97 Robert Craig Zin

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WW,
Wow thanks! I am always ready to put the in the extra effort, to get a great bottle. Yeah, I did come home from
my trip to find some interesting holes on my shelves. It's kinda entertaining to watch anymore. Ex: Many, many months ago I bought some Pride Merlot. Sadly, I had to really, really hand sell it. Even some of my regulars stalled. Then the rag gave it a 93 and low-n-behold it was gone overnight. Why is it so hard for some people to listen to a wine person, a real live person? (And I'm not talking my age/sex, that's another story.) I mean, why do they think we're there? To order/sell wines "after" WS reports on them? Shish, many of them are not even available to order at that point. Ex #2: Recently I watched a guy (that I did approach) go through my wines with his palm pilot for some 20 minutes. Finally, I could not take it anymore, and asked to see this wine program. He was very, very nice about it, but then he started to ask me which wines I liked, comparing my thoughts to those on his toy. Beauty of it was I named several (US) wines that has data base had no idea about. (It held about 15,000 wines) He ended up buying one of the Peachy Cannon Zins that I suggested (and yes, it was in agreement with the pilot). I do admit that it was a neat little program, it goes by a PQR, seemed fairly on target, and you can update it every 6 months (I think it's 6). Makes me wish I had thought of it. Cha-Ching$$ Doubt it will ever replace a real live person though,: explaining what it was like the first time they tasted a particular wine, what they actually matched this wine with with for dinner last night, or what that wine means to them now, after hiking up a steep hillside to see what the Mosel Valley feels and looks like in the middle of crush, at dawn. Now that sells wine. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img] Hats off to all of you for sharing your questions and knowledge on this board, and elsewhere in your lives!!! At least we, and those we share with can get a jump on the "Great Bottles"!