BWE Dallas '13

OrlandoRobert · Post by **OrlandoRobert** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:22 am

Wow, there's a lot going on in that new picture! Am I on the right website?!?!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 11:35 am

Yes. Yes Robert, there is indeed quite a lot going on in that picture.
That is the legendary moment at Napa '02 when Nicklass lowered his pants at the sight of a whoopie pie.
I was in the room for that incident as well as the Dallas incident but, in my autism, I was contemporaneously unaware that either incident was occurring.

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 12:22 pm

At that time, it was like a magician trick, everybody's attention was on the Whoopie pie, so I think nobody notice"the trick". he réal story is that I did that to Check If everybody's were drunk and not noticing it...

At that time, nobody's know they missed that little thing, that would produced three beautiful children later on...

Nic

P.S. Tom, I had my gun story in the States. I was in New-York with three friends, in the subway, and there was a strange Guy in front of us. Another Guy pass threw our wagon, asking for money. We give him our pennies. When hé is out, the strange Guy stand up, and point us with a gun, saying that If we have money to give, it should be to him. After hé yelled a few " motherfuxxxx" for few minutes, always pointing us with the gun. When hé stop, other New-yorkers said get out to next station, what that Guy did. I never lived something as scary as that moment...

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:27 pm

I hadn't really taken a good look at that picture in a while, and just did.
Omg is that a classic, I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
Indeed, there is "a lot going on" in that picture.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:29 pm

Remember, that was shortly after the ride back from the Saturday night venue, when we were crammed into my old Lincoln LS, and MichaelP was pushing for throwing Whuzzup__ out into a ditch by the side of the road due to his new-found obsession with Burgundy.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:32 pm

Lisa and Howard

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:34 pm

Rob's bosses, a fun couple.
They "got it" about BWE pretty quickly.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:36 pm

Partying and Howard and Lisa's beautiful home in North Dallas on Friday afternoon.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:39 pm

SF Ed at the Friday night Burgundy dinner.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:41 pm

Jan, aka Lucie, and Lisa.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:44 pm

Glenn, aka Claret, and Rob.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:46 pm

Eating ribs. I really enjoyed that Saturday afternoon excursion for Texas barbecue, especially that really honky tonk place we went to first.

Pictured here, Danny, Rob, Ed.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:48 pm

At the Saturday night dinner.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:50 pm

Danny.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:51 pm

MichaelP and Stefan.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:53 pm

Tom-in-DC and MichaelP.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:58 pm

Lucie and Nalan.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:59 pm

Tom, DavidG, MichaelP.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:01 pm

Stefan and Chris testing the wines on Saturday night.
Somebody's gotta do it....

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:02 pm

Danielle and Nalan.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:04 pm

Nalan and the studs of BWE.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:05 pm

Stefan, the spiritual leader of BWE.

robert goulet · Post by **robert goulet** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:48 pm

Hey Stefan...wake up...this is a BWE convention!!

Haha, great pics, Jim what was the final head count?

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:56 pm

Not sure, about 27?
A very well organized convention.

Lucie · Post by **Lucie** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:45 pm

Hey Tom, I have to agree with you. That was the most bizarre happening in my experience with BWE as well...but I still hope you and Gail will come back to Texas sometime.

Tom In DC · Post by **Tom In DC** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:40 am

Does changing planes count?

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 4:25 pm

In impressed by the iPhone pictures.
Who needs a camera anymore?

dstgolf · Post by **dstgolf** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:27 pm

The iphone and compact auto digicams all do a pretty good job outdoors in daylight but fall down indoors with resolution. Too much blur because not fast enough.Poor flash and images under exposed and or blurry again because too slow. Country lawyers have high standards when it comes to wine but not to critical when it comes to photography I'm told!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:21 pm

I'm just a country lawyer.

of7271 · Post by **of7271** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:19 pm

So sad that I missed BWE '13 by a week since I've just gotten back from the UK. Very excited and can't wait for BWE '14 in D.C., however!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:55 am

We'll see you in DC Omar!

Jay Winton · Post by **Jay Winton** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:27 pm

so it's DC for sure in 2014?

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:43 pm

Yes. we'll make a final decision in early fall, but I would say it's DC in 2014.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:50 pm

Omar, I hope to see you next year, in DC or wherever...

If we do DC, it will be hard to match the quality/price formula that Howard and Lisa pulled off in Dallas. Charlie Palmer has a great room and they are very accommodating but it was close to $200/person all in (room, meal, corkage, tax, tip, glassware, starter Champagne) for Saturday night if I recall. I can most likely do it there again easily - I know the somm, we've been before, etc. But if folks want a better value, I'm not sure I have the knowledge and connections to find something better.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:10 pm

Value, shmalue. Once a year we all can splurge. Charlie Palmer has done a great job for us in the past. What is an extra $50 or so when we go through $15,000- $20,000 (estimate of average current retail) worth of wines on Saturday night?

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:41 pm

No argument from me, Stefan. Just putting it out there in case anyone feels differently.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:05 pm

Amen! The DC crew have it down.

robert goulet · Post by **robert goulet** » Sat Mar 20, 2021 10:22 pm

Best BWE pic ever

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Mar 20, 2021 11:03 pm

Great times over the past 21 years.
Soon we hope to have threads and pictures from as far back as 2000-2001!

Blanquito · Post by **Blanquito** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 12:40 am

JimHow wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 11:03 pm Great times over the past 21 years.
Soon we hope to have threads and pictures from as far back as 2000-2001!

Any updates on Billo’s progress?