3 Highly rated Reds - Episode #62

3 Highly rated Reds - Episode #62

August 1, 2006

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2003 Shafer Merlot

2001 Powers Meritage

2003 Miner Family Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville

With his apartment move completed Gary returns today with a new episode of WLTV. Today Gary tastes and reviews three red wines. See how these three highly rated wines stack up. Also Gary has a new question for our viewers today.

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about 5 months ago

CJRice
QOTD: I second the recommendation by a previous commenter to watch Seven Samurai. My favorite flick is another Kurosawa film called “No Regrets for our Youth”
about 6 months ago

Purple Tooth
QOTD: Favorite movie: “Moonstruck” or “When Harry Met Sally”.
about 11 months ago

jfoobar
Just going back through old episodes and this one is an easy QOTD for me to answer with little to no thought.

Amadeus.
about 14 months ago

WA Ambassador
My favorite movie… there are so many of them. It depends on the genera, but I think I enjoyed “The Game” a lot. It got you thinking about who was in on everything.
about 18 months ago

Sam
Shawshank Redemption or Pulp Fiction… hard to say depends on my mood
about 21 months ago

ThomasS
Isn’t the fact that a lot of ‘better’ wines push their price limits the thing that makes me and a lot of wine lovers roll the eyes and go and seek for another bottle? What about all those people that still have them anyway? Bill Gates or just lazy consumers, or only all marketing confident?
QOTD: LotR: narrative, shooting, GCI, MUSIC, … just almost unpassable, smth I watch with pleasure over and over again. It’s not the best I’ve seen, but surely one I enjoy very much every time again. Bests: The Village, The Pianist, Perfume, Tarkovski’s movies and surely almost all Lynch’s.
about 27 months ago

Jaye
“The Man Who Would Be King”
about 27 months ago

eugene
I have many favorite movies:
Anything, well almost, by Woody Allen,
James Bond, Austin Powers 1 and many others.
Sideways is one of them too.
about 27 months ago

Mike
Gary,

Fav movie…The Boondock Saints with William Dafoe.
about 27 months ago

JMP
Gary:

Nice episode. I’ve had wine that WS dissed in the past and have been impressed - and visa versa. Powers sounds like it’s worth a try!

Favorite movie…haven’t seen any votes for My Cousin Vinnie
about 27 months ago

Ed R
Mike P is on the money, let it go.
about 27 months ago

Michael P
Lets not dissect each & every syllable that comes out of our wonderful host’s mouth. Its not that deep. Terroir..meritage vs. heritage…charismatic..whatever just let it go.
Gary you are charismatic & you have inspired me to buy many terroir driven wines..hows that??? ;o
about 27 months ago

Michael P
I think I’m sold on the Meritage.

Fav flicks in no order:
Godfather I & II
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Fistful of Dollars
about 27 months ago

Ed R
Favorite movie is Miller’s Crossing by Joel an Ethan Coen who also gave us Fargo another outstanding film.
about 27 months ago

zerokreap (kw)
i think the ice creme truck and i are on the same page
about 27 months ago

Tom Edwards
Great episode, looking forward to trying the powers.

Favorite movie…Tommy Boy. “maybe he’s some crazy glue sniffer? Building model airplanes he says. We’re not buying it!”

Cracks me up every time.
about 27 months ago

Doug
It has to be for me “A Clockwork Orange”
about 27 months ago

Jim Vandegriff
Favorite movies: (tie) “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Singin’ in the Rain”. When you do your riesling episode, be sure to have a JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr spatlese or auslese. Those wines do make me sing no matter the weather. Jim
about 27 months ago

Mitch
Can’t list just one, but my top five:
O Brother Where Art Thou
Caddyshack
Repo Man
The Big Lebowski
Miller’s Crossing

Can you tell I like Coen Bros movies?
about 27 months ago

garyv
RC and others I did see the score from Wine Spectator, all I can say is that the Powers was amazing and I am sure you would find the same thing. There is a chance that their bottle was not as great as mine or many other factorsd including different taste buds!
about 27 months ago

satan's ice cream truck
Julius, if Gary wants to use “charismatic” to describe a wine, I don’t see why that should be a point of argument. Winemaking is an artform, and by simply slicing a wine into it’s parts of “primary, secondary, and tertiary flavors” is the same as saying a work by Picasso is simple “various shades of blue blended on a canvas structure to indicate to the viewer an implied emotion”. If you want your wine viewed reviewed so scientifically, why not ask Gary to list PH levels or residual sugar to precise measurements? And, while Terrior is not an exclusive old world wine trait, you would be blind to say the majority of wines produced in Australia and California don’t blatantly ignore terrior in favor of riper fruit and heavy “in your face” oak treatments.
about 27 months ago

Al Diaz
My favorite movie of all time is EL CID,starring Charleton Heston and Sophia Loren. Saw it when I was 13 and still watch it at least once a year. Has all the elements, courage, love, vows, good, evil and a great ending.
about 27 months ago

Tony S.
Yaa…Miner is a bit bland.

Favorite movie WAS the Die Hard trilogy, but it’s been replaced by Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2.

Go Bears.
about 27 months ago

garyv
JULIUS I AGREE. AND ZERO I AGREE. Julius I need to use Terrior more in the way it is meant to be, sense of place and ect… I just have this habit to use it to explain the earthy flavors, I do WLTV in a 1 take improv way so I tend to go to bad habits….I am sorry
about 27 months ago

Julius
I don’t think I’m getting too deep. If I drink a wine that I like so much that I am “inspired” to buy more of it (which I have done many times) I don’t think of the wine as charismatic. I think of it in terms of its aromas, primary, secondary and tertiary flavors, mouth feel and how it pairs up with food - in other words, what makes it so enjoyable in the first place. In regard to terroir, if Gary thinks the wine has an earthy quality, why not just say so. Gary himself admitted to the fact that he incorrectly limited his use of the term terroir to mean dirt, yet he continues to use it in that way. He describes all the other elements of the wine appropriately, such as the tannins, color extraction, fruit (on the nose and palate), length and suitability for cellaring. In fact, I have purchased wine at the Wine Library because of Gary’s description and I assume others have done the same. And BTW, terroir is NOT the taste of soil in the wine and as I said previously, although originated by the French, is NOT characteristic of only old world wines.

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