Favorite customers of the week...

[Botafogo]

You guys completely missed the point:

A) the fact that he is an Academy Award winning film editor and she is a regluar in local legit theatre and some art films has NOTHING to do with their love of wine and their travelling the globe when possible to pursue that love. Verne, a LOT of people would dismiss "Arizona based carpet manufacturer" with the same flick of the wrist but WE know better...

B) The wine in question DOES have an intense acrid, barnyardy nose when first opened yet the wine IS amazing.

C) The point of my post was to congratulate them for having the knowledge and courage to dive in and drag their friends along for the ride...

I was at a tasting of "Italian Wines" (but mostly diGrazia science projects) recently where some yahoo was going on about how ALL wine must be "clean" and "balanced in all aspects" to be any good, completely ignoring the funky side of many of the world's very best wines and the fact that that missing or overwrought component in a wine tasted by itself may in fact be either supplied by or exist in order to compliment some aspect of the typical cuisine of the zone of production.

Roberto