He paid his handyman (already at his house) to fix his last flat, what, a couple weeks ago?
So yes.
And the bike shop does pick up my bike and delivers it back, if I might add. But you both will appreciate this, the mechanic is actually a connoisseur of wine. I gave him a bottle of bedrock old vines Zinfandel with some maturity on it and he loved it.
Cheap ass bastard! Give him a VCC!!
F@ck!
Wife just broke one of my very rare, collector’s issue @K_John_Joseph Glasvin crystal chaucers. And she was using them on a 2023 NZ Sav Blanc, the November vintage!
Sigh…
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Ah well, they were irredeemably contaminated anyway, right?
And November was a notoriously bad vintage, according to Sebastian Bourré-Pinard in the esteemed French wine journal “Pipi de Chat”. Apparently October was better.
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I lost a Grassl Cru while washing it this evening. The stem snapped sideways while drying it—there was no twisting involved. The stem very nearly impaled my palm, so I’m lucky to have escaped without bloodshed!
And this is why I buy the sturdier GV Home glasses now.
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Kind of agree with you Charles - as nice as the super light hand blown glasses are to hold and behold - they just aren’t sturdy. And when they break it is 70 bucks versus some cheap 12 dollar glasses that honestly I like almost as much.
I stand corrected - 7 bucks a break!
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Unfortunately I have broken several of these glasses. They do not handle pressure well at all. I stopped buying them but have a few more spares to replace broken ones for now.
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Had my first casualty the other night, a ‘19 Denner Gold Digger, a nice Merlot/CF Right Bank homage.
I was really looking forward to that one in a few years. Shop vac made quick work of the mess.
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Cannot recommend highly enough washing these in the dishwasher. Much much lower breakage rate than hand washing. Upthread I detail breaking one in the dishwasher but it was purely user error of not adjusting dish rack height.
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I’m on my third one.
Greg, what is this hand washing you mention? These folks clearly need recommendations for how to be more careful when using their feet to wash their wine glasses . . . . 
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RIP. I was cleaning a sauce pan and the glass was at the edge of the sink. Took the pan out and knocked the glass right over with the pan.
Always amazed at how far the shards travel from ground zero.
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Another Kane has been broken in the Alfert House. It was the sister. In the kitchen. With a sponge. Which in an of itself, is kinda gross anyway.
Three fine glasses down in 2 week.
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Sounds like Stemware Clue: Colonel Mustard. In the kitchen. With a candlestick.
Not sure if I’ve mentioned it upthread or not, but the best advice I can give any wine lover with fine stems is not to wash the stems the night of drinking - save them for the next morning!! We’ve not had a break in probably 10 years.
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You have the small gentle hands of a lover, clearly I am a fighter!
This is the way
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Yeah, my small gentle hands, nailed it.
This coming from a guy who wears full-coverage gloves for weight training…so much fighter