What's with all the + signs between the paragraphs? Frankly, I don't understand this article. You don't like the wine list. The world is filled with wine lists I despise. Why make such a big deal about it? These somms, as they call themselves, are living for and serving another world which wants something else from wine than what I want. It is bullyish to attack them for doing what they want to do in the first place. Just avoid these places, go downtown or take a cab to Brooklyn.

You have a typo. More than 90% of the Chablis vineyards are machine harvested, not the other way around.

If Jay Miller or Robert Parker wrote that a 1947 Clos Vougeot goes well with "ricotta and blueberry honey," you would all be calling them names and ridiculing them.

anhow and anyhow!

If someone in California had organized a similar event with similar personalities, you would accuse them of having sold out the cause of natural wines. Please use correct spellings and please avoid hypocrisy. But remember, I love you anhow!

The correct spelling is shtetl.