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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
I just got this from a fine wine store in NYC. For those cosplay hipster wine drinkers among us.

They note that Jeff Goldblum will be in attendance, drinking from magnums. And that they will be selling "coveted" Jura wines by the bottle at "extremely reasonable" prices.

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originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I do wonder who the demographic is, though. The one cosplay-type person I know only drinks milk.
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And how large could it be, really? Is the audience for Jura wines so large that you could get enough people to dress up like dinosaurs, pay nearly $100 and go to an undisclosed location after 10 PM for Jura wines and passed apps? You couldn't give them away 15 years ago.

I remember going to the shop at Chelsea Piers with SFJoe that long ago and buying a 10+ year old, closed-out bottle of Vin Jaune which we drank with matsutake risotto. It probably would have remained on the shelf for years more if we hadn't bought it.

Same thing was true of German and Austrian wines 10 years before that. Tastes change, which is a good thing.
 
originally posted by mark e:
And how large could it be, really? Is the audience for Jura wines so large that you could get enough people to dress up like dinosaurs, pay nearly $100 and go to an undisclosed location after 10 PM for Jura wines and passed apps? You couldn't give them away 15 years ago.
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This is true. However, things have changed so much in the interim—to the point of smaller importers scrambling for Jura winemakers—that it might even be fun to make a betting pool as to attendance.

That said, I dunnot mean to denigrate smaller importers who import Jura winemakers.

But truth be told, there are a couple of things imported now that are insipid or big-time flawed.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
But truth be told, there are a couple of things imported now that are insipid or big-time flawed.
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In the latter category: Philippe Bornard, for one.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I do wonder who the demographic is, though. The one cosplay-type person I know only drinks milk.
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I also have no idea about the demographic (or even how to pronounce cosplay). I first heard of it when a subset of my fellow Political Scientists started organizing Star Trek (or Star Wars, who knows) cosplay panels at one of our conferences. I have yet to figure out how it works, or the key to their demographics.

And, this Jura event is mighty weird on many levels!
 
It is said as if you made a portmanteau word out of "costume role-play". (Which is what was done, but in Japanese so the word-order was not the same as in English.)

As to the demographic... I suppose the only succinct definition is "fans": of "Rocky Horror", of manga, of Star This-or-That. Probably more a personality type than age/gender/nationality/creed.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
As to the demographic... I suppose the only succinct definition is "fans": of "Rocky Horror", of manga, of Star This-or-That. Probably more a personality type than age/gender/nationality/creed.
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My friend turned out to be a purist. We were next-door neighbors in our freshman dorm in the Berkshires. He was into D&D and all this manner of things. Brilliant fellow. We became close friends, and he made me watch "The Simpsons," despite my snootery toward cartoons at the time.

Lo these years on, not only is he the manager of a comic book store in NYC (after bailing ship as an academic), but he has written and had published by major publishing houses two young-adult novels (for one of which I supplied the name of a "fancy" wine for an 18th-century wizard to be drinking).

Oh, and he goes to Comic-Con things and signs books and stuff.

But he only drinks milk.
 
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