Matusalem

Jamie:

I think you are a good wine writer with a great deal of passion and curiosity about wine.

I don't see you as a little kid, Magrz doesn't offer to fly me around on private jets. You're a big boy responsible for your own actions.

Take a deep breath and think it over. Maybe you're having a lot of fun going so quickly from the Garr troller to having the Rich and Famous send their private planes to pick you up. Its a seductive path, I suppose, if you like those type of businessmen.

I think you're better than that and regret seeing you go from young geek to cynical hack with such speed and enthusiam. I hope you pull back.

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Years ago, a vigneron in Touraine Azay-le-Rideau, now dead, told me "being determines consciousness." You don't think you are internalizing your corruption, but you're still a young guy.

Corruption is addictive.

None of this is in jest. I'm sad about you and the career you have chosen for yourself. People had to "expose" Jay Miller. You're delighted to get the extraneous handouts, even bragging about them!

By the way, you justified the trip as the only way for you to write about luxury oeno-tourism. Where is that write-up....this is the second time I'm asking.
 
No - I didn't justify it thus. I was invited and then told that the theme was luxury oenotourism, but my focus on the write-up has been on the properties and wines, which I think is more interesting.
 
...Once you rise high enough in the journalistic pecking order, then you get so many offers of trips, it's not a big deal. ...
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Wait. What? there's a pecking order? Is it published somewhere?

Lots of us in the wine business eat and drink a lot better than our incomes would indicate. That's one of the perquisites of getting to be/having to be in the industry.
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Like yesterday. I felt it was necessary to check the integrity of my employer's stock of a New Mexico sparkling wine. It was pretty damn good. 612 points! (I winder if it might have been even better If I was sitting at a table and not standing behind a bunch of boxes in the basement.)
 
I take money and free goods from Louis/Dressner and DeMaison to write about their wines on my blog.

I might quit my day job!
 
JD, you should relax knowing everyone here loves your fucking wines. Holy fuck how boring your vindictive lynch mob attitude is. Talk wine or something else more interesting...
 
originally posted by bill nanson:
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
If Magrez had organized the tasting in London and handed you cash, would that be ok if you showed a picture of yourself taking cash from Magrez?
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The stinger...

But most 'writers' work on a commission basis;...
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Commissions? Gosh that sounds like investment banking bonuses.
 
I've consumed loads of Matusalem Gran Reserva (was ~$25 IIRC) but occasionally I'd meet someone who scoffed at it. Some maintained that the only legitimate connoisseur's cane-derived spirit was clear, made from raw cane, and from Francophone places.

On a related note, can anyone attest to the quality of Pyrat clearly before and clearly after the Patron takeover? Also, I'd like to know what market it was from.

for a while we were getting some gustable Cachaca, which I happily used, instead of clear rum anyway. I don't remember the farm, but it was $13 a liter and very sippable.

I hope wine is serious enough to support a journalist corps. High standards are welcome. I particularly appreciate Joe's consistency, and I tend to tune in more with the conservative point he argues.

on the other hand, someone has to pay for the journalism, if we are to have it. Lie to me, please. Somehow the prices seem irrational all around.

(I sell wine, second decade, and am loathe to leave anything on the table. Junkets don't suit me for some reason, and I only like Dressner and a few other's wines, an unexploitable situation on the whole so I've found.)

On Wednesday I had a $65 bottle of beer (Cantillon St. Lamvinus) with a $3 plate of polenta and chicken livers and I thought that was a pretty fair deal in Detroit. (Actually, the beer was transitional. Initially, 2005 Breuer Spaetburgunder cheered our noses with the liver.)

Cheers to Joseph Allerton for recommending both drinks. I am reasonably certain Ron Shelton did not bribe him. I don't know the wine's importer.
 
I certainly hope that it was a 5 liter bottle of beer for $65...

-Eden (saw one of those at Costco last week, next to the 100 pound box of kitty litter)
 
originally posted by Warren Edwardes:
I don't get sweet Olorosos, Jamie.
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My issue as well. I'd rather Jamie play golf with a pharmaceutical rep at Pebble Beach while drinking comp Screagle than have him post something positive about a sweet Oloroso.
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
originally posted by Warren Edwardes:
I don't get sweet Olorosos, Jamie.
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My issue as well. I'd rather Jamie play golf with a pharmaceutical rep at Pebble Beach while drinking comp Screagle than have him post something positive about a sweet Oloroso.
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Does Jamie play golf?

Do you?
 
I only play Mini-Put.

Out of curiosity, why do you ask?

If you wish to buy me, Pirate's Cove would be the place to start.
 
Cool! Judge Smails-er-Joe, I'll caddy for you if it will help my scholarship chances!
 
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