Forum: Social Hall Posted By: G. Lam Post Time: 09-16-2007 at 11:36 PM

Forum: Social Hall Posted By: Mark Golodetz Post Time: 02-29-2008 at 11:05 PM

Forum: Social Hall Posted By: Jeffrey Wong Post Time: 04-16-2008 at 02:48 PM

Forum: Social Hall Posted By: Robert Pollard-Smith Post Time: 04-01-2008 at 04:38 PM

I've always wanted to pull a prank like this, only using a formal table setting, a white tablecloth, and a silver platter with a dome cover. Gutting an old stove would be a lot less expensive, and apparently just as amusing. One comment on the video: Even when I was a skinny student, it never occurred to me to snack on a raw egg...

JP once had a prank call message on her office phone from a couple of kiddies. One said “You are a loo loo.” the other “You are a bumhead!” and then they both cracked up and hung up. So when I saw Hewitson had called some of his white wines “Lu Lu” I had to resist the urge to ring him up and call him a “bumhead”. Aromas of passionfruit, gooseberry, spice, tomato plant and cut green capsicum...

When I hear Hollick I quite often think of one of Bart Simpson’s prank calls to Moe’s Bar. ‘Phone call for Al, Al Coholic..is there an Al Coholic here?’ Well anyway, Hollick is probably one of the least alcoholic wines coming out of the Coonawarra these days. They are light, refined, and quite possibly often misunderstood. I like their lighter more herbal style even if many don’t. It is a point...

... day. So start planning that prank, fake that test, hell, shave the left side of your dads beard...

I don't know quite what to think now. When I heard about wine anarchists cellaring wine at the bottom of a frozen lake, I first imagined the move as state-of-the-art, then as a fanciful prank. In the end, I think it was a sincere gesture made by wine lovers who don't like being hemmed in by the often constrainingly conservative world of wine. News out of Saint-Malo, France indicates...

In what may be one of the best publicity stunts in the wine industry this year, Robin Goldstein, Author of The Wine Trials (Amazon.com ) recently pulled a fast one on the editors of Wine Spectator magazine. Goldstein created a fake wine list that included wines the magazine has given ...