Do negative retailer checks get deleted? Just wondering.

[Gary_Ahearn]

I searched the WB forum to find info on PJ wine, NYC. Nothing. So I googled and came up with PJ Wine - Caveat Emptor! - Wine Pimps - WineBerserkers and posted a response. But the original Rick Dyer post is no longer listed on the forum–I went back some 200+ pages and checked. A conspiracy?? Am I going to see black helicopters overhead tonight?

[CFu]

I have a feeling it’s because the database doesn’t search for two letter words like PJ. If you click Rick Dyer and look, his thread is one his first page of posts so it’s definitely there. But when you type in any two letter word + the word wine, the database thinks Wine is too common and the second word PJ is too short. If you type in PJS wine, you’ll get hits for the store, but not the thread you’re looking for as no one says PJs only PJ

Also it’s not in winetalk to begin with. Rick posted it in Wine Pimps that’s why you don’t see it in wine talk.

[Gary_Ahearn]

@C Fu

Also it’s not in winetalk to begin with. Rick posted it in Wine Pimps that’s why you don’t see it in wine talk.

Whew! I can sleep easy tonight. Thanks.

[John_Morris]

The WB search engine doesn’t turn up lots of things it should.

[Mark_C]

@John Morris

The WB search engine doesn’t turn up lots of things it should.

Wait…there’s a SEARCH Function?

[John_Morris]

Be fair. It works – what? – 50% of the time?

[Bill_Tex_Landreth]

@John Morris

Be fair. It works – what? – 50% of the time?

[PaulM]

For the record, the PJ folks have always done right by me (and they have an excellent Spanish selection).

[Jim_V_a_n_P_e_l_t]

@John Morris

Be fair. It works – what? – 50% of the time?

An interesting perspective, and I have no opinion on it. But the next time someone asks a question on this board, and someone responds “hey idiot, why didn’t you search for previous responses to this same question”…well, maybe we should be more understanding / sympathetic if “50%” is real. Though frankly, I’d make the same point if “search” was at 100% efficacy.

[Brent_C_l_a_y_t_o_n]

I don’t think you will find many locals who will criticize PJ’s, and I’m close enough to be a competitor. Great prices and particularly strong in Spain/Sherry.

[J_a_y_H_a_c_k]

I was at PJ’S for the first time last week. Sherry selection is great. I suspect better than the next five places in New York combined.

[John_Morris]

In floor space, I think it’s second only to Astor in NYC – around the size of Zachy’s. They have far and away the largest Spanish selection in the area, but they’re also pretty strong in most other regions – Germans, Italians and California wines. I’m less keen on their French offerings, but they have a lot. They’re also have an excellent selection of wines in the $15-$25 range, from France, Spain and Italy (e.g., Loires, Dolcetto, Cotes du Rhone and the like), and their prices are almost always lower than anyone else around on those.

Their policy is to have the lowest prices in the area, and I think they live up to that. I’ve never had a hitch with any delivery. I’ve been shopping there for at least a dozen years.

Most of the stock turns over pretty quickly, but I would be cautious about buying high-end things that have been on the floor for a long time. The temperature is not bad, but I don’t know that I’d want to buy, say, a Bruno Giacosa that had been sitting there for four years.

If you haven’t visited, it’s a bit incongruous because there are oodles of old Riojas and JJ Prums and expensive Burgundies, but the walk-in customers are buying rum by the gallon or wheeling out kegs of beer.

[Jorge_Henriquez]

@John Morris

or wheeling out kegs of beer.

I get the rum part, but beer? In a NY state liquor store?

[J_a_y_H_a_c_k]

@Jorge Henriquez

@John Morris

or wheeling out kegs of beer.

I get the rum part, but beer? In a NY state liquor store?

Hyperbole. No beer. They get that at Flair down the street, which is the largest Corona seller on the east coast. However, when I was there last week, there were these stacks of cases of bottles with chartreuse and pink colored liquids in them at the checkout lines with prices like $3.59 a bottle. I was afraid to look what they were for fear I might be accused of being interested in the stuff.

[Jorge_Henriquez]

I know Flair quite well. Decent, small selection of craft beer towards the back and prices are phenomenal for a few things.

[John_Morris]

@Jorge Henriquez

@John Morris

or wheeling out kegs of beer.

I get the rum part, but beer? In a NY state liquor store?

Good point. It must have been kegs of rum.

[John_Morris]

@J a y H a c k

However, when I was there last week, there were these stacks of cases of bottles with chartreuse and pink colored liquids in them at the checkout lines with prices like $3.59 a bottle. I was afraid to look what they were for fear I might be accused of being interested in the stuff.

So I take it you passed on the hard-to-find Old Tavern from Moldova?

It’s a sweet red with actually wood stumps attached to the bottle in fake plastic bark to resemble pruned branches. I highly recommend it if you like the smell of shoe polish.