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That's pretty much exactly what I said--portugal and Slovenia (pretty well represented in CO) specifically, small producers without giant marketing budgets to support.

I feel like Sichel out of Margaux is always a good bang for the buck.

When I go to a bar that serves this plate I must have it no matter the time of day. Abs if it was $100, I might still do it.

Pricing is always great on their whole book too!

The Blanc? 2019? Rocking.

EXCELLENT producer!

Hey Cory--DO. SOMETHING.

DO SOMETHING MORE THAN TALKING. If this is a defining moment, you are all failing to live up to it. Shut down business, march to the White House steps, SOMETHING. And then, do something else, and then another thing!

One of the best episodes of one of the best podcasts there is.

This shit is crazy. If I remember the 80s right, Moms were drinking Riunite on ice, not chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, etc. This article is insane and makes me feel insane.

Yeah, I feel like the fairly strict regulations around lots of exported French wine make it a pretty logical starting point... You know better what you're getting if nothing else.

Someone who wants to buy a good bottle, but just has serious budget limitations? I think a lot of wine's near future might hinge on answering this question, if we can!

So I gave her some suggestions that would be closer to her price range, as one does.

Here's the question: what suggestions would YOU make to that kid? Are there any large-ish production wineries, specific affordable regions, etc. that you go to with a nascent wine drinker like this?

I was talking to a friend of my daughter's who is a hospitality major at a great university (I'll leave the wisdom of that decision for another day) and she admitted to buying Barefoot regularly... Sad, but on a student budget, understandable.

Important question, I think: we all love our special small production/winemaker driven/super interesting favorite wine discoveries. And I think many of us, thanks to our professions in the business, get to drink things that would normally be out of reach financially for us (I know I do!)

I think there's an excellent argument to be made that all wine lists (in the US especially!) could be built by varietal... People who know wine already know what they're looking at, while people with less knowledge could actually use what they know.

I got guesses, what's the order 🙏🙏

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

Application dependent 😁

Major Wine Exporters' Dependency on the US Market, 2023.
France exports wine worth $2.35 billion to the U.S., which accounts for 18.4% of its total export value. As a share of their national wine exports, NZL (37.8%), Argentina (26.7%), and Italy (22.7%) are more exposed to the US than France

EAT SHIT ELON MUSK

Elon wearing a cheese hat

lmao eat shit loser

Exactly! Lots of NA stuff tastes good, just drink it, we won't think you're a dork if you don't call it booze.

AGREED! Good God, stop. NA beverages that are named alcoholic things are not that thing. NA tequila--not tequila. NA wine--not wine. How's about just drink NA things? There are lots of them! Juice is delightful, just go with that.

This is a Strong Opinion of mine, there is only one ketchup that one should ever eat, it is Heinz and I died on that hill many times during my fine dining restaurant career.

Haha lots of these people in Aspen... Texans who drink Chablis because they hate chardonnay but love French wine, don't you know there's such a huge difference! 😁 upside is that they leave a bunch of their money here, which allows us to live in paradise.

Replacements too, pref. Let it Be or Sorry Ma.

If you can hear Eye of the Tiger, Sabotage, the Rocky theme, London Calling, Renegades of Funk, or Paradise City and not feel like you should do more than you're already doing, probably lift or hit something... I don't know. Maybe you're irreparable.

Boxing workout music suggestions welcome!

I get an unreasonable amount of enjoyment out of the fact that the guys playing two of the most unapologetically violent dudes on TV - Jon Bernthal and Alan Ritchson - are also unapologetically woke

No.