Unless, of course, it’s the Glasvin Keith Levenberg tulip glass. 
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My glass is for Berserkers, and Berserkers are generally banned from fine dining establishments.
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Keith. I went forward and bought two of your glass designs from Glasvin. Very elegant.
Ate dinner in the bar room in the Fall and had a fantastic experience from both food and wine perspective. We BYO’d 3 bottles and were charged for none of them. The food was excellent and Somm staff outstanding.
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Galloni is getting surprisingly little shit for his post. Maybe we’re in the bubble.
Galloni’s business model doesn’t appear to be very popular hereabouts. I would assume that if his subscribers don’t push back on his bespoke subscription options for the trade, they won’t push back on a restaurant review.
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Hadn’t thought about that in a while. A friend recently got a very high score from Galloni for a new release. First time ever. I saw it as soon as it hit Vinous and texted them congrats. They asked how did I find out!?
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When he pulled the early access garbage, I canceled my subscription. Not sure I have lost much, if he bitches about a 176 page wine list where prices are not outlandish. We obviously have different values.
What lie did you come up with to avoid admitting to having a Vinous subscription?
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Depends on what I wanted to eat. Maybe a 2000 Calon Segur, which retails for $200 and costs $510 at Modern. Or a 1996 if I wanted to bring a wine not on their list. I refuse to pay 150% over current retail for any fairly expensive bottle.
If Modern had half price wine days, there are many wines that I would consider buying from their list.
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that’s pretty funny actually. i don’t actually have a subscription but i have root access to their database via a darkweb backdoor tool.
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That’s pretty good. The judges would also have accepted, “I got hacked and the perp subscribed to Vinous and a bunch of porn sites.”
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Seems to be a lot of heated up folks here, but does anyone actually know what the gripe really was? Seems to me from the early posts, it wasn’t the actual wine LIST or selection, which is what people keep citing as being outstanding. Anyway…keep the critic hate flowing.
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It’s an opinion.
Why give him shit? He doesn’t deserve it if he’s right. My most recent experience was on par with his.
And much like him, it’s not going to stop me from going.
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You are right, his post was about the service being sub-standard.
Not the list.
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It does seem to have a bit of a drive-by slam of the place. And maybe clickbait.
People’s reactions may have been aggravated by the heading on the thread, too. “Calls out” implies he was correct, and we don’t even know what the complaint was.
true story is actually rather benign. maybe 3 laptops ago, i brought it somewhere and that person needed to look up a wine and they logged into their vinous acct on chrome which i have set to auto-save logins, and the rest is history. this person is no longer in the wine trade so not sure how long this will go for. kind of like the story of chanukah.
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Apologize, might be have used the term calls out the same way the Chefs I worked with used it. Restaurant lingo sometimes doesn’t translate well in the normie world.
The point of my post is that there are lots of reasonable price wine on the list for sub $150 which are expense account friendly And I would add most of here would love to drink.
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i totally get your point. very fair.
and i wasn’t clear in making mine; i don’t care what opinions he holds and of course his job is to sell those opinions. i do think it’s a little cheeky to vaguely tease a complaint on his public IG and then say “come to my paid site later if you want the actual details.”
though brad trent’s reply got him to commit to posting the wine part on IG.
this is dumb lol
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