more on Bosker ....

[kirk wallace]

nothing terribly new here, but nicely put together in one succinct place, it seems to me:

Rachel Signer on Bosker (and Doing What you can to make the world a better place)

Millions of Americans didn't lose their healthcare yesterday. Open something nice today.

 

[Chris Coad]

We are going out to celebrate. The missus was sure her job and her patients were on the line. We'll get a couple of nice lobstahs, The Palm is having a special on 3-pounders.

A good day. March 24th, 2017. A very good day. Will never get tired of the Hamilton jokes.

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[kirk wallace]

Winning is easy. Governing is hard.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

"Signer"

 

[kirk wallace]

thanks. fixed.

 

[Jay Miller]

From another board "Trump is only a closer if the C is silent"

 

[kirk wallace]

 

[mark e]

The following will be news to none of us. It would seem that for whatever reason natural wine is rapidly becoming the piñata du jour.

This just in from a couple of the most annoying people on the planet.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Bohr comes off as bipolar.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

My friend Hal, who doesn't speak French, once watched an interview with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and said it was fantastic, because it sounded just like "The Sabre Dance."

This reads, tonally, a bit like that.

 

[Brian C]

Lucky peach is pretty mind numbing stuff.

 

[mark e]

originally posted by Brian C:
Lucky peach is pretty mind numbing stuff.

Most def. After that chicken nugget article I was about to cancel it, but then they did that themselves.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Incidental comment: Bosker's hack-work has been republished in various magazines, including the one published by the Smithsonian. But, they also published this interesting article on vineyard owners resorting (returning?) to falcons for pest control: click

 

[MLipton]

Now Eric Asimov weighs in just in case you hadn't already seen it.

Mark Lipton

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Well, I love to be a devil's advocate, so I will just say that I started out on overoaked Aussie wines and then I hit the less manipulated stuff, so there is a little bit of anecdotal evidence to Bosker's claim (as reported by Asimov--I haven't read her book).

 

[mark e]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Well, I love to be a devil's advocate, so I will just say that I started out on overoaked Aussie wines and then I hit the less manipulated stuff, so there is a little bit of anecdotal evidence to Bosker's claim (as reported by Asimov--I haven't read her book).

So n = 1? That's evidence?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by mark e:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Well, I love to be a devil's advocate, so I will just say that I started out on overoaked Aussie wines and then I hit the less manipulated stuff, so there is a little bit of anecdotal evidence to Bosker's claim (as reported by Asimov--I haven't read her book).

So n = 1? That's evidence?

I said anecdotal evidence. You know the term. It's a near oxymoron,but not quite.

 

[mark e]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by mark e:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Well, I love to be a devil's advocate, so I will just say that I started out on overoaked Aussie wines and then I hit the less manipulated stuff, so there is a little bit of anecdotal evidence to Bosker's claim (as reported by Asimov--I haven't read her book).

So n = 1? That's evidence?

I said anecdotal evidence. You know the term. It's a near oxymoron,but not quite.

I am curious about the wines you started off on, though. I'm guessing we are not too far off in age, so did those exist back in the 60s and 70s? My parents drank wine pretty often; I started tasting it around 8 yrs old. It was mainly Louis Martini, which was from old redwood tanks and low in alcohol (maybe 12%); occasionally there was the odd cru bourgeois, which also didn't have new oak. Didn't the period of new barrels (apart from the classified growths and Burgundy) and then oak chips start much later?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by MLipton:
Now Eric Asimov weighs in just in case you hadn't already seen it.

Thanks for the link. I realize now that Bosker is not merely an idiot nor merely a shill: she is saying "they were sour, anyway" for all the milennials who cannot afford/will never have a great, well-aged Grand Cru experience (on their phone).

 

[mark e]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by MLipton:
Now Eric Asimov weighs in just in case you hadn't already seen it.

Thanks for the link. I realize now that Bosker is not merely an idiot nor merely a shill: she is saying "they were sour, anyway" for all the milennials who cannot afford/will never have a great, well-aged Grand Cru experience (on their phone).

Did she actually use the word "sour"? I can't imagine anyone with even the slightest amount of wine knowlege - which she claims - using the word.