Please answer as many of these as you can to express your opinion
Wine theme preference - one producer at a time (all Saxum, all Myriad, all SQN, and if you don’t have one, you must provide a tete de cuvee bubbly as a penalty.
Wine theme preference - one variety at a time (all Cab, all Syrah, all Grenache, all Zin)
Wine theme preference - Free for all but it had better be big modern red
Wine theme preference - Don’t care, bring it on
Frequency - Twice a month
Frequency - Monthly
Frequency - Every other month
Frequency - Don’t care
Day of Week - M, T, W, Th
Day of Week - F, S
Day of Week - Sunday with an early start (5 pm ish)
Day of Week - Don’t care
How many will come - Self
How many will come - Two - Self + spouse, guest, SO, adult children whose palate you are ruining
How many will come - It depends
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In the past two months, I have had four wine events, one at someone’s home, two at restaurants and one at a Mets’ game, that featured BIG RED wines. MacDonald, Scarecrow, Colgin, SQN, Saxum, Pahlmeyer, Insignia, Kapcsandy, Myriad, etc. I like those wines, especially when I do not have to wade through Loire Cab Franc, Vin Jaune and pinot noir in need of Algerian Syrah to find them. With steak. At a steakhouse.
I have long wanted to start a regular big red drinking group based upon this idea and I have developed a relationship with the manager of the Bobby Van’s on 54th Street in Manhattan that will work well and will not cause too much organizing brain damage.
So please answer the poll questions if you are interested and anticipate attending, let’s say, at least 6 such events in the upcoming year. If I can get a consensus among at least 10 people, I am going to charge forward. One answer for each related group of questions please. As to wine theme preference, I’ll pick the first one if either of the first choices wins and then we can decide at each dinner what’s next. If it works out, I intend to bring a Saxum Magnum to the first dinner because I have too many and I have run out of magnum slots in the cellar.
PS - I have nothing against vegetarians, chicken or fish and you can order those if you want. At the Mets’ game We had vegetarian Bobotie with fake meat and it was fine.
I’ve done many many dinners there and always enjoyed it but unless they get serious about Covid protocols I’m never going back. Last time we were there which was very recent, no one was checking on vaccinations. Bar was ridiculously packed. I couldn’t even walk through to get to the restaurant.
Not the one on 54th because you do not have to walk through the bar to get to the restaurant. I will talk to Danny about that. I also tend to police my own group. My wife is, to be polite, a fanatic on the subject and if I do not check everyone individually, she will not come and file divorce papers the following morning.
They split ownership between two groups so I suspect that the one I go to has a different owner. I am equally worried about other “idiots.” I went to the BuildingsNY conference today at Pier 36 and the line was out the door about 20 yards long because everyone had to show proof of vaccination and a government-issued ID to match up against the proof of vaccination and they underestimated how long it would take to check each person. I was very pleased.
No, Paul, we have always gone to one on East 54th (where Danny is manager). I guess technically you don’t walk “through” the bar, but entry desk and route to restaurant goes around bar area, in same space (no walls), though there is a glass wall between bar and restaurant. The bar was shoulder to shoulder, and spilling into path to restaurant section. No one checking (I even tried to show my Excelsior to woman at reception desk without success). I was fine with our table, 8 careful people, but I went to the small restroom and 3 drunk unmasked unchecked guys came right behind me (I wore mask but still). Off my list.
I am surprised because I have never seen it crowded, but maybe I just scare people away. I will tell Danny that he needs to shape up before he gets on more shit lists.