Woohoo: Just liberated my "Cellar" from all my modern St. Emilion [And another 2012 Caymus 3L found]

WINE TALK
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I love your story. The gifting or trading of wine is one of the best experiences in the world of wine. I like popping bottles with the local wine shop employees and talking about the flavors and stuff

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Hardly a popped collar. It’s a quarter zip mock turtleneck sweatshirt. It 's meant to be worn like that.

A proper shirt for popping the collar would be a polo shirt, preferably Vineyard Vines, Lacoste or RL Polo.

It seems every restaurant in Vancouver has a 3L bottle of Caymus on display.

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if you find a third bottle of the Caymus you might want to enlist the services of a priest.

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In my defense, David, I also have a polo teeshirt on underneath plus a Torrey Pines golf cap. That’s gotta count for something. Oh, and I grew up in Vero Beach. Doesn’t get much preppier than that! We just don’t need turtlenecks there.

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Ah for the good old days, when Salil keeled over at the Justin Strider Smith Saxum dinner.

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DUDE.

You. Gotta. Get. Us. A. Picture. Of. That.

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They sound like good trades!

Watch out for La Clotte though, purchased by the Vauthier family late during the 2014 growing season, the style has already stepped into line with the rest of the Vauthier portfolio.

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It was about 7 years ago and it still makes me laugh just thinking about it. No photo. I was too busy scraping him up off the floor. He just leaned over, probably to pick up something, and just kept going.

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you were banned months ago.

neener

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I love the idea of simple ‘trades’. When done with clear differences in palate preferences, the door is opened to ‘win-win’ trades and you’ve both left the lockers happy.

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Some months ago, I traded a bunch of 100 point Quilceda Creek I would never had opened for some aged VCC, Lynch Bages and GPL. Everyone was enthused.

And Robert, if you don’t think it can get any preppier than Vero Beach, you need to spend a fall weekend at UVa, Wake Forest, or maybe Princeton. Vero Beach prep is just a lithograph of the authentic article found on the east coast.

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Very true, Ian. We must both be happy as we have been texting each other a bit over our next trades. My post-2004 Chateauneufs will be gone! I may just hang on to my Gigondas.

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Did they also match their polos with their socks? Nothing like walking around campus thinking you own the place, with ur frat bros, sporting pink polos, collars popped of course, with matching polo short socks. Amazing to think I got laid back then. One of my girlfriends like to match her Lili Pulitzers with me. I think I’m gonna hurl now.

Love how life comes full circle, too. You should see how my 16 year old son dresses, basically exactly how I did at his age. He does not like Caymus, tho.

And btw, Vero is on the east coast.

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Of course! My mistake. For some reason, I was thinking CA.

My son dresses like I did too. 3-day stubble, t-shirts, art-school cool.

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Not sure exactly why, but I do like Gigondas. I’m not much of a fan of southern Rhone in general, but this appellation seems to click with me.

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Sounds like you two had a blast.

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Feel clean now?

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All that hedonism made me feel quite dirty…

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…thought as much. [highfive.gif]