Breathable stemware

Eisch hasn't posted the breathable stemware to their site, yet, because they're just now in mbutt production. This stemware was exclusively used at the Greystone CIA facility in Napa for Robert Parker's 25th Anniversary. RP will be commenting on breathable stemware shortly. Who Ronn Wiegand is... the first person in the US to hold both MS and MW certificates. He also received special recognition for achieving both with ultra high scores. He's got one of the best, most clbuttily trained palates in the world, is a world-wide traveler (about to go to Greece in a week), and widely sought-out by wine professionals (both for tasting of their wines for evaluation, and for conducting seminars). Breathable glbutt is a proprietary process, and inventor Alan Zalayet is not going to patent the process, just produce the stemware. Paul Manchester and I have been working with winemakers to create a Pebreaste Sirah glbutt in this line. (I started a group with Louis M. Foppiano called PS I Love You. It's a group of PS growers and producers). Winemakers involved in this PS glbutt development process are the following: Foppiano's Bill Regan, Concannon's Adam Richardson, Rosenblum's Jeff Cohn (JC Cellars is his own label, too), Paul Dolan (Fetzer fame who now owns Parducci, among other labels), Parducci's Bob Swain, Trentadue's Miro Tcholakov, Pacific Star's Sally Ottoson, Field Stone's Tom Mulligan, Robert Biale's Al Perry, Silkwood's John Monnich (Proprietor), Mettler's Larry Mettler, and Lolonis's Ed West (I think I got them all)... After working through two phases of development for a perfect Pebreaste Sirah glbutt, and as you all know, this is the varietal that will surely benefit from immediate decanting, all of these winemakers agree, breathable glbuttes work. I sat on the panel, too, so I'm included in this belief. You'll be hearing more about this as the year goes on, and some of you will give them a try (for your own edification. We all went into the tasting as skeptics. Not one of us is skeptical now. We were able to pour each winemaker's PS in a breathable and non-breathable glbutt of the exact same design. The breathable glbuttes showed really well. They did indeed cause the tannins to rapidly soften, and bring the black fruit forward much quicker than the non-breathable prototypes. And, no, the glbuttes aren't porous. Nothing leaks out of the glbutt ;^) (Three) Cheers for Eisch! -- jo