WITHSTAND

[winecollector]

Sounds like my kind of wine! Now, what did I do with my saw?

[Bucko]

What, two pages? Lord save us......

Bucko

[winecollector]

Yea, it's a real shame. This is probably the most publicity WITHSTAND has ever had. I can just see IK happily jumping up and down in a vat of grapes now. Will they make this a holiday? I just can't.... WITHSTAND this any longer....

Bucko- Can you do us all a favor, and put one of those "lock things" on this thread?

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[Botafogo]

don't lock it up without the following statistics:

We have 2,000 labels on the floor and NO Merlot (the most popular varietal in America?) and yet we posted a 50% year to year growth for the first quarter.

We have eight Chardonnays (unfinished ones, without bubbles that is) and only three of them are from California and yet somehow we manage to stay in business.

If we can ever get enough Lagrein Dunkel (an incredibly dense and textured red from Alto Adige) here at one time, we are going to replace the (small, mostly Northern Italian) Cabernet section with it and don't think we will lose one customer....

Our issue isn't that those grapes are "evil", they are just usually a lot less interesting and a lot MORE expensive than many other choices.

Roberto

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[Bucko]

I tried to put a lock on it and the dang thing just runs off, shrieking horribly.....

Bucko

[winoweenie]

Boto, maybe not the rarest, but Petrus is sure as the devil close to the most expensive yar-iny-ar-out .WW

[RAD]

Roberto, I am by no means a merlot "ho" (sorry, couldn't resist--it's this damn pinot noir I'm drinking); and further, I know how you dislike Tuscany relative to other Italian regions; but Avignonesi's Toro Desiderio merlot (in the 1997 vintage, at least) is an absolutely incredible wine--in the $50 range.

Perhaps there are better values; but having not as yet had the pleasure of Petrus passing my lips, if I had to pick only one wine to have in my cellar, I would not be unhappy to have this one--

RAD