 2005 Thibault Liger-Belair Aux Reas

Might also help to put where in LA you are. Some people don’t travel past the west side line :smiley:

True - I’m on the West side, but don’t discriminate. Would be looking for folks, let’s say, west of Western.

Interested - your idea sounds great - I’m in the Pico/Robertson area.

Great! I’m in pico robertson too, so that’s perfect. Let’s see if there are any other takers and set something up.

Ok great - hopefully a few more LA peeps will see this thread and chime in - it would be great to set something up for August…

I’m near the west side, keep me posted.

Great - agree that it would be great to put something on the books for august.

Damn. I live by Normandie, so guess I’m out. neener

I actually live in Baldwin Hills Estates, near La Brea, so am not too far. I don’t think I can obligate to a regular group, but am always up for an off-line. Especially if it were quasi-baller.

We’re in…Culver City/Palms area for us. It’d be great to do some tastings/drinkings where I can just pull from what I have that would be interesting! :slight_smile:

Great - welcome aboard. We’re getting closr to a solid number so let’s see if we get any more takers and then set up a date for first get together. Looking fwd.

Sounds like a plan, baller.

I’m in Brentwood. Definitely interested. Is there a date set for August yet?

Looks like there’s some interest, Levi - maybe we should start talking dates. I’m going to be out of town until the 18th - so anytime after that would work for me… :slight_smile:

Also…are we going to open this up to spouses, etc - and any volunteers to host (I can do it if we have no more than a dozen people or so)?

Doug

I’m out of town the last weekend of the month, so how about the 20/21/22 time-frame? My wife is a wino too…but getting a sitter is always a crap shoot for us.

Chris - how old is/are your kid/s? We have a 8 year old - if we do it at a reasonable hour, we could potentially host a play-date as well…only grape juice for them, tho.

We could also keep it as adults-only - but I just hate to see the wino wives left out (mine has already invited herself)!

My wife is not drinking nowadays, so I’ll likely be flying solo for a while. But I think spouses who are passionate about wine should be welcome. Seems like a good rule of thumb should be that the “price of admission” is 1 bottle per person, but let me know what you guys think.

Re: date: how about 8/20 or 8/22? I have a slight preference for 8/22 (and wknds generally) bc my work schedule is unpredictable.

Re: venue: what do folks think about doing the first meeting at a restaurant? Marvin allows unlimited corkage at $20 per bottle so that could be a good venue if we go that route. Otherwise, if doug doesn’t mind hosting the inaugural event that works too.

Our daughter is 4, always seeking adult time lately. Should be OK on a sitter with a couple weeks notice. I’m cool with the 22nd, any venue.

Rose and vine in hollywood is super reasonable, i don’t think they charged us any corkage this past week.

Interest here as well.