Mixed bag of wine, two birds 1 stone: Episode #80

August 28, 2006

2004 Koura Bay Sauvignon Blanc

2002 Chalk Hill Chardonnay

2002 Chateau Souverain Cabernet Sauvignon

2004 Clos Mimi Petite Rousse Syrah

Well here we are at Episode 80 already, unreal! Today Gary does a mixed bag of 4 wines that he had to taste anyway! Watch as Gary tastes these 4 wines and please add your thoughts and question and answer the question of the day. Gary tastes a Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, a Chardonnay from California and a Cabernet and Syrah from the left coast as well!

84 Responses

August 28, 2006

Jacob Pankowski
Great episode.
August 28, 2006

Jack
First time even trying
August 28, 2006

Douglas
happy 80th, Gary!
August 28, 2006

Susan
Second?
August 28, 2006

Rich S
Happy 80th as well! Keep the episodes coming!
August 28, 2006

Cameron
QotD: I’m not a big hard liquour guy either. I do however love a good beer (Stone, Rogue, and Franziskaner being some of my favorite breweries). Lately though I’ve been all about Strawberry Lemonade from Trader Joe’s. That stuff is addictive!
August 28, 2006

Rich S
My favorite non-wine drink is either a nice tall ice cold pint of German weiss beer with a nice squeeze of lemon or a well made Tanqueray & Tonic with a nice squeeze of lime. Either way, you can’t go wrong…………
August 28, 2006

Dan
In the book _A Very Good Year_ about the Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc, they said “It takes a lot of beer to make wine” talking about what the winemakers drink while they are working.

Me, too. Usually my alternate drink of choice is a nice, cold Shiner Bock from Shiner, TX. I grew up on beer (being from Wisconsin) and still love a nice cold one.

Here is a deal for you:

How about if you have free shipping to the city whose team beat the Jets the previous week? If your prediction (16-0) comes true, no harm!

You may well ask “What’s in it for Gary V?”

One word. Pride!

Dan (In Houston)
August 28, 2006

Matty Van
QOD – bacardi limon and coke, if were going NA I would go water or one of the flavored waters.
August 28, 2006

K Spengler
…water, water, water, all day long. Wine with dinner and the absolute necessity on my weekend…..Grey Goose martini with 3 olives SUPER DRY. The best. I know, your uncles would be proud.
August 28, 2006

Susan
Gary-
I give this episode a 98! Very Good episode:)
I used to live in Jamaica sooooo…………
My Fav Drink is Jamaican!
They have a drink called Ting. It is carbonated FRESH
grapefruit. I just figured out how to get my hands on some. They now have a distributor out of Florida! Great Stuff!
I challenge you to TRY some this week. I am sure you can get it in Jamaica New York.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for drinking some cabernet. Every thumbs up or down is a BIG help to me.
THANKS GARY:)
August 28, 2006

Tony
Wine is my favorite drink aside from wine. OK, OK. I guess it would be iced tea, particularly sweet tea like they make in the south. As far as alcoholic beverages go, it’s beer baby. Of course, I live in Chico, home of Sierra Nevada Brewing, and the most popular pale ale in the country.

Disappointed to hear about the Chat. Souverain. I bought several bottles of that last year, but haven’t opened any yet. Not mad at you at all, just disappointed.

BTW, how are the heat and wine phases episodes coming? I’m getting the feeling that you’re slacking on them. I’d hate to see that happen, Gary. You’d be letting all of your fans down, and you’d feel incredibly guilty about that.
August 28, 2006

Big Billy from Big D
QOTD: A Dallas tradition is Wednesday Night Enchilada Special, my beverage of choice is Frozen Margarita from a slurpee machine. Those things are so cold, with the alcohol in them they must be around 0 t0 10 degrees. The freeze headaches keep me from slurping ‘em down like they were limeades. Expensive Tequila and liquers in the mix is a waste of money on top of tart lime jiuce. It’s the perfect accompaniement to Yeller cheese enchilada cover with chili con carne, with rice and refried beans on the side. Once a week is enough.
Keep up the good wltv.
Chin chin.
August 28, 2006

Jason R.
Favorite go to Drink is: Beefeater, splash of Diet 7up in a tall glass with 2 wedges of lime. Get the glass wrong and without the real small concentrated limes and still good, but something changes….
August 28, 2006

John Coyne
Gary, I bought the Chalk Hill chard and the Chateau Souverain cab at my local Costco, thinking I was getting a great bargain compared to my wine store. What a disappointment! I’m definitely seeking out the Clos Mimi syrah.

