Randy Wigginton
Wine Connoisseur
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 | | 08/10/2006 1:17 PM |
| VC's ScottJ is coming into town for a few days in September. I'd like to take a straw poll to find out who would be interested in an offline. I've generally found Sunday evenings easier to work into the schedule, but I'm trying to gauge interest and size of such an event.
As they say in Chicago & Florida, vote early, vote often! | | | |
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Stefania Wine
San Jose, CA
Grape Puncher
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| | 08/10/2006 2:44 PM |
| | i prefer Saturday's | |
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Stefania Wine
San Jose, CA
Grape Puncher
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| | 08/10/2006 3:21 PM |
| and...not to speak for DavidN but he really wanted to keep these to no more than 12. He felt it gives a better chance to interact and talk over the wines with everyone there.
Personally I really like this too. Ten worked out really well at the first get together. | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
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| | 08/10/2006 7:13 PM |
| Quote:
and...not to speak for DavidN but he really wanted to keep these to no more than 12. He felt it gives a better chance to interact and talk over the wines with everyone there.
Personally I really like this too. Ten worked out really well at the first get together.
That is true unless there are 50 people that want to travel to San Jose to meet Scott. 
I prefer anything but Wednesday, Friday or Saturday.
Wednesday night is ok if we want to go to my club and it is an all male group. | | | |
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NorCalVinoLover
Barrel Sampler
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| | 08/11/2006 4:45 PM |
| I'm in for a offline
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
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| | 08/11/2006 5:51 PM |
| | You going to stick around for a while David? It's good to hear from you | | | |
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yhn
Grape Destemmer
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| | 08/12/2006 8:30 PM |
| | I'm interested. | | | |
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scottj
Houston, TX
Grape Fermenter
Posts:559
| | 08/14/2006 4:39 PM |
| Any day and any place is fine with me.
I'd also prefer to keep it to 10-12 people. I'll get to see the 50 of you in November for the Cal Cab Smackdown.
Randy, thanks for organizing this !
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Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
Barrel Filler
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| | 08/22/2006 8:01 AM |
| | We are definitely interested. Either day will probably work equally well. | |
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Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
Barrel Filler
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| | 08/24/2006 4:12 AM |
| | Anyone interested in a Don Melchor vertical? My 2003s just arrived and I'm thinking I should open one to see how it compares to the 2000 and 2001. | |
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Randy Wigginton
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5510
| | 08/24/2006 2:26 PM |
| | Let's do this on Sunday, September 10. In general Sundays are more open for me, and DavidN as well. So... where to have it? Any votes, preferences, etc? | | | |
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scottj
Houston, TX
Grape Fermenter
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| | 08/24/2006 4:59 PM |
| Sunday sounds good to me ! I'll let you locals figure out the best location ...
I have no Don Melchor, or any other Chilean wine, for that matter. My cellar is predominately CA, and I would prefer to bring a younger wine, as it will travel better.
Dave, I will bring an '02 Monte Bello to leave with you for the Cal Cab Smackdown in November. That way there's no possibility travel shock could be an issue.
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Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
Barrel Filler
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| | 08/24/2006 5:27 PM |
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Sunday sounds good to me ! I'll let you locals figure out the best location ...
I have no Don Melchor, or any other Chilean wine, for that matter. My cellar is predominately CA, and I would prefer to bring a younger wine, as it will travel better.
Dave, I will bring an '02 Monte Bello to leave with you for the Cal Cab Smackdown in November. That way there's no possibility travel shock could be an issue.
I'll be happy to store your Monte Bello for you.
Regarding the Don Melchor, on rereading my post I phrased it very poorly.
I have 2003, 2001 and 2000 and was offering to bring all three so we could compare, assuming that there's interest.
I don't think Sunday 10th will be a problem; we have one of the grannies visiting so babysitting is already taken care of. However I think I'd prefer a fairly early start if possible. | |
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Stefania Wine
San Jose, CA
Grape Puncher
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| | 08/25/2006 12:54 AM |
| 10th should be fine.
do we have any theme going? | |
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Stefania Wine
San Jose, CA
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| | 08/30/2006 5:20 PM |
| Any more details?
And would anyone mind if I brought a barrel sample along? | |
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Randy Wigginton
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5510
| | 08/30/2006 5:49 PM |
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Ok, looks like we have 6, possibly 7:
ScottJ
TLily
Dave_tong
DavidN
NorcalVinoLover
Yhnx (potential)
RandyW
I'm thinking of Alexander's steak house, right off of 280 & Wolfe. (The old El Torito for old timers) They have lots of room, the service is pretty wine-friendly. I haven't talked to them, but I'm certain it would not be an issue getting in there, perhaps I can talk them down on corkage. Unless someone else has a suggested restaurant that doesn't serve too many capers? 
Theme: Something good you want to share
Let's try not to make this a high-toned shootout, let's focus on having fun.
What do you think? How about a 6 PM start time? | | | |
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Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
Barrel Filler
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| | 08/30/2006 6:57 PM |
| | Put me down as +1 - Ali will be coming too. | |
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Stefania Wine
San Jose, CA
Grape Puncher
Posts:725
| | 08/30/2006 6:59 PM |
| | I'll be +1 also. I'll see yhn on Friday and see if he's in. | |
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scottj
Houston, TX
Grape Fermenter
Posts:559
| | 08/30/2006 9:06 PM |
| tlily, barrel samples are good
Randy, Alexander's at 6 sounds good to me. I suspect it would be beneficial to all of us if you can get them to do something on the corkage. Just a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of bottles opened
"Something good" as a theme is fine. I'll dig through the cellar this weekend and pick out a bottle or two to bring.
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Stefania Wine
San Jose, CA
Grape Puncher
Posts:725
| | 08/31/2006 5:26 PM |
| | I'm gonna cross post on ws and winodepot. | |
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