Rumor has it...

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Brad Kane

Brad Kane
That Ten Bells has been overrun by bridge and tunnel types since Eric's article.

A plea...Never write about Huet! Ever!

Permissible subjects:

Orange wines. (Write about 'em until your blue in the face.)
Wineries that own no vines.
Chardonnay from A to Z.
Huge strides in Chilean Sauvignon Blanc.
Petite Sirah- The next "it" wine.
Long Island Merlot.
Bulgaria, a wine renaissance.
Retsina: Tough love.
Overlooked Muscadine.
Going ga ga for hybrids!
 
Sorry I didn't get a chance to chime in to this thread earlier, I was busying reading a piece in the NYT about Chenin Blanc. Sounds like this Huet producer is really great! I'm going to have to search some bottles out...
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Sorry I didn't get a chance to chime in to this thread earlier, I was busying reading a piece in the NYT about Chenin Blanc. Sounds like this Huet producer is really great! I'm going to have to search some bottles out...
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Sec is permissible.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Rumor has it...That Ten Bells has been overrun by bridge and tunnel types since Eric's article.

A plea...Never write about Huet! Ever!

Permissible subjects:

...
Wineries that own no vines.
...
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So '47 Cappellano Barolo Chinato is permitted, but the NV Cappellano Barolo Chinato is not.

Got it.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Rumor has it...That Ten Bells has been overrun by bridge and tunnel types since Eric's article.
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Is that the core audience for his column? Or perhaps the most easily persuadable.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Rumor has it...That Ten Bells has been overrun by bridge and tunnel types since Eric's article.
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Is that the core audience for his column? Or perhaps the most easily persuadable.
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I suppose one would have to engage a polling organization to track Eric's influence over several months.

Interesting point.

Rahsaan: Thank you yet again for pointedly raising questions about the unknowable.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:

I suppose one would have to engage a polling organization to track Eric's influence over several months.

Thank you yet again for pointedly raising questions about the unknowable.
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I doubt the polling organization would find it unknowable.

But on a more serious note, I was just surprised that bridge and tunnel types would be the ones most likely to follow Eric's advice and then to a place like Ten Bells.

But, demographics are a changin'.
 
Rahsaan:

I heard from one of the owners, as I posted above, and they said the crowd was totally manageable. There was not a line backing up to the Holland Tunnel on one side and the Manhattan Bridge on the other.

The New York Times obviously has a broad influence, broader than Brad Kane, you and I put together. I don't have firm demographics on this, and perhaps it is just an assumption, but I am reasonably confident in the assertion.

It is not surprising that a rave review attracts something other than the regulars.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:

It is not surprising that a rave review attracts something other than the regulars.
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That, and Saturday night is a night for entertaining at home.

Not for going to LES bars, however charming.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I am blonde, bridge-and-tunnel, and Eurotrash. Can I be considered some kind of one-person focus group?
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You're wannabe Eurotrash, my Long Island, B & T princess.

However, I am sitting next to Eurotrah on the bus as we're off to meet the Kesslers at Momofuku for lunch.
 
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