Once a year I treat myself to a bottle of Martell Cordon Bleu Cognac. Love the stuff.
August 28, 2006

Jaye
Cat Piss? As someone who has had to clean a number of litter boxes in her time, I can say you have turned me off from KBSB!

Anyhow, very entertaining episode as usual. For QOD, what I drink the most of is water; but my drink for pleasure is hot tea — but real tea leaves not that stuff in a bag. I get most of mine from Adagio.com (another NJ company). Great stuff, and people who appreciate the nuances of wine can really get into the nuances of various styles and “vintages” of tea too.
August 28, 2006

Mike S.
My dodgy kiwi friends will love the “cat piss” reference.

I’m not afraid of beer, but if given the choice I’ll always go for a Maker’s Mark and ginger ale – preferably in the vintage high ball glasses that belonged to my grandfather.
August 28, 2006

Justin
Gary, awesome show as always. It was nice to hear someone else describe a Sav. Blanc as smelling like cat piss. My friends think I am crazy when I say that about it. As for what I drink when I am not drinking wine, mostly its water.

Anyway, will you ever do a show on wines from organic or biodynamic vineyards? There seem to be more and more popping up these days. Maybe you can give them a shot and share with us what you think about them.
Thanks and keep up the good work,
Justin
August 28, 2006

Ed R
Hot summer day Corona with lime. Rest of the time Diet Pepsi.
August 28, 2006

Chris
Gary,
I love diet coke. As far as another alcoholic beverage, I go for Maker’s Mark on the rocks with a splash of water.
August 28, 2006

Ed R
Gary,
Which do you like better the Eaglepoint or the Clos Mimi Syrah?
August 28, 2006

johnb
great show. i agree that little miss sunshine was a great movie, im definitely going to see it again.

i like to drink tequila as much as i like to drink wine. i would say my favorite tequila right now is Don Julio blanco
August 28, 2006

PeteB
I’m going 90 pts on this one.

Favorite drink aside from wine:
non-alcoholic: Arizona Green Tea (I am freak about the stuff and the new Pomegranate Green Tea is awesome)
alcholic: tie between Blue Moon Belgium Wheat Lager and Margaritas (which I am sipping on as I write).

P.S. – GV, you may have covered this before – but why do you only rinse your tasting glass some of the time? I noticed that you did it for the champagne’s and now the whites in this episode. What gives?
August 28, 2006

joe
Gary: another awesome episode. Very educational and practical. I too do not get the WS ranking Chateau Souverain so high all the time – I buy the $18 merlots, cabs and syrahs and never see the reason for the score.

Thanks for the discovery of the Mimi – a find like that really provids substantial value to us viewers. Seeing you taste and experience the wines – and having so many- gives me a high degree of trust in your reviews and recommendations.

My favorite non-wine drink is fresh brewed Iced Tea – no sugar- with generous squeez of lemon. Drank it since age 3. Probably why I like tannic red wines.
August 28, 2006

Chris Fehnel
Mmhmmm, cat piss.

Who doesn’t love a fresh tall glass of cat piss? I know I do.
August 28, 2006

Chris Fehnel
My favorite drink is 7 and 7. Seagram’s 7 and 7-Up. I’m not a big fan of the sweet stuff, so this is perfect for me.
August 28, 2006

Russ J
No “goodnight, Joe Walton wherever you are”?? I thought for sure that would be the winning tag line!
Great episode, as usual. I always enjoy them more when you have a strong reaction to something, either way. Don’t start faking, though. We can tell.
QOTD: non-alchoholic-I have been drinking seltzer with a splash of pomegranate and lime lately. Alchoholic-good sugar cane rum on the rocks with a twist of lime.
August 28, 2006

PETER MARKOS
Hi Gary!! Will you please do Greek wines on W.L.TV My wife and I will be touring Greece and would love to taste some of the great wines of the country!! I enjoy your videos and I’m learning a lot about wines!! Thanks,Peter Markos
August 28, 2006

Sean
Southern Comfort with lime on the rocks.
August 28, 2006

GregS
Great episode.

