Total Wine Explosion – The Big One

Total Wine Explosion – The Big One – Episode #110

October 18, 2006

Wines tasted in this episode:

Every 100 or so episodes Gary will step up and do a massive wine tasting and this way we may one day get closer to tasting all the wines made! Today Gary tackles fifteen wines, talks about palate fatigue and goes through many wines to try to help you in anyway he can. It’s going to be tough to tackle all the wines in the world four at a time so today Gary takes one giant step in the right direction. Sit back this is a long one!

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October 18, 2006

Lawrence Leichtman
I’m on several lists, Turley, Ramey, Teldeschi, Ferrari-Carrano. I haven’t noticed any droppoff in what I can order. time on these lists does make a difference. I will probably be dropped from Harlan because I just can’t afford to order enough of it to matter to them. Just went to a huge ttasting in Santa Fe with 95 wineries. I only tasted from about 1/2 of them and was approaching palate fatigue at the end with about 50-60 wines tasted. By the way the pourers would be happy if you liked their wines but they know that not every wine appeals to everyone even if it is well made so spit away.
October 18, 2006

Russ J
Nice job, Gary ,in all the ways one might take that! I have a younger brother too. Seeing yours give you the intro reminds me to give mine a call.

Sadly, I have not had the opportunity to find my palate fatigue point. Something to look forward to. I want some of that Eno Zin. What is your thought on cellar time? Will two years be suffient?
October 18, 2006

Jaye
Brandon, I hope I am in the position when I retire that I am able to do that . . . that would be truly super. So many great charities out there!
October 18, 2006

Jaye
Tim, I won’t give away . . . but I’m happy to share if you are ever in central NJ.
October 18, 2006

hinrgman
Gary

Great episode .. like this set(from earlier episodes) better that the one you have been using lately
October 18, 2006

TimF
Jaye — I’ll send you my address. Feel free to send me anything you don’t want anymore.
October 18, 2006

Brandon M
Jaye…I know you won’t go this way (I probably wouldn’t), but I read a great story in Spectator a couple of years back. A very wealthy collector had built an obnoxious cellar ond filled it with something like 13,000 bottles. He was of retirment age and he said he was sitting with his wife in the cellar one night and they started talking about how they would ever enjoy ALL of their wine. They talked it over and agreed that the only way they could TRULY enjoy it all was give the mass of it to auction for charity…..AWESOME

I’ll try to find the story as I’m sure I have forgotten how it was really told.

B
October 18, 2006

Jim
Excellent episode. Some great value wines! Only on wine lists where I can’t get the wines at retail. Vincent Arroyo is a favorite.
October 18, 2006

Jaye
Gary, congrats on such a palate-tiring episode! I have a love/hate relationship in going to tastings. The person pouring the wine for you always wants you to love their wine, and when you get a mouthful of ‘yikes’, is there any polite way to spit it out and not make a face? You really put yourself out there in front of the world, I don’t know if I could ever do that.

Here’s a question I have . . . if you look at your wine collection and say to yourself, “geez, when am I ever going to drink all this wine?” how do you go about finding a buyer for it at a fair price (given that many of us pay retail or discounted retail for our wines). I have been thinking about “thinning out” my collection by about 100 bottles or so, and really don’t have the faintest idea how to go about this.
October 18, 2006

Tony
Hot dogs, ham and cheese and barbacue ribs and bacon all in one pinot noir? It’s not a meal in itself – it’s four meals in itself!
October 18, 2006

Jaye
Hey Brandon, I’m not in wine business, but I have toyed with the idea of opening up a wine storage facility in my area since there is NOTHING around here. I am on a few wine lists, probably Pax is the most well known. Got to say, Gary gets the lions share of my paycheck. I might as well just put Wine Library as a standard deduction on my W4.
October 18, 2006

garyv
OHHHHHHHHHHH MAN AJ you rock, great WORK CHRIS MOTT, I was totally STUNNED…BRO thnx so much…..I LOVE U !!!!
October 18, 2006

Tony
Gray, this isn’t your office. Where did you tape this?
October 18, 2006

Brandon M
I have never experienced Palette Fatigue…mybe I should try 50 wines and see.

B
October 18, 2006

Jaye
I want to know how you know what “grasshopper heads” smell like.
October 18, 2006

Tony
I can get through about 5 wineries in a day before everything all starts to taste the same. At 4-5 wines per winery, that’s about 20-25 wines.
October 18, 2006

Brandon M
Question for everyone…
I personally have started ordering more wine from Gary as I’m sure a lot of you have, but I am also on a lot of wine mailing lists.
Some of the lists are now closed to the public, or have less allocations than they used to.
Do any others out there buy off of mailing lists?
If so which ones?
Any wines that no one else can get?
The list that I’m on that I’m the most excited about is the Kosta Browne stuff but what are yours?

Also…how many of you are in the wine business? In what capacity?
Would love to know how many people are Sommeliers, Wine Buyers, Retailers, Wholesalers, Importers, Growers, Makers, Winery Owners, or Cellar Engineers.

B
October 18, 2006

Tony
Close!
October 18, 2006

SS Chris
Gary, I haven’t watched yet, but you’re killing me w/ so many wines to enter. LOL

And you’re blowing me off about my “discount” question for people who pick up the wine…not nice to you old pal SPREADSHEET CHRIS (a not so subtle hint that you owe me at least a response GV)
October 18, 2006

TimF
Wow, 32 minutes long! I can’t wait to watch on the train home tonight…
October 18, 2006

Jaye
Love the artwork! Enjoying my “Piping Shrike” with this. My palate was feeling kind of whacked out after 17 wines last week in Washington State. The only way I made it through was by stopping for lunch after the first 15, and then coming back to try the blockbuster wine and finally the dessert wine. By the way, your brother is a cutie!
October 18, 2006

the professor and....
in at 3, 4?
October 18, 2006

Jaye
Someone other than Brandon is first? Congratulations, Jim!
October 18, 2006

Jim
1st?