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Victor Hong

I know this isn't very constructive, but... Got in to K&L Wines and this Moonbuzz Pinot Noir 2015 from Monterey was a lower priced recommend, promptly displayed up front. My wife always complains I only have fancy wines she feels bad about opening and I should have some cheap, everyday ones. This s...

Victor Hong

Really? A restaurant whose diners can bring their own wines seems more likely to keep a better wine list. Otherwise, unsold wines are dead money.

Victor Hong

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...

Victor Hong

I know this isn't very constructive, but... Got in to K&L Wines and this Moonbuzz Pinot Noir 2015 from Monterey was a lower priced recommend, promptly displayed up front. My wife always complains I only have fancy wines she feels bad about opening and I should have some cheap, everyday ones. This s...

Victor Hong

Avoid this, for sure. BuyFakeWine.com

Victor Hong

Google is your friend! Lead capsules were phased out in the 1990's. If you have bottles from the nineties or earlier I would suggest wiping the neck and top of the bottle with a damp cloth. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/189.301 https://wineguy.co.nz/index.php/glossary-articles-hidden/492-...

Victor Hong

It refers to the device to sample wine from a barrel.

Victor Hong

With regard to federal agency cooperation, the FOIA response process has become utterly broken.

Victor Hong

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
July 16th, 2019, 4:12 am
As long as I only pay sales tax in one state! I am waiting for the situation in which both the shipping and receiving states claim the right to tax.

Nothing to stop both from taxing.

Victor Hong

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...

Victor Hong

as Suckling's incredible financial success despite his buffoonery will attest, is where the money and future of wine activity lies for wine reviewing outfits. (Indeed, Suckling has let his reviewing activities languish while focusing on events, and events now dominate WA's efforts as well, while Ga...

Victor Hong

Good wine.

Victor Hong

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... nd=premium

Victor Hong

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/dini ... tores.html

Victor Hong

newhere My bottling / labeling line needs new optical sensors and they are ordered but I have several dozen bottles that the labeler put 3 or more labels and back labels on the bottle. Is there a foolproof way to remove the labels completely so I can run them through the labeler again? [thankyou.gi...

Victor Hong

Parker was brilliant to close his board to non-subscribers and to have Squires run the board like a tyrant. I mean, it sucked for those of us who were non-subscribers or didn't line up with his wine preferences, but the dude sold his company for $15M by positioning himself as the supreme arbiter of...

Victor Hong

Given the introduction of new grapes being made available to some lesser appellations in the near future, it is pretty obvious, that the Bordelais themselves are concerned. Recent vintages seem to confirm they have reason to be. Alcohol levels are on the rise, and while the wines have proved very a...

Victor Hong

Sarah Kirschbaum wrote: ↑
July 8th, 2019, 4:29 am

David Wright wrote: ↑
July 7th, 2019, 1:48 pm
My comment about "vegan avocados" was in response to Victor's disappointment in the spelling on the restaurant signboard... avacado

Missed that. Sorry!

Everybody misses what I say.

Victor Hong

Randy Bowman wrote: ↑
July 8th, 2019, 7:24 pm
How many of your parents had a bowl of bacon grease or other grease that sat on the stove for easy access? Was there a huge can of Crisco in the pantry?

Not the bedroom?

Victor Hong

Back in the 90s the flagship store on Prince St. was the only place to get a variety of high end food and kitchen products (esp. after Balducci's closed). Now such items are easily available in a multitude of locations (including online) without the huge markups that D&D always charged. You should ...

Victor Hong

Find aged friends.

Victor Hong

Cheap or expensive, California reds after 1996 are pretty much dead to me. The overload of sweetness, alcohol, manipulation, self-congratulation, and show-off status make the 1997 and later vintages generally a no-go zone.

Victor Hong

... I met Mark Squires multiple times. I know one should not speak ill of the dead, but I found Mark Squires to be dead the first time I met him and he never came to life. Dour, dull, humorless (which he tried to disguise with his shirts), prissy, priggish, fussy, frustrated, rigid, censorious... I...

Victor Hong

Live yeasts are fed fattening sugars, made drunk as sailors on dry land, and finally subjected to utterly horrible heat, in order to make bread.