QOTD: Brewed iced tea (no-sugar) with a fresh lemon wedge (squeezed). The lemon is the key.
August 28, 2006

Bill Nelson
Great episode Gary, with 2 good wines it’s a 95! Besides wine my beverage of choice is beer, preferably a stout or porter that I have made myself.
August 28, 2006

saul
chopin vodka up in a chilled glass with olives
August 28, 2006

Darlene O.
Another great episode. I’ll be looking out for the Clos Mimi…My favorite drink (other than wine) is Diet V-8 Tropical Splash. TO DIE FOR!!!!! Sooooooo refreshing and like biting into fresh fruit. Yummmmmmm…….. :}
August 28, 2006

JimB
Favorite non wine drink: Diet Dr. Pepper
August 28, 2006

Dr. Richard Periut
Hi Gary,

My name is Richard Periut, and I’m a critical care & pulmonary physician at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. However, I live in Little Ferry, NJ.

I’ve been enjoying your blog for quite a while now, and have learned much from your episodes.

With respect with your last episode, I must tell you how I clean my stemware; I clean it with an iota of non perfumed dishwashing liquid, rinse it with very hot tap water (I keep my heater pretty much next to max,) then I rinse it with RO water (reverse osmosis.) Being a keeper of a reef tank, I have to supply my expensive livestock with very pure water. The RO filter (I add DI as well for the fish,) DI = deionizing (an extra step,) leaves the water virtually devoid of any minerals. Thus, the final rinse does not even need any drying with paper or towels.

As far as my favorite drink besides wine? Puerto Rican (I’m Cuban-American BTW,) El Barrilito 3 stars Rum, along with a Cohiba Lancero cigar (when I can get my hands on them,) after a nice heavy supper.

Keep up the excellent work, and hope to meet you one day.

Regards,

R
August 28, 2006

stewart
if i’m not drinking wine,then a grey goose martini,dry with blue cheese stuffed olives is my favorite
August 28, 2006

Tony G.
Another solid episode, 92. I can’t believe it’s 80 already, started watching around 6 or 7 I think.

Drink according to moods, Juengling, if I want a beer, Bombay Sapphire martini, dry with olives when I want something harder. WhenI’m really going all out, you know, on that really special occasion, a nice glass of chocolate milk, the powdered kind. It really brings me back.
August 28, 2006

Gordo
Gary – I was excited that you were tasting the 2002 Chateau Souverain Cabernet Sauvignon, as I had picked up a few bottles at a discount from my LWS a year or so ago. My assessment was exactly as was yours. Terribly disappointing. I then thru a bottle into a blind wine tasting we had of 8-10 inexpensive cabs to see what our friends would think (so, it was a ringer in this lot, costing 2-3x’s more than the other cabs. Again, disappintment, as it came in near the bottom of the heap, even below–yep–2buckchuck. The remaining bottles I gave as gifts.

The fine Oregon local microbrews are our alternate choices in our fam.
August 28, 2006

StanVH
Great show. I definately will try the Mimi. I know what you mean by “cat piss”. I have a term for some reds — “barnyard manure” — which is a good thing in my book.

One of my favorite non-wine drinks is a “shandy”, expically in the summer after mowing the lawn. Mix lemonade with beer (proportions vary – find your own best mix). I first had this on a vist to England many years ago.

When are you going to do a “blind” tasting?
August 28, 2006

TimF
Great episode Gary. My favorite carbonated beverage has to be Dr. Pepper. It goes amazingly well with Taco Bell or any Mexican food for that matter. One of my favorite food/drink pairings is Dr. Pepper and Doritos. Unreal. I even found an outfit in Texas that makes Dr. Pepper with the original recipe — no High Fructose Corn Syrup is used.

My favorite non-carbonated beverage is apple cider. Not that crappy pasteurized stuff you find in the super market. I want the fresh squeezed stuff — directly from the apple to the glass. I drive up to Wisconsin to get it since it’s illegal in Illinois.
August 28, 2006

chito
Gary, great episode. I have heard wine snobs refer to it as “cat pee” but like that you call it as it is -cat piss.
QOTD Jack Daniels with a little Diet Coke, 20% of the time, 80% wine.
August 28, 2006

Andre (aka asr2021)
Hey Gary et al.,
I really love green tea with honey. Preferably cold, but hot’s great when you need a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

I tried the Koura Bay, I loved it a lot. It’s aromatics, including the cat piss, equalled a great aroma and flavor of nothing but passion fruit; I think that’s a typical kiwi wine flavor. If I had the money(I’m a student) I would buy two cases. I had even asked Gary to try it a couple of episodes ago. I’m glad he did. I highly recommend it.
August 28, 2006

