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Victor Hong

If the wine at Chelsea Wine were covered with third-party insurance, a theft claim seems appropriate.

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Mike Moriarty is a very nice guy and did not deserve such treatment.

Victor Hong

If you have 250 or more btls in your cellar, why are u not on CT??? Or at least have a reliable spreadsheet of your own??? I organize a local monthly wine group dinner. And pretty much every month, the last few guys to post their wines for an event, are guys with cellars over 1000 btls but with no ...

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Did Ray Walker buy the business?

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Best wishes!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/trav ... views.html

Like VRBO/HomeAway, TripAdvisor is a crowd-sourcing site which has censored genuine but advertiser-adverse customer reviews.

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In which order?

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Can I get a job that pays so well?

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Lyft, in some foreign country without an extradition treaty. I suspect that Holder will Lyft himself there soon.

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If the host/guide owns the business, or would not seem to depend centrally on tips as income, I would not tip.

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Let me hoard some, before saying so.

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Your cooking must mask the wet cardboard.

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So is the real Liparita, if you know where to hunt.

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No resemblance to the real Liparita.

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This brings new meaning to the old Premier Cru e-mail announcement, "New Container Arrives!"

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Why potentially ruin a good dish with a ruined bottle?

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The biggest fencing agents may still be under investigation.

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Liparita-La Jota. An absolute throwback to the days before abandoned plots of old vines became cult-wine nurseries.
Of course, Liparita now exists only as a label for wines made from purchased grapes, as Jess Jackson bought the vineyard after the 1996 vintage for a mere song.

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Tom Reddick wrote: ↑
May 13th, 2019, 3:02 pm
It all depends on what one is buying.

Most CA Cabs are in the toilet right now................

Point me to any porcelain with the older, non-cult stuff.

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Or am I becoming senile (or both)?

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Buy the vacation house, but rent the glassware.

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Sarcasm is typically obvious.

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Why bother to drink non-vintage-of-the-century Bordeaux, when harder to find than vintage-of-the-century Bordeaux?

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Simard is released normally about seven to ten years after the vintage.

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My wife and I call my Mom at least twice daily. She says that every day is thereby Mother's Day and a gift itself.
I plan to visit her on Memorial Day weekend, to take her and friends to dinner, and also to visit Dad's resting place.

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Darn. I thought that you had hunted down some for just $0.02.

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OK, IIRC.

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WWID? DNK.

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More like a shear than drift... anyway.... One thing (among many) I find annoying with the KGBO is the way they drop producers. They will bring in a wine for a couple of years then stop. Makes it hard to build verticals etc. Unless of course it’s $25 Aussie Shiraz or Cal Cab in which case the tanke...

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I thought the 2012 Huet Secs were poor on release, and said so. No surprise really, it was a very difficult vintage, roads turned to rivers at one point there was so much rain. Got banned from tasting at the domaine for expressing my opinion. Informative to me to read of these experiences with the ...

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Spent a week and a half in S. Korea. Didn't see much of any wine in stores or restaurants. After not having any wine, we stumbled in to an Italian restaurant. Needless to say, we walked out after seeing a KJ wine on the list for W$79,000. At the hotel we stayed at, the bar had Sassicaia for W$600,0...

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Mark Golodetz wrote: ↑
May 7th, 2019, 8:29 am
I am still waiting on 2015 Canon from a major NYC store. The 2015s and 2016s have arrived at other stores.

"New Container Arrives!" applies to only the latter.

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An FFS program is essentially a compound option, namely an option on another option. It begins to decay upon purchase. Note that no carrier has been known to realize convexity losses for selling these compound options to travelers. This would indicate that FFS programs are not worth their price. Mor...

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One tablespoon of kernels in a paper lunch bag; no oil. Two minutes in the microwave.

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The pressure gradient should not be a problem, so long as the bottles are generally upright, especially during ascent between take-off and cruising altitude.

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This oddity seems, fortunately, to have faded. Things are tasting almost normal, again. If not, I have would been ready to jettison my cheap, old Bordeaux and Napa reds on Commerce Corner. Perhaps, the cause was some recent life stress.

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Chris Blum wrote: ↑
May 6th, 2019, 5:54 pm
The guy from Wine Larder (Joey something) is active on Commerce Corner if you want to send him a DM

What is a DM? Delivery Missing?

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Other countries should impose a tariff against US raw lumber. Hit KJ where it hurts.

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He likely researched all this with an American-made computer.

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Australia ooze-monsters seem also to have retreated.

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I bought plenty of 2017 index funds.
So, 2017 wines have become affordable, although perhaps too young for my old body.

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Since the 2002 Insignia, I have not hunted for Phelps wine.

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Bill Tex Landreth wrote: ↑
April 30th, 2019, 12:08 pm
My wife was a little bit pregnant once.

What part of that pregnancy was so little?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/dini ... cipes.html

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My strategy is to turn 60.

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Does anyone else feel like shipping concerns are overblown? Before I paid attention to this stuff, I would order wine year round. Mostly $20-40 bottles so not a huge loss if something went wrong, but I don’t recall ever having an issue with wine shipped in the summer. Agreed, but I still avoid summ...

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I am managing to thread the needle, before summer closes this shipping season. Thursday , 4/25/20191:03 pmGIRARD, OH In transit Wednesday , 4/24/201911:59 pmDURANT, IA In transit 10:58 amLODGEPOLE, NE In transit Tuesday , 4/23/20199:57 pmWELLS, NV In transit 9:55 amSACRAMENTO, CA Departed FedEx loca...

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Agreed.

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