Last night Level3 hosted a dinner at The Harvard Club in Boston. While the conversation and panel discussion that was masterfully led by FierceVoIP’s Ryun Williamson was informative with reps from AOL, Level3, 8×8, NGT and Comcast, someone’s choice in wine was rather tacky.
This is a wine that is sold to restaurants and private clubs for less than $3.00 a bottle, or about where Level3’s stock was at the start of the year.
Basically the wine is the same as “Two Buck Chuck” with a slightly fancier label. It’s made with bulk grapes harvested from anywhere but the better wine growing regions in California. As a matter of fact the wine bottler has been the sued and recently lost the right to even claim “bottled in Napa, CA.” as the wine industry there viewed the claim as rather misleading….to say the least.
So while Level3 has may not asked me for my help, opinions and viewpoint on things related VoIP the way other VoIP companies have perhaps in the future Level3 will at least turn to me for wine advice. You see for the last three year I have written a wine column for the Del Mar Times 🙂
Between the trade tastings, wine events and wine dinners I attend plus wines from my personal collection of 10,000 plus bottles, I think I can find them something better without hurting their bottom line.
FYI-I passed on the Salmon Creek. It is about as good as Kool-Aid. That’s something else I never swallow!