Yes, we’ve got a Wine Pimps forum, thanks to the brilliant insight of our very own Maoderator Melissa ‘The Scarf’ McCall!
Pimps (retailers), feel free to post your rants, questions, requests for advice, etc.
'Hos (consumers, especially Charlie Fu), feel free to post questions about buying, shipping, storage, distribution, or whatever tickles your wine-buying fancy.
One last thought: Have any of you ever considered sending an invoice to one of your distributors for “staff training” after you explained for a half hour (with charts, maps and twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was*) to the person trying to sell you something just what that thing actually was and why what they told them in the sales meeting was complete crap?
Agreed. The moment I put a link to my blog, which has about 50/50 to do with my work, Squires shut me down. WTF? I think we’re all big boys and can figure it out when someone’s shilling.
I really appreciate the ITB sections here. I love asking the winemakers technical questions without it devolving into a philosophical choice of good vs evil. There’s enough of that on Wine Disorder.