Power House Pinots! – Episode #92

September 18, 2006

Wines tasted in this episode:

Today Gary looks at four Pinot Noir’s. Watch and see how these four stack up. A new QOD and a request to all of you Lurkers out there in the forums!

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September 18, 2006

Tampa Steve
You can also send the wine for the heat episode to me here in Fl. The FedEx guy told methe back of his truck reaches 110f daily at this time of the year. We will still see daily temps in the 86-93f range for another month or two.
September 18, 2006

Louisiana George
The heat episode seems to be a recurrent theme and I understand the NJ weather is not cooperating.

I’ve got the key to the heat episode success – ship the wine to me in Louisiana where it will be hot until our three days of winter (occurs sometime in early February, when the temp drops to around 40 degrees for a low for about 3 days) and I will expose the wine to whatever conditions you prescribe. After exposing to heat, will ship back to you for the episode.

Glad to offer to do my part to make the heat episode happen and hoping you take me up on it.

Louisiana George
September 18, 2006

ChrisR
How about an episode on Vouvray?

Or how about Celebrity wines: Greg Norman, Ernie Els, Coppola, Emeril, Jerry Garcia, Sofia Coppola’s wine in a can
September 18, 2006

ML
2 shows I’d like to see:

1) Take an older wine (10-15 years old)…3 different size bottles…one a 375ml, one a standard bottle, and a magnum and taste the difference the bottle size has on aging…if any.

2) Blind tasting. 6 or 8 bottles…half of them that have received extremely high scores from WS or Parker and half that received very poor scores (under 80 points). I would find it interesting to see how your taste/palate compares.
September 18, 2006

joe
Gary, great show on Mega Pinot (all California). Which region do you like best for Pinot: Santa Barbara, Sonoma or Oregon?

Here are topics for the future shows=(s):

1) for the 100th epidose – - a natural would be tastings of 100 point wines. A Parker or Spectator 100 pointer (2000 Pavie) and a GV 100 pointer

2) For the next “viewers” show: I would love to see the Paris Tasting redone. A great and well known 2003 Napa Chard vs Great and well known White Burgundy (2002) and Great well-known Napa Cab 2001 vs Great well known Left bank Bordeaux (2000)tasted BLIND by you. Have your staff (or me) pick the wines for you to taste, your staff decants each in a for decanters labeled A, B, C, D. and you blind taste (after 8 hours decanted). Not only do you rate each….but have to guess the orgin and the wine. Your staff then reveals the wine bottles that match the decanters when you are done. That would be FUN!
Joe
September 18, 2006

Adam
Hey Gary,
Love the show today.

My suggestions for a show:
1.It would be awesome if you offered 4 or 5 wines as a package a few weeks before the tasting and then everyone tastes the wines at the same time as you do.
2.”Wines that will get you laid” enough said, but would be really funny!!!
3. Sideways tasting…taste all the wines that were drunk during the movie (I think there are 15-20 wines in the movie)

By the way, why are so many people so obsessed with the heat episode? I just don’t get it. We know what happens to wine in the heat, so what is the big deal?

Adam
September 18, 2006

P. Hig.
OK. Here goes again. The greatest single wine region in the world and you haven’t done a SINGLE episode on it. Something just isn’t right. If you have problems making choices how about Briailles volnay 2002, the Trapet Chambertin 2000, the Voillot Volnay Champans 2003, the 2003 Clos des Lambrays, the Boillot Pruliers 2003. Of course these are very expensive (which has more to do with your selection than of what is available) but you’ve had many expensive bottles on your show, and many have flopped.
In addition, as I have hinted before, it is time to flush those 2003 out. A freakish year that made over the top wines–not classic Burgundy (or anything else for that matter).
Anyway, like I said, it just seems odd to have done minor appelations, rhone, bordeaux, barolo, Canadian ice-wines for crying out loud, not to mention california a million times and a million ways. Come on man, throw a guy a bone. Or have me come in and taste them for you. OK, here’s another idea. How about some guest appearances by your faithful viewers. I kind of like the idea of a debate format. It’s obviously your show but it would be cool to demonstrate the extent to which wine is subjective, even among those who are highly wine educated. There are quite a few wines of yours I’d love to taste, some of which are mentioned above. Sooo…Any chance of getting the most regal terroir out there given its due? Oh yea, I haven’t even gotten into the best Chardonnay in the world–some of which you have.
September 18, 2006

