What would Proust drink? A WLDG survey, part 3

[David M. Bueker]

So here we go with part 3 of the survey. Five more questions. Most folks know the drill, but if this is hte first time you have clicked on the series, a quick review of Part 1 will give you the background. Feel free to check in on Part 2 as well.

As per usual, copy and past the questions into your post, and tell us your answers:

Your favorite wine maker is…
Your least favorite wine maker is…
Your favorite historical wine figure is…
Your least favorite historical wine figure is…
The event in wine history you consider most important is…

[David M. Bueker]

Your favorite wine maker is...Manfred Prum of J. J. Prum. This was tough for me, as I have so many favorites just in Germany!

Your least favorite wine maker is…Justin Smith of Saxum for making blueberry pancake syrup (lots of candidates here as well)

Your favorite historical wine figure is…Jesus Christ - because he did what we would all love to be able to do!

Your least favorite historical wine figure is…the U.S. Senate for the 18th amendment to the US Constitution

The event in wine history you consider most important is...the Romans planting grapevines all over their dominion

Your favorite wine maker is…Terry Leighton of Kalin Cellars next would be Philip Togni

Your least favorite wine maker is…Jason Woodbridge just first name to come to mind

Your favorite historical wine figure is…Thomas Jefferson

Your least favorite historical wine figure is…that guy (now in jail) who sold all that fraudulent wine in Cal.

The event in wine history you consider most important is…corks as wine bottle closures

Your favorite wine maker is… Jonathan Oakes of Leonard Oakes I know him
Your least favorite wine maker is… If you can't say something nice...
Your favorite historical wine figure is… Konstantin Frank I met him.
Your least favorite historical wine figure is… Carry Nation
The event in wine history you consider most important is… Introduction of phylloxera to Europe (a bad thing)

[Robin Garr]

Quick and intuitive, off the top of my head. Tomorrow's answers might be completely different.

Your favorite wine maker is…
Tons of them! Based on having met the wine maker as opposed to merely loving his wines, though, and not counting Howie Hart ... I think a three-way tie between Jim Clendenen, Patrick Campbell and the forum’s own Steve Edmunds!

Your least favorite wine maker is…
I’m going to go with Michel Rolland here.

Your favorite historical wine figure is…
Whoa, that’s tough. I think I’ll go with Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He might have been wrong to banish Gamay entirely, but his vision guided Bourgogne on the road to greatness.

Your least favorite historical wine figure is…
I’ve got to say Marvin Shanken. Lacking RMP’s saving graces, he introduced a generation of Americans to a view of wine that taught them brand and price snobbery is the way to go.

The event in wine history you consider most important is…
The evolution of the glass wine bottle, making long-term storage and transportation of quality wines commercially viable.

Your favorite wine maker is…
Joel Patterson because he is known as he “Godfather of Zin”

Your least favorite wine maker is…
Don’t have one.

Your favorite historical wine figure is…
Charles V. Riley, (one of the) saviour of the European vine.

Your least favorite historical wine figure is…
Temperance movement in the US

The event in wine history you consider most important is
The first prehistoric person to dabble a finger in fermented grape juice and taste it.

Salute

Your favorite wine maker is…
Judging by numbers in my cellar, my favourite estate is Fèlsina but I know no names there. As an individual I choose Jean-Paul Jamet


Your least favorite wine maker is…
Another vote for Michel Rolland


Your favorite historical wine figure is…
Arnaud de Pontac, 17th century owner of Château Haut-Brion, who developed modern claret as a wine capable of improving with age under cork in bottles


Your least favorite historical wine figure is…
Neo-prohibitionists in government Public Health authorities and medical schools


The event in wine history you consider most important is…
The progressive spreading of wine cultivation, started by the Greeks and Romans, resumed by various European colonists.........and now by the Chinese and Japanese

[David M. Bueker]

Well Michel Rolland is sure taking his lumps.

Victor - Joel Peterson? Ravenswood? Doesn't hurt that he's also Morgan Twain Peterson's father, and Morgan is doing great things with Bedrock.

Your favorite wine maker is… Living: Merry Edwards. Dead: Henri Martin

Your least favorite wine maker is… Whoever the hell came up with "Cheerwine". It made the worst Coq au Vin I ever had.

Your favorite historical wine figure is… Agoston Haraszthy (for many reasons, not least of which the fact that he might have been eaten by alligators)

Your least favorite historical wine figure is… Daktulosphaira Vitifoliae

The event in wine history you consider most important is… that night 9 months before Louis Pasteur was born.

[Jenise]

Your favorite wine maker is… Do not currently consider anyone a favorite, though I like and respect many. The most influential was Madame Nicolai of Chandon de Briailles in Burgundy, though were she alive she would not even remember my visit. She just said things that forever altered my thinking.

Your least favorite wine maker is… Anyone who makes 15%+ wines and is proud of it, i.e. Tobin James.

Your favorite historical wine figure is… No opinion

Your least favorite historical wine figure is… No opinion

The event in wine history you consider most important is… Outside of my own personal epiphanies, another category to which I have given no thought whatsoever.

Your favorite wine maker is… Hard to pick just one Tenuta San Guido, and then Franz Haas, Biondi Santi, Angelo Gaja, Marisa Cuomo
Your least favorite wine maker is… Gotto d'Oro - you don't wanna know!
Your favorite historical wine figure is… Juliette Colbert
Your least favorite historical wine figure is…Eleanor of Aquitaine - did good to Bordeaux but she was mean!
The event in wine history you consider most important is… First bottle of Barolo by Juiette Colbet and Louis Oudart

Your favorite wine maker is… Jim Cowan because he told me I am cool, and Howie Hart because he is Howie Hart.
Your least favorite wine maker is… no answer to this one
Your favorite historical wine figure is… another vote for Agoston Haraszthy and honorable mention to Robert Mondavi
Your least favorite historical wine figure is… those who tore out old-vine zinfandel
The event in wine history you consider most important is… on a personal basis, North Carolina permitting direct shipment from U.S. wineries to residents of the state

Your least favorite historical wine figure is…the U.S. Senate for the 18th amendment to the US Constitution

Any reason the US Senate irritates more than the US House and the state legislatures? (whose concurrence was required for the amendment to be proposed and ratified, respectively). As an aside, I was surprised to learn that 46 of the then 48 states actually ratified the 18th amendment--though only 36 states needed to ratify it for it to become part of the US Constitution (Connecticut and Rhode Island rejected it, according to Wikipedia). I wonder if any other constitutional amendment saw such near-unanimity in its ratification . . .

Any reason the US Senate irritates more than the US House and the state legislatures? (whose concurrence was required for the amendment to be proposed and ratified, respectively). As an aside, I was surprised to learn that 46 of the then 48 states actually ratified the 18th amendment--though only 36 states needed to ratify it for it to become part of the US Constitution (Connecticut and Rhode Island rejected it, according to Wikipedia). I wonder if any other constitutional amendment saw such near-unanimity in its ratification . . .

Lol. Ah, pedants.

Just answer the OP's questions so we can all get outta here and go drink to the Blaine Act.

Your favorite wine maker is…
Jacques Lardiere (emeritus), Steve Edmunds (current)

Your least favorite wine maker is…

Your favorite historical wine figure is…
Dom Perignon (at least the myth)

Your least favorite historical wine figure is…
The guy who imported vines with phylloxera to Europe

The event in wine history you consider most important is…
me being served 1982 Gloria about 1991, it's was the start of MY real wine history

[David M. Bueker]

Your favorite wine maker is…
Jacques Lardiere (emeritus), Steve Edmunds (current)

Isn't Jacques going to be making the wine for Jadot's Oregon venture?

Your favorite wine maker is… Heidi Shrock who called me from Austria to answer my email inquiry regarding food pairing for one of her wines. She was concerned that an email response would not have been timely enough to prevent a “food match catastrophe.”

Your least favorite wine maker is…The guy at a winery which I will not name in Santa Barbara who told me I shouldn’t have bothered tasting his overpriced “select” Pinot because I wasn’t sophisticated enough to appreciate it.

Your favorite historical wine figure is… Bacchus!

Your least favorite historical wine figure is…Bartles and Jaymes for inventing the wine cooler.

The event in wine history you consider most important is… When I told a German that all wine tasted the same while on a business trip in the Mosel region. I pissed him off enough that he gave me a couple bottles of Riesling to take home, thus beginning this bad habit... er... hobby.