Highly unlikely. While I'd love to I'm out of town every Mon-Thu right now, and Fridays are for dinner with family. If it turns out that the kids have stuff planned without me I'll be there in a heartbeat.

Put me down as a maybe......definitely want to go.......haven't seen schmoke or Pete in a long time and really want to hang w/ Matt. there's some stuff going on w/ work and, more importantly, my mom having surgery that may intercede......but I definitlely would like to go to this one.

speaking of schmoke, where the hell is he? waiting for the WS to end?

Just realized, i have a huge meeting on Saturday 12/5 if you can believe it. never had a client sched a new biz pitch on a weekend before. 1st time for everything. I am likely out but the date may shift yet so count me as maybe.

Why would Wine Spectator end?


FWS...

Damn, would have loved to been there for this but I will be on a flight to FL that morning............

Have fun fellas!

a definite maybe + 1....and promise to leave my yankee hat at home

hugh

Just came across this (would help if I had been anywhere near this forum in the last 45 days)!

My diet allows me to cheat every other weekend ... and since the weekend before this is Thanksgiving ... and the weekend after this is my company's Holiday Party, I'm out.

If anyone wants to put something like this together again in the future, and I am not active in the forum, please PM me. I have lots of great wine that I'd love to share, and this would be soooo up my alley!

Im in if there is still room.

I know its probably bring what you want but give me an idea of number of bottles, average bottle age, ect.

Oooh, that's a dangerous question...

a very dangerous question ...

Well lay it on me.

seems like we'll be doing a free-for-all...i will be bringing up 2 bottles i think. If we wanted to do the single-blind tasting with the prizes, we should decide soon. Each person pays an additional $40 - which goes to buy some prizes (i.e. badass wine). prizes are awarded to the person who brought the WOTN and also to the person that most accurately tasted the wine (varietal, region, etc - we can figure this part out later if there's interest).

Can't make Tribeca Grill but I should be able to make this one.

Not for this, but what would be a blast is to do this idea with one super grand prize...So we get an offline with 15 people, everyone tosses in $50 and we get Ian to come along and bring a $750 bottle of his choosing. Do it as all blinds, and the person who does the best walks with the killer bottle.

Then again, I could just give Julius $50 and save myself a trip into the city.

Another idea I pitched once is that everyone brings two bottles - one blind to taste, and one to go up as a prize. The person who names the most blind takes home a mixed case of goodies hand selected by everyone else.

I like both of those ideas - i'd be down for incorporating either of those into December's tasting.

you guys are full of ideas ... next you'll go over to the dark side and become mot-ter-ators ...

don't make me do my first "merge"..(w/ "moderator** keeps abusing his duties" thread)

Didn't you get fired from tasting note duties?