Mionetto "Sergio"

[Thomas]

You are correct: I won't let the Winebow and Vias sales people near me. I want to deal with human beings, not with human beens.You should hear (you probably have) what some of the Italian producers say about you know who at Winebow.

One of the things that truly pisses me off is that these guys can get away with almost any price in restaurants. But by law, whatever price they post for restaurants they also must post for retailers; so we get to see the real highest prices for wines ever conceived, which is why we are going more and more to the source, and working with an importer who IS a human being.

I'll get out to SMonica one day--after a few priorities. My next trip will be October--Bergerac (to see a winery from whom we buy direct) and then a car trip through Languedoc and up to Avignon, for plaizure, as Verne would say.

But you know Roberto, I am growing nearer and nearer to wanting out of this business. I love wine too much to have to sell it in this ridiculously oppressive system. If only I was smart when younger to have socked away more retirement money--the way Verne did. I hear the geezer is so well set that he only has to breath in and out twice before he racks up a few thousand more in intereset payments.