Ray Walker & Maison Ilan updates - the saga has ended...(updated)

Gary_York · July 29, 2016, 8:32am

When have things ever added up with Ray walker?

J_a_y_H_a_c_k · July 29, 2016, 11:20am

Or to Boeing.

Dennis_Kanagie · July 29, 2016, 11:23am

Surprising this guy isn’t a politician.

Rick_Smith · July 29, 2016, 12:19pm

Yet.

Brian_Tuite · July 29, 2016, 2:09pm

There’s another Eric LeVine in this world? Say it ain’t so Ray!

Corey_N · July 29, 2016, 2:21pm

Jon_Hesford · July 29, 2016, 2:30pm

I have no idea whether locking down a whole facility so that nothing comes in or goes out is within their rights, but I suspect it is.

My local village Cooperative was found to have “lost” 8000 hl of fortified wine earlier in the year. The Douanes have closed down and sealed off the winery so this harvest everyone has to take their grapes to another village. That’s how powerful they are.

Guillaume_Deschamps · July 29, 2016, 2:35pm

Yes I suspected as much but I meant pre-emptively (e.g. investigation underway). Obviously if they have evidence then you don’t want to be caught between that hammer and an anvil.

Brian_Tuite · July 29, 2016, 2:36pm

ToddFrench · July 29, 2016, 2:58pm

Folks, STOP with the political references - this thread needs to stay here, so I’ll just keep deleting any of them

rfelthoven · July 29, 2016, 3:08pm

You can watch the other E. Levine on Beat Bobby Flay.

ToddFrench · July 29, 2016, 3:27pm

Ugh. Things just get worse ‘at home’, too - the treatment of his wife and children makes me absolutely sick.

Not that he’ll ever go back (to his wife and kids, and locked up wine in the abbey, and soon-to-be-evicted home where his wife and kids are) but it sure sounds like he won’t be welcome back to Côte de Nuits anytime soon - they’ll stone him.

Claus_Jeppesen · July 29, 2016, 5:00pm

I read this as 100% sarcasm

Chris_Blum · July 29, 2016, 5:16pm

I can’t believe that Eric is suddenly trying to distance himself from his buddy Ray Walker. I would have hoped he’d shown more courage…like the courage that cat showed when it saved the child from that pack of dogs.

Btw, does anyone know whatever happened to those dogs?

ToddFrench · July 29, 2016, 5:18pm

I sure hope nobody on WB has ordered any '13, '14 or '15 wines, because even if you COULD get them (unlikely, as he’s fled the authorities and the wines are locked up by the authorities for unpaid bills/taxes/rent) you wouldn’t want them. From a villager:

In spring 2014, in April or May - I could check again with my friend to confirm the date - a friend who is neighbor of Ilan House in Nuits-Saint-Georges had been using an electrician to do electrical work outside of his house. When the worker is mounted on the roof of the house, he had a perfect view of the courtyard Ilan House, what he saw was astounding: crates and cardboard boxes filled with unlabeled bottles of wine, all full with corks, hundreds of bottles, all on which it had already rained the day before, part of lot was coverd with a transparent plastic sheet, the boxes were wet and bottles scattered here and there in the back yard lying under a blazing sun of the afternoon. The electrician went back the next day to finish the work, the crates, cardboard boxes and bottles had not yet been moved.

These wines remained there for at least two days, if not more, they were definitely damaged but never the consumer will know.

This story circulating since among some wine people who simply could not believe it, but this is indeed true event. Since this event, many people have lost faith in Ilan House and are very suspicious of the quality of wines Ilan House and professionalism of Mr. Walker.

Jorge_Henriquez · July 29, 2016, 5:27pm

Isn’t the sun part of nature? Isn’t the rain part of nature?

That’s how natural wines are made!!!

You people and your lack of faith!

Stop criticizing and start being #blessed

ToddFrench · July 29, 2016, 5:29pm

Dammit, I suck at winemaking! If only I studied French and sold BMW parts for experience, I might be better at this wine biz.

Maybe I should go into films, instead…oh, wait…

#insatiablefilms

Sean_G_Harden · July 29, 2016, 5:40pm

Todd F r e n c h:

I sure hope nobody on WB has ordered any '13, '14 or '15 wines, because even if you COULD get them (unlikely, as he’s fled the authorities and the wines are locked up by the authorities for unpaid bills/taxes/rent) you wouldn’t want them. From a villager:

In spring 2014, in April or May - I could check again with my friend to confirm the date - a friend who is neighbor of Ilan House in Nuits-Saint-Georges had been using an electrician to do electrical work outside of his house. When the worker is mounted on the roof of the house, he had a perfect view of the courtyard Ilan House, what he saw was astounding: crates and cardboard boxes filled with unlabeled bottles of wine, all full with corks, hundreds of bottles, all on which it had already rained the day before, part of lot was coverd with a transparent plastic sheet, the boxes were wet and bottles scattered here and there in the back yard lying under a blazing sun of the afternoon. The electrician went back the next day to finish the work, the crates, cardboard boxes and bottles had not yet been moved.

These wines remained there for at least two days, if not more, they were definitely damaged but never the consumer will know.

This story circulating since among some wine people who simply could not believe it, but this is indeed true event. Since this event, many people have lost faith in Ilan House and are very suspicious of the quality of wines Ilan House and professionalism of Mr. Walker.

It is more likey these were 2011’s

jcoley3 · July 29, 2016, 5:47pm

Todd F r e n c h:

I sure hope nobody on WB has ordered any '13, '14 or '15 wines, because even if you COULD get them (unlikely, as he’s fled the authorities and the wines are locked up by the authorities for unpaid bills/taxes/rent) you wouldn’t want them. From a villager:

In spring 2014, in April or May - I could check again with my friend to confirm the date - a friend who is neighbor of Ilan House in Nuits-Saint-Georges had been using an electrician to do electrical work outside of his house. When the worker is mounted on the roof of the house, he had a perfect view of the courtyard Ilan House, what he saw was astounding: crates and cardboard boxes filled with unlabeled bottles of wine, all full with corks, hundreds of bottles, all on which it had already rained the day before, part of lot was coverd with a transparent plastic sheet, the boxes were wet and bottles scattered here and there in the back yard lying under a blazing sun of the afternoon. The electrician went back the next day to finish the work, the crates, cardboard boxes and bottles had not yet been moved.

These wines remained there for at least two days, if not more, they were definitely damaged but never the consumer will know.

This story circulating since among some wine people who simply could not believe it, but this is indeed true event. Since this event, many people have lost faith in Ilan House and are very suspicious of the quality of wines Ilan House and professionalism of Mr. Walker.

“You just have to care.”

brigcampbell · July 29, 2016, 5:56pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insatiable_(film)