Favorite customers of the week...

[Botafogo]

We have a young couple from Pasadena as customers (he is in production, she is a working actress) who came in on Friday to buy a couple of cases of wine and related the following:

We opened this 1990 Brunello we bought here a few years ago for a special dinner party and, after we poured it, every one of the ten guests had exactly the same reaction: "This smells exactly like a urinal!"

I am bracing myself for a rant about how the wine ruined their party and a demand for a refund when the girl says with a demonic glow in her eyes "But THEN, when we put it in our mouths, it was God's tears, the best wine of the year, it made my Porcini Truffle risotto sing!"

In this day and age of hyper sterilized, filtered to extinction wines the mere fact they DID put it in their mouths and learn something about the Funk and how wines from the dark side of the tracks are often the most interesting truly impressed us. They were even upset that we did not have any more.

Roberto, the Funkmeister General

PS: I attended a broad tasting of "Italian" wines at a customers house last night where 90% of them were di Grazia science projects that tasted like aussie Shiraz and the hands down favorite of the crowd was a bottle of ultra-traditional, get on the good foot and shake your fat booty Bea Montefalco Rosso that I had slipped into the mix. People were shocked, SHOCKED that a wine could have no apparent fruit yet so transcend mere grape juice and become WINE.