A fair restaurant corkage fee is:
$15 on the SF Peninsula...so some spots are waiving it just to get you into the restaurant.
A tell-tale sign of a wine snob is:
A one-sided comversation about wine.
The wine region I most want to visit:
I missed Beaujolais the first time around Burgundy.. I should have trzvelled those beautiful vineyards.
My "wish list" of wines I want to acquire soon:
A few more of the 2009 Beaujolais Crus.
My biggest wine pet peeve:
The Anti-wine Snob who thinks that wine is nothing but an affectation.
My dream wine to one day taste or own:
Any wine that will move me to tears.
The best wines I have ever tasted:
Some dry Rose's while I was eating French baguette bread, olives and cheese while gazing at the 2000 year old Roman Pont du Gard aqueduct near Nimes, France.
The people with whom I most often enjoy wine:
Family and friends....even if we don't have the same palate preferences.
The last wine I had that I absolutely loved:
Vissoux 2009 Brouilly Cru Beaujolais.
What I think of the movie Sideways:
Loved it! It brought wine into the mainstream conscious..
My thoughts on the 100 point rating scale made famous by Robert Parker and emulated by seemingly everyone:
It's tilted toward backward, tannic wines that need decades to transform. A true 100 point wine is the best representation of its class, whether it be a Rose' or a Pauillac.
My wine travels have taken me to the following wine regions:
Champagne, Bordeaux, Alsace, Burgundy, Chianti, Rhone Valley, Bandol, Napa and Sonoma CA Valleys, Santa Barbara CA, Mosel and Rhine in Germany, Southwester France near Toulouse, Chablis and a few others thaI I cannot recall.
