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1. about 2 months ago

   Dessert Wine Nerd

   Gary - Another great episode as always. I love the nerd-factor and humor you bring time and time again. I could see you actually wrting like this if you ran a magazine. Nice notes on the Sleepy Holly, too. I will have to remember to check them out arund here and see what I can dig up. Love the Duggan references. He was always fun to watch even if he didnt have a lot of techincal skill or a good finishing move… Yes, I am calling out the clothesline! QOTD: Well being new to wines and of course going the sweet route to start with, I think I would have to go with peaches.

2. about 4 months ago

   Grif

   My favority wine flavor? That’s easy. Oak!! I like the oaky reds. Back in the 1990’s I went shopping for my favorite reds from Sonoma and discovered that the prices were higher than I expected. The store people talked me into trying Chile and Australia. I wasn’t familure with the concept of “fruit bomb” I just concluded that there was something desparately wrong with this wine and actually went off wine for about a decade. With your help I’m starting to figure out what I like and I even had a fruit bomb that I liked after 24 hours of breathing. It strikes me as odd that you put oak and fruity in the same category “new world”. They’re opposites on my liking scale. I’m watch the shows from episode one forward. I’m half way to the present.

3. about 14 months ago

   Erik

   Enjoyed watching the Cali. Chardonnay tastings.

   QOTD - My favorite flavor in wines is blackcurrent; when a red wine manages to capture the truly recognizable flavor of blackcurrents I know I’m going to have a great tasting experience!

   In white wines I’ve recently been enjoying many of the flavors that the New Zealand Sauv. Blancs bring to the table (lemon-lime spritzer, gooseberry).

4. about 15 months ago

   Lawrence Leichtman

   I like a mixed berry taste. Blackberry, blueberry, strawberry and even cherry in reds.
   Citrus does it for me in whites.

5. about 15 months ago

   Harmony

   Wow 2 wrestling comments in one episode. You are a complete and total weirