Recent content by Kevin Roberts

We just achieved empty nest status (though temporary) by sending our 16 year old for a year on rotary exchange in Taiwan. And that's on top of sending our elder son to Norway's far northeast (he can see Russia from his dorm room!) for a gap year after his sophmore year of college. What will I...

Did you post notes on them? My experience (probably a bit biased as I do sell them in Iowa) with the Trebbianos both regular and Amphora are fine to good, and I really liked the 2019 Pecorino (which seemed to me to have come a long way from my memory of the 2017 Pecorino. I haven't recently had...

I'm ITB (distributor) and anything that came in tariffed is still in the warehouse and tariffed so costs are sunk into those wines already. Anything yet to land will be not tariffed (well, at least for the next 4 months) Glad a bunch of particularly price dependant wines like almost all of our...

Seems like a vacation well spent. We scrolled on our yearly Estes Park extended fambly vacation this year, sending our almost 17 year old high school grad in our place. It just didn't seem like a good time to go on vacation. Need to make a point of grabbing Clos de Briords mags (privelige of...

Is this some sort of Chambers St. exclusive/DI? Only references I seem to find are Chambers St. related. Cheers! Kevin

Can't think or hear about the MMWR without being reminded of Mr. SFJoe.

With the exception of Weygandt, that is exactly the portfolio of wines we work with in Iowa. We've got a solid beer base, but well over 90% of our wine sales are from the EU. It's a kick in the pants and then some. Kevin

I'm mostly successful at not feeling too bad about missed opportunities, but one thing I do wish is that we would have started working with wine (my company started as a beer only distributor) and the LDM wines specifically a couple years earlier so that I could have had the opportunity to have...

Chicago Jeebus the weekend of 3rd Coast Soif? I'm definitely coming in from Iowa that weekend, and it wouldn't take a lot of arm-twisting to get me to jeeb. Cheers! Kevin

I got into my solitary bottle of the 2008 in November (long side note — bought it from chambers street in 2010 shortly after my wife got a tenure track professor position and intended to keep it until she got tenure, and it lingered waiting for the “right occasion”) after conferring with M...

I think it's almost redundant to say that I'd rather have 12 cases of Bone-Jolly.

I don't know which I'm less in to, rare spices or cigars.

Awesome. Can’t wait to go exploring again! Cheers, Kevin

I see pictures on the internet of theoretically exciting wine dinners all the time, and I've never actually been truly jealous about not being there until seeing pictures of this one. CRB was definitely a formative winery leading me to where I'm at in the wine world and they hold a special spot...

I was a big fan of the tasting instructions: "Take out of your wine cellar, put into a large decanter for 30 minutes, then pour back in the bottle and replace in the cellar for two and a half hours. Serve at around 61 degrees."