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Victor Hong

Fun when the ad pop-ups prevent posting.

Victor Hong

A lot of wines, upon the tariffs being imposed. Cheeses, too.

Victor Hong

Craig G wrote: ↑
January 16th, 2020, 5:55 pm
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Worse yet, the victims are predominantly French speaking. Talk about ethnic profiling!

Victor Hong

He or she may have already read this thread.

Victor Hong

Around sixty bottles, if you include those which family and friends shared with me.

Victor Hong

ybarselah wrote: ↑
January 17th, 2020, 9:45 am
decant the mag into 2 750s

Ah, a perfect illustration of tranching, to create economic value. One "AAA"-rated senior bottle and one non-rated equity bottle, from the same pool, leaving a nice corkage arbitrage.

Victor Hong

Call first, and ask nicely. Then, tip well.

Victor Hong

Jay Opperman wrote: ↑
January 16th, 2020, 3:10 pm
We gave all the wine to the table of four middle-aged women celebrating their friendship of 25 years. They were drinking cupcake and butter. They had no idea that wines like this existed.Fortunately we did not know them so they can’t hold it against us.

This proves that all is relative.

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Barry P wrote: ↑
January 16th, 2020, 12:57 pm
Bought all these wines (and other Oz blueberry woodshakes) based on The Wine Advocate's recommendation. The Wine Advocate and I parted ways after I tasted them.

Funny yet sad. What did you do with the wines?

Victor Hong

Update on Greenock Creek.......turning into Sh1t Creek.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=166588&p=2887880#p2887862

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After tasting four vintages last night of Greenock Creek Creek Block(all were bought upon release and never moved) Much agreed with most of what was said in previous posts. I will say I haven’t recently been to a tasting when more wine was left in the bottles than in the glasses for 4 people. The 1...

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David_K wrote: ↑
January 14th, 2020, 5:17 pm
Are people stocking up now? How fast do we think existing stock will be cleaned out (assuming no price hikes) after (and if) a 100% tariff is announced?

Maybe. Yes.

Victor Hong

Waiting in the dark, for the Scud missile.

https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/01/the- ... riffs.html

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ybarselah wrote: ↑
July 7th, 2017, 4:43 pm
this may be a very stupid question, but is there a cast iron pan out there with a copper core?

Because copper expands faster than cast iron when heated, and shrinks faster when cooled, the copper core would eventually fatigue and distort the cast-iron cooking surface.

Victor Hong

America Drank Less Wine for First Time in 25 Years Millennials opted for other beverages and baby boomers pulled back The volume of wine consumed in the U.S. declined 0.9% in 2019, the first time it has fallen since 1994, according to industry tracker IWSR. The trend was ascribed to a generational ...

Victor Hong

Because state regulations, monitoring, and violation penalties have all tightened.

I am sure that these shipping companies welcome this free publicity. By the way, this thread is discoverable.

Victor Hong

Hello Beserkers Unfortunately it can be difficult to ship wine to my home and for a few years I have utilized All Ways Cool in Sonoma. They give good customer care, but I feel like I'm overpaying. I just this week had them ship 2 cases (with very little storage time) and at a regular ground speed v...

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To me, even the early-1990s reds from Merryvale were under-performers, about as impressive as an over-steamed green bean.

Current vintages are over $75 per bottle, and taste like purple-dyed oak jam.

Victor Hong

I'll get the disclaimer out of the way first, this is a brand new business owned by my friend Bryan Maletis. I have no interest in the business except well wishes for him and delicious Champagne for me. The company is called Fat Cork. Bryan and his wife went to Champagne last year and found 30 grow...

Victor Hong

Develop a poor palate.

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lleichtman wrote: ↑
December 30th, 2018, 12:19 pm

And the horse you rode in on. I've spent a lot of time in Japan and it's Shochu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dch%C5%AB

Not dog?

Victor Hong

Check with Binny's or Total Wine.

