Well thanks for the fun guys. I hope you truly enjoy your hollow feeling of moral superiority.

Ciao.

Frank,

The fact that you are comparing eBob to North Korea just shows that you have taken the entire situation way out of proportion.

Frank, Please describe the exact qualifications to be a moderator on a wine bulletin board. Please also be prepared to defend such requirements against numerous webizens trying to poke holes in them. There is no perfect solution in a community as large as eBob. There's too many agendas and opinions,...

2005 Rieussec is no slouch (though it does not hold a candle to the 2001).

Pretty much all the remaining sniping on eBob (and also now elsewhere, with other people as the target) is about jealousy. It's not pretty.

Flat and muted? Sure sounds like it was corked, just not badly enough to smell like a wet New Your Times.

You want Connecticut Attorney General RIchard Blumenthal for this one. He's famous for frivolous lawsuits that gain nothing but camera time for Richard Blumenthal.

Might be time to stop parsing every single word used. I really doubt they word-checked his post before he put it up.

His full time employment is writing for the Wine Advocate. What word he happened to use is probably driven by conventional language more than considered thought.

stefan wrote:Thanks, David; I would never have thought to look there. How did you think of it?

Well I do have upwards of 7000 posts over there, so I know the lay of the land.

The "Taking it to the Next Level" thread is still there. It's in SOcial Hall, but it's neither deleted nor locked. Bob even commented on it.

But don't let the facts get in the way of a good bashing.

I've had serious, public run-ins with Parker, Miller & in the past, Rovani, but I have never been kicked off or suspended.

What's wrong with me?

From what I have heard (limited) it does not apply to retailers.

Fair point. But neither one is going to answer a post here, and they have consciously ended discussion of the topic in their home. Maybe at some point something else will come out, but it will be in their time in their way.

Posting about it here isn't going to make one bit of difference. I doubt Bob reads any board except his.

Although in a way they did as Mark posted that he will not even be allowed to go on government sponsored trips anymore. He stated that Bob is going to fund "less frequent" travel to Portugal and Greece, and that Israel may be out for now.

You actually think you'll get answers here? Please.

Don't start it all over again Jim. And no, there were not specific reasons, excuses, provisos given out. Even if they had their words would have been parsed endlessly for why they used the term "funded" instead of "paid" or "government funded" instead of "governmen...

At this point does it really matter anymore?

If I have discovered one thing across the wine web these past weeks, it is that the Parker controversy has made us all rather intemperate.

I think we should all take a step back, and forget the words of the last 3-4 weeks.

Must be something about lawyers.

Jim, David Schildknecht personally addressed the issue of late 2006 Burgundy coverage. He fell on the sword for not getting it done. He has the notes, but has not put them in a publishable form as of yet. He's stretched like "butter scraped over too much bread" (to steal a line from my fav...

Jim,

David Schildknecht has done reviews of 2006 White Burgs, 2006 Germans, some Austrian wines and other things since the '05 Burgs.

Jim, Don't confuse my posting of the FAQ with any agreement. I don't think they are good rules, but they are the rules & published as such. I don't see how anyone can be remotely surprised. That's all. Mark's BB was really enjoyable before it turned into Arpy's playground. Maybe someday it will ...

It has gotten out of hand, but a couple of points while you sharpen your pitchforks & light your torches: 1. Mark Squires does not rate Ports. That way Pierre Rovani's job, and is now Jay Miller's job. Granted everyone seems to hate Jay Miller (including me, but for somewhat different reasons), ...

I agree that Parker has been stung by the whole thing, and I also agree that it's not world peace.

eBob stopped being fun about 2-3 years ago. I keep going back because I have friends there that I connect with, and I keep hoping to read some of David Schildknecht's rather densely packed prose.

And folks who don't like how the Wine Advocate is doing business are free to cancel their subscriptions.

A few points: 1. Mark Squires has been tasting & writing about wine for years - from way back to the original Prodigy days. Add to the fact that virtually anyone (except perhaps Daniel Rogov) would be new to Israeli wines, and the world is only just now waking up to the quality of Portugese wine...

I am still sitting on several bottles of both the 2001 and 2002. They are incredible now. Folks need to know that Dragonstone is spatlese quality juice before it gets lightly chaptalized for a little more oompf. It has predictable German Riesling longevity, as well as somewhat predictable German Rie...

I saw a thread on eBob. Any insight. Any way an out of stater can help? Should I e-mail my friends in Yarmouth?

I'm a huge fan of the 2004 Pontet Canet (solid case of 375s). I haven't opened a 2001 Pontet Canet since release. Now I may have to.

That's one of the great conflicts. Bordeaux mixture is allowed because it's all natural ingredients. Of course too much copper is itself toxic, but let's not worry about that, we have dogma to preach.

I don't mind the hocus-pocus that goes along for the ride so long as the result is good wine. But I still like to poke fun at the hocus-pocus. Complete agreement with you that the producers of biodynamic wines tend to be very meticulous about their growing and production methods. Combining that wit...

We might end up joining you for the weekend, but we'll see. It's a long way off &I'm starting a new position at the company in a few weeks. I'll keep in touch.

Just from a logistics planning standpoint let me ask what folks are thinking. Is it get together for wine and fun on the weekend after Labor Day? I would think that Laura and I could explore Acadia from Tuesday-Friday (drive up Monday) & then enjoy some time with the crew. Is a weekend get toget...

Jim - is that week after Labor Day a good time to visit Acadia? If so I might be able to find my way up there with the wife & combine a little wine with a little vacation time.

Have any other '08s come out? It would be very interesting if they have not (waiting to see if Angelus actually sells).

Nic and I concluded that these wines just are not of a nature that they should be compared with anything else. These are wines that you uncork with a dinner and watch unfold over the course of several hours with the meal. That's pretty much how I feel about Burgundy. I dearly love the wines, but al...

I made a "strong buy" recommendation elsewhere.

It's not the extra excitement it lacks, but the extra acid.

Glad you like the Paterberg. Indeed the alcohol level of the finished wine is not part of the pradikat system (except for legal minimums - sometimes an issue for TBA). Strub has eliminated sussreserve since 2005, and so the alcohol & sweetness are all entirely from what was harvested (of course ...