The Real Wine Attack has been transformed to Vulcano Vini Veri tonight as 5 Italian winemakers arrived in Seattle.
Several Italians are stuck in Italy and a large group of French wine makers are hoping against hope to get here for our Monday tasting. Or to be in San Francisco for our Tuesday tasting. Or New York for our Thursday tasting.
The tastings will go on and Volcanic Ash be damned! Airports are blocked, vignerons are sleeping on airport floors all over Western Europe and we have no idea what will happen over the next few days.
Will Franck Peillot get here? Eric Texier? Marc Ollivier?
Marc Ollivier slept last night on the floor of the Clermont-Ferrand airport trying to get a flight to Milan to connect in Miami to a New York Connection for Seattle. Unfortunately, the Milan to Miami segment was cancelled.
Franck Peillot drove to the Montpellier Airport (since Lyon was closed) to get a flight to Madrid, then Dallas Ft-Worth and finally Houston. He missed the Montpellier flight by 15 minutes on account of a tractor-trailer accident near Nimes which delayed traffic.
Eric Texier drove off on Thursday morning and his wife, parents and children have no idea where he might be.
The worst case scenario is that we will hire actors and I will alternate between dressing up as François Pinon and then dressing up as Thierry Puzelat.
But the tasting will go on! No volcanic ash can stop this movement!
Remember what Jules Chauvet said:
Il n'y a pas d'affaires comme les vins nature-business comme aucun d'affaires que je sais
Tout y est attrayante, tout ce qui permettra la circulation
Nulle part vous ce sentiment heureux quand vous volez que l'arc supplémentaire
Il n'y a pas des gens comme de montrer aux vignerons, ils sourient quand ils sont faibles
Même avec une cuvée raté que vous savez fois, vous pouvez être bloqués dans le froid
Mais vous n'auriez pas le changer pour un sac d'or, nous allons continuer avec le Real Wine Show!
take the train to the plane