MIA No More
2012 March 19
Greetings from Strasbourg. Sorry for the silence since all the Kurniawan news broke; last week was insanely hectic. My thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion regarding Kurniawan’s arrest. It is a remarkable story, and it will be interesting to see where it goes from here. Thanks, too, to my friend Dr. Vino for unexpectedly pinch-hitting with an installment of The Wine Ethicist on Friday. I am traveling through the weekend but will try to resume regularly scheduled programming while on the road.
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We interupt this hiatus to announce the winner of the 57th annual All-England Summarize Proust Contest.
Oh, no! Am I to be denied the flatulent aroma of authentic Muenster and the artery-clogging power of Strasbourg’s singular foie gras?
Forget Steinberger, I am beginning to worry about Strasbourg. Anybody seen it lately?
This could be the break that I have been hoping for. If I play my cards right, I could become the Charles Krauthammer of wine journalism!
Bill,
OK, you lead and I’ll show you the way!
Along those lines I’ve registered a blogspot for you: winemirest.com.
Basically a layout of fauxtopical mudholes where posters will come and wallow around for your entertainment; and you can sink one from time to time for everybodies entertainment.
You- Khayyam. Me- a pot.
McCallum ghostwrote the pot wine article in Daily Beast, just to try and keep Steinberger’s name out there. You have to admit, the dry “1985 Roumier Bonnes-Mares in the other hand” quip is very much in the classic Steinberger style. Maybe we don’t even need Mike any more. Perhaps Dan and I can collaborate, and maybe even get the Slate column back, since we are willing to work for free!
And here he is!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/michael-steinberger.html
Not sure about others but I am having serious Steinberger withdrawals. The title should read: MIA some more
“Final Results of Our Independent Inquiry into the Miller/Campo Matter”
Reads like a hypothetical “Henry IV for Dummies for Dummies”.
The platform is that the whole arrangement was necessitated by Miller’s linguistic limits. Then on to various Dear Leaderisms. All ignoring that Mr. Parker had apparently been the initial catalyst bonding Miller and Campo. And the grand finale- in the interests of propriety, Miller’s output in the period of questionable propriety will not be made available for scrutiny.
Mike’s actually on a pleasure cruise on the Amalfi Coast, yachting around with Pancho and Rudy, poppin jeroboams of (Rudy’s favorite) 1921 Ridge Monte Bello, taking complimentary chopper rides, and tasting/scoring-with-tremendous-precision a couple hundred similar wines in one sitting. You know that’s how Mike likes to roll!
An Independent Inquiry??????????????????????????????????????
Even Mr. Parker seems to be bothered by Mike’s absence.
He [Parker] has just released the “Final Results of Our Independent Inquiry into the Miller/Campo Matter” over on the WA website.
Surely this must be a cleverly designed ploy to smoke Mike out of whichever spiderhole he’s currently hiding in…
Klapp. I have received an email from Mike that he appoints you as his official replacement on this site for two weeks. He wants you to post about the ethics of wine critics using the ABA American Model Rules of Professional Responsibility as your guide. Fire away.
All is forgiven…..please come home.
There is the persistent rumor that Parker is attempting to stage an MTV-style Celebrity Death Match between Mike and Neal Martin , with the victor to replace Parker as Wine Advocate Bordeaux critic. However, negotiations with Mike’s agent have bogged down, since Mike reportedly will not give up his silly letter-grade system of scoring wines in favor of the 100-point scale (invented by James Suckling at roughly the same time that Al Gore invented tge Internet)…
“Will he no’ come back again?”
Mike Steinberger…the Howard Hughes of wine bloggers? You be the judge…
Perhaps Dr. Vino, Brooklyn Wine Guy and Keith Levenberg can pinch hit for you? You’ve been MIA much too long. Hope all is well!
The title of this post is becoming increasingly ironic…
No longer MIA — now really MIA!
I hope it means lots of research on a Rudy book.
Looks like you are back on Slate.