I'm being more oblique than usual this week, because if I PoSted the title I wanted, it would probably get changed... so the words I wanted to use are in there.

And PoSt away, folks!

Courtesy of CJ:

cjsiege wrote:Upcoming Woot Wine Gatherings…All The News for the week of March 4th.

March
3/10: NorCal #12: Volcanic Terroir and/or Eastern European Finds
TBD:Minnesota #{something in the teens}: It's About Time!

April
4/21: NYC #19: Napa Black Tie Event
4/27-28: Ohio Wine Dinner with Scott and Jana Harvey
TBD: NoVA/DC #26: Theme TBD

May
5/19: CyberPub Cellars 2011 Rogue Rhone Bottling- NEWEST Thread!

July
7/23-25: RPM's History Tour, Part 1
7/25-29: RPM's History Tour, Part 2 (Dates set, Deposits due 3/5)

Pending
TBD: Arizona Verde Valley Winery Weekend
TBD: Dallas #11

Looking for some helping hands:

• South Florida Interest Thread
  
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• Missouri Interest Thread
  
• Central NC Interest Thread
  
• Albuquerque Interest Thread
  
• Lake County/Chicago Interest Thread

No events in your area??? Start one! Create an interest thread in the World of Wine Woot Community Tab!

SO join or create a gathering now!

PS, nice pub title

NY folks - I'll be there Fri night to Monday afternoon for my nephew's bris. If anybody will be around, let's go for a glass of wine!

SoCal folks - wine locker suggestions, especially near Culver City? I need to start looking into this stuff.

klezman wrote:PS, nice pub title

NY folks - I'll be there Fri night to Monday afternoon for my nephew's bris. If anybody will be around, let's go for a glass of wine!

SoCal folks - wine locker suggestions, especially near Culver City? I need to start looking into this stuff.

I am free Saturday evening!

I might be able to do saturday night...

klezman wrote:PS, nice pub title

NY folks - I'll be there Fri night to Monday afternoon for my nephew's bris. If anybody will be around, let's go for a glass of wine!

SoCal folks - wine locker suggestions, especially near Culver City? I need to start looking into this stuff.

I had looked into it, but they were pretty expensive. Cheapest was by Van Nuys airport or down in Irvine where zTimBz, I, and others have our lockers.

Cesare wrote:I am free Saturday evening!

I'm sorry for this, but...What wine pairs well with a Bris?

gregorylane wrote:I'm sorry for this, but...What wine pairs well with a Bris?

Whiskey.

mother wrote:Whiskey.

To be more specific, Cutty Sark.

Question re. Game of Thrones. I see three different versions of "The Complete First Season". Are they just different packaging, or do they contain different content?

Loweeel wrote:I'm being more oblique than usual this week, because if I PoSted the title I wanted, it would probably get changed... so the words I wanted to use are in there.

If it helps (and I'm sure the same is true of Bowtie) my mind reads the title as you intended it anyhow...

polarbear22 wrote:Question re. Game of Thrones. I see three different versions of "The Complete First Season". Are they just different packaging, or do they contain different content?

Not being exactly sure what ones or where you're looking - I would probably say some might contain different content. (For example the blu-ray version on the HBO shop has an "exclusive video".)

Still, I'm looking forward to my DVDs tomorrow!

inkycatz wrote:Not being exactly sure what ones or where you're looking - I would probably say some might contain different content. (For example the blu-ray version on the HBO shop has an "exclusive video".)

Still, I'm looking forward to my DVDs tomorrow!

I was looking at Best Buy.

There is a "Stark" version, a "Targaryen" version and just complete first season. I am guessing it is just packaging, but cannot find anything that says so.

(And all three can be either blu-ray or DVD.)

polarbear22 wrote:I was looking at Best Buy.

There is a "Stark" version, a "Targaryen" version and just complete first season. I am guessing it is just packaging, but cannot find anything that says so.

(And all three can be either blu-ray or DVD.)

Hm, looks like just exclusive to Best Buy packaging. Nice though! Are you more of a Stark or Targaryen fan?

(I just got regular packaging on my DVDs because I tend to store my stuff in DVD boxes or drawers, so those things don't matter much.)

Cesare wrote:I am free Saturday evening!

PetiteSirah wrote:I might be able to do saturday night...

I will keep you posted. I suspect the whole family will be in town and want to see me that night, but they will also likely go to bed early. Send me your emails?

inkycatz wrote:Hm, looks like just exclusive to Best Buy packaging. Nice though! Are you more of a Stark or Targaryen fan?

(I just got regular packaging on my DVDs because I tend to store my stuff in DVD boxes or drawers, so those things don't matter much.)

I don't get HBO, so I haven't seen any of the show. Read the first three volumes, and need to retrace before I read more. Too complex and I lost track of who's who.

Thanks for the help.

Interesting article about wine critics and self selection.

“Wine experts are more likely to have a very exquisite, acute sense of taste that the rest of us can’t sense,”

link to the referenced article

And after seeing the original article was written in October, it may have been posted before...

mother wrote:If it helps (and I'm sure the same is true of Bowtie) my mind reads the title as you intended it anyhow...

I have no idea what you mean. Best I could come up with was the pacific rim of fire. Must be the result of eating food from western mexico? Doesn't sound like a pleasant job to me

grrrrrrr....

klezman wrote:I will keep you posted. I suspect the whole family will be in town and want to see me that night, but they will also likely go to bed early. Send me your emails?

