<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Anthony I would be fumming too, when you have a excellent product an they go the other way. Its like they want to spend ten million dollars to fix up harpers house , its all crapp. Maurice.
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: CanadaVintage <canadavintage@hotmail.com><BR>To: growwine@littlefatwino.com<BR>Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:56:34 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Growwine] A wine for Canada's 2010 Olympics<BR><BR>Same deal here in Quebec. We got undersold by the same crap for Quebec's <BR>400th anniversary celebration this summer.<BR>Lost an order for 100 cases to a "cellared in Canada" piece of crap wine <BR>from Vincor who dumped the product into Quebec at $8/bottle.<BR><BR>What is even more to my disbelief is that the sommelier responsible for the <BR>purchase actually thought he was buying a 100% Canadian wine until I called <BR>to inform him! They still went ahead with the Vincor gut rot.<BR><BR><BR>VQA fails at so many levels its not even funny anymore!<BR><BR>Anthony Carone<BR><A href="http://www.caronewines.com/"
target=_blank>www.caronewines.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Ryan Daum" <<A href="mailto:ryan@darksleep.com" ymailto="mailto:ryan@darksleep.com">ryan@darksleep.com</A>><BR>To: <<A href="mailto:growwine@littlefatwino.com" ymailto="mailto:growwine@littlefatwino.com">growwine@littlefatwino.com</A>><BR>Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:30 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Growwine] A wine for Canada's 2010 Olympics<BR><BR><BR>>I see now what Larry was trying to send:<BR>><BR>> <A href="http://ontariowinereview.com/joomla/content/view/254/61/" target=_blank>http://ontariowinereview.com/joomla/content/view/254/61/</A><BR>><BR>> So it's even worse. The wine to represent Canada is<BR>> Constellation/Vincor, "Cellared In Canada" wine.<BR>><BR>> How pathetic.<BR>><BR>> Ryan<BR>><BR>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:07:55PM -0400, Ryan Daum wrote:<BR>>> That link isn't working for
me.<BR>>><BR>>> But, if I were to nominate a single wine for the Olympics, I'd use the<BR>>> following criterion:<BR>>><BR>>> 1. It should be from B.C. since the games are hosted in Vancouver.<BR>>> 2. It should be something unique, and not be trying to copy/imitate<BR>>> French or other new world wines. Let's not be pretentious.<BR>>> 3. It should make a statement, be powerful.<BR>>> 4. It should be a quality wine.<BR>>><BR>>> So I'm going to suggest the Quail's Gate Old Vines Foch. The<BR>>> unfiltered reserve version I tried some years ago that turned the<BR>>> inside of my face purple and left crazy lees on the bottom of the<BR>>> decanter. That ought to scare the wine critics.<BR>>><BR>>> But instead, I bet you'll see Osoyoos Laroose or something else that<BR>>> will remind the world that Canada is still an ex-colony trying
to<BR>>> impress the mother country.<BR>>><BR>>> Ryan<BR>>><BR>>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:52:09PM -0400, Larry Paterson wrote:<BR>>> > <A href="http://ontariowinereview.com/print/owr_newsletter_0082.pdf" target=_blank>http://ontariowinereview.com/print/owr_newsletter_0082.pdf</A><BR>>> ><BR>>> > from Michael Pinkus<BR>>> ><BR>>> > comments?<BR>>> ><BR>>> > Lardy<BR>>> ><BR>>> > Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc<BR>>> > (Little Fat Wino, Roving Drunk, Alcohol Distribution Channels Critic)<BR>>> ><BR>>> > <A href="http://www.littlefatwino.com/" target=_blank>http://www.littlefatwino.com/</A><BR>>> ><BR>>><BR>>> > _______________________________________________<BR>>> > Growwine mailing list<BR>>> > <A href="mailto:Growwine@littlefatwino.com"
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