P. Hig.
OK. Here goes again. The greatest single wine region in the world and you haven’t done a SINGLE episode on it. Something just isn’t right. If you have problems making choices how about Briailles volnay 2002, the Trapet Chambertin 2000, the Voillot Volnay Champans 2003, the 2003 Clos des Lambrays, the Boillot Pruliers 2003. Of course these are very expensive (which has more to do with your selection than of what is available) but you’ve had many expensive bottles on your show, and many have flopped.
In addition, as I have hinted before, it is time to flush those 2003 out. A freakish year that made over the top wines–not classic Burgundy (or anything else for that matter).
Anyway, like I said, it just seems odd to have done minor appelations, rhone, bordeaux, barolo, Canadian ice-wines for crying out loud, not to mention california a million times and a million ways. Come on man, throw a guy a bone. Or have me come in and taste them for you. OK, here’s another idea. How about some guest appearances by your faithful viewers. I kind of like the idea of a debate format. It’s obviously your show but it would be cool to demonstrate the extent to which wine is subjective, even among those who are highly wine educated. There are quite a few wines of yours I’d love to taste, some of which are mentioned above. Sooo…Any chance of getting the most regal terroir out there given its due?
September 18, 2006

BigBob
so cherry coke earns 86 points? why not a zero? I notice you never said tannins once…. CA flaw

Best show? I can’t say. What is best to me would turn off half the country.

I think I’m a jinx on the Jets. Whenever I turn them on they start playing bad. I’ll be watching…
September 18, 2006

mike plaia
gary, u are truly unbelievable, im furious i just found out about this site yesterday, it could have made my whole year better, i blame alex for that. the only thing in my head the last 24 hours is the phrase “we are heading in the right direction” someone told me that yesterday and i truly believe it!
September 18, 2006

Douglas
How about a show featuring the first four bottles that Wine Library sold? You may have to look back in your archives, but if the wines are still obtainable, that would be cool to watch!

Douglas
September 18, 2006

Bruce
Perhaps it would be interesting to pit some first lable Bordeaux against their second and thirds in a head’s up battle.

P.S. As a former New Englander living in Jersey — am I eligible for free shipping?
September 18, 2006

Bruce
Perhaps it would be interesting to pit some first lable Bordeaux against their second and thirds in a head’s up battle.
September 18, 2006

PeterT
Episodes Iâ€™d like to see:

1.) Petite Syrahs

2.) An all Cali Meritage line-up
September 18, 2006

Matthew L
Nice show. A lot of my friends gave me no end of grief when Sideways came out in theaters because I have always been a big fan of Pinot Noir. During the movie, several friends leaned over and said “Dude, that is so you!” Whatever, you swill swiggin’ scags.

Fess Parker. Who knew? That, along with the characteristics of the juice itself, is what makes wine so much fun. It makes sense that many in entertainment would get into wine. (Thinking Francis Ford Coppola.)

Idea for a great show…Set up a scenario where you’re walking through Wine Library and you know one bottle of wine. What do you pick? I read a columnist once that suggested picking a wine that had a compelling label. His theory was, any winery that put a lot of thought into the label probably put as much thought and care into the wine. I can’t say that always plays out, but maybe you could grab some bottles from the shelf with “cool” labels and see if the theory holds up.
September 18, 2006

Ed R
Post what you want when you want, Gary never asked your opininon about the Jets or the WWE before airing each episode, nor does he ask the producers or sales people if it is ok to bash their wines. You guys need to get over yourselves and have another glass of wine.
September 18, 2006

PattyO
I’m a new viewer (NOT a lurker) – watched back episodes throughout the weekend. GREAT show, great information and great format.
TWO points for entertainment value on the soy-sauce Pinot?? For 80 bucks I can ALMOST buy a ticket to the upcoming Stones concert if I’m after entertainment value – OR, if it’s soy sauce I’m craving, the $80 would fund a pretty good sushi dinner.
As for the perfect show – I’d like to see you taste a table-full of wines with REALLY stupid names and labels. Some of them may even be good – but I never give them a chance because the names are so obnoxious with their “I’m trying to be clever and creative and memorable…” attitude. I’ve always figured that if they went to that much trouble to come up with a “ha-ha” label, they must be trying to sell something that wouldn’t sell on its own merits! So, I’d love it if YOU would try a bunch so that we don’t have to!
Here are some that come to mind:
Bad Fish
Slack Jaw
Three Blind Moose
Goats Do Roam (Come ON!)
Dead Horse
September 18, 2006

