WS 100 Top Wines

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This was our reaction:

Swimming with Sharks...a Love Story.
We would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to all of you assistants, secretaries and go-fers out there whose boss is about to plop down the year end issue of an (overly!) influential wine rag with their Top 100 Wines of the Year and tell you that your continued employment depends on finding him a case each of the top five or ten listed. Do not bother trying to tell him that the list is a compendium of wines highly reviewed throughout the year and nearly all are now either sold out or being flipped at 3 times the release price. He will just do his best rendition of Kevin Spacey as the evil studio exec in Swimming with Sharks and tell you ---You are nothing, you do not think, you exist to make my thoughts into actions, find it or you are fired!---. We have been touting lawyer customers for years on this being a rich vein for a class action suit for harrassment....and, no, we do not have any of the wines either (and never did, actually). But, after all, how seriously can you take a list of the supposed one hundred best wines of the year that only has ONE Champagne on it? Pa-leeeze! But we DO have lots of wonderful things that we have rigorously field tested as both delicious compliments to food and friends and as groovy gifts with the added upside that they will not be tripling in price in the coming week....

On another note, I wonder how many spritzers will be made out of expensive Reussec after people but cases of it because it is Wine of the Year and then they have no idea how to appreciate a great Sauternes? We often comment that Parker giving a Sonoma Merlot a 93 will sell 10,000 cases but he could give an Austrian Dessert Wine a score of 105 and people would go "oh, that's nice, what do you have in a Syrah?"