Remembering a couple of Spanish stories...

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A couple of Spanish stories which were controversial in the US a while back can be updated... 'Mercados del Vino y la Distribución', a trade magazine, says bringing Jay Miller, the Wine Advocate critic who covers Spain, for a series of tastings in Navarra (a not-so-glamorous northern Spain appellation) has cost the Navarra D.O. 100,000 euros. OTOH, Casa de la Ermita, the winery which produced the infamous Sierra Carche 2005, a wine which caused the greatest controversy ever in the US about the ratings of Spanish wines in the WA, has gone into self-requested receivership, a Spanish legal figure.
 
Absolutely, Mr. Doghead! But, beyond the lake of industrial swill, hope lurks as a few quality producers reconquer terroir: Domaines Lupier, Emilio Valerio, Arínzano. Wonder if all of their wines were tasted during this epochal visit...
 
Mr. Serna

I´m a lurker in ALL forums. I am writing a book about frequent posters and their personalities. What I can advance about yours is that you´re known as the "Great Camelioun".
 
Victor, is that $140k net of hookers and blow, or is it all in?

Seriously, I would love to see the itemized tab to see how it's possible to spend that much.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Victor, is that $140k net of hookers and blow, or is it all in?

Seriously, I would love to see the itemized tab to see how it's possible to spend that much.
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Predator drones.
 
Joe: I think the trip, as others until now, has been organized by Pancho Campo's company, The Wine Academy of Spain. So I guess that's where the money went. No word on its further distribution, but it's my impression Miller doesn't get any directly. Expenses paid, of course. Plus the fact that through Campo you can ensure that Miller will visit your appellation or your winery.

And - oneill, for the past 15 years, since the heyday of the WLDG, I've been VS or Victor de la Serna all over the place in the internet. That happens to be my real name. So I have an inkling that everyone knows me pretty well by now. That's not a really convincing chameleon-like characteristic, I'm afraid...
 
originally posted by VS:
That's not a really convincing chameleon-like characteristic, I'm afraid...
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Perhaps it was a typo for Castilla y León?

Mark Lipton (another elaborate pseudonym)
 
No typo. Old English. Cameliouns don´t change their names. Change their skins depending on the environment.
 
originally posted by Oneill:
Cameliouns don´t change their names. Change their skins depending on the environment.
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Fascinating. Please tell me the changes you've noticed between here, the Parker bored, the current (or old) WLDG, Wine Therapy, Wine Berserkers, elmundovino. These are the spaces I have been inhabiting for these years...
 
Sorry, Mr. Serna. This is not a troll. I regret having post here. Not very professional. I should only research. But couldn´t resist at your third party comments about Francisco Campo and Robert Parker. Read the book when it comes out: Cyberwine.
Once again, my apologies.
 
originally posted by VS:
Please tell me the changes you've noticed between here, the Parker bored, the current (or old) WLDG, Wine Therapy, Wine Berserkers, elmundovino.
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I think your voice is a little deeper here and you roll your R's a little longer.
 
originally posted by Oneill:
Sorry, Mr. Serna. This is not a troll. I regret having post here. Not very professional. I should only research. But couldn´t resist at your third party comments about Francisco Campo and Robert Parker. Read the book when it comes out: Cyberwine.
Once again, my apologies.
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Are you really writing a book about Internet wine boards?
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Oneill:
Sorry, Mr. Serna. This is not a troll. I regret having post here. Not very professional. I should only research. But couldn´t resist at your third party comments about Francisco Campo and Robert Parker. Read the book when it comes out: Cyberwine.
Once again, my apologies.
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Are you really writing a book about Internet wine boards?
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I hope so. I've long wanted to see such a book. And I've blabbered at great length about these boards to others. Now we can (finally) place ourselves in social and historical context.
 
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