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Can he have his sentence reduced for 'good behavior?'

We had a great dinner at Nice Matin last week. Always no corkage on Monday, and they have a great table for 8-10 that works for wine dinners. We had 2 courses and split some desserts and the food and tax was only like $60pp. We left a big tip.

Blanton's currently retails in NYC for $100-130 on the reg. Another one I will source if I feel the need.

High West Midwinter Nights Dram is ~$100 retail in NYC. I don't recall it being that good. [shrug.gif] I would rather work with undesirables from TX who can still buy various Weller bottlings off the shelf for under $40 and have them ship. That said, I have a decent strategic reserve holding so I re...

Grape Eugenics

Whatever you choose to do in terms of your opening windows, you will learn something about aging wine and what your preferences are!

Monday 10/21 is Patriots at Jets, I'm surprised Jay hadn't mentioned this already.

This was out there on the cheap back in the day. I’m glad it held up well!

Richard, I'd say you're about 5 years behind the curve. The hazy style has been around for at least a decade and has been really hot the last 5 years or so. It's been really big in the northeast but has spread all over the country. I am not a big Tired Hands fan and I think their sours and farmhouse...

Can someone explain the background/relevancy of "Todd?" Todd Anderson, son of Gus & Phyllis, owner of Conn Valley Vineyards, who started his own mega-premium side project Ghost Horse about 15 years ago. Though from what I'm reading in this thread the Jancis article seems to reference the other guy,...

I store my wine there as does Mikhail L. (The Count). I live less than 10min away so easy in/out for me. Of course they offer full services for intake and pickup/delivery in NYC. They're not the cheapest in the area but you will not be disappointed. Note: This is not a 'shop', it's the storage/logis...

Victor,

You don't have an avocado tree in your rooftop garden?

David,

You know better, but what I've had has been pretty meh, both from Richter and other producers.

Well, if this *is* the thread, how about an update for confirmed venue, date and time?

2016 is a meh vintage. *I work for one of their distributors and sell the wine* but that said even before I worked for the distributor I always considered them one of the best values in the Mosel and the 2018's are impressive.

This thread has gone on way too long and is becoming and eggistential threat.

The organized chaos is not as fun as it used to be. Fewer people and more focused themes tend to be more enjoyable.

Let’s face it, for certain individuals/groups it’s also about being with the ‘right’ people and the ‘right’ bottles.

I just checked the Blue Jays Schedule--The Indians are in town Fri-Sun and the Red Sox follow Mon-Wed! Looks like I'll be planning my stay into the following week.

It's a polarizing wine, which does seem strange considering its provenance. I've never been a fan. I've had several 90's vintages and 2001, though all when they were quite young.

LGA<-->YYZ tix to book right now for this date are more expensive than current fare. Any tips on finding a cheap flight? Set an alert on google flight. No need to keep checking. This is interesting. I don't fly much so am not sufficiently tech savvy. But It's about a week too early to set a reminde...

I agree. Robert Kacher would be a better bet for him as an importer to check out. Wrongo Dongo. Bobby is retired, and the 'Robert Kacher' portfolio as you know it is essentially gone. There are a few properties still hanging on with Domaine Select which carry his name and label, but most of the gre...

Booked for Sojourn Wednesday and $25 corkage confirmed.

Oh snap. Just checked in to see about options similar to Sutton Inn. Sad it’s gone.

Re: WineFest V--Cellar Depressurization--July 18, 2020 in Toronto Thanks Dan!

Thanks Dan!

No love for Premier Cru?

What Hardy said.

Can you do some sort of handshake/wink-nod deal with the venue to just pour the wine if you ship it in privately?

If regular shipping is $40-50 anyway, and you live in a place like south Florida which is not good for shipping year round, the upcharge, particularly for a high ticket wine like Spottswoode, sounds well worth it. Not when the final leg is on a truck without refer. I negates the whole process if th...

I don't know why more wineries don't utilize them... shipping door to door $70/case. If regular shipping is $40-50 anyway, and you live in a place like south Florida which is not good for shipping year round, the upcharge, particularly for a high ticket wine like Spottswoode, sounds well worth it.

This thread is not all that it's cracked up to be.

I could eat. Let's see how this shapes up.

It's price listed in NY but I haven't seen it on shelves yet. I only know what I know from social media posts by WhistlePig peeps. RE: Pricing--$399 retail would be normal markup based on cost but I expect to see it on shelves closer to $500 here because why not? That's the current trend with limite...

LGA<-->YYZ tix to book right now for this date are more expensive than current fare. Any tips on finding a cheap flight?

Save me a spot!

We are a good three years into liquor barrel aged wines. Yuck.

Brent C l a y t o n wrote: ↑
July 27th, 2019, 4:38 pm

Brent C l a y t o n wrote: ↑
July 27th, 2019, 4:29 pm
updates from Jay’s!

Brent C l a y t o n wrote: ↑
July 27th, 2019, 4:29 pm
updates from Jay’s!

Just catching up to this, very unfortunate. RIP Alan.

Next time maybe try posting a link or the proper website address.

https://www.pluckywines.com/websearch_r ... w=donnhoff

Go south to the Cilento and you won't be disappointed. Positano and Amalfi are super-touristy. The best seafood I had in Amalfi was the cuoppo fritto misto.

Thread drift - Just got back from 10 days in the Berkshires suffering through the adverse effects of no BYO. You can't bring your own wine to a restaurant, so there is no incentive for the restaurant to exert any effort to have a good wine list. Yes, I know, the lists at Blantyre and The Inn on the...

Gordon's does a great job with their emails also. It's easy to stay on top of the latest offers.

If you're working downtown, go to Federal Wine on State St and introduce yourself to Len.

Also, go eat at Troquet and get friendly with Chris Campbell.

The 1996 was $69.99 and I thought that was expensive!

I hope wine regions everywhere disallow growing of cannabis. It makes zero sense to be using land, water, and human resources that compete with high end grape growing. This is an arbitrary argument that could easily be used in reverse. In fact, I think there are probably far more cannabis consumers...

Sigh.

Doesn't board member Martin Zwick do something in Berlin?

90's highs and mid-high 70's lows, plus high humidity in the whole corridor; pretty much the worst possible conditions to ship wine in this week.

I'd send a PM to Matt Hartley...

Alan,

The obvious answer here is to not use this blend. It doesn't seem to work for the level of doneness you prefer. I haven't checked the recipe of this blend, but get one with more meat and less fat.

We tried to book many of the top choices for Saturday but everything is already booked! I'm a little surprised all the top restaurants are totally packed on a Saturday in July. We have a reservation for Helm, the BYO on 5th St not the full bar location. Any tips/info/suggestions? ***EDIT*** We moved...

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