Jason
I’m actually much more of a beer fan than a wine fan. I like wine, but it’s mostly Gary’s wonderful perspective to tasting that draws me to the show. I am a true beer fanatic, however. I love Belgian and California beers the best, with my favorite breweries being Alesmith and Stone (I’ll be at the 10th anniversary, anyone else?). I also have brewed my own for the last year.
August 29, 2006

GOL
Another drink besides wine? Gotta be beer from Belgium. My favorite is Kwak, which when served properly comes in a test-tube like glass that can’t balance on its own, so it requires a wooden holder. Sounds gimmicky, but it’s fun and tasty!
August 29, 2006

Andre (aka asr2021)
Hey y’all,
I hear that some german and belgian beers are sweet. I have been dying to try one, but I dont know which ones they are. As a Rugby player I chug my share of coors and enjoy guiness, but I’d love to try some of the other styles. Does WL carry any?
August 29, 2006

Terry Whalen
Gary, read the WSJ article and love these segments – I’m sharing them with friends – they are great.

The WSJ article quoted someone as saying that WL would ship for $1 per bottle, and I was excited to try out the $15 Mimi, but when I ordered 2 bottles, my shipping charge at first was shown to be $0 (I’d be fine with $2/bottle, even $3/bottle), but then after I’d entered all my information, the order summary on the last page said shipping would be $13. Can you comment on the WSJ quote on your shipping charges?

Low shipping charges would make a huge difference to me – thanks in advance for your comments here!

–Terry Whalen
August 29, 2006

MikeMe
QOD: I like a nice margarita on the rocks with salt and fresh juice – Cazadores tequilla.

Gary, I have an oak question. Some wines use American, some Hungarian, some French. I ask the wine makers why and they mostly associate a region to a “spice” level in the oak. However they seem to disagree on what is spicier Hungarian or American. I think it has more to do with cost of oak. Can you pass on some knowledge here because I am finding when they say American oak I tend to shy away from the wine – my pallet anyway.

Andre #45 – In the US New Belgium Brewing makes a Triple that is sweeter. So does DogFish Ale. Try them and then move on to the real Belgiums.

Thanks,
Mikeme
August 29, 2006

StÃ©phane
You know, you’re really missing out with beer. I was a wine fan myself, and still enjoy it to a great extent but I have found my palate more adapted to beer. Most people in the world don’t go past the level of cheap swill but there are many examples out there of a quality that rivals the best wines. Being from France I think I have adapted most readily to Belgian styles rather than American, Germans or Brits. What I love is not only the complexity but the diversity of flavors and textures that you can find. In the comment I left on the previous episode I suggested Gueuze which is probably one of my very favorite alcoholic drinks. It’s a style made in the region of Brussels through spontaneous fermentation. That is, the yeast comes from the air at certain specific times of the year to ferment the beer. The beer is matured in oak casks. To make gueuze a skilled blender will use samples from casks of 1 year, 2 years and 3 years of age in order to mix the sweetness of the young and the bouquet and subtlety of the older vintage. The result of this process is a beer with very little resemblance to Corona and a similarity with Champagne. The flavor is relatively sour with lots of fruity tones of apricot, apple but also brown sugar and vanilla, some terroir-like odors of smelly socks and Gruyere. Incredible stuff really. I would recommend Girardin or Drie Fonteinen if you can find them.
August 29, 2006

Gene Mishkevich
Hey Gary,

another great episode. For me, a favorite drink besides wine is a gimlet. It’s a combo of Vodka and Lime juice. Best before food. Why? Because it will yield 2 results. 1) Get your appetite revved up even more. 2) Get you drunk super fast on an empty stomach … Point 2 got us almost thrown out from “Aqua Grill” down in Soho. By my 3rd gimlet, I was calling it “Hamlet” and was demanding that Ophelia and Ophelia ONLY brings me the next one.. this is besides the cushion pillow fight at the same place about an hour later..but I don’t remember much of it.

2 part Question for you… How do you commute to and from work on daily basis – how do you deal with traffic??? and also I am sure you must have some sort of an email-based PDA (like Blackberry, Treo, etc). Do you find yourself on that thing the minute you leave work and does your wife yell at you for spending too much time with it instead of her?

