12 Responses

1. May 11, 2006

   Joe

   Gary, thanks for your honesty on the Marquis Phillips. I alwyas thought RP was off on M-P and found them “without prupose and direction”.

   The Valrose and alto Montecavo sound like really nice finds for the P/V ratio. On well-made, tannic wines like these – it would really help us if you include a “drinking range” or year that perhaps this wine would peak and show it’s best. Also is the rating you give the wines a rating how the wine shows today….or when it will hit its peak? Will the Valrose be a 92 pointer in 10 years?

   Thanks Gary for watching out for the consumer!

2. May 11, 2006

   John Roi

   Hi Gary, great job as always! I bought a case of the 2000 Valrose from you when you had the Pre-sale & I just love it!!! I’m down to 8 bottles. It has become my traditional Christmas wine & it always impresses. The only problem is that I can’t recall my impressions of the wine from year to year in order to track it’s development over time. My palate has a poor memory:-). Thank you so much for all the great feeds. Regards, John.

3. May 12, 2006

   Tim

   Thanks, Gary. I’m looking forward to the episode on corked wines!!

4. September 25, 2006

   Brandon M

   John Roi…I feel the same way. I’ve been thinking about keeping a wine journal as I can’t always recall what was great, good, or crap from vintage to vintage. Maybe there’s an online site that has this aspect to it where people can comment on each others experiences. Gary? Erik? Do you guys know of any?

   B

5. May 18, 2007

   vivaitalia

   I love what the first commenter said about giving a drinking window on the wines. I hate shelling out $50 for a wine only to find that I can tell it’s great, just not quite ready to drink. I also really appreciate your honesty on these wines even though you sell them, that’s very commendable.

6. June 8, 2007

   David Canada

   Love the under the radar bordeaux…..that is always my mission

7. August 31, 2007

   WA Ambassador

   I agree on the drinking window as well. That’s always a nice thing to know. Since Americans seem to drink wine too soon, it’s good to know approximately how long one could keep a wine to be able to enjoy it at it’s best. Obviously, you may not be able to tell the exact time when it will be at it’s best, but an educated guess would be much appreciated.

8. January 18, 2008

   yowens

   Thanks GV for bringin the thunder. I really want to try some 100 grenache wines to get a sense of what the grape does by itself-maybe ill try the moncayo.

9. February 9, 2008

   The Fanjestic

   Watched this with my 5 month old baby girl. We enjoyed a 2008 bottle of formula! Good episode.

10. July 9, 2008

    Dan Leavy

    word 44 “in”

11. July 13, 2008

    slep

    the 2002 Alto Moncayo is my kind of wine! i’m a fan of this wine!

12. September 14, 2009

    John J.

    Good episode Gary. Noticed that you mentioned again that people were asking you if you were sure the wines you were tasting were corked or not. Very surprising to me that anyone would bother asking that question. I can’t imagine anyone having a video wine blog on top of being able to provide the descriptions you do, and not being able to tell if a wine is corked. The idea almost borders on science fiction. A great surprise for me would be seeing you do a charbono or vin jaune episode, not very well known wines, would love to hear you’re thoughts on those 2.

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