Wine tonight

originally posted by Kevin Roberts:
Big Sky IPA for me. I'm spending a whole lot more mental energy on beer than wine right now because I'm going schnooky by entering the beer distribution racket.

I'm not done with science for philosophical reasons, just practical ones. (The 120 mile commute tends to grate...) I think I ran my last flash chromotography column for the forseeable future yesterday.
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Good luck on the transition, Kevin.

Mark Lipton
 
Thanks guys. I'm really excited/nervous as hell. It's basically going be a one-man operation, so I'm selling/delivering/cleaning lines. We've got a geographical area carved out (basically NE quarter of Iowa) 3 great importers to work with. I'm looking to add a couple american breweries to the roster, but for now it should keep me out of trouble.

As an amusing aside, when I told my mom that I was going to be doing this, she asked me if I was ready to "give up on my education." I told her I didn't really consider it giving up on my education, but yes, yes I was.

I'm also really looking forward to spending 7 nights a week in my own bed. 3 nights a week in Iowa City left me missing out on way to much of my kids lives.

Cheers!

Kevin
 
originally posted by Kevin Roberts:
I think I ran my last flash chromotography column for the forseeable future yesterday.
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Good luck, Kevin.

Can't say I much miss flash columns.
 
originally posted by Yixin:

In that order. Oh dear, I import all of these wines. Sold out of the first and last wines.
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What will Coulee de Serrant sell for in Singapore? Is there a market for such?
 
2004 Fevre Fourchaume Vaulorent, fully open with about half and hour of air time, mineral-studded, delicious.

1995 Maximin Gruenhauser Auslese Fuder 56, not great out of the bottle, but after a leisurely slow-oxidation, low-key but very fine acid and just enough sweetness (that is, barely any). Great with scampi.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Kevin Roberts:
I think I ran my last flash chromotography column for the forseeable future yesterday.
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Good luck, Kevin.

Can't say I much miss flash columns.
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Flash columns are God's gift to humanity, ye Philistines.

Mark Lipton
 
2009 Louis Claude Desvignes Morgon La Voute St Vincent

It was fine. I'm sort of over wine. Bourbon or sweet tea go better with BBq anyway.
 
originally posted by maureen:
Gerolsteiner - good to the last drop!
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I usually follow this wise practice. But with tonight's dinner I added a glass of local berry juice in honor of my first night in Reykjavik. Too jetlagged for alcohol. But the ocean views are intoxicating.
 
originally posted by VLM:

2009 Louis Claude Desvignes Morgon La Voute St Vincent

It was fine. I'm sort of over wine. Bourbon or sweet tea go better with BBq anyway.
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I know this was glorious back in March, and should be accessible fairly soon by design, but isn't it kinda grapey on day 1, better on day 2 nowadays?
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Yixin:

In that order. Oh dear, I import all of these wines. Sold out of the first and last wines.
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What will Coulee de Serrant sell for in Singapore? Is there a market for such?
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Enough for us to justify importing the wines, but more for private clients than trade (where business as usual percentage markups make it a tough sell). Same thing with Michel Grisard's Mondeuse, which is also emphatically not cheap.

Currently, the market is small, but we wouldn't be doing what we're doing if we didn't think we had a chance of expanding (or in some cases, creating) the market. Who would've thought Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Franc on Anjou schist would sell? Or Gamay on Savoie chalk screes? Or Rossesse? etc. etc.
 
09 Bojo Morgon by Brun. My wife says corn from farmers market, fried chicken (Mark Bittman) fresh strawberries picked from the field on the Silverado Trail. Life is good at times in the Napa Valley.
Now if we would get some warm weather for a few weeks so the grapes would ripen.
 
Nothing yesterday, but a few things on Tuesday, which I'll post on shortly and some nice things at lunch today, like the '04 Fevre- Chablis Les Preuses, '96 Cazin- Cour-Cheverny Cuvee Renaissance, '05 Donnhoff- Riesling Spatlese Schlossbockelheimer Felsenberg, '09 de Forville- Barbera d'Alba and '07 Allemand- Cornas Chaillot.
 
originally posted by Yixin:

Currently, the market is small, but we wouldn't be doing what we're doing if we didn't think we had a chance of expanding (or in some cases, creating) the market. Who would've thought Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Franc on Anjou schist would sell? Or Gamay on Savoie chalk screes? Or Rossesse? etc. etc.
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Hey, do you guys ship to NZ? I'll be in the market next year.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Exchange year? Sounds cool.
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Sabbatical. After two of them spent in the Bay Area, we decided to get more ambitious. With Andrew shortly turning 7, we figured that it was a good time to try living in another country for a short time. As an added incentive, if things here continue going the way they are, we'll have some contacts in a place that may be less bent on self-destruction. [insert emoticon of choice here]

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Pourquoi pas la France?
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Various reasons, in the end. One potent one: since we take sabbatical leave in the Spring (aka Winter) semester, we chose to go somewhere that was warm at that time of year. Secondarily, Jean's never been there and it's high on her list of places to visit. Thirdly, we didn't think it was wise to put Andrew into school where he'd also have to learn a new language.

Maybe next sabbatical at the University of Nîmes or Toulon, though.

Mark Lipton
 
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