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Been reading your notes for twenty years, and I still recall the apartment in the East Village where it started. Amazing level of detail and discernment. Hope you're well.

I met Donn in Hawaii in 2000, when a wine and food festival happened to coincide with my honeymoon there. We hit it off at one event, and I happened to call Monte Bello "America's first growth", which made him happy. We were his guests at a Monte Bello vertical the following night, which w...

"Vintage of the Century" hyperbole certainly accounts for pricing on the 2016s, as well as the absence of tariffs on all Italian wines. However, it should be noted that "vintage of the century" apparently occurs a few times each decade. 2010 and 2013 are also "vintages of th...