Thinking Of Jean-Charles Boisset & His PORTFOLIO TOUR 2013/ Camden Yards, Last Monday, March 4th, 2013 : Sante Jean-Charles!

I wrote this poem thinking of Jean-Charles Boisset before starting work at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits at 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. Northwest where I have managed the wine department for the past 13-14 years now. Enjoy this poem. Cheers, TONY Boisset C'Est Boisson / ... Bois Some Oui Si Some / ... Sum Of Parts Parts Of / ... Regard Boisset Mon / ... Oui Charles Jean He / ... Lui Does Eat Up Drink / ... Up Roll Up Enter He Does / ... Quick Spaces Others He / ... Touch The Tactile The Texture / ... The Life Alive Fully! He Want / ... Part Be Recog Si Gnize / ... Others, Too Aussi All 'Bout / ... All Round Ahh Around / ... The Stories The Fire Flames / ... Of Horse-Drawn Energies / The Bio The Nam Nam Dyn / ... Amics Of The Soils The Nutris / ... Tris Triens Riens?!? No Non / ... Not Si Need Beaucoup Nutrients To / ... Feed Y'Aah Nourish Roots Vines / ... From Soils Vines Do Must Toil Task / ... Ask Fight Cha Cha Chance / ... Ro Rom Cam Ma Pa Mance / ... Fighting Grapes Grow Chance / ... A Death A Plunge A / ... Excite Eat Table Drink / ... Able To With Jean-Charles / ... Find The Role The Soul / ... Worthy Express Impressions Win / ... Wines' Gifts To Earn To Labor / ... To Assist Enable A Fan Ant / ... Ta Tas Ast Astic Road / ... To Help The Vines To Grow Best / ... Grapes For Wine-Making A / ... Matter Of Love Of Care Of / ... Attention Of Detail Of / ... Knowing Listening Watching / ... Waiting Hoping Praying But To / ... Work As Team The Wine The / ... Fruit The Labor Worth Making / ... A Taste A Touch A Texture A / ... Space And Spark A Poke A / ... Saturation A SOak A Plunge / ... A Discovery A Surprise A Tease Please / ... Pleasure So Grand / ... #1 written on Mardi, le 5 Mars, 2013 en Virginie a 9:32AM , il y a du soleil. il fait tres beau, ciel bleu, claire ... merci Jean-Charles et a la prochaine fois. Dis " Bonjour " a ma part a Gina ... Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn

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

Work Mind! Work Brain! 4 Poems I Wrote September 14th, 2007 @ 11:00A.M. Before Work / ENJOY

Work Mind! Work Brain! Tired? Strained? Cares Bloody Who?!? Get Ass Of That's Sitting Been Too Long Said Mine Hazy Lazy Crazy Head! Work! Think! Focus - Flesh Out! Get Something Ever Matter Not What Just it / Them / Those Things Out About! Of My Life Per Spect Tive On List Salve Salvos Of Pain With Fair Foul Fowl Feathered Weathered Game All It Is How Played? Yes How Is It ?! #4 le 14 Septembre, 2007 a 11:10AM Cheers, enjoy these. I will include the other two later when I find them. it's now Sunday, February 24th, 2013 here at home in northern Virginia at 3:27PM sitting here in my living room and bathed in the sun of the afternoon, and it's intense warmth as I type and have just paid for four boxes of Girls Scout cookies at our front door that my wife ordered. Cheers, it's beautiful today. Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn

Typing An Old Poem Of Mine Here 2/22/13 - Friday Morn, poem Of July 9th, 2008! ENJOY!!

I am trying to stay caught up and it's hard : here's one of my poems from July 9th, 2008 : quite free and easy ... cheers, TONY Off Off Tra Tra Ra Ra Ack I'm be Eat Bush Kick Tush His Theirs I'm Off Wo Wo Ork To To Do Do Do O'nt Thi Thi Hing So So Some Ings I See Vi Vi Is Isual Al Al Lize My Our Prize Ma Ma Ho Ho Ow Many Yes Ta Ta Akes It Tries?! #1 le 9 Juillet, 2008 Mercredi matin a 10:%(AM on an overcast , gray, hazy morn... TONY To O O Off Be Ba Ba Bad Go Go Oo oo Ood?! Miss Hit Un Un Ov Ov Under Sto Sto Tood Stood? Non? Oui!? Whee! Life- Spree Some Pa Pa Pay Som Fr Fr Ree I Under Over I All Stood I Take I ba Ba Give Back Too It Be Part Arcel Deal Sh She Share Eeh Eeh Qua Qua Ly Ly Ly ! #2 Le 9 Juillet, 2008 Mercredi matin a 11:04AM ... hope you like these loose, very sing-song, hum, tap spur-of-moment, no editing, just as-is poems that I string along as I basically chant or hum them. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn on Friday morning here in northern Virginia at 10:25AM on a cool, gray day with some snow in the forecast! Take care, TONY

Morning Poem On Celebration Of Lives - With wine. Each Other, Conversation : July 15th, 2008 : CHEERS!

