Recent content by D. Zylberberg

You're damn right I do - and there's nothing quite like the exquisite frustration of leaving the office at 11PM having billed 5 hours on the day.

I don't think my views are motivated purely by taste at all - we all have our biases. However, I absolutely thnk that the view of Texier wines on this board are basically irreparably colored, not just by groupthink but in particular, by Texier's social relationships with posters and his...

To be fair, true. To be also fair, nature of the job is lots of waiting around punctuated by flurries of intense activity.

That says as much about your happiness with your day job as your passion for wine, doesn't it?

My public tasting notes reflect what I think is interesting; i.e., not consensus. And I'm not sure how you come off telling me that wine is not a "passion" for me, other than just throwing stones. (Though I'm not sure I wouldn't do the same if the tables were turned.) Also, ig wine wasn't amy...

But the narrative you (pl.) have built about that post being an impulse is simply not true. There's no idea I've posted in this thread or over at berserkers that I haven't discussed with folks in person at tastings over months (maybe even folks posting in this thread?). And there's virtually...

Me as associate is not the same as me as a person. I could be (and perhaps I am) a shitty associate; I could (and perhaps I do) produce shitty work. That doesn't mean I'm a shitty person. Of course, if your argument is that EVERYONE should avoid criticizing ALL wine harshly because the...

Oh no, because I won't wager $10,000 on a wine tasting, my arguments have no merit!

I think its a precise example of what I'm trying to convey - the conflation of the man and the wine distorts criticism/debate about the wine. When someone says Rombauer sucks, they dont mean that Mr. Rombauer, whoever he is, sucks, they mean the wine sucks. When I say "Does Texier suck?", I...

$10,000 is a Romneyan number, but $100 would do it. I do enjoy a gamble. Again, my point above - 10 wines is a lot of exposure to a producer by most standards - its $200+ of wine. The only reason you'd drink more than that is if you liked what you've been tasting. If 10 bottles isn't enough...

This is, I think a fair criticism, and believe me, I take comments from Gilman and John Morris to heart, that the wines come out of their shell in 3-5 years and that they're betting on the ageability.

I drink a lot of older wine - in fact, the majority of wine I drink is 10 years old+. The problem is that I have to buy the wine on Winebid or HDH or at Acker and whothehellknows if they're "representative". The handful of times I've been lucky enough to try wines bought on release and...

Its a critique that extends beyond Texier. As I said above, what I'm saying re: Texier applies to other winemakers who have built social relationships with the people drinking their wine. By turning the wine into an extension of themselves, they make a criticism of the wine into an insult of...

Because clearly, seeing how wines age is 100% of all knowledge associated with wine. This knowledge cannot be acquired until you have drunk long enough to see the evolution of bottles - so, assuming you don't start collecting the good stuff for 3-5 years after you start drinking, say you have...

So when am I experienced enough to pass judgment? Im 30, and have been drinking seriously (whatever that means) for about 10 years (yes, before turning 21) and was raised drinking a glass of whatever $15 bottle my mom picked up at the Rosenthal store from before that. Obviously, this makes me...