Victor Hong

Jim Stewart wrote: ↑
July 3rd, 2019, 3:31 am
"It's deja vu all over again" -YB
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=159376&p=2697651&hi ... r#p2697613

Its ability to dull memory.

Victor Hong

Bad spelling.

Victor Hong

Something to pair with skewered and roasted beef.....a Japanese recipe, sort of....

Victor Hong

What? It's still alive? I thought it died years ago... It did. They’re finally getting around to burying it. Pretty fast response IMO, especially if compared to their release of MyWines. Snarkiness aside, it was a fun and vibrant board before moving to eRP. It grew rapidly with the move and suffere...

Victor Hong

brigcampbell wrote: ↑
July 1st, 2019, 11:48 am
.....

Typical of an autocrat and predictable ending.

Let's see what the next year brings.

Victor Hong

Gray G wrote: ↑
July 1st, 2019, 11:39 am
hahaha

The horned hat would distract from his awful shirts.

Victor Hong

Jeremy C wrote: ↑
July 1st, 2019, 10:47 am
For those of us who were not part of that board, how did it compare (during its heyday) to this one?

That would be like a Salomon Brothers or First Boston old-timer telling a newly minted junior analyst what Wall Street used to be.

Victor Hong

(...waiting for somebody to name "corkage".......)

Victor Hong

Nothing. We starved.
Eventually, the surviving family members could afford this.

Victor Hong

You would be shocked how much damage a company like Total Wine can do to local businesses, even if they only have 2 locations, and in some cases 1. Total Wine buried the local competition in Long Island and they are fighting the state to get a second license in Westchester. The local competitors ha...

Victor Hong

Tom, NPR put out that this ruling could also change the limits on who can acquire a license, and that TN won't be allowed to place limits, thus allowing large chains to come in. Is this also true? I am certainly no lawyer but I live in Nashville and my understanding is that current TN law only allo...

Victor Hong

Odd request, I know, but this is something I'm struggling to figure out. I have a friend who restricts their diet in this manner (generally avoids carbs, as well), and I would like to introduce them to aged Bordeaux (min. 20 yo). I would prefer it to be accompanied by food. I know this may be a "fo...

Victor Hong

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑
June 26th, 2019, 8:57 am
I am not saying I think this is appropriate, but I could see states saying the "legitimate purpose" is to protect consumers from unscrupulous merchants, e.g. Premier Cru.

The Federal Trade Commission already exists, meaning that state bodies are redundant at best, and protectionist at worst.

Victor Hong

It essentially says that state residency requirements for wine retailers violate the interstate commerce clause of the US Constitution.

Victor Hong

While drinking a 99 Rhone the other night i found the very fine sediment suspended in the wine to be distracting. I know its not affecting taste, i did filter through a stainless mesh but is there a better way to filter to a smaller particle level ? If you want to see lots of sediment, try older Ca...

Victor Hong

............ The main problem was the food, with totally inconsistent or non-existent seasoning. One dish was so salty as to be almost inedible while two others were crying out for salt or any seasoning at all. Regardless of any constraints imposed by their Paleo concept, ingredient combinations di...

Victor Hong

GregT wrote: ↑
June 24th, 2019, 8:40 am
Yes. To get all the free radicals.

Good way to lock 'em up.

Victor Hong

I still have a few of the LP. They have barely hit maturity plateau.

Victor Hong

Fine it with egg whites. The Romans did it long before there were filters fine enough. (Get it?) Take a couple egg whites and stir them up with a little water and pour it into your wine. After a week or so, the tannins and cloudy elements will stick to the egg whites which will settle down. Then po...

Victor Hong

A full blender treatment will pulverize the sediment and provide aeration.

Victor Hong

Better if he can savor justice while in this world.

Victor Hong

This farking disaster has truly ruined a once-joyful hobby for many burned consumers.

May John Fox, Brian Nishi, and James Gillerman savor full and poetic justice.

Victor Hong

A good reason to eat at home.

Victor Hong

Yes, but only because my cat does not drink.

Victor Hong

Neal.Mollen wrote: ↑
June 21st, 2019, 8:58 am
Auctions are dead at retail

Retail is dead at auctions.

Victor Hong

I plan to bequeath them.

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