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In Reply to: Only one bottle? posted by Chris Coad on October 23, 2000 at 16:02:37:
Hello Chris!I'm jealous that you've even seen a bottle, much less own one! This is one tough wine to find! I think I read about it in some magazine last year. There an aura of underworld skullduggery mixed with upper class shenanigins surrounding them...if I'm not mistaken, didn't the two owners (Scott and Clark) meet at prep school (they are both heirs to paper company fortunes, as in Scott Tissue and Kimberly-Clark)? They developed a special finishing filter making use of the latest tissue fabrication research into the weaving of hemp and titanium. However, they ran afoul of the law because the importation or growing of hemp violated several USDA regulations, not to mention a couple of rules administered by the DEA (if you get my drift). Plus the titanium was sourced from the former Soviet Union and it may or may not have come from a decommissioned missile silo and it may or may not be radioactive (which might in part explain the glowing reviews the wine received in the Wine Enthusiast). So it could be that the "insurance settlement" you alluded to above might actually be categorized as "destroying the evidence" but that's for others to decide, not me, not now. At least I'm knowing that I know someone who has a bottle. That's what, one degree of separation?
I'd like to chat more, but I've got to be getting back to work on my next Garden of Eden column. The kids were absolute terrors this weekend and Chet wasn't in a much better mood (he's a big time Giants fan and he's still pissed that the Giants didn't make it into the series and the Mets have turned out to be so lame) so I haven't had time to keep up like I normally do.
Adios amigos!
Eden
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