TN: Dinner with Bill Klapp at Centro Storico in Serralunga d’Alba

[Peter_Chiu]

@Kirk.Grant

@Peter Chiu

On a related note you can throw my hat in the "love to have Bill back" camp. As I've mentioned before I really miss the knowledge he'd freely share on this board, as well as his candor. Hope you're well Bill! .....

I am in the same camp and I missed Bill…

+1 here…he was VERY kind and offered a lot of advice as I was looking at my pending trip to Piedmont. I wish I had been able to talk with him closer and set up a lunch with him or something. The man is a wealth of knowledge, and that tends to give folks strong opinions about things. How many of us would look cross-eyed at someone proclaiming that Caymus SS is the best wine made in the US? Or some other grand-sweeping statement…

For those who are interesting in Taoism - here are the other parts of Chapter 82 in Tao :

Trustworthy words are not beautiful; and beautiful words are not trustworthy;

He, who knows, does not speak; and he, who does not know, speaks.

Please I am not talking about Bill here…

[Siun_O_Connell]

Ken … the photos are wonderful and that pasta … send some over here! Thanks for the view!

On Klapp - I miss him as well … his writing was one of the things that hooked me at WB initially so I’m glad he may do a site.

[Rudi_Finkler]

As for Bill… Heaven and hell often lie close together. A very attractive sphere, not for frightened people, though…

[T_Melloni]

My 2015 Burlotto Verduno Pelaverga just arrived.

I will open one up and post my impressions. Another example how this website moves markets!

[bob_parsons_alberta]

Great buy Sir, I have one sitting on the kitchen table right now. My second bottle.

[Oliver_McCrum]

I asked Mario Andrion, the winemaker for Castello di Verduno, if there was any truth to the sexual connotation of Pelaverga and he said not. Lovely grape, though.