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How the hell did you manage THAT? The super-duper, handy navigation app got us TO the train station in SJC, but put us on the street just to the west of station and across the tracks just as the train was arriving. Michel hoofed it across the tracks and managed not to get mangled. Good recovery. Br...

Michel Abood wrote: ↑
September 9th, 2019, 12:19 pm
Thanks for hosting Todd, Jen, and great to see everyone. That was a blast, and thank you to Bruce for dropping me off at the train station.

You're welcome. Todd told me to make sure I ran you out of town, so I complied.

Bruce

Jay Selman wrote: ↑
September 8th, 2019, 2:57 pm
Can’t believe I almost missed such a perfect evening. Flawless

Good to see you, Jay. I think you brought those spring rolls? Pretty damn tasty!

Bruce

Thanks again to Todd & Jen for hosting. Some wonderful food (how can you go wrong with Flannery?), and now we've all learned to use bread to sop up meat juices! Who knew?

Plus good people and good tunes; a most excellent Saturday night. Thanks!

Bruce

I'll bake a dessert of some kind. I also should be able to bake one of my sourdough loaves.

Bruce

Just got back from my trip; thanks for all the suggestions! Lots of great outdoors activities, especially hiking along the Deschutes River Trail. It was also fun to take the summer chair lifts up Mount Bachelor and hike around up there--great scenery. Also a day trip to Crater Lake (although a lot o...

Thanks again for all the suggestions. We DO have SHARQ passes, so I'm sure we'll use those heavily as well.

We have a large enough group that we don't all have to do the same activities at the same time--one group can go off and do one thing; another group can do something else.

Bruce

Thanks for all the suggestions so far!

Bruce

I'll be going up to the Sunriver OR area with my family, and we could use recommendations for things to do, places to go, things to see, where to eat, etc. Since Bend is just up the road, I assume we'll make at least 1 or 2 drives up there as well. Many of us like to hike, so hiking recommendations ...

I'm redoing my wet bar area, and I have an extra 50 bottle wire wine rack available. Free to a good home; you must pick it up here in
Los Angeles. Fairly lightweight; email me if interested.

**GONE**

Thanks for the interest.

Bruce

55 is young? I remember when we weren't supposed to trust anyone over 30!

R.I.P. Alan; hope you're stirring up some shit somewhere.

Bruce

Yes, the label on the 1994 looks artificially "old." Perhaps photocopied several times and then roughed up to look older. A properly stored bottle of 1994
should have a nearly pristine label.

Bruce

Before I list this elsewhere on the Interwebz, I thought I would mention this here in case there's any interest...... I've got a custom-designed ring for sale. It's an 18k gold ring, with a center opal and a halo diamond setting around the opal. I selected the opal (which is MUCH higher quality than...

I read the decision as simply holding that a state that imposes a two-year residency requirement before granting a license is going to have that requirement invalidated under the dormant Commerce Clause. Even the TN AG's office agreed that the requirement was invalid, and the State of Tennessee itse...

Just throwing this out here in case it helps..... A very good friend is subletting his furnished Santa Monica one bedroom apartment for July 5 to Aug. 3 (ish) at his cost of only $1700 for the month (ish). This is a screaming deal for a lovely furnished apartment within walking distance of lots of n...

Bottle is sold; thanks for all the inquiries.

Bruce

Price reduction to $375.

Bruce

One bottle gone; one bottle remains.

$175. Preference given to buyer who can pick up in Los Angeles. Otherwise, cost and risk of shipping are
on buyer.

Bruce

For sale: one bottle of 1996 Penfolds Grange. Original owner, bottle and fill are in great condition (photos available).

Preference given to someone who can pick up in Los Angeles; otherwise risk and cost of shipping are on buyer.

$375

Bruce

Just bumping this in case someone might need an offsite wine storage locker in West Los Angeles; let me know.

Bruce

Here is a link to today's oral argument:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argum ... 6_i4ek.pdf

I think there will be a LOT of discussion within the Court about just how narrow/broad the ruling should be.

Bruce

I guess what I'm saying is weddings generally aren't wine appreciation events. Don't waste what won't be understood or appreciated. +1. In addition, I wouldn't have too many different wines opened; it's a bit too confusing and many of your guests won't appreciate the tasting opportunity. Unless the...

This has been one of my go to dishes for years. I don't add the cinnamon. I do add a small bit of maple extract to the potatoes along with mashing with a bit of heavy cream and butter. The extract gives a bit more maple without additional sweetness. I make a small pitcher of butter and maple syrup ...

A friend passed this along to me; I've made it twice now over the Thanksgiving holidays. It's super easy, but you'll want to taste and retaste the chipotle levels to make sure you get the right balance. You want the spice/smokiness of the chipotles in the final blend, but you don't want them to take...

