winetastingman.jpgSo here’s what really’s pissing off Davos attendees. It’s not some bankers’ behind-the-door plotting. It’s not the endless convos about whether breaking up the banks is a good or a bad thing and it’s not how to help Haiti.
Nope. None of those trivialities. What people are really angry about is that this year -just like last – there won’t be a wine tasting, which has historically been the “highlight of the forum.”

In previous years, one of the highlights of the forum was a small but spectacular tasting of fine wines. But last year Klaus Schwab, the forum’s mastermind, decided that guzzling first-growth clarets was an inappropriate way of celebrating the global economic meltdown – and the wine-tasting was cancelled. We all hoped that this was a temporary abberation, but apparently not. The new Puritanism is here to stay – Davos wine-tastings are off the menu until further notice.


Wine Tasting And Piracy In Davos
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Comments (13)

  1. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:00 AM

    WTF!?!?
    are you saying that these people dont drink human blood and engage in orgies while worshipping the devil?
    -guy who thinks the orgies in Davos are Satanic Rituals

  2. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM

    Maybe they should schedule a meeting about where all the WW2 loot is and who owns it.

  3. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:33 AM

    Berkeley Haas — even worth applying to? Deadline on Tuesday…
    Thoughts? Seems like Stanford-lite.

  4. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:37 AM

    Pics of Brennan should be mandatory for any post on Davos

  5. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:38 AM

    Yaël,
    How about posting something we give a fuck about?

  6. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:42 AM

    I miss Greg Shazar
    -No one

  7. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:55 AM

    @1 – of course they do. But in doing all that you work up a mighty powerful thirst for a cold one.

  8. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM

    Haas – good for technology-company career goals and bay-area located alumni base
    Not as connected as the GSB by a long shot

  9. Posted by guest | January 28, 2010 at 12:50 PM

    That's why I didn't go this year. That being said, a 1982 Margaux has nothing on Strawberry Hill.
    ~KL

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