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Piobaire · Sep 25, 2010

****VERY IMPORTANT*****

HR 5034 now has nearly 140 co-sponsors and is scheduled for debate on 9/29. Apparently, retailers are being denied an advocate to speak on their behalf.

Guys, this could seriously be the end of shipping wine and liquor. For us folks in flyover country, this is very bad and it will just kill the current business model of many fine wine producers.

Mark from Plano · Sep 25, 2010

Originally Posted by Piobaire

****VERY IMPORTANT*****

HR 5034 now has nearly 140 co-sponsors and is scheduled for debate on 9/29. Apparently, retailers are being denied an advocate to speak on their behalf.

Guys, this could seriously be the end of shipping wine and liquor. For us folks in flyover country, this is very bad and it will just kill the current business model of many fine wine producers.

My Rep. (Sam Johnson) is one of the co-sponsors. Just sent him a note on this via his website.

Tonight's selection is a 2007 Zind-Humbrecht Pinot d'Alsace. Picked up a couple of bottles in a mixed case I got at the wine store today. Nice flavor of pears. Good acidity. Pretty hot alcohol on the back end (13.5%). Had it on sale for about $14 or so I think, but when I checked my receipt after I got home, they only charged me $7 a bottle for it. Pretty damn good at that price.

Piobaire · Sep 25, 2010

Mark, thanks for sending the note. I think we are all heavily invested in this.

Had another 07 Stephania Santa Cruz Mountains PN. So good. Cherry cola, mocha, coffee and fruit.

*Tee* · Sep 25, 2010

2007 La Selva Prima Causa Toscana

http://www.laselva-bio.eu/Prima-Caus...tail=41127&L=2

I received a freebie introductory box from La Selva for our Restaurant last week with a bottle of this wine included and ordered some more without batting an eyelash...

coolpapa · Sep 25, 2010

2001 Arnaldo Caprai Sagrantino de Montefalco Collepiano. Sagrantino is generally so tannic it will take the enamel off your teeth, but this, at nine years old and decanted for three hours is singing. Nice acidity, tannins in balance, with a good core of fruit, with a little dirt. Nice wine.

audiophilia · Sep 26, 2010

The second and equally meh from this appellation I've had in the past couple of weeks. Alcohol in favour of fruit.

kwilkinson · Sep 26, 2010

Originally Posted by indesertum

what is this allocation?

Merry Edwards.

By the way guys, I ******* love my job.

fritzl · Sep 26, 2010

Originally Posted by Piobaire

The SB was a spring allocation, brah.

SB is abbreviation for...? ty

gomestar · Sep 26, 2010

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

By the way guys, I ******* love my job.

is this the one at the big A?

Originally Posted by fritzl

SB is abbreviation for...? ty
Sauvignon Blanc. One of the few things we abbreviate here.

fritzl · Sep 26, 2010

Originally Posted by gomestar

Sauvignon Blanc. One of the few things we abbreviate here.

ty, sometimes you don't see the wood cause of all the trees.

it's a popular grape in styria. a lot of grassy elements in it.

most common abbr. "here" is GV for GrÃ¼ner Veltliner.

gomestar · Sep 26, 2010

yesterday teh GF and I decided that we could use a lounge-ish type chair for our living room. We ended up getting one of these in the chaise/lounge setup. Very exciting.

And we celebrated with this:

tattersall · Sep 26, 2010

Originally Posted by Mark from Plano

Tonight's selection is a 2007 Zind-Humbrecht Pinot d'Alsace. Picked up a couple of bottles in a mixed case I got at the wine store today. Nice flavor of pears. Good acidity. Pretty hot alcohol on the back end (13.5%). Had it on sale for about $14 or so I think, but when I checked my receipt after I got home, they only charged me $7 a bottle for it. Pretty damn good at that price.

My favorite Alsacian producer along with Domaine Weinbach. Zind-Humbrecht has an enormous range and some of their single vineyard pinot gris and gewurtz are well suited to aging.

gomestar · Sep 26, 2010

Originally Posted by *Tee*

2007 La Selva Prima Causa Toscana

http://www.laselva-bio.eu/Prima-Caus...tail=41127&L=2

I received a freebie introductory box from La Selva for our Restaurant last week with a bottle of this wine included and ordered some more without batting an eyelash...

biodynamic, no?

Piobaire · Sep 26, 2010

Kyle, glad to hear you're enjoying the new job.

Everyone, please email about the bill to be discussed next week. We need to stop this and it appears the distributors have purchased their legislation ahead of time.

kwilkinson · Sep 26, 2010

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Kyle, glad to hear you're enjoying the new job.

Everyone, please email about the bill to be discussed next week. We need to stop this and it appears the distributors have purchased their legislation ahead of time.

Use some of that foie money to buy a few of your own!

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