Robin Goldstein
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Then he assembles the wine list.
And here is where it gets beautiful.
He doesn't fill it with great wines.
He doesn't cherry pick the best of Italy.
He does the opposite.
He populates the reserve wine list almost entirely with wines that Wine Spectator itself had rated at 80 points and below.
The magazine's own lowest scoring Italian selections from the past decade.
The bottles they deemed mediocre.
The ones nobody was supposed to want.
He submits the application.
He encloses the required fee.
$250.
And he waits.
Not long after, the voicemail picks up a message.
A real call from Wine Spectator in New York.
He had won!
The Award of Excellence, granted, granted to Osterior L'Ampetito di Milano, appeared in the August 31, 2008 issue of Wine Spectator, page 181, one of 22 Italian restaurants so honored that year.
Goldstein walked into the annual conference of the American Association of Wine Economists in Portland, Oregon, and as an unscheduled prelude to a completely different presentation,
He simply told everyone what he'd done.
The wine media lost its mind.