Recent content by Matt F

How did my "attack" differ from the attack on Jobard? By degrees? By inability to defend oneself? One being about taste and the other being about....taste? Or opinions? So newbie is defined as....not in the group? Surely it can't mean new to the board, since I have been reading it...

Great! Exculpation!

Gotcha -- the dropped n makes my opinion wrong. What do you think of Sharon Bowman's slam of Jobard? Was that more or less repulsively resentful than my response?

Manners? Sorry, I have excellent 'manners'. The grossest insult to manners in this thread is an off-hand slam of Jobard's wine as soulless, oaky, indifferent. But that came a pre-approved commenter, so full speed ahead.

F. Jobard has always been undrinkable to me, anyway. posted by Sharon Bowman 3-6-2010 11:38am Soulless oaky indifference, anyone? posted by Sharon Bowman 3-6-2010 2:09pm New? New to what? Good wine? Or soulless oaky indifference? Sorry to disturb the clubby camaraderie. We now return...

Some of us assess your taste based on glib, off-handish, clearly uniformed opinions of great wine. That and your numerous other glib, flippant responses that do not seem based on any specific knowledge, but rather on a desire to be witty and nonchalant, in a worldly way.

If you stay at the Knickerbocker you can walk to Waterford, the art museum, the Pabst (longish), Cudahy tower (Bartolotta's) etc. I have had mixed experiences at Cempazuchi. Better at Balzac -- just off Brady near Waterford. Balzac had Cuvee Angeline on its wine list at one time...

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Jean-Marc Bouley produces a reliably excellent bottle of Volany.

I see plenty of reason -- namely to match the food.

Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.

At this moment Roddenstock [sic] is busily chopping it up and making 6 "19th century" Dutch bikes out of it.

I believe you have discovered the source of the photos Dressner uses in his blogs.

Marinucci can read? As for Posner, the following gibberish indicates he can't write: "No, hell is where the Wine Advocate is going and fast, if this bullshit continues. It is dishonest. Tyler is not dishonest. He is a wine blogger. Who gives a crap if he got a free trip or a free super sized...