originally posted by Michael Lewis:
If old English pubs are eligible, there are countless additions. More or less all of them have names in the format of "[noun] and [other noun]".
About 20 years ago, I slurped quite a few glasses of beer at the Eagle and Child on St. Giles Street in Oxford. It is famous as having been a regular meeting place of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. It is more affectionately known as the Bird and Baby, or sometimes the Fowl and Fetus.
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
If old English pubs are eligible, there are countless additions. More or less all of them have names in the format of "[noun] and [other noun]".
About 20 years ago, I slurped quite a few glasses of beer at the Eagle and Child on St. Giles Street in Oxford. It is famous as having been a regular meeting place of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. It is more affectionately known as the Bird and Baby, or sometimes the Fowl and Fetus.
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
Heck, there is an Elephant and Castle pub here in Washington, DC.
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Bow and Arrow wines are usually sub-$30 and are really good.
This reminded me to go back to Levi's podcast with Jean Gonon. Great interview.originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Having visited Gonon, I can say that they are doing the work in the vineyards, and not relying on herbicides. Many in the area do rely on herbicides. You can’t really compare prices of the 80s, when herbicides were even more common, with the prices of today. It isn’t the same work.
originally posted by robert ames:
in the last 3 vintages released ('15, '16, & '17) of bartolo mascarello barolo, retail has gone $140, $185, $259.
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
A comment from another bored:
Generally, we are in the midst of a phenomenon that I don’t see abating, which is the slow disappearance of top burgundy from US retail channels, or what I would call "normal retail," namely that the wine is publicly marketed for sale. This has been the case for at least 10 years for tier one producers, but it is starting to creep down to tier two and three producers. I’m talking about producers like Barthod, Dujac, Duroche, Bachelet, Jean Marc Bouley, Lafarge, Jouan, and Comtes Lafon. For all of these producers, the retail listings are shrinking every vintage, so that you see maybe 40 percent of the listings you saw even 5 years ago. These wines are simply getting distributed through "private client" mechanisms used at each level of the chain (and some direct to auction mechanisms, eg Liger Belair now selling a big chunk of his wines at auction and bypassing normal distribution). I would roughly call this the Robert Bohr business model creeping across the industry. The old Wildman model re: Domaine Rousseau, which is to actually place the wine with retailers (albeit with plenty of strings attached) is going the way of the dinosaurs.