Is this what they teach about “rare vintage claret” in business school?
A parody from the BBC show “Mitchell and Webb.” Merger!
Jan
25
2012
Dr Vino's wine blog
wine talk that goes down easy
2 Responses to “Is this what they teach about “rare vintage claret” in business school?”
Leave a Reply
Featured jobs:
Wine Maps
Recent Comments
- What’s a go-to supermarket wine? [Reader mail]
- What’s a go-to supermarket wine? [Reader mail]
- Veau chaud – veal hot dog – impossible food-wine pairing?!?
- Who invented wine’s 100-point scale?
- What’s a go-to supermarket wine? [Reader mail]
- What’s a go-to supermarket wine? [Reader mail]
- What’s a go-to supermarket wine? [Reader mail]
Recent Posts
- Where in the wine world are we? Retail edition
- Moscato di Nasty?
- Bordeaux battle of the business schools — to the victors go the nobly rotten
- Is this what they teach about “rare vintage claret” in business school?
- Sobriety pill wants to take the kick from champagne
- How and why did light beer come to be the choice of NFL viewers?
- France is a “banana republic” says Guffens
- ACI, NYU class, New School talk, Quintarelli
- China’s top wine influencer
- Chinese wine smuggler sentenced to life in prison
Highlights
- Carbon footprint of wine
- Finding birth year wines
- The X'd files
- Changes at the Wine Advocate?
- Blind tasting Bordeaux 2005 with Robert Parker
- "Impossible" food pairings!
- Cork art projects
- Bring home wine from travels
- Get your Bojo working
- Kids at wineries, a contest
- Screwcap-cork showdown
- Best box wines of 2008
- Don't have pinot envy
- XO XO from Cognac with love
- Leaders and liters of wine
- Wine collecting Q&A
- See who's threatening us now!
- My visit to a foie gras farm
- Malbec, a backup or a star?
- My backgrounder on Argentina
- Putting stemware to the test
- Making a case: 12 gift wines
- Take my styrofoam away
- Stretch your wine dollar: buying tips
Monthly Archives
Blogroll
Categories
- American wine
- announcements
- Argentine wine
- auctions
- Australian wine
- Beer
- best wines
- Bling
- books
- Bordeaux
- bottled water
- business of wine
- Champagne
- Chicago
- China
- cocktails
- cognac
- corks
- corkscrews
- dining
- eco wine
- events
- foie gras
- food and wine
- French wine
- giveaway
- grapes
- green wine
- guest post
- highlights
- how to
- Italian wine
- leaders and liters
- Mature wine
- meetups
- New York City
- On notice!
- photo captions
- podcasts
- Polls
- Port
- Portuguese wine
- reader mail
- rose
- sake
- Spanish wine
- spirits
- tasting sized pours
- The real wine world
- TV and movies
- Uncategorized
- vinexpo
- Weather
- wine and health
- wine and sports
- wine and tech
- Wine Blogging Wednesday
- wine blogs
- wine classes
- wine collecting
- wine gifts
- wine in india
- wine labels
- wine picks
- wine politics
- wine quizzes
- wine random
- wine science
- wine scores
- wine shops
- wine technology
- wine travel
- Wine under $10
- wine writing
- winemaking
- winespeak
Dr. Vino via email
Follow
@drvino
Advertise
Subscribe
Subscribe via RSS
Dr. Vino's daily dose
Follow on Twitter!
Wine industry jobs
quotes
One of the “fresh voices taking wine journalism in new and important directions.” -World of Fine Wine
“His reporting over the past six months has had seismic consequences, which is a hell of an accomplishment for a blog.” -Forbes.com
"News of such activities, reported last month on a wine blog called Dr. Vino, have captivated wine enthusiasts and triggered a fierce online debate…" The Wall Street Journal, 5/26/09.
"...well-written, well-researched, calm and, dare we use the word, sober." -Dorothy Gaiter & John Brecher, WSJ
One of the "seven best wine blogs." Food & Wine,
One of the three best wine blogs
Fast Company,
On January 25th, 2012 at 2:16 pm ,Tullia F. wrote:
I took a course in law school that was cross-listed with the business school. Scheduling times to work on group projects was a nightmare – the biz school students had mixers every night of the week.
One day after class I snuck into a biz school event (held in tents erected over the tennis courts) and in addition to the wine and cocktails, there was an ice sculpture and a live grand pianist. Also ceviche. I didn’t try the wine, but it looked classier than two buck chuck, but less expensive than vintage claret.
On January 26th, 2012 at 8:02 am ,Terroirist » Daily Wine News: Ground Effect wrote:
[...] long as we’re drinking claret every time we hear the word ‘merger,’ we drink 25-year-old scotch everytime we hear the [...]