A Wine for Neal.Mollen

Ken_V · January 25, 2019, 4:28pm

From the Banville Wine Merchants website. Banville is an Italian wine importer:

“Don’t play everything, let some things go by. What you don’t play can be more important than what you do”.

A philosophy of a musician who’s enduring legacy continues to inspire listeners, artists and artisans around the world. Music, the language of soul, universally understood and appreciated in spite of borders and barriers. Indeed it’s rythm transcends those things and makes our collective hearts to beat as one. We argue that wine has a similar ability. The grapes each a note in a composition written in a universal language. The author, an artisan improvising with practiced deft, not playing everything, letting some things go by. Little wonder then that when Tuscan vintner and international wine importer Lia Tolaini Banville met the grandchildren of the great Thelonious Monk, she was inspired to a collaboration to honor his memory with a singular wine from her family estate - LEGIT…

More here:
LEGIT

FWIW I heard about this from a friend who works for Banville, but I have no financial interest in this wine or company.

T_Melloni · January 25, 2019, 5:05pm

Does it come in 375ml bottles?

Neal.Mollen · January 25, 2019, 5:23pm

LOVE it! Thanks Ken!

Shan_A · January 25, 2019, 7:51pm

Who is your avatar, Neal?

Josh_Grossman · January 25, 2019, 7:56pm

Thelonious Monk

Shan_A · January 25, 2019, 8:07pm

I assumed it was a Nigerian gangster taken from a movie clip, possibly after just robbing a bank.

Ken_V · January 25, 2019, 8:25pm

Click on the link in the OP.

Jonathan_Loesberg · January 25, 2019, 8:40pm

You mean it isn’t Neal? How disappointing.

Anton_D · January 25, 2019, 8:46pm

A beer for Neal Mollen…

mattcitrang · January 25, 2019, 8:46pm

Well played!!

Anton_D · January 25, 2019, 8:49pm

No, this is one of Neal:

Ken_V · January 25, 2019, 8:52pm

Ken_V · January 25, 2019, 8:53pm

Yeah, all us old white guys look alike.

Dave_McIsaac · January 25, 2019, 9:52pm

Is that a sparkling cab??

David_Cooper · January 25, 2019, 10:03pm

I don’t think he was very old when that picture was taken, in his early 30s.

Anton_D · January 25, 2019, 11:12pm

I hear Neal has aged faster than Charlie Parker.

For his last birthday, he received a card that said, “Happy Birthday, Neal! I hope you live to be as old as you look!”

David_Cooper · January 25, 2019, 11:50pm

Ouch. I wasn’t making any comments on Neal’s age, rather Bill Evans, who was a junkie.

Anton_D · January 25, 2019, 11:59pm

No harm intended, it was just a chance to joke with Neal.

David_Cooper · January 26, 2019, 7:47am

An opportunity Not to be missed.

Robert.A.Jr · January 26, 2019, 11:21am

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From the Banville Wine Merchants website. Banville is an Italian wine importer:

“Don’t play everything, let some things go by. What you don’t play can be more important than what you do”.

A philosophy of a musician who’s enduring legacy continues to inspire listeners, artists and artisans around the world. Music, the language of soul, universally understood and appreciated in spite of borders and barriers. Indeed it’s rythm transcends those things and makes our collective hearts to beat as one. We argue that wine has a similar ability. The grapes each a note in a composition written in a universal language. The author, an artisan improvising with practiced deft, not playing everything, letting some things go by. Little wonder then that when Tuscan vintner and international wine importer Lia Tolaini Banville met the grandchildren of the great Thelonious Monk, she was inspired to a collaboration to honor his memory with a singular wine from her family estate - LEGIT…

More here:
LEGIT

FWIW I heard about this from a friend who works for Banville, but I have no financial interest in this wine or company.

And from a Villa in Tuscany.

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