Whoa

$30 mill is decent revenue.

He had good pricing on some Germain/Chorey wines this past year, but the J. Peterman thing is a massive turn-off.
 
For a guy who is nominally fighting the good fight, he used to sell some majorly spoofed wines, back when I used to care.
 
That comes with "superhuman tasting powers" and being "a writer and a conduit of culture".

Look, I would rather this dude be peddling wine than weapons (or CDOs).
 
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Miles
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I was speaking to a producer in France who has worked with Jon. He wites his sales copy pitch in the email, sells a certain amount and then places the order for the exact number of bottles with the producer. The beauty of it for Rimmerman is that it's a risk free transaction. He takes the consumer money then had 3-6 months to bring the wine in and ship under "optimal" conditions. Nice work if you can get it.
 
originally posted by Yixin:
That comes with "superhuman tasting powers" and being "a writer and a conduit of culture".

Look, I would rather this dude be peddling wine than weapons (or CDOs).
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barely tangential, but this has triggered a recollection of showing a video of Carlos Kleiber conducting a Beethoven symphony to a friend who was previously unaware of the artist. While thoroughly impressed, the friend summed up the performance with "I am glad this guy went into music and not politics".
 
I hear from some people around here that he can find interesting wines. I must say, the Southern Rhones he offers are often majorly spoofed Cambie wines. The accompanying prose wines about how traditional they are is hilarious. Either his claims about tasting abilities are absurdly hyperbolic or his claims about his goals are sketchy. But it's a business. It occasionally has wines I have bought. And I certainly don't wish him any ill.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
$30 mill is decent revenue.

He had good pricing on some Germain/Chorey wines this past year, but the J. Peterman thing is a massive turn-off.
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$30MM isn't credible to me. That's self-report and not verifiable. If the average price per bottle that he is selling is $20, that's 1.5 million bottles.That's 125,000 cases or ~125 long containers a year. Frankly, I don't think he is credible on anything in that article.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
$30 mill is decent revenue.

He had good pricing on some Germain/Chorey wines this past year, but the J. Peterman thing is a massive turn-off.
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$30MM isn't credible to me. That's self-report and not verifiable. If the average price per bottle that he is selling is $20, that's 1.5 million bottles.That's 125,000 cases or ~125 long containers a year. Frankly, I don't think he is credible on anything in that article.
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Maybe he moves more DRC than we realize :)
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
$30 mill is decent revenue.

He had good pricing on some Germain/Chorey wines this past year, but the J. Peterman thing is a massive turn-off.
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$30MM isn't credible to me. That's self-report and not verifiable. If the average price per bottle that he is selling is $20, that's 1.5 million bottles.That's 125,000 cases or ~125 long containers a year. Frankly, I don't think he is credible on anything in that article.
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Maybe he moves more DRC than we realize :)
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salt and olive oil and mustards, too. all excellent. and not cheap.
 
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