EdmundsStJohn Newsletter...

Finally...that crack Director of Sales, Marketing, and Public Relations at EdmundsStJohn mega-corp got off their duff and put out another newsletter:
EdStJohn#80Newsletter

Alas, I was hoping for the long-awaited announcement of PamelaAnderson as the National Marketing Director for EdmundsStJohn....but I guess they're still keeping it under wraps.
Another informative and good read from Steve. But his waxing nostalgic about BobDylan makes me think the guy's getting old!!

Tom

I got mine yesterday and thought it was quite interesting. One thing confused me though. Steve went into the business at the age of 25 and then said something that lead me to believe he is getting to his 25th year in wine. That would make him 49 or 50. If that is true he has another real similarity to Bob Dylan, been rode hard and put up wet many times.
Walt

What scares me is I understood much of what he was saying. I saw essentially the same Dylan show in Portland.

I got mine yesterday and thought it was quite interesting. One thing confused me though. Steve went into the business at the age of 25 and then said something that lead me to believe he is getting to his 25th year in wine. That would make him 49 or 50. If that is true he has another real similarity to Bob Dylan, been rode hard and put up wet many times.
Walt

The numbers don't quite add up, do they?? Maybe he figured somebody would do the math, come to that same conclusion, and not think of him as old!!
But we all know better, don't we....don't we???
He's not giving a full accounting there of when he went into the biz. He was around 25 yrs old (if you go back into his earlier newsletters, you can find this
really cute pic of a freckly-faced teenage SteveEdmunds....who must of made the girls swoon) when he left the post office work and went to work at Dean&Deluca in WalnutCreek, as I
recall the story. And then maybe a stint at SolanoWineCllrs. And another place or two, maybe. Then he started his wnry down in LowerBerkeley about
'85 or '86. So that's the 25'th Aniv he's speaking of, I think. Followed him from the very start...I did, I did.
But don't let Steve fake you out into thinking he's only 50. I can say...with great authority...that he's well North of 60...as I look back in my rear view mirror!!!
Tom

[David M. Bueker]

Oh but he was so much older then. He's younger than that now!

I got mine yesterday and thought it was quite interesting. One thing confused me though. Steve went into the business at the age of 25 and then said something that lead me to believe he is getting to his 25th year in wine. That would make him 49 or 50. If that is true he has another real similarity to Bob Dylan, been rode hard and put up wet many times.
Walt

Steve would have to look backward quite a ways to be 49 or 50. And his memory isn't what it used to be.

My favorite part of the newsletter was this line from the description of the Wylie-Fenaughty Syrah:

"Derided by the most influential wine critic in the country."

Makes me want to clear out some rack space for a case or two.

My favorite part of the newsletter was this line from the description of the Wylie-Fenaughty Syrah:

"Derided by the most influential wine critic in the country."

Makes me want to clear out some rack space for a case or two.

You should, Doug, you should. The '01 is only now entering prime time IMO and the '05 looks to me to eventually overshadow the '01.

Mark Lipton

Steve went into the business at the age of 25 and then said something that lead me to believe he is getting to his 25th year in wine.

Technically, he said that 2009 was the 25th harvest for ESJ. I also did a double take on the math but then just assumed that he spent some years in the wine business before starting ESJ.

Walt; I got rode hard and put up wet too many times when I was a kid, but no, I'm 62. I was in the retail end of things for a dozen years before starting ESJ. But I must have some sort of gift for inciting guys like Tom and Hoke into being provocateurs.

[David M. Bueker]

But I must have some sort of gift for inciting guys like Tom and Hoke into being provocateurs.

It doesn't take much. Actually it doesn't take anything.

I didn't wade in because I'm merely an amateurvocateur - and and old fart, too.

My favorite part of the newsletter was this line from the description of the Wylie-Fenaughty Syrah:

"Derided by the most influential wine critic in the country."

Makes me want to clear out some rack space for a case or two.

You should, Doug, you should. The '01 is only now entering prime time IMO and the '05 looks to me to eventually overshadow the '01.

Mark Lipton

Mark, I have 5 bottles left from the half-case I bought last Dec. Probably won't be enough if it's going to age that well.