Happy Birthday Boo!

In a couple of hours the brilliant Laurel Cook turns 27 years of age. Laurel is based in London, but runs our advertising department and keeps the minutes from our daily meetings (we are truly a global conglomerate and much like Citigroup too big to fail). Laurel is a trusted advisor with a keen business mind. More importantly, she is also a loyal friend and the world does not bequeath many of those. We hope the 26th of November brings Laurel as much joy as a hot bowl of baked beans does our spiritual advisor above.

Talking in Bed

Lately, we've been updating our sales book, and in order to keep our sanity we've used the downtime to reread some of our old college favorites. Philip Larkin has been especially appealing. We're surprised we lost track of the old Brit, but perhaps years of excess in the french hipster wine scene have dulled our memories. Larkin is known for such works as "This be the Verse" and "Church Going" but his true masterpiece is a small poem called "Talking in Bed." We suggest our rabid readership commit it to memory. You will be better for it. Just don't drink it away.

Late last night we were speculating about Mr. Larkin's wine tastes. Boringly, we settled on claret and port but not in a stuffy Michael Broadbent kind of way. If Larkin wasn't 23 years in the grave we would send him a bottle each of Moulin-Pey-Labrie and Quinta do Infantado with a small note: "Wines at once true and kind."

Ty Martin Joins The Crew

Reno's most sought after job opening has been filled by the guileless Ty Martin (photo above), former manager of Jungle Vino. Ty liked to buy large amounts of wine from us at Jungle Vino and when he expressed interest in moving to the next level, selling large amounts of wine for us, we were ecstatic. Our sales book is a challenging one and it needs talented wine people, just like Ty, to sell it; people who understand that the wine world is far bigger than California. We know that our loyal customer base will be tremendously pleased with the opacity of Ty's tireless and aggressive sales pitches. We are so happy to have another person to force large amounts of work on for very little pay. We know that when we're old, with skinny fingers and swollen livers, we will look upon this hiring as the beginning of our domination of Northern Nevada's prepubescent wine scene.

The Pine Cone Ball November 17th

We are incredibly pleased to be a part of this year's Pine Cone Ball. This is an annual event put on by Nevada Econet and its fearless leader, the brilliant and beautiful Lauren Siegel (pictured above with some other random blonde haired person that we believe to be a woman). The Pine Cone ball awards those that have gone out of their way to help sustain and improve the natural environment of the Truckee Meadows. Undoubtedly the who's who of Reno's cognoscenti and environmental lobby will be there, mixed in with a few hipsters, and we have pledged to donate enough organic wine to get and keep everybody drunk and festive. We hope all our loyal readers will show up and help make this year's event a smashing success. After all, Nevada is now a blue state so it is our civic duty to support all things natural, environment and wine. We will be pouring the wines of two French luminaries, Christian Chaussard and André Chatenoud. Both are heavily entrenched in France's natural wine movement. Tickets are only $50.00 per person. Please come out on November 17th and support us, your community, and one of Reno's best and most worthy non-profits.