Tampa Steve
I would like to see you do another Chianti show breaking out some of those $100+ bottles of Chianti Classico you carry, wearing an Italian chiefs hat (you know those big white fluffy ones) with pizza and pizza boxes all over the place. Oh, yea got to have an Italian flag hanging up behind you. Now that would be a GOOD show:)
Gary, my wife and I were out to dinner a couple of weeks ago with another couple and we had a couple of bottles of Barolo. I used that same term “fishy” on the first bottle. I learned from WLTV just to say exactly what I think, just like you said today. It was funny, you had to see their faces…”FISHY, how the heck can a wine smell fishy”. I laughed and said that it exactly what it smells like to me, and it was!
Hey Gary don’t be too bummed out about the Jets, my Buc are 0-2 and haven’t even scored a touchdown yet this season…..thats what you say…..SUCKS!
September 18, 2006

Tony
I agree that a blind tasting would be excellent. Let us pick the wines, and you have someone set up four glasses. Then you taste them and try to figure out which is which.

Other episodes I’d like to see:

1. Another bargain wines episode. You’ve done a couple, but I think this should be a monthly episode.
2. Syrahs around the world (I know this was someone else’s idea) and talk about how they are so different even though they are the same grape.
3. Cabs around the world (France, CA, South America, Australia).
4. South African wines.
5. A vertical of the exact same wine from different vintages (maybe 97, 99, 01, and 03 California cab – all consistently good years) and use that to talk in detail about the affects of aging on a wine; its color, flavor profile and characteristics.
6. Taste wines from the same producer in different price ranges, like their $10 cab, their $20 cab, and their $50 top of the line cab cuvee. Compare fruitiness, terroir, complexity, etc.
7. Do an episode on terroir. Pick four wines that you think exemplify terroir in wines and taste through and describe them.
8. An episode on the effects of heat on wine… Come on! You didn’t really think that I would let that slip did you?

That’s enough episodes to get you through episode 100.

For episode 100, I’d like you to taste the 5 wines under $100 in the WL inventory that you think are the best. Five best WL wines under $100. Bar none. Go for it. Tell us what you think the best wines you have in stock are.

Tony
September 18, 2006

Julius
On more than one occassion, including today, you have described one of the flavors in a wine as “Asian spice.” Would you specify exactly what you mean. After all, Asian food is a broad category and covers a wide selection of spices, many of which are totally different from each other (Some are sweet and some are pungent).
I would like to see a show (in fact, more than one) where you have a panel (you and two or three others) tasting and describing the wines. I have spoken with several members of your staff and found them to be quite knowledgeable. Not to take anything away from you but I think it would be refreshing to hear from the others. Who knows, you might get a strong difference of opinion or even better additional aspects of a wine that you might have missed.

BTW, when are the tickets for the tasting at the Manor being sent?
September 18, 2006

GOL
Rob M – concur fully with your post… I propose a guideline of keeping one’s sports/non-wine chat to the same % GV does on WLTV… sprinkling a little in here or there for flavor is OK, but clearly this vlog is about wine!
September 18, 2006

The Godfather
Here are my nominations for the perfect episode. None can be considered “the usual suspects”

Basilisco Aglianico Del Vulture 2000

Caves De Colombe Gigondas 2003

Amisfield Pinot Noir Central Otago 2004

Tasca D’almerita Rosso Del Conte 2001

Marcanza Nero D Avola 2004

Calvet Thunevin Cuvee Constance 2004
September 18, 2006

Italian Stallion
Hey Gary….its the Stallion

I think the best episodes would be:

1) The Heat episode….the effects of wine stored in high temp and the effects of wines stored at room temp over a long period of time. This is great as many people store their wine at room temp.

2) Do a Show dedicated to the big California Cabs (ie, Caymus special select, opus, phelps insignia, robert mondavi reserve, dominus, beringer private reserve, far niente, etc) This would be an amazing show for someone who loves California Cabs (someone like myself…lol)

Thanks again Gary for a great show

-Stallion
September 18, 2006

John Coyne
Yes, Fess Parker was Davy Crockett on the Walt Disney Sunday Show on ABC for three years in the mid 50’s. I know because as a child I watched every episode religiously. Parker also played Daniel Boone on NBC TV.
September 18, 2006

Susan
Gary-
Super episode! I really like the Pinot Noirs!
Please taste four reds from four different countries. These four would be dry, full- bodied and low alcohol.
Keep up the good work!!!:)