Whoa! A Loomis Chaffee sweatshirt! That brings back prep school rivalry memories.
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@Ed_Kurtzman nicest winemaker on the planet.
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If anyone who attended last weekend has a photo of Brian getting his bottle, I’d like that too.
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Which school did you go to, David?
Thank you, Frank. What you and Jill do for Laura’s House each year is incredible. The amount of planning and organization that goes into putting on Falltacular at your own house for 20 years is beyond what almost any other couple could or would do. I know that several of your friends have played big roles in making this happen too. I need to come back down there for the next event. Thank you for keeping this going, all these years. It’s quite an honor to have been a part of Falltacular for so long.
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Suffield Academy
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Esse Quam Videri vs. Ne Cede Malis
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Brig, I appreciate the compliment, but I’m not even top 1,000. I’ve worked with some seriously nice people who happen to be winemakers. I’m not among them! It’s something I can strive to become in my next 36 years of winemaking.
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Dude - please don’t sell yourself short. Those of us ITB KNOW what an awesome guy you are and what an inspiration you are to so many of us . . .
Cheers
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Back at you, Larry. Thank you.
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I kind of remember Loomis Chaffee’s motto being In Vino Veritas, or maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part.
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Ne Cede Malis was the name of a great field blend of 100 year old head trained vines in from the the Stag’s Leap Winery’s production facility in Napa - including some of the only Peloursin left in the US . . .
Cheers
Better than Choate’s which was In Cocaine Veritas.
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And who says New England preppies don’t have senses of humor??
My good friend got kicked out of Deerfield for dealing.
There went Yale! LOL
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3 of my good friends were “Oscar Madisoned” after our junior year at Loomis. They were asked “never to return.” Weed, not wine.
My best man went to Deerfield, but went into private equity rather than dealing. I am really not sure which is worse.
I think they’re synonymous
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Deerfield and that world is an odd reality for a California kid. Shipped off to boarding school for 9 months. Home for a couple of weeks and then off to “summer camp” in Vermont for a 6 weeks. Back home for a couple of weeks then shipped back to school.
I rode my bike and skateboarded on my summer vacation. LOL
There were lots trust fund babies, didn’t even know what that was and they spoke funny. It was a different world.
I went to a “pool party” with him when we were 27 years old. It was at a Deerfield friend’s Dad’s house in Connecticut. We took the train up from the city. We got to the house, it was a mansion on a huge property on the water. I asked WTF does his Dad do? He’s the CFO of Citibank. Oh, okay.
I broke my foot 6 weeks earlier in a karate tournament and was in a cast. All the cute girls were in the pool so I told my buddy let’s cut the cast off so I can swim. We went to the garage and he took a pair of pruning shears and cut my cast off. The Dad walked in about three quarters of the way through and looked at the two of us and turned around and walked out. LOL
Thinking with the wrong head, I only have one shoe… That was a painful walk back through Manhattan to get home.
Also the now, King of Jordan, was his good friend at Deerfield. Different world.
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There were some secretly (sometimes not so secretly) “important” people at a lot of those schools. Kids of governors, minor (or major as you say) royalty, eventually famous athletes (Vinny Del Negro was a classmate of mine - I helped him through science classes, and he blocked every shot I ever took against him).