I can do post-dinner on Saturday in Manhattan. Let me know...PM or email!

bhodilee wrote:I have no idea what you mean. Best I could come up with was the pacific rim of fire. Must be the result of eating food from western mexico? Doesn't sound like a pleasant job to me

NOBODY but Bowtie click on this: http://goo.gl/S3mZ3

Cesare wrote:I am free Saturday evening!

PetiteSirah wrote:I might be able to do saturday night...

I theoretically might also be able to find my way into the city area Saturday night. I'll be doing housebuilding for Habitat for Humanity during the day, but I should be home plenty early to relax and then be available to go out in the evening. Keep me in the loop about details.

mother wrote:NOBODY but Bowtie click on this: http://goo.gl/S3mZ3

MarkDaSpark wrote:-- scared sparky --

You asked for it. He warned you.

mother wrote:NOBODY but Bowtie click on this: http://goo.gl/S3mZ3

Mother, mother, mother....I am disappointed in you. It went right over your head. I didn't want to be too obvious and reference Montezuma's revenge. Though thinking back I shoulda have gone biodynamic and dropped a preparation H joke. Oh well.

In related news. A new Chinese place opened up by my house. It's middling, but it has a drive through which led to this text exchange:

bowtie's wife: This place has a drive through, that will be nice

bowtie: So did the pizza joint that was there before

bowtie's wife: But they didn't use it.

bowtie's wife: Not like that fellatio place

bowtie: I WANNA GO THERE

bowtie's wife: Oh My Gookie! , I typed Gelato! I swear

just dropped a pretty petty buying birthyear wines for my sister's bday... that with the korea trip i have planned for next week means i'll be drinking tap water/woot wines i have stacked at home for survival until independence day...

bhodilee wrote:It's middling, but it has a drive through which led to this text exchange:

Classic Autocorrect. That's just awesome.

Though I wonder, how often does your wife use that particular word in texting that it decided she meant THAT instead of Gelato?

Soooo......anyone want 16L of wine in one vessel? Magnotta Winery

I have never heard of it before today, when a coworker brought it up to me. Seems like a pretty reasonable price :confused:

cheron98 wrote:Classic Autocorrect. That's just awesome.

Though I wonder, how often does your wife use that particular word in texting that it decided she meant THAT instead of Gelato?

I know right!

cheron98 wrote:You asked for it. He warned you.

As if. Especially after seeing some of the stuff the juvies used to put up during Woot-Offs.

justinrsanderson wrote:Soooo......anyone want 16L of wine in one vessel? Magnotta Winery

I have never heard of it before today, when a coworker brought it up to me. Seems like a pretty reasonable price :confused:

Magnotta is an interesting winery. Their VQA wines are genuinely good while their imported stuff tends to be middling or worse bulk juice. There was a mandate in Ontario a while back that some percentage of wines be packaged in tetra-pak or equivalent, so this is probably helping with their requirement.

justinrsanderson wrote:Soooo......anyone want 16L of wine in one vessel? Magnotta Winery

I have never heard of it before today, when a coworker brought it up to me. Seems like a pretty reasonable price :confused:

when i saw 16L of wine, i was thinking

http://www.hdhwine.com/auction-wine-detail/1203/La-Grande-Rue/687

:P

just a tad different... haha

MarkDaSpark wrote:As if. Especially after seeing some of the stuff the juvies used to put up during Woot-Offs.

I should have stopped to put up a "Free Deer" sign next to the one that ran into us on the way home from South Dakota yesterday.

Moondragon wrote:I should have stopped to put up a "Free Deer" sign next to the one that ran into us on the way home from South Dakota yesterday.

Ssshhhhhh!!!!

Moondragon wrote:I should have stopped to put up a "Free Deer" sign next to the one that ran into us on the way home from South Dakota yesterday.

Eek! You ok? Car?

cheron98 wrote:Eek! You ok? Car?

See? and my first thought was how did you get to South Dakota going from San Diego to Wyoming? Only to realize that South Dakota is also SD. though, in my own minimal defense, we were just in San Diego over the weekend.

But yeah, you didn't just put the deer on the hood an find a local butcher?

joelsisk wrote:See? and my first thought was how did you get to South Dakota going from San Diego to Wyoming? Only to realize that South Dakota is also SD. though, in my own minimal defense, we were just in San Diego over the weekend.

But yeah, you didn't just put the deer on the hood an find a local butcher?

Can't, you gotta call the cops and the officer on scene has to issue you a Roadkill permit. You can't just take it to be butchered.

I will now go dye my neck to hide the massive red stripe.

bhodilee wrote:Can't, you gotta call the cops and the officer on scene has to issue you a Roadkill permit. You can't just take it to be butchered.

I will now go dye my neck to hide the massive red stripe.

damn bureaucratic red tape

joelsisk wrote:damn bureaucratic red tape

That truly is stupid. I think in this State it's like ten bucks for a roadkill permit. You send it in later obviously, you don't hand it to the cop. It might be free though, happily I've never had that problem. Well, until tonight now that I've jinxed myself.

Potty Emergency!!

From last week's Pub:

otolith wrote:I would! I'm biking, just indoors...holy crap do the rollers make you sweat.

I have found the perfect solution for training while posting, wine-bottle holder included. It's genius, I tell you!