Victor Hong

My version of reality is that Fu started the "it's a thing" with his avatar of a bottle of Noon Eclipse being dumped back in the eBob days. ERP himself took offense to Charley's avatar not long after making some kind of remark to the effect that he found the avatar disturbing and unfair. So funny w...

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Anything which looks as "AAA" as this seems to be money-good.

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Article about so-called ballers.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/success/ ... index.html

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wrote: ............, as I can imagine it was not pretty.

Ginger-scallion sauce makes anything in a pot both pretty and tasty. Well, almost anything.

Victor Hong

They are allowed to do so. I have been to various cafes which offered for bottle sale the wines on their dining menus.
France is not Massachusetts or Colorado.

Victor Hong

If no air leakage, just loosen or remove the light bulb.

Victor Hong

Marcus Dean wrote: ↑
January 6th, 2020, 6:40 pm

Nate Simon wrote: ↑
January 6th, 2020, 10:15 am
Just to be on the safe side, I break out the Durand for all
my Mateus bottles.
I just use a hammer for mine

Stealing my idea to retrieve dropped corks?

Victor Hong

And one, on an older wine that was well-stuck in the btl, as I continued to pump away, it squirted a stream of wine onto my short. But when it does work, it's fine. Tom Tom accurately describes the device's shortcomings. Staining your clothes can be avoided if one is naked while pumping away. Naked...

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Even the most heavenly wine eventually goes down the drain.

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Mike Reff wrote: ↑
January 6th, 2020, 2:50 pm
Is today the deadline to submit? Wonder when we will hear. My weekly sales meeting, we briefly spoke about it.

With such tariffs, sales meetings might get even briefer.

Victor Hong

The 1990 is also great, and recently around for just $60 each.

Victor Hong

Asimov adds public focus to industry disaster if tariffs hold.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/dini ... ff-eu.html

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He has arrived!.....in heaven.

Victor Hong

Good, I wrote my comment, very personal from me. Then called and spoke to Director for Europe at Office of the USTR. Looks like a follow up call is in order. I’ve also been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal (I doubt it will be a big article) and have spoken to the Exec Director of the North Am...

Victor Hong

Hire a teetotaling anteater. (Not a political comment.)

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Wear a red shirt.

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Vote in November.

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Perfect. Thank you.

Victor Hong

Smash the bottle open. Always works.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... story.html

Amid tariffs, competing products, and consumer price resistance.

Victor Hong

The real dumpster fire is all the high-WA-score, high-ABV Australian export ooze-monsters sitting forlorn in many cellars. The bottles often fetch a fraction of their original purchase prices. They are the timeshares of the wine hobby.

Victor Hong

WB'ers wait ten years to open a bottle of wine, but cannot spare an hour or less for a Popeye's chicken sandwich?

Victor Hong

What are the chances that our voices will actually be heard? And who makes the final decision? ..... Yeh a non-drinker pileon But he runs the best winery, which makes only the best wine, in not just America, but anywhere, as everybody knows, except we hoity-toidy wine drinkers. This tariff is to ma...

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Besides Les Grand Chenes and Gruaud Larose, this is one of my few meaningful 2003 Bordeaux purchases. Glad to hear that it has not become a roasted, sweet firewater freak show.

Victor Hong

I live in Dallas and currently have about 400 bottles. I would love to decrease that number, but my desire to stash bottles to hit proper drinking windows doesn't make that a realistic option. I currently have a 166 bottle fridge that I can probably get 110 bottles in. I use it all for reds. Keep s...

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RMann wrote: ↑
January 2nd, 2020, 9:35 am
........... make sure your important emails from WineBid aren't going to spam!

That would save us a lot of money....on not only shipping, but also wine. Too late, however, given the five cases which I bought in December.

Victor Hong

I thought this thread was about the relatives at family gatherings.

Victor Hong

J. Galang wrote: ↑
January 1st, 2020, 3:30 pm
A picture is worth a thousand words I guess. Anyway, these stains are all over the bottle.

Rub with dishwashing soap.

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