DEAR ABBY'S AT IT AGAIN

[EPICURUS]

Hats off JDM. You educated the editorial board and the public.

Where the hell do you get all the time to pursue the 100s of wine related issues that you do? Do you sleep at all? Wallace tells me that the answer is no.

The Lodi Woodbridge group established the Integrity Award and it rightfully went to Patrick Campbell, your columnist, and people tell me a vintner. Some other association ought to set up an award for the champion of causes benefitting the wine industry. Maybe Free the Grapes which has some sort of annual list of pro winers. Better yet, like the NWIWC, how about a Jerry Mead Award, custom designed in class or silver, given in your honor and in your spirit to some dragon slayer? I suppose though you have to kick the bucket first. So I guess we have to wait 30 years for such a trophy.

Your humble servant,

Epi

(EPICURIOUS was my original moniker over at AOL, but it was stolen by Conde Nast, forcing me to dispense with the play on words)