Forgot to mention yesterday that at the crab feed I sat across from the regional sales person for J Lohr Winery. Since I've been to almost every wine shop in the SF Bay area (that's not as sad as it sounds, wait, yes it is) we compared notes on the wine shop owners. There is one that is infamous among wine sales guys as being owned by 2 of the biggest *ssh*l*s ever. I mentioned the shop to this guy and he just rolled his eyes and went off with his horror stories. I'd heard others. This is the shop I called up and asked if they had a David Bruce Petite Sirah. They didn't and replied (insert heavy German accent here) "you don't want that, you want a real syrah" (refrerring to the grape, not the winery). No I didn't, and I went somewhere else. The best story I heard about these people was when they went into a restaurant owned by someone I know and brought their own wine. They asked my friend for a decanter for their wine. He brought it out and the husband makes a great display of sniffing the decanter and says (insert heavy German accent here) "this decanter is dirty, bring me a new one." So my friend heads to the back, curses them, and brings out the SAME decanter, Husband makes great display of sniffing decanter and pronounces, "Much Better".
posted by Dave @ 7:02 AM
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