It has been a few years. Did I miss anything?
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Monopole Cru for sure
AI is now a big thing. . .
I am still fat.
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I don’t think we’ve had any open letters…
We really are due.
Open letters are quite blasé now, sporadic incoherent tirades is what’s in vogue
Terroir is scientifically explained and defined.
Burgundy has been officially certified better than anything else.
Serving anything other than champagne as a food pairing is punishable by law.
Natural wines are faulty.
Unnatural wines are not.
The thinner the glass the better the wine.
This is the vintage of the millenium.
CellarTracker is a money grabbing scam.
German red wines exist.
Napa is dead.
Shipping is more than 50% of a wine value, any wine.
You cannot say a wine is oaky because of oak use.
Vatan is overrated.
Berserker Day is now a billion dollar business.
Trolling has been abolished.
Hi, I’m Phil. And I approve this message.
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So… no.
We definitively solved bottle shock, the nature of objectivity among critics, cork vs screw cap vs diam and whether Monte Bello is worth it. As such, we all agreed that no one is allowed to post about these things anymore.
(Michael, you gave me great walla walla advice and sold me a bottle of Cameron Dundee Hills about 15 years ago when I was in Portland on my honeymoon. Belated thanks again.)
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Alternatively…
Terroir is bunk
Burgundy is dead at retail
Someone will always say beer would have been a better pairing
Natural wines are all Gen Z drinks
Unnatural wines are the same wines
The thinner the glass the bigger the ego
There hasn’t been a good vintage since 1994
CellarTracker is free, but it isn’t
German red wines shouldn’t exist
Napa is…
Shipping is a profit center for wineries
You can say a wine is oaky even if there’s no oak used
Vatan is overrated (OK, this one is right)
Berserker Day is a scam of unflippable wines
Trolling is life on Arrakis
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Everyone agrees on the benefits of giving wine air, whether it’s audoze, double decant, regular decant, etc.
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This has my vote for post of year so far 
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Jeez, I wish this not so incredibly close to the truth!
Great list btw
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This one guy said something then another guy said are you trolling? and this cycled back and forth for a few hundred replies.
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Yeah but the one guy was right about the thing, and everyone who disagreed had a shite palate.
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Especially if you take total shipping incl crossing the Atlantic
Then there is bottling ……
Bordeaux is the best value in the wine world right now.
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I invented Teeny Tiny.
In the Asylum, it’s been reported that the 49ers still haven’t won another’ Super Bowl . . . and neither have the Eagles.
Also crypto was a bad bet . . . but became a good trade?
did we ever had such a row of ‚best ever‘ vintages in BDX before?