GeneM.
August 29, 2006

Guy
Gary,

My favorite drinks, when I’m not drinking wine, are: (1) Seltzer with a slice of lemon or lime – I drink 2 to 3 liters of this a day, (2) Filtered or bottled water, and (3) A 20 ounce cup of dark roast coffee every morning. This is pretty much a comprehensive listing, I drink little else. The variety and diversity of drink in my life is all in the wine segment.

By the way, I know you have free-run at the Wine Library store, but I really find surprising the revelation that you don’t have your own wine cellar. Doesn’t that mean you are forced to regularly drink younger wines without bottle age on them? I have a large cellar, and it took a long time to get that way. It’s not to impress friends, it’s because I love the complexity fine wine gets when it ages. So in order that I might have an nicely aged bottle every night if I so choose, I’ve had to collect and store over a long period of time. I primarily like Bordeaux, but have never collected the first growths because of the expense. Instead, I cherry pick the 2nd and 3rd growths – buying futures based upon the barrel samples and on my personal preferences in appelation and chateau style.

Thanks for WLTV, it’s a “must watch” for me every morning, and I’ve been with you from your very first show in February this year (I was the overall 6th response to WLTV since the its inception. (see the very first episode of WLTV in which you perform a 2001 Verite horizontal tasting.

Keep up the good work, and hope to see your stor in person (and meet you) soon.

Thanks,

GUY
August 29, 2006

Miguel Vasco
When are you going to start using the proper glass per wine instead of mixing them all in the glass. Dont drink Port with out decanting it first, com on pally pull up your socks!
August 29, 2006

TimF
All this talk about beer reminded me that I do like beer now and again and have even gone so far as to brew my own from time to time — I’m a really hands on kind of guy. The funny thing about beer is that it’s made in nearly the exact same way as sparkling wine.

So this brings me to a question for the group: I want to make my own wine. I’ve even gone so far as to plant a row of seyval blanc vines in my back yard. This is their first year in the ground so I don’t anticipate being able to make any wine for a couple of more years. But I’ve done some research and see that there are grape juice concentrates made for the sole purpose of making wine. Has anyone out there used these? Any recommendations?
August 29, 2006

Tony S.
Great episode…I ran into a bottle of Clos Mimi Syrah (not the one you had, it’s just a plain old Syrah, I believe it was an ‘04) and it had freakin’ 19.5% alcohol!!!! I quickly put that thing down, figuring I won’t buy that until Port season comes around, so I’m curious, what was the alcohol percent of the one you tried?

As for favorite drink w/ alcohol would have to be just a good old ice cold beer in a frosty mug. I’ll do cheap or nice beer, they are ALL welcome in my home. I don’t like those bitter ones though.

As for non-alcohol, water’s good, but that’s more for when I’m not thinking about it, I really like sparkling water in a glass with ice and a slice of lime. And in the morning, hot tea, but like Jaye a few reply’s back, I like real tea leaves, not the bagged stuff.

So your Jets lost…well, at least they didn’t get beat by the Cardinals like my Bears did.

SEe you later,
T
August 29, 2006

Tony S.
Oh ya, and go Bears!
T
August 29, 2006

TimF
Tony S. — The Bears are terrible. Why do they insist on starting their worst QB?
August 29, 2006

Bruce
Hi Gary,

My Wife and I drink a lot of wine but we ususally do not plan far enough in advance and pull a bottle out of our cellar at 55 degrees, wait as long as we can (usually not long) and drink.
You have talked recently about wines that you have opened hours before tasting and wines you have tasted the next day and the wine really opened up. You even mentioned dropping off wine at a resteraunt early in the day before dining with a special bottle of wine. My question has multiple parts….
1. How long should a bottle be opened before consuming to make sure it is at it’s best?
2. How should a wine be kept overnight if the whole bottle is not consumed? Is the wine still good the next day?
3. When buying wine by the glass in a resteraunt should I be concerned about how long it has been opened? How long is too long?

When not drinking wine, I like a Grey Goose Gimlet. Which is GG, splash of Roses lime juice and a big slab of lime….can be drank on the rocks or up like a martini. Also like many kinds of beer and like to drink the beer of the country of the food I am eating. Been into Weiss Beers latley and like Hackershor with a nice slice of lemon.

Also my condolences on the passing of your friend. He sounded like a great man who loved wine.

