Friday, October 24, 2008

A Brief Window Into The Glamours Life Of Wine

We just returned from Louis/Dressner's annual portfolio tasting. It was a glamours tasting full of glamours wine distributors from all over the country. Here is our glamours itinerary in a poorly written and slipshod stream of consciousness: 
Red eye flight from Oakland to JFK no sleep even with the help of Valium meet the great Vulgur Little Monkey at JFK spilt an expensive cab taste and spit wine for four hours rave about the sparkling wines of Ca de Noci and Donati Camillo plus primitivo in anfora eat drink eat drink go to hotel can't brush teeth because gums hurt so bad from wine shower sleep in shower meet old friends and associates for more wine and great dinner at Marlow and Sons full Cépage stamp of approval realize that we've slept one hour in two days fire down some espresso along with some other substances get sentimental as Kevin Mckenna talks about 20 years of LDM laugh hard as Joe Dressner talks about 20 years laugh hysterically as Eric Texier talks about drinking Mollydooker go to Ten Bells full Cépage stamp of approval drink until Polaner reps start falling off chairs and fights almost break out go to Blue Ribbon Bar punch the great Ken Rosoti in the stomach drink campari and commence sending texts to everyone we know intermixed with drunken nostalgia and courting go to wrong hotel find right hotel laugh rambunctiously with VLM trusted advisor and dear friend sleep for 5 hours laugh rambunctiously as VLM instigator of debauchery and mortal enemy misses plane take flight home emergency landing in Denver miss connection in Oakland stay in Oakland hotel dark scary smells of mold arrive home amongst throngs of fans cloaked in glamour.
 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Yeah, dude, I think Ca' de Noci wins the Susannah's Favorite New Winery of 2008 award, hands down.

When did you punch Ken in the stomach? I must have been too focused on the beauty of having a Savagnin flight presented to me to notice.

And don't listen to anything Nathan says.

the vlm said...

Yep. That pretty much sums it up for me.

Except I almost puked up my Grand Sechuan in the cab to JFK.

Good times...