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originally posted by Yixin:
I hate unpacking, but I'll try.

"Look,": Imperative, attention please. Which is what almost every poster (myself included) seeks, and definitely what a poster desires when they use someone's name and the verb 'suck' in close proximity. One can reasonably argue that the subject opens him or herself by using their name for their winery/brand, but the poster doesn't really care - it's a call for attention, and with 'suck', always with reference to their opinions, which they might or might not be sufficiently self-aware to recognise as such.

"one": Rhetorical device, use of indefinite pronoun in lieu of generic you. It superficially does not specify the person(s), but quite often makes the link stronger, especially when the subsequent metaphor is outrageous.

"can go": Subjunctive, i.e. not reality. The use of modal verbs, especially present subjunctives (in this case, 'can' as the present form of 'be able to'), is sometimes used to denote ambiguity. In this instance, it's meant as a counterpoint to the declarative sentences of Mr. Zylberberg.

"fuck": Particularly uni-directional sexual action, as opposed to "have sex with", "make love to", with the bonus of being an expletive. The '-ck' sound is a not-so-subtle recall of the opening imperative.

"eight": Eight!

"(underage)": Completely, utterly indefensible use. You're right, Ian, I'm sorry.

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But you were right: I obviously overlooked some of the nuance.
 
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originally posted by VLM:
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originally posted by Jim Hanlon:
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originally posted by MarkS:
Who is this Dr. Zellerburg?
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I guess he is this fucking guy: Tool.

Explains his fuzzy grasp on science and stats.
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Actually, it's worse. Per the thread on the "Big Board," he's a 30-year-old lawyer at a large NYC firm.
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Whoa. Power tool.
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And probably means a non-existent understanding of science and stats.

I think suicide is the only honorable way out. Godspeed.
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His c.v. suggets that he might not even be 30 years old. He is a cute lil' hobbit-looking feller, though.

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Oh, come on people. The guy has the bad taste not to like Texiers and the bad judgment to make a big deal of it. He hasn't started killing babies or selling nuclear weapons to terrorists, as far as I know. A little bit of a sense of proportion might be in order.
 
I sorta think hunting down the guys work profile and then mocking his appearance is maybe over the line. Especially when he's put so much out there in the public wine domain that can be repurposed.

(That said, yeah his approach to analysis reads like a "don't" from a K&T paper.)
 
I almost posted on Wine Berserkers, but my wife reminded me of the XKCD strip, and I stopped just in time. So that's why I posted the strip.

I just wish I still had a bottle of the 'Les Pends', or the earliest Brézèmes, or even the 2003 Incroyable. The first time I had a Brézème rouge from Eric, I thought of Vincent Gasse. There was a wild, savoury side, but also suppleness, and brutal honesty in the finish. The wine spoke Brézème, just as Gasse's spoke Rozier.

I drank a bottle of the 2009 Dupasquier Mondeuse (amongst other things) last night with Jamie Goode. That's exactly the sort of wine which people will ignore, or try to put on a pedestal. But it's really just an honest wine, which sings Mondeuse on the nose, growls the summer heat of 2009 on the palate, and whispers the chalk of Jongieux on the finish. It's a wine I want to drink, and which reminds me why I'm doing what I do.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Oh, come on people. The guy has the bad taste not to like Texiers and the bad judgment to make a big deal of it. He hasn't started killing babies or selling nuclear weapons to terrorists, as far as I know. A little bit of a sense of proportion might be in order.
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Eric used to be a nuclear engineer.
 
originally posted by Brézème:
Bombs were not my major, though. But I might have something to do with fluorescent crawfish from the Rhone...
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Fluorescent critters are more the province of the genetic engineers these days:

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originally posted by Brézème:
Bombs were not my major, though. But I might have something to do with fluorescent crawfish from the Rhone...
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Fluorescent critters are more the province of the genetic engineers these days:

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I hadn't even noticed you all had gone so far as to google-stalk my professional profile. Creepy, but not as creepy as the dogmatic conformity of this board.

-1 points for failing to turn up evidence of my past life as a geologist. A more determined googler could've found my masters thesis or something equally embarassing.
 
originally posted by D. Zylberberg:
the dogmatic conformity of this board.
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As a stylistic point, I would suggest that unifying your audience by thoughtless insult is probably not the way to get them to bend an attentive ear.

It has a very Bill O'Reilly sensibility as a way of opening a discussion.
 
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