TN: The Virtual Tasting #18 (January 20, 2022)

originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Pavel Tchichikov:
Mark, will you make up your mind - are you a Cohen or a Rothschild?

Jayson, did I miss the executive meeting that renamed Jocko to Jaime? Was there a quorum?
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Neither, damnit! I’m a Sulzbach, related by marriage to the Warburgs and our historic rivals, the Rothschilds (I got to see the seven-headed Wyvern of Mayer Amschel on the side of the future Hotel Villa Rothschild in Königstein as well as the former Villa Sulzbach in Königstein im Taunus back in the day). This also accounts for my relation to Max Born.

Mark Lipton
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Wait. What? Olivia Newton-John is your cousin?

Mark, you and I also appear to be “related”. My physics lineage is : Born -> Oppenheimer -> Lamb -> Berman -> Cohen. Even before that, Born was my favorite mainstream physics writer/science philosopher of sorts.
 
originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Pavel Tchichikov:
Mark, will you make up your mind - are you a Cohen or a Rothschild?

Jayson, did I miss the executive meeting that renamed Jocko to Jaime? Was there a quorum?
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Neither, damnit! I’m a Sulzbach, related by marriage to the Warburgs and our historic rivals, the Rothschilds (I got to see the seven-headed Wyvern of Mayer Amschel on the side of the future Hotel Villa Rothschild in Königstein as well as the former Villa Sulzbach in Königstein im Taunus back in the day). This also accounts for my relation to Max Born.

Mark Lipton
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Wait. What? Olivia Newton-John is your cousin?

Mark, you and I also appear to be “related”. My physics lineage is : Born -> Oppenheimer -> Lamb -> Berman -> Cohen. Even before that, Born was my favorite mainstream physics writer/science philosopher of sorts.
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Yup. My great-aunt Bertha was Max Born’s step-mother, so a relation through marriage. More pertinently, perhaps, my paternal grandfather (an MD) was a close friend of Max Born and merited a page in Born’s memoir. My uncle was the person who got Born out of Germany and into Cambridge. My aunt, who knew the family well, told me that Irene Born (ONJ’s mom) was “the prettiest woman in Cambridge and the dullest.” If you’re a fan of his, you should read his letters with Einstein. They are quite informative.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Seems like you folks have really gotten this virtual tasting down to a science. The prep of the wines is great, and really adds to things, in comparison to people just tuning in and drinking their own wines.

Do you think you'll continue with this even after covid concerns? Convenience is obviously a big plus. But what about the flow of conversation? One of the ongoing challenges I have with large group zooms is the inability to have sidebar conversations, so everyone has to stay in the same conversation at once, which gets awkward.
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One key is to not have too large a group. We have 7 which is good.
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The other key I think is that we all have common topics of conversation.

We're all interested in how people have done over the last month. We all guess and comment on the same wines before and after the reveal.

And by the time we finish with the wines we're all ready to go to sleep which is really easy since my bed is about 20'-30' from my computer.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
TN: The Virtual Tasting #18 (January 20, 2022)attendees: Don & Melissa, Eden & Scott, Jay, Jeff, Lisa, Seth, Victor And we're drinking wines from little bottles carefully curated by friends.
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Very cute bottles; looks like an apothecary shop.
 
originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
Last night, I was thinking that we have mourned sufficiently....
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I've been mulling over your comment. I don't mean to mourn him at this point. I'm just observing his good taste in wine (and, of course, my good judgment in buying a few of his bottles).
Can a righty learn the JCWC secret handshake?
 
I love the repurposing of the name tag stickers. So 2021.

originally posted by Jeff Grossman
...A later interview with the family says that they only changed one thing in 1997: package yeast instead of wild. Is that sufficient?
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IMHO, no; if you've done all the other stuff right.
 
2009 JPB Morgon on Saturday. I had been enjoying brief excursions into 2009 Beaujolais wonderland, most recently a nicely resolved and juicy Chermette Brouilly Pierreux on NYE. This was performing along similar lines, except that I wish I had consumed the bottle a few years earlier. It was by no means falling apart, but its acquired mellowness was not accompanied - surprisingly - by much secondary development to speak of. It seems the virtual group had a better bottle although mostly on account of being younger rather than more complex. One thing I am not certain of is whether this was an 09s I purchased on release or one of the very few I picked off a retail shelf in Boston a couple of years later.

on deck: 09 billards st amour
 
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