Friday, April 08, 2011
Road Trip
James May's Road Trip is a show on BBC America that follows this fellow who must be known to someone, else why would he be on television? In the episode I watched, he went with Oz Clarke to Bordeaux, and to Pichon Lalande where he was given the cook's tour of the Chateau and cave. Mme. Comtesse was showing them around the cellar, all the wonderful bottles from different vintages but May was unimpressed.
Sotto voce: "There is no suggestion whatever that we're going to drink any of it. We're looking at old wine. Looking...look at this old wine."
A few moments later the Comtesse and Clarke try to impress him with a bottle of 1937 that they assure him would sell for $1500.
"Would that be any good?"
"It might be fantastic...you don't know."
"The point is, funnily enough," Clarke offers, "whether this bottle is good or not won't effect its value very much to sell it. People buy the bottle just for the label."
"The idea that you ring up your mates and say, 'Do you want to come around an look at my bottle of old wine,' that's preposterous!"
"...and here's a bottle of Chilean merlot while you look at it."
"If I did that Id' get my face punched."
