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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 1:26 PM
Well, that might be a slight exaggeration ....
You see, I had a class in New York City yesterday, and Judi decided to tag along and do fun things - she spent the morning at a turkish bath in the financial district and then saw Spring Awakening in the afternoon.
After my class got out we were going to go to dinner together, but had some time before our reservation, so decided to stop at Morrell Wine Bar, which is right off Rockefeller Center, as have a drink. It was crowded (like usual) and after getting the wine list we managed to find a spot at the window bench. Judi then pokes me and point to the bar (which is about 4 feet away) and who should be there but Andrea Immer:
If you don't know who Andrea Immer (now Immer-Robinson) is, she is one of only 14 women in to be appointed Master Sommelier by the prestigious Court of Master Sommeliers, hosted shows on Fine Living include Simply Wine and Wine Pairings with Andrea, and her latest effort being "appointed Master Sommelier for Delta Air Lines, for whom she will be choosing all of the in-flight wines as well as developing flight attendant wine training and in-flight video entertainment." It apparently was for one of these in-flight video entertainment spots that she was filming in Morrell's (according to the camera guy we were talking to).
One neat thing we found out was that the wine they are talking about, that you think they are drinking, is not really what they are drinking. They said they like to talk about wine that people can find where they live relatively easily - which wasn't the case for the wine they had been poured.
So, if you ever find yourself on a Delta flight, viewing a segment with Andrea Immer in Morrell's Wine bar, just keep in mind that the camera man shooting the scene was basically in our lap :-)
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Wine Geek
Hi Phil! How's it going? Tom Kobylarz here! In hoc brother! Wow its been a while since I used that catch phrase! Hey good to hear you have a budding wine career. I have a small business on the side too, mostly to pay for my wine geek habits! Check out my blog:
www.tomswineblog.blogspot.com OR www.tomswine.blog.com
So how do I get on your mailing list for this venture?
I have a long stroy about my wine geek upbringing, but it mostly stems from when I moved to San Francisco for a few years and got bit by the wine bug. Then being back in NY I missed it so much I jumped head first into education, journals (WS,WA, aSIMOV) collecting and attending as many tastings as I can! Thankfully my fiancee is interested, good to see you guys are in it together!
-Koby
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Wine Geek
Hi Phil! How's it going? Tom Kobylarz here! In hoc brother! Wow its been a while since I used that catch phrase! Hey good to hear you have a budding wine career. I have a small business on the side too, mostly to pay for my wine geek habits! Check out my blog:
www.tomswineblog.blogspot.com OR www.tomswine.blog.com
So how do I get on your mailing list for this venture?
I have a long stroy about my wine geek upbringing, but it mostly stems from when I moved to San Francisco for a few years and got bit by the wine bug. Then being back in NY I missed it so much I jumped head first into education, journals (WS,WA, aSIMOV) collecting and attending as many tastings as I can! Thankfully my fiancee is interested, good to see you guys are in it together!
-Koby
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