Stu Yaniger??

Anybody know whatever happened to the InterNet wine legend Stu Yaniger?
Inventor of the NeoCork and the ThreeStooges wine scoring system.
Not heard anything about him in yrs.
Tom

I don’t know anyone who called him Stu. He gravitated away from wine forums many years ago. His thing these days (and it was then when he lived in the Bay Area and we hung out) is building high-end audio equipment.

Isn’t he living in Texas?

Arizona. Wisconsin previous to AZ and Texas before that.

The 3 stooges rating system was funny and as good as any

May your next bottle be a Curly and not a Shemp

Tom, thanks for bringing this guy to my attention.
And it appears he does go by the name of “Stu”.
https://syclotron.com/

Yup, Mitch…the two times I met/tasted with him, everybody was calling him Stu.
And I seem to recall he signed his posts as Stu.
Tom

Funny, at every offline I attended with him, we all called him Stuart. Or worse…much worse :wink:

I love the warning on his website to the effect that high voltage is used to kill prisoners so be careful.

I’ve always thought of high end audio stores as somewhat parallel to fancy wine shops. At the former you are always greeted by some guy who can hear dog whistles.He starts speaking a language for which several degrees in electrical engineering are a prerequisite. His usual customers are a bunch of highly obsessive, opinionated men somewhat tolerated by their wives,or not at all by their exes.

The glory days of the high end audio store have passed because big stores with ads in the NY Times or on line have stolen a lot of their business.

Sound familiar?

I know Stuart pretty well but it has been a while since we got together in person. Never heard anyone call him Stu but to each his own. Besides being a PhD scientist for his real job, is quite active in DIY audio. I have a couple pieces he built and all are interesting designs. Far as I know he still drinks and enjoys wine but it is far from his current focus nor has it been for quite a while. His partner in crime, JD, I have not heard nor seen in many moons. Both are hilarious and good peoples.

John, JD retired and IIRC from what Stuart told me, he moved to either Idaho or Montana (could be one of the Dakotas). Sunday 49er games with those two was about as entertaining a time as one could have.

Best tasting note ever.

I don’t even have to open that link to know which wine it was. Folks I know who tasted that wine told me it was even worse than Stuart’s description. He was on Dressner’s sh*t list after that note. Not that Stuart cared.

I had thought that TN was actually from Chris Coad - perhaps he had also done one on that wine in a similar (and possibly better-written) vein.

Nope, Stuart wrote it. The offline was in SF and Chris wasn’t in attendance.

Yup - just edited my post :slight_smile:! Do you recall if there was one from Chris?

Don’t know. Chris’ website no longer exists and I wouldn’t know where else to check.

It was the '93 Overnoy Poulsard. Freaky stuff.

I spoke to him a few years ago and I believe he was living an hour or so north of Chicago. He lost much of his once epic Rhone collection in divorce.

Btw, I always called/call him Stu.

Brad, 1993.

Yeah, meant that. I’m on a very bumpy bus at the moment.