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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  1. 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”

  2. about 6 months ago

    Purple Tooth

    QOTD: Favorite movie: “Moonstruck” or “When Harry Met Sally”.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. about 18 months ago

    Sam

    Shawshank Redemption or Pulp Fiction… hard to say depends on my mood

  6. 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.

  7. about 27 months ago

    Jaye

    “The Man Who Would Be King”

  8. 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.

  9. about 27 months ago

    Mike

    Gary,

    Fav movie…The Boondock Saints with William Dafoe.

  10. 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

  11. about 27 months ago

    Ed R

    Mike P is on the money, let it go.

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. about 27 months ago

    zerokreap (kw)

    i think the ice creme truck and i are on the same page

  16. 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.

  17. about 27 months ago

    Doug

    It has to be for me “A Clockwork Orange”

  18. 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

  19. 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?

  20. 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!

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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

  25. 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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