My Poem Inspired By Jancis Robinson and What She Means To Me After So Many Years Of Reading Her Writings, Starting In 1992 I Believe? Cheers Jancis : Bravo!

I have been a fan of Jancis Robinson's now for many years. I guess it all started sometime back in 1992 when I started to read some of Jancis' reviews in the Wine Spectator, especially a review on the wines being produced then in the world that were starting to all have a similar taste and profile and less a distinct character of their own and from where they were coming? Do I have this right? I loved that review : it spoke so many volumes to me that I instantly felt like I had a fellow wine personality in the ocean of wines today being made from all over the world that I love because many of them do represent both their grape varieties and suggest from where they come and do not pretend to be other than they are : for better or for worse. I have written Jancis a handwritten letter and that was again years ago. I wanted to let her know that I appreciated that one article and that it had inspired and helped me to be a better wine merchant, educator and what I like to call myself, a better " wine enabler ". Thanks Jancis. Since then I have purchased some of your many books Jancis and have used them over the years as I have been both the Washington D.C. wine retailer and wholesaler, liking better the job of retailer. Both have taught me well and your books have guided me often with specific information that I am or have been unaware of the details? Too much to know, too much to keep track of and keep straight : and that's where your work has been invaluable to me at times over the years. Thanks again. Here is the poem that I wrote the other morning before starting work at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits selling wines in Washington D.C. in our Cleveland Park Northwest neighborhood. I wrote it March 15th, 2013. I decided to send it to you using Twitter and so you should have over the last two-three days received all of it " in pieces ". I hope that you enjoyed that as I think it broke up your usual routine and helped to make your day a bit brighter and interesting?

I am also really looking forward to meeting you this Thursday evening here in Washington D.C. N.W. through the Smithsonian Associates at the National Museum of Natural History Baird Auditorium, 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW. Here is my poem Jancis : Jancis Robinson .... Robin's Jan A Son No /... Daught Ought Otter /... Go Go Get Be Got Be A /... Move A Write A Word /... A History Buff Of New Of /... Collect Rapport Report /... Sort Si Oui Sorter Sport /... The Spout The Spig The /... Test Taste Baste The Bast /... Ast Astion An Eye A Nose .../ A whiff A Whaft A Note /... Noter Report Regroup /... Resorter Truth Facts The /... Names Games The Get To /... Yeah Getters Find Bind Bin /... Spin New Wines' Records /... Dat Be Jan An Ancis /... Like A Robin Red Header /... Early She Does Get I Susp I / ... / Spect Inspect Most Respect /... Jancis Not Francis Not /... Fred Not Bob Like A /... Steven Even Odd Class /... Both Be They Of Lass Of /... Lad Classics The Histories /... The Play Out Stage New Ours /... They Steven Jancis Join /... To Note Gather Be So /... Very Now Hip Tasted /... Tasting For Imps Glimps /... Of Impressions Of Imperfect /... Piecing Of Pieces Drawn /... Once Scat Cat Catte Cattered /... Not Catered But One Or /... Two Their Pressing 'Pressions /... Their Opins Opens To Us Pin Pini /... Pinios Pinions Pinned On Us /... Like Tales On Donkey's Tails /... Told Straight up Eyes Closed To /... Not be Fluenced Others By To Truth /... Be Told Unfold Fashioned Firmed /... Out 'Bout Be Jancis Fleshed /... Meshed Mighted Smite /... Smold New/Old Raw Be /... So Bold Very Vary Not /... Tary Be Tarred Starred /... Streamed Out Colored /... Thrown Carnival-Like /... Streamers Stemmed Destemmed /... A Sergeant A Private A /... Colonel Armed Penned With /... Words A Colony A Jancis /... Village Villages A Normale /... Another Name For Cot /... Another Grape Not More /... Bloody Malbec ! So Much /... To Learn Under Keep /... Belts 'Tween Breasts In /... Purses Jancis' Oui Si Claro /... Pre Go Please Merci Coup /... Of Beau So Much To Know /... Must Store Go To Store! To /... Retailer - Ask Quest For /... Answers To Questions /... To Riddles Find In /... Jancis Jingles Rhymes /... A Natural Cadence A Way /... A Kind A Ness A /... Gent A Gentle A /... Woman An Eye /... A Nose Historian /... Reportian A Master /... A Madame So Bright /... Glassed - Madame /... Our Jan Our /... Jancis Our Fave /... Our Rave So /... Wonder So Wealth /... Stored In Fleshed In /... Fleshed Out Of Fabric /... Tapis De Jancis Nous Pour /... Ole!! ... written le 15 Mars, 2013 a 11:31AM avant de commencer mon travail de vendre des vins a Washington D.C. N.w. En pensant de Jancis et aussi de Steven. Santa, cheers to everyone. Looking forward to meeting you soon Jancis. Thanks again for everything. I hope you do not mind the way my mind of an artist/ wine-lover-enabler roams and breaks up words and has my mind so fluid and influenced by the sight, the sound, the similar and the double and the at-odds meanings of words, and the fun at arranging them and trying to get as much from them as I can just as I do when I taste wine and take that serendipitous route of discovering the many nuances of a wines tastes, flavors and personalities. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn