Recent content by JBrennan

How fucked up is it that I move from Detroit to Chicago (well, a western suburb) and first learn about Perman from Evan (from Detroit).

Martin Scriblerus would have been proud.

Lots of rot in many of the '99s I've had from the Loire.

you began commenting here several years before you joined the wine biz, and Elie has neither a wine bored nor does it promote itself beyond your region, so you shouldn't care a wit about what the witless have to say

Gallo would sue. PS - I wish I had the opportunity to meet Joe in person.

Detroit has the best Ruinart.

Very very cool... Thanks for the heads up!

I stopped taking Friedrich seriously after she pronounced the lanolin character in Chenin Blanc to be a flaw. Per JF from her blog: That said, while it's true that "wet wool" is a descriptor often associated with chenin, I think of it as one of the negative aspects of chenin, in the same way...

I have a 1970 Jimsomare around in my cellar somewhere. Was definitely on the down slope when I opened the last one.

Absolutely brilliant and illuminating!

No Lyle jokes, please.

Hemlock sounds like a possibility. Perhaps red wine with some added lead, though it may get me tossed from the natural wine club.

Latest: http://www.baumard.fr/Docs/1-WhatCanISay.pdf http://www.baumard.fr/Docs/2-SourGrapes.pdf

The conventional wisdom is that MSFT is building hardware (Surface) to prod its hardware vendors into being more innovative with their design and development. We shall see. Fwiw, while there definitely needs to be a fair amount of rough-edge polishing, I found the Win 8 experience on a...

Well, in all fairness Jeff, although I previously worked for other ISVs, I now work for MSFT, so I've probably been brainwashed. :) Still, while I've long been impressed with their some of their visionary work, ergonomics, and hardware design, I don't think there's ever been a day where I've...