Comments on: Power House Pinots! – Episode #92

By: John J.

John J. — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:13:54 +0000

at 4 bottles

By: John J.

John J. — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:13:36 +0000

qotd: With all the epsiodes you’ve done, I’d looking for something you’ve never done before. I think a vin jaune episode would be perfect, and its pretty unknown. For a more laid back episode, a tasting on different charbono’s would be great.
I like David Canada’s answer too, that would be a fun episode to watch. But if you do his, you gotta throw a Petrus and a Romanee-Conti in there, why stop at bottles?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:22:04 +0000

“2 points for entertainment value” haha, love it!

QOTD: Could you do a show on Bordeaux wines from the Fronsac appellation? I’m going there for an internship and I’d like to know what you think about them. Sorry though, no Petit Verdot- only merlot, cab franc and malbec!

By: thefanjestic

thefanjestic — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:19:26 +0000

Gary – you gotta give away some vintage t-shirts from WLTV if you have any left. That would be awesome!

By: David Canada

David Canada — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:35:39 +0000

QOTD – This is easy. I want an episode on Seminal Bordeaux. Here is the lineup. 1945 Mouton, 1961 Latour, 1989 Haut Brion, 1947 Cheval Blanc. Do it for me….PLEASEEEE!!!!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:59:50 +0000

I was going to buy a Calera Pinot Noir next week, one of the high end bottles, but after seeing this episode I have changed my mind. I personally don’t like vegetable flavors in my wine and for $50 bones I don’t want to be extremely disappointed.

I might buy an Erath Pinot Noir instead, this is a bummer. I’m not sure where to go from here. I hate asking the guys in the store because they fudge over things and usually give you something they like or haven’t tried the wines. What a mess.

By: wtvLurker

wtvLurker — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:41:53 +0000

for more viewer value-add:
i think it would be useful to see you get another qualified taster in the next room and splice in their reactions (un-influenced by yours) to samples from the very same bottles.

to stroke the upset chianti fans and add value to all viewers throw in the *occasional* show where you pre-taste and select a few chiantis (etc) you like and then do an episode with those wines and noting the pre-selection. i think most viewers would be happy to see episodes containing your favorites (particularly with wines you think are undiscovered bargains like the chilean pinot)

for a fun change of pace:
film a tasting at your next Jets tailgate or gv house wine party.

btw lately i had my first salice-salentino and another negroamaro/malvasia-nero based wine. very distinct strong stinky nose and strong earthy flavor that i believe would put off many drinkers but i loved them and they are very inexpensive. is this the expected character of these wines? and if so, how would you describe the general nose/flavor?

By: AlanV

AlanV — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:24:40 +0000

What I would like to see – a great label vertical tasting. Perhaps a Mondavi (Opus?) or Dunn from CA, or a great estate Bordeaux across 3-5 years (or more if you have it in inventory). I would like your comments about what you taste in each year, how much is terroir influenced, how much winemaker influenced, how much age influenced.

Thanks – AlanV

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:01:08 +0000

First time commenting.

The 100 show should commemorate the great earthquake that shook San Francisco 100 years ago — foremost, because the event forever changed the wine industry in California and gave us the New World Wine Country.

A good deal of the marketable wine was stored in the city in those days (1906), but as the earthquake shook the city the wine fell with it — in reaction, the vinters moved closer to the grapes at their vineyards as a precautionary measure, thus birthing wine country.

We should remember those events 100 years ago with the 100th episode. Suggestions might be Almaden, Beaulieu Vineyard, Beringer Vineyards, Charles Krug, Concannon Vineyard, Gundlach Bundschu or Livermore’s Wente Vineyards because they were of the earliest vinters/vineyards to migrate to what we now know as wine country.

You can also read a little about this at the website below — one historian mentinos Italian-American families soaking blankets in wine to put out the flames on the roofs of their homes (wine and this even are linked in many ways).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/13/WIGQWINEQUAKE13.DTL

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:41:17 +0000

First time commenting, long time viewer (with a nod to NY Sports Radio)
Some suggestions for the 100 show, since that is such a sweet number, how about comparing sweet ot desserts wines from different countries such as a Sauternes (D’Yquem), a german Eiswein or Trockenbeerenauslese, a Tokaji and perhaps from some other countries. Another choice would be 100 point wines or perhaps revising the legendary “1976 Paris Tasting” that helped transformed the wine world. Other themes I’d like to see you tackle would be 1. French or other Roses 2.Southern Italian Reds such as Taurasi and Aglianico del Vulture 3. Wines from the Alsace. These would fit in with your mantra of trying new and different wines.