Name the wine bargains here -- From Mike Pobega

[Carl Steefel]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by Joe Dressner:

originally posted by mike pobega:

originally posted by Florida Jim:
$49 = "amazing" deal.
Not in the solar system I inhabit.
Best, Jim

Florida, everyone else sells this for $80 and up.

I don't know anyone who would pay $15.00 for this wine, let alone $49.00.

I've sampled it and found it totally undrinkable.

$49.00 for an undrinkable wine seems mighty expensive for me. So would $10.00

Because of blessed bottle variation, Joe, you can only say that the bottle you sampled was undrinkable. To truly know that the wine is undrinkable, you would have to open and sample all bottles produced.

I sampled a dozen bottles from 12 different stores. I'm very thorough about my sampling.

They were all made in a way to ensure there was no bottle variation.

They were all exactly the same.

They were all dead.

Anyhow, sampling is only an approximative method of understanding a live wine.

Dead wines are quickly understood.

I'd say that 12 wines is a pretty good statistical representation, although we can ask VLM for sure...

 

[Arjun Mendiratta]

But was it double-blind?

 

[Chris Coad]

Pobega's very name has disappeared.

A chill is going down my spine.

 

[Unknown]

originally posted by Arjun Mendiratta:
But was it double-blind?

Excellent point.

 

[Joe Dressner]

Please take that picture off.

Thank you

 

[Chris Coad]

originally posted by Florida Jim:

originally posted by Todd F r e n c h:
2003 Chave rulez!

You are off the chartz.
But funny.
Best, Jim

Heh.

 

[Brézème]

Il y a comme une odeur de sous-sol, par ici.

I love google's automatic translation though.

 

[Unknown]

This is a wonderful day.

 

[Chris Coad]

Now it's reappeared, but only in the message header.

Someone is fucking with us. Creepy.

 

[Unknown]

ROLF on the title change

 

[Florida Jim]

originally posted by Todd F r e n c h:
ROLF on the title change

How gosh.
Best, Jim

 

[Joe Dressner]

Brad is in France.

 

[Joe Dressner]

Maybe Hoke is back on the board?

 

[Chris Coad]

That's some weirdass buzzkill. I guess too much fun was being had.

 

[Peter Czyryca]

originally posted by Joe_Perry:

I suggest tear-away underpants.

Speaking of those - I hope the Ravens are wearing theirs tomorrow.

Steelers are gonna get up in there.

Sorry for the drift, but this thread is already shot to hell :)

 

[Joe Dressner]

originally posted by William Landreth:
2004 Kuleto for $38 a bottle. Had one last night and it performs at a $100 level. Thanks to Pobega for introducing it to me.

What is a $100 level performance like?

I've never had this wine but am certain it is horrible at any performance level between $10 and $100.00

Just looking at their web site tells me everything I need to know about the man and his wines:

The culmination of Pat Kuleto's commitment to a robust, rustic yet refined lifestyle, Kuleto Estate is the natural evolution for a man who has always championed the life well lived.

 

[Peter Czyryca]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Kuleto Estate is the natural evolution for a man who has always championed the life well lived.

Sounds like Todd Anderson runs the estate.

 

[Jorge Henriquez]

originally posted by Joe_Perry:
There are very few idiot savants who can drop in here cold and survive. You may be one of the lucky ones.

The typical progression involves years of lurking, followed by adding responses to a thread in which you "pile on" agreeing with whatever someone else says about 2003 Chave or Brad Kane.
That said, you still might be considered a fucking newb for years.

Best,
Joe

Oh oh, I'm an expert on bad-mouthing Kane!!! Can I play?

 

[Joe Dressner]

Who is Todd Anderson? Another guy who got thrown off the Squires board?

 

[Jorge Henriquez]

originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Who is Todd Anderson? Another guy who got thrown off the Squires board?

Actually Joe, he's the enological version of Chuck Norris; basically indestructable.