It’s not just Californians anymore. I’ve started to receive nasty emails from abroad! Here is the text of one such scolding in response to my post about Mondovino and that fat French fuck, Michel Rolland. Which, incidentally, comes up 5th when searching Google for said micro-oxygenator’s name. I’d translate this letter myself, but I like babelfish’s interpretation:

Your friend,

  How unjust! Michel Rolland made more for the French of wine industry than no matter whom since Elenor! (ed. I assume of Aquitaine)Traditional Bordeaux died a slow death on the market of worlds. It allowed people to keep to them chateaus!
  I does not include/understand what you want to tinker Michel like Ca. You etes only Trieste that your wine it is not bi poulaire.
  I still read books because you are amusing and drawing is good.

        Henri Fabre

Well, I’m glad my humor manages to encourage his literacy. I don’t know what he means by bi-polar wine… But he did manage to use my favorite French verb ever, bricoler, “to tinker(with).”

While we’re at it, let’s revisit my little cartoon of Michel mon Bel again, hmmm?

Thanks for sharing Henri, but I still think Monsieur Rolland has Pomerol by the nads. He is the man you call when you want Robert Parker to give you a good score. He makes wines like his personality: boorish, tacky, high-octane anvils that don’t let anyone else at the table get a word in edge-wise.