Mayday
On the first of May, Big Boy and I got together with Jacksonville’s number one collector for a late dinner in New York City. Then again, he is the only guy I know in Jacksonville . It was four of us, as he had a friend with him, so we only had about a [...]
Mayday
On the first of May, Big Boy and I got together with Jacksonville’s number one collector for a late dinner in New York City. Then again, he is the only guy I know in Jacksonville . It was four of us, as he had a friend with him, so we only had about a [...]
Here we go again…2008 Bordeaux
2008 is an interesting year in Bordeaux by any standard. Set against a backgrop of the worst economic crisis to hit the modern world for 70 years, it was also one of the most unheralded vintages of recent times. Even in the later part of 2008, the French press were forecasting a disaster. But even [...]
RN 74
San Francisco has a new restaurant home for fine wine, and it is called RN 74. I was there for the opening weekend of this heralded collaboration between Michael Mina, Raj Parr and collector Wilf Jaeger. Wilf provided the core of the wine list, and since he is one of America’s premier collectors, the list [...]
La Paulee 2009, Part IV
And on the fifth day, I couldn’t get up. After four consecutive nights with an average return home time of 2:30am, sandwiched around and in-between a 2-day auction, let’s just say that the energy levels are a bit low. It was an epic week of Olympic wine proportions, and it was great to see New [...]
La Paulee 2009, Part 3
Part III was this past Friday night, which was basically the first session of our most recent auction. We had scheduled our auction for the weekend of La Paulee and hailed the sale ‘The Road to Burgundy,’ which worked especially well thanks to the great cellars of Roger Stein and Wilf Jaeger, and a few [...]