To Cel Cell Cel Alib Bra Bra Rate To Fete Feter We As Did Like Night Last Act Actual Ually Till Morn This A.M. Two Ow Yi Yi Ikes Zoot Oui Alors Co Co Comme C'e C'e Etait Tard Bons Vins Cool Fresh Frais We Talk To In Hours Morn Weeee Matin ce ... #1 le 15 Juillet, 2008 at 10:11 A.M. , one of Two Morning Poems I wrote the, the second one starts ... for more go to : chatpoetry.blogspot.com. Cheers, have a great day ... Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn For 14th Dra Dra Drank Wine Ines Fre Fre Rench Bo Bot Bottles Sign Igned By Ma Ma Makers The 20+ 04 New Neuf Estate Chat .... Cheers, TONY

Anthony Quinn's Poetry On Wine White 4/8/2008 : Enjoy!

These pictures I got when a South African winemaker stopped by to taste us on his fine South African wines a couple of years ago at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits in Washington D.C. N.W. Cheers, and enjoy .... TONY


                                               Wine  White  /

                                               Chilled To  /

                                               Yet Yum  /

                                               So Wanting  /

                                               Me us Liq  /

                                               Iquid Pro Quo  /

                                              Quant - Ing  /

                                              Drinking Full  /

                                              Thused Mused  /

                                              Kah Ka K'Empower  /

                                              Liquid Flowered  /

                                              Bottle Empty  /

                                              Problem Not  /

                                              The Burgundy  /

                                              The Wine's Embrace  /

                                              Our Palates' Fuel  /

                                              Our Being Struck  /

                                              The 2005 Bold Flavors  /

                                              Sticking Picking  /

                                              Molding Holding  /

                                              Us Rapt Aperture  /

                                              Picture Us ?!

     Written and included in my store wine email of 4/8/2008  when I started it all of with : WNEN WILL THE SUNSHINE POKE THROUGH THIS GRAY VEIL .... and then moved to the first poem :  I'm Grilling  /  Dinner Cooking  /  Out In Cold  /  In Dark Shadows ...   for more of these poems look through the years and enjoy here at : chatpoetry.blogspot.com.

     It's now Wednesday morning, February 20th, 2013 here at home in northern Virginia before I start my work in Washington D.C. enabling people to learn about wine and their own palates and how to work as a team and enjoy as much as possible. Cheers,  Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn

 


                                           



                                             

Anthony Quinn's 4 Wine Poems Written On Tuesday Morning, July 31st, 2007 , 10-11AM : Cheers This Tuesday, Feb. 19th, 2013!!

Here are my 4 poems that I wrote inspired by wine on Tuesday morning, July 31st, 2013. Hope you enjoy them. Cheers and enjoy this Tuesday, too : February 19th, 2013 at 8:24AM as you all start your days here with me on a cold, gray morning with rain in our forecast for northern Virginia ... Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn Driving That Taste Home Wine Oh Yeah be Mine! E-Lus Loose! Lose? Lussive Go Through My Sieve Get Some Filter But Re- Tain Some? Most? Of That Hidden Flavor To Best To Bet You Bet My Ass My Mouth Savor Said those Wondrous Flay Play Serious Pro : To Be Found? Yes! Those Said Felt Tasted Pasted Posted Me My Mine Hosted Roasted Grilled Broiled Simmered Sought For Not Forsaken But Fo My Wine's Sake Waste It None Not Taste! #1 le 31st Juilley, 2007 Mardi matin a 10:12AM, on Route 50, en Virginie ... TONY SURPRISE! Told You! Wait Worth For To " X " Spear Steer Stare Stair Pause Suddenly Eyes Those Browse Rise I Utter Immed Diate Sur Sir Miss Mrs Mr Prize! Get A Rise ! ( Surprise? ) nd You Thought! Say you Did Not Know! No One Ever Told / Show Owed You?!? Did They? And Now You Know! There All Along To Like Fly Catch Takes Time Yours Concentration Sure E-Lation E-Man-Woman Pay?!? Cip Sip Gulp Hold! Pay No! YES! New Station Yours Discovered Recovered Uncover NO MORE! Under Cover ( s ) ... #2 le 31 Juillet, 2013 Mardi matin a 10:07a.m. en Virginie on Route 50 ... TONY To Wait To Bait To Want To Time Take To FULLY Taste Ap Pre Ci Si Ci Ate Wine's Taste( s ) ... You've Paid Already Bottle is Yours Now Pay Yourself Heed Your Desire To Dis Uncover Those Flavors