Comments on: Brunello vote, a different perspective, and some blogs I’ve been reading

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:35:18 +0000

hey dr j, nice to see you the other evening. just wanted to mention that at the last of the wine club meetings we had (verticals of Oddero Barolo 78, 67, 64, Marchesi di Barolo 64, 61, 55, Prunotto 85 Barolo Bussia 1.5L, hey! what could i do!? it was my turn to host!). as a surprise one guest brought a Soldera 85. It was simply spectacular! It was a wine I was unfamiliar with, what a pleasant surprise. Keep your butt moving, and your glass full.

By: susannah16

susannah16 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:16:47 +0000

Thanks for the shout out. Loved your NYC pics. Excited to see your article at The Tasting Panel…Congrats.
SG

By: Strappo

Strappo — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:21:45 +0000

Nice to be invoked. A pleasure, I’m sure.

FYI, I check my stats less obsessively than I used to. They’re shitty now anyway. I need to write more political screeds, I guess. But I have other things to worry about.

Give my regards to Tejas.

By: Do Bianchi

Do Bianchi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:57:25 +0000

Benoit, I will see you tomorrow night and we will discuss vintages for Barolo and Brunello. There’s two Bs in Barolo and Brunello, btw… what music are you going to cue up for Tracie B’s first visit to the JG???!!!

Dave, thanks for the kind words. Franco is hard to translate but I think it’s important for his voice to be heard among English-speaking lovers of Italian wine. I have to confess to some poetic license in my translation, however. I translated “voto bulgaro” as “landslide vote.” A “voto bulgaro” or “Bulgarian vote” refers (I believe) to a pre-Soviet-era practice of holding “yay/nay” voting whereby a chorus of yays would drown out any naysayers. If anybody has any information on this expression, please share it…

By: dave

dave — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:21:19 +0000

Ciao, Jeremy:
that’s a terrific translation of Franco Zilliani’s post… Understanding the difficulty of seeing the depth of emotion in something this personal, I feel as though Zilliani himself were reading it to me..
It’s a difficult conundrum the Brunellese find themselves in.
Perhaps Strappo was right.. there will be some who continue to blend in other varietals, and for them there should be another DOC (although that’s why Super-Tuscans were invented).
Also a fine reference to Alder’s thoughtful post.
come al solito, i migliori auguri.
dave..

By: Benoit

Benoit — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:18:03 +0000

Thanks for the plug buddy. Look forward to this weekend when y’all gonna be at the JG. That “B” is two syllables by the way.

By: beth - the wine school

beth - the wine school — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:36:26 +0000

I, for one, am glad you’re blogging. As for the Brunello debates, the local Italian wine specialist at the school had this to say – http://www.wineclass.net/the-wine-world/closing-that-can-of-vermicelli/ – if you are at all interested.

Thanks Jeremy for continuing to enlighten, translate, and entertain.