Originally published on June 13, 2010.
So I’ve been going on about various versions of That Customer #4, the one who comes in looking for the vinous equivalent of a needle in a haystack. While coming in with a picture makes it much easier to track down a given wine, it doesn’t make it any more likely that this wine will be on the shelf. But today, That Customer was very very lucky.
The conversation started as usual, “I’m looking for a specific wine.”
But…he had a picture (and it was a very clear picture.)
And…..I actually had the wine! The very wine in the very clear picture!
It was Robert Sinskey’s Abraxas, a very cool white field blend from California. Abraxas is an Egyptian Gnostic god and the letters in his name represent the seven classical planets. Apparently today, the planets were all well aligned.