Still have at least one locker available if anyone needs it.

Bruce

Enjoy:

https://www.kcet.org/shows/the-migrant- ... ewish-deli

Bruce

To paraphrase George Orwell, all 100 point wines are equal, but some 100 point wines are more equal than others.

Bruce

bump.

I used to run a polling place, and we had a dedicated audio voting booth that would provide visually-impaired/blind voters with all the ballot information in audio form. And in multiple languages. Those voters were especially pleased that the technology was available to allow them to vote. Just bec...

Interesting article in the WineSpec about NY State wineries being sued: NYSuit over the fact that their WebSites cannot be read by the visually impaired and the blind. Huh?? Is thus nutsiness raised to a whole nuther level?? Hope someone can edumacate me on this issue. Tom Tom--Are you saying you d...

Interesting article in the WineSpec about NY State wineries being sued: NYSuit over the fact that their WebSites cannot be read by the visually impaired and the blind. Huh?? Is thus nutsiness raised to a whole nuther level?? Hope someone can edumacate me on this issue. Tom Tom--Are you saying you d...

Adam--Email sent.

Bruce

Locker facility is open Wed-Sunday, 10:30am to 6:30pm.

Bruce

I'm reorganizing/consolidating boxes, so I'll have a few offsite lockers available starting next week in West Los Angeles. They are
paid up through next July, so I can provide good spaces at very favorable rates for a convenient location. Email is best for details.

Bruce

After a brief respite on temperatures in Southern CA, we're back to Santa Ana winds and temps in the 80's and above. So back to a shipping hold.......

Bruce

This brouhaha involved the blind tasting portion. While I'm always impressed when people in the wine world can identify wines blind, it has almost nothing to do with being a practicing somm. Whether you can identify blind some high falutin' big name wine isn't that important. Whether you can quickl...

Stepping out of character and getting serious for just a minute, the value of a Sommelier to me is helping me chose a good bottle of wine from a restaurant wine list. Something that will compliment the meal and not break the bank. Most of the time I’m in a familiar place and I can get along on my o...

It doesn't matter whether the mentor is paid or not, it's a clear conflict to both mentor a person for a test and act as a judge for the test. You can be one of the other, but not both without raising questions about the integrity of the outcome, and that's true in any field. -Al My brother is a do...

What I'm going to say may be heresy, but..... If you "run out" of wine in your cellar, then it might be theoretically possible to order wine on the Internet, from a wine store, at auction, etc. Assuming, of course, there's no Zombie Apocalypse. Bruce That’s what they want you to think. Well, I fell...

Nice report. I’ll admit I’m a bigger fan of Champagne and Bordeaux than Italians, but those wines all sound delightful. My take on the 86 Mouton we had back in March was closer to Blake's than to Bruce's: plenty of complexity, great balance, but the primary impression was of depth and power, with d...

What I'm going to say may be heresy, but.....

If you "run out" of wine in your cellar, then it might be theoretically possible to order wine on the Internet, from a wine store, at auction, etc. Assuming, of course, there's
no Zombie Apocalypse.

Bruce

Last night Blake Brown was visiting LA, and so we had dinner with a mutual friend, Richard. A few Italian wines and one Bordeaux: 1986 Ch. Mouton Rothschild. Our friend Rich's very generous bring. Having said that, I've never had an 86 Mouton that's really blown me away. Last night's bottle wasn't o...

Most restaurants in LA that allow BYOB don't care whether you open the bottle yourself at the table. If I'm with a larger group of people, we'll usually tell the waiter at the outset that we'll handle all the opening/pouring so that they don't have to do it. MOST of the time, they're fine with it. I...

Deal pending.

Chris Freemott wrote: ↑
September 24th, 2018, 10:14 pm
I consider the results superior but would concede the loss of the skin to be antithetical to great friend chicken.

I think friend chicken is unlikely, regardless of the method of cooking.

Bruce

My pristine bottle of 1787 "Th. J. Lafitte." A mere $150,000, give or take.

What do I win?

Bruce

When making decisions about either buying or drinking from your cellar, I don't think anyone punches up numbers on a calculator to make a ratio(nal) decision. Early on, though, people often default to using professional scores as the measure of "quality." So if you have Cabernets A and B both rated ...

I use QPR and value interchangeably. I don’t consider QPR to be a strict ratio. I wouldn’t be able to say if a wine is 50% or 60% better than another. I’m not that precise and it’s too subjective. The one advantage of QPR over value? Less keystrokes. https://i.imgur.com/d3dQm6V.gif Less has fewer k...

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