I am just catching up on the last few episodes, have you come up with a sign off yet? How about….”I Spit so you do not have to”

Thanks,

Bruce
August 29, 2006

Darrell Tribue
favorite drinks besides wine, well I came to wine from the other way I love scotch single malts and blends, micro-brew beers & imports,small batch burbons,premium vodkas, sugar cane based rums, and premium tequlia.
August 29, 2006

Sam Zen
Gary, I wonder if you could include your surprise “home run hitters” onto your list of suggested/recommeded wines that are accessible through the WL home page. For example, it seems that you are up on the Castano Hecla 2003 and on the Clos Mimi Petite Rousse 2004. So please include these to the stagnant list that includes sharpshooter and the like. This would be a great quick pick guide for anyone looking to heed your advise. And congrats on your 80th episode… thousands more to go!
August 29, 2006

zerokreap (kw)
it doesn’t surprise me at all that people would be asking you to taste a bad wine…a ot of people like bad wine…there needs to be some sort of course to teach people what wine is supposed to taste like. i mean, wine should not be pigeon-holes, but at the same time there is a taste that is the mark of a truly great wine. i think the main idea here is complexity…people need to understand that a great wine has complexity of taste…that may mean that your first taste of the wine is somewhat awkward…you might not know what you think when you first taste it, but it should grow on you if it is good…the flavors will fill your mouth, it will NOT drink like WATER! smooth does not mean, easy for people to drink….it means that you don’t notice anything out of place as it goes down….okay, there is my rant…stop drinking crappy wine! thanks gary for the review.
QOTD: is there another drink besides wine? okay…i like a nice crown reserve on the rocks, but i don’t really drink the hard stuff any longer…not since i discovered the great deals at winelibrary.com…hahaha
August 29, 2006

zerokreap (kw)
hey bruce…i just read your post…i have to tell you that i have a great way to store wine if you do not drink the whole bottle the first night. buy a vacu-vin…use it…pump til you can’t pump no more….throw the bottle in the fridge…yes, even red wine….then break it out about 2-3 hours before you plan drinking it (red), open and enjoy. the cold slows the ‘bad’ aging down to the perfect pace…most of the wines i do this with (which is a lot considering i drink only half bottles at a time by myself) usually taste better the next day…especially good cabs and bordeaux (that is what i mostly drink…a few italians have showed well with this technique)….just thought i would send that out to you man…try it. there have been a couple of bottles that this did not work so well for, but these bottles were not good when opened…sometimes you get a bottle with either an acidic tinge, or just a bad, what i like to call ‘heavy’, taste to them…this technique will not help these bottles…their just bad bottles…the more complexity and flavor…the better this works. cheers
August 29, 2006

zerokreap (kw)
oh yeah…1 day is all i would suggest with this technique…although some really good wines, and even some only decent wines, have shown well with up to 2…i would stick with 1 though
August 29, 2006

Brandon M
Gary…it’s been a couple of episodes, work has been killing me!

Diet Pepsi / Water
Homemade Pilsner

And that’s pretty much it!

B
August 29, 2006

tony vincent
favorite non-wine bev?– a glorious, extra-dirty martini… Â belvedere, grey goose, or pravda vodka.
August 29, 2006

bryan
Good episode, I love it when you can find good values. My favorite non-wine beverage is Knob Creek bourbon on the rocks.
August 29, 2006

GOL
Agree with zerokreap on the vacu-vin. I find it works really well with whites (up to 3 days of extra drinkable life in my experience), agree on the 1-day recommendation for reds, and if a wine isn’t really good don’t bother pumping because the impurities and imbalance quickly overpower the wine. For both white and red I find the better the wine the better the “save” ability of pumping.
August 29, 2006

stewart l.
to Russ j #27,Joe Walton is alive and living inBeaver county,pa and still the head coach at Robert Morris Univ. He always has a cigar in his mouth[never lights it]
August 29, 2006

Rick McQ
Gary

Great Episode 92 point

I drink Coffee, Diet Coke and Wine usually in that order.
August 30, 2006

Dan
I’m a newbie to the blog here, and not much of a wine connoisseur. My alcoholic beverage of choice is beer; it’s very hard to pick a favorite but I really like the American Barley Wines. Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale is a winter seasonal and one of my favorites. It ages really well too. Floral, hoppy India Pale Ales are also great, like Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA and Rogue I2PA. For those interested in learning more about beer, beeradvocate.com is an excellent resource. I don’t really like soda; I mainly drink lots of water and beer in moderation. Recently I’ve been enjoying single malt scotches from Glenmorangie and Macallan and some blended Canadian whiskies like Crown Royal and Chivas Regal.
August 30, 2006

Lawrence Leichtman
When not drinking wine I drink Kettle One dirty martinis. Thanks for reviewing the Mimi; they were very friendly and poured generously of some very good wine. They deserve all the positive publicity you can give them. Their wines are definitely value priced.
August 30, 2006

Craig
Gary,
Excellent EP, with variety in the wines and the topics. I really appreciated your comments about personal palate changes when answering SAFSAMâ€™s question. Back in 93/94 one of our favorite Cab contenders for 8-12 dollar tastings was Chateau Souverain. For the money seemed to deliver decent fruit on the nose and in the mouth, but was favored because it tends to be forward. As with the times the price increased, and they might have been guilty of goosing it higher toward 20 because of good reviews/scores over the years. Iâ€™ve not tried Souverain for about three years, but last time I did it did not seem as good as the earlier days. Now Iâ€™m curious to give it another shot. However my expectations are low, not because of your â€œpassâ€ review, but because I know my taste has changed, and hopefully it is more educated than it used to be. A related point is that there are a huge number of wines that are fabulous *and* come in under 15, just as you showed us today Gary with the Mimi — totally jazzed about that one!! QOTD: Thank you Susan! You reminded me of my favorite non-alc beverage: Ting, especially with a splash of aromatic bitters.
August 31, 2006

karl satirev
Water
October 11, 2006

bomy
Yo, Gary do your Russian family members really drink French wine? Ouch!
January 19, 2007

Kirk
Gary…being that I turned 21 in Germany I acquired the taste for something that would translate into “Diesel” in Germany they will sometimes mix coke-a-cola and their beers. While I was deployed in Korea there was no access to German beer and I started drinking Heineken beer with Pepsi. So my other drink of choice….is 50% Heinecen and 50% pepsi…
February 7, 2007

Elliot Essman
Besides wine, my favorite drinks are:

Alcoholic – Barbancourt Haitian rum (15 year old), neat, just the two of us for a thoughtful, civilized sit-down together, often reading a book.

Non-Alcoholic – Diet Coke, on a hot day, the 12 oz can cold out of the machine, no substitute.

In-Between – Good fall farmstand apple cider, when it starts to ferment on its own in the bottle so you get that special zip and bouquet (doesn’t always happen).
July 16, 2007

Dave Canada
QOTD – Club Soda with Lime is my favorite drink……..
February 1, 2008

Chris
QOTD- Jack and coke or gin & tonic
February 12, 2008

thefanjestic
Qotd- JD and Coke or a White Russian with a cigar – or a Carmel Machiatto – mostly because I feel cool saying it.

Good episodes – really good questions. Gary – you drank Vodka on #400 – what gives, has your palate changed? will that be revealed in later episodes? I must go on…
February 12, 2008

T. Holland
Catching up on some old episodes. Great QOTD on this one.

Would have to go with any great Stout Beer. Recently had the Brooklyn Imperial Stout & the Rogue Stout- awesome!
February 23, 2008

Fangorn81
Wow. I saw the Clos Mimi on the table and decided to see what you thought, I passed it up at my local shop last week, but now I think I will go back and pick some up!

QOTD: Genmaicha Tea w/ a pinch of raw sugar (or a good glob honey if I am sick).
April 6, 2008

Kristen
QOTD: I have a few- a very cold 12 oz Diet Coke (within 15 minutes or so of opening), Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee with skim and sugar from the East Main Road store in Portsmouth, RI (I’ll get it in other places, but this is my favorite store), and various flavors of tea.
March 16, 2009

QUE
loving these old episodes. Wow what an evolution on GV’s part. Favorite beverages:
Sparkling water pelligrino or voss
Black tea (hot with honey) I drink liters of this stuff a day
Used to drink tons of soda and have since stopped but I still crave coke in a glass bottle hard from time to time!
April 9, 2009

dcpatton
QOTD: Gin and Tonic
August 8, 2009

Logan Young
Bottled exclusively for New York’s luxury Carlyle Hotel. I love the flavor of this wine, it has a strong earthy nature and shows signs of being great 10 years from now.The wine is medium bodied, not as complex as the Petite Rousse, but fruity,soft and savory.
September 18, 2009

John J.
qotd: alot of sparkling water actually.
love that your checking those comments, cuz i have a request. Really wanna see you do an episode on vin jaune’s. Also, a tasting on the different charbono’s out there would be great.

Mixed bag of wine, two birds 1 stone: Episode #80

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