Originally Posted by
Genedoc
Was looking for something else and stumbled across this thread. Should've thought to look here earlier.
Some of you may know, but many may not --- I've recently gone into the wine business. I'll go into the boring details of how I turned a Duke graduate degree in Pharmacology into a wine importing business if anyone's interested, but suffice it to say that for the last six months, I've partnered with a colleague out of Charlotte to open a Raleigh/Durham branch of Bond Street Imports.
Briefly, we import boutique wine from all over the world. By boutique, I mean hand made in very, very small batches, giving the wine maker maximum control over the final product. Many of our wines are made in quantities of less than 1,000 cases/year. For perspective, Opus One, Mondavi's "cult" wine, makes 20+ thousand cases per year. We've 50-75 wines in our portfolio at any given time ranging in price from $12-$200/bottle with a median price of about $35.
I've had a ball learning about wine, wine making, importing, serving. It's a fascinating field that, much like Pharmacology, is chock full of conventional wisdom that's completely wrong.
I know this isn't exactly a recent thread, but I hope that means you've all been drinking lots of wine since this thread debuted. I'd love to have a little DBR wine club.