In Reply to: Bunk bunk bunk posted by Doghead on October 01, 2000 at 09:48:28:
I'm sorry to hear about Dr. Parce departing to the grande tacqueria in the sky. May he have mucho mirrored balls and "mas musica discos" to pass away eternity. Bon ton roulet!
Thinking along those same lines, maybe the Southerners (France, not Alabama) are making more Banyuls instead of Colliure because it's a dessert wine and collectors keep buying dessert wine but never get around to drinking them? They can charge more for them because they get higher scores because Mr. Parker likes big sugar.I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been to wine dinners where the them is like "Off Vintage Bordeaux to Go With Blinis" or something like that and at the end of the dinner everyone whups out a bottle of dessert wine. Just how much d'Yquem and Trockenbeerenwhatsis is there out there in cellars that will never be drunk (unlike me, who occasionally is)? So if they make dessert wine, their reputation will remain in the books because it tasted good when it was young and nobody will drink it anyway. But with dryer wines, collectors might actually drink them and the wineries run the risk that people will find out that they're paying a lot of money for wine that doesn't taste as good as it costs.
But before people wake up to this fact, the Parce Collioure prices keep getting higher while they can and I think that they're very nice wines but don't taste so good when you compare them to other Collioures on the market. They're better, but not as much better than the price difference would suggest. Just like stereo equipment (I thought I'd bring up stereo gear because after all, the MyAsuylum people are sterophiles)(which is not illegal, at least here in West Atherton). Anyways, Chet has a really good hi-fi setup. It's so good that he won't let me or the boys near it. He's sunk enough "muy dinero" into it that he could be buying Burgundy instead (ha-ha). After buying one thing and then trading it in for another, BETTER one (like an amp or record player or something) it seems that he pays about 50% more to get 3% better sound. And don't get me started about the hookup connecter cables! Talk about throwing money away by the fistful! Consumer Reports says that lamp wire sounds as good as more expensive wire but Chet says his ears are more cultured than last year's yogurt and that he only deserves the best (he says that about me too and who am I to argue?) so he spent $1200 on some speaker wires that are as big around as a horse's _______ (well, you can fill in the blanks, but let's just say they're pretty big wires). And he puts the wires on little stands so they don't interact with the floor. He says it has something to do about the direction of the electrons needing to line up with the direction of the grain in the hardwood floor. It's a mystery to me. Just like why Parce's Collioure costs more than Pietri-Geraud's. And why does Leroy's Musigny cost four times more than anyone else's? Pardon me for asking, but is it REALLY that much better or are we being asked to pay for the exclusivity? Or maybe we're being asked to pay for the biodynamic mumbo-jumbo that Madame Leroy uses (and that could cause her to lose everything if glassy wing pierces ever break out in France because she didn't put copper on her grapes). Well, I for one am taking a stand right here and now. From here on out, I refuse to buy anymore Leroy wine. I'll just drink Leroy that my friends buy.Here's to better living through liposuction-
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