Wine Guy 23

went to Fleur de Lys last night in Mandalay Bay...wowingly good!! one of the best meals we have had here so far, and probaly the best Steak Tartare too... American Wagyu Beef, black truffle, poached quail egg, and a celery and parsnip salad adorned,, chased down with a Remoissenet Le Montrachet 'du Thenard' 1995!!!

seems that the one item that politics should have nothing to do with, it still seems to sink its decaying teeth into the neck of the interesting sujects and give them rabies,,,thus warning the other interesting subjects/topics to stear clear and get their shots

COME TO LAS VEGAS AND GO TO DOWTOWN VEGAS, @ SIDEBAR... GET THE DARK AND STORMY WITH A SPLASH OF FERNET!!! : )

It's basically another Zagat guide. Names, addresses of people who might or might not have a wine program.

Of course, if they made it a requirement for an award that a restaurant post an up-to-date list on their website, it'd actually be a somewhat useful address list. At least if business travel took you to an unfamiliar backwater.

zagat has some credibility though. as does the WS Grand Award lists. but to put forth atleast an 700K inventory volume gets pretty hefty for the small restauranteur. it is fun, but costly. goes to show though, that somewhere like Del Posto with an all Italian list, can get a grand award, and not have any diversity of other regions to showcase is pretty impressive on their part. actually it is awesome, and ballsy. it does suck that WS does not follow up with the restaurants, and the lists, and people do not take enough pride in the lists maintenance more times than one. maybe someone will pass-on, and it will be taken over by a real dynamo that gives two sh***

very, very interesting!! just goes to show you, that $250 just pays for their gas to go play golf over the weekend, and order a bottle of 90+rated wine rather than the bug spray filled 60pointer we have grown to love : )

Annual production of Rosemount Estate: 3 Million Cases of wine = 36,000,000 bottles.

Best NEW vineyards?If you pick up the new Wine and Spirits Magazine look at the article on 'best NEW vineyards', and see that MacMurray Ranch, and Provenance are listed amongst the others , who have production under under 10000cs. and these guys are well over that and have been around for YEARS!! any chance there was handshake involved?

Excuuuuuuuuuse me, Grasshopper, is there something wrong with being over 50?

definitely not! you are the mold for which all the others should try to be

it seems it was the 50+ at the DMV that were interviewed, seems part of the 47% should have also had a margin related to the business, collectors, industry folk, etc. though that may give it a bias, atleast it also gives it a ratio of error towards those that can improve upon this 'better wine service' topic

Wine Spectator grand Award winners

Congrats to Guy Savoy, Del Posto, and of course the great Alto!! also this details the facts that many people are also not happy with their wine service, about 18000, but like 50% of them are over 50, so...not that that has anything to do with the poles, it just seems a little biased in the judgment

There is a machine out there on the market now, by an asian company that makes a perfect ice cube for scotch that melts down at the right rate of dilution and chill for the scotch, or fine distilled spirits enthusiast. THIS ASIAN MACHINE is close to the product I am speaking of but not exactly the right one. Craft uses the product in its Bar's if that helps anyone

Trying out Jasmine tonight, or Yellowtail at Bellagio, the new hip spot that just opened up.

moraga 'bel air' blanc 01, quinta alqueve 'fernao ferias' 06, and the kicker j.rochioli 'little hill' 05

a lovely evening of conversation and gossip of the positive sense

though it is not 'huge' news, it is still news, and goes back the the Paris tasting, and the fact that Montelena was a winner. It will give the chance for Cos d' to get rid of the TCA problem at Montelena, and relaunch a great producer. May give the jump start of producers to follow the 'once' Bordeaux finesse that so many lack now adays on our beautiful West Coast, not all, but some.

just a guess, and more my words to play favor, "in the world of Rose, Billecart and H. Billiot sings songs of Elizabeth and Laetitia, while gazing and blazing favorites in the moonlight of prose"

Big news from Robert Parker...

"I just got out of the hospital and it turns out, even though I never had any idea about my apparent physical oddity, that I have absolutely no tastebuds and have been confusing origin, price, and free hotel rooms with taste for all of these years! Can you believe it?"

Mr. Parker then announced that he was on his way to Trader Joe's for a couple of bottles of Two Buck Chuck, as, since he really hasn't been able to tell the difference for years, and now that he probably won't be able to run the same scam as everyone knows his secret, he'll need to watch his budget from now on. Just like almost everyone else on Earth.

Film at 11

this is why so many take 'news' so sceptically. it tends to get discredited before it is even in the open, by the masses who think they know more than those reporting the facts. best part is, 'wine news' is more factual, and less capable of being manipulated in reporting, though more in its 'winemaking' than our day to day 'dose of facts on world updates'.

ANDY MYERS, FANTASTIC INTERVIEW!!! TATTOO MANIA MEETS METAL, AND GRAND CRU BURGUNDY!

with our son's 1st birthday, Bichot 'Clos Frantin' Vougeot 1983, against Hanzell Pinot 03, and Billecart Salmon. pretty good birthday for him, and us to enjoy the celebration

Dom Ruinart kind of night, with a touch of Krug to wash all the goodness down. Followed by a very interesting Kathryn Kennedy 'Syrah'... did not know that this was in her slew of great graces, but fantastic at that

Del Maguey 'chicicapa' !!! smokin. come to Vegas and there is a killer tequila, and mezcal selection at Dos Caminos

What is up with THIS

HUH? Well, OK, I guess. Maybe I could do a column on wines that people who drink wine would make if they could make wine but wouldn't drink it... or something like that.

Scott

Reference was towards great Sommelier's/Directors, that make wine now;Richard Betts, Rajat Parr, Paolo Barbieri, etc. whose wines are very good to great. How they got started, and what it takes to gain experience of winemaking from a background on the floor. And its directives towards "advice" to the bulk of new guys out there making overextracted, high alcohol, "wine for the masses, and deep pockets" : ) guess you need someone from DC doing there own wine though to get it initiated.

always a blast at Wynn's DB Brasserie, and a great view on the pond. killer list, and killer food

they might as well just use Splenda instead. WTF!! leave it to a f-ing Doctor to think they know best about a subject they have no business trying to fix.

manischewitz, kosher wine, pasteurized wine, non fat wine, dealcoholized wine, de-wine, non wine, is this what the mass public wants? sure hope not, unless Chateau Latour, or Roumier can make a non-fat, no sugar 1st growth or grand cru that tastes as it would with or with out, as it goes "if it ain't broke don't fix it"

COLUMN ON SOMMELIER'S THAT MAKE WINE, THAT OTHER WINEMAKERS SHOULD TAKE LESSONS FROM! : )

Crown Royal? Oy.

yet, not the most amazing sazerac so far, it was pleasant enough, with the slight sweetness of the CR rounding it out. granted i could only take, one, and had to switch

vegas sazerac @ blackdoor: crown royal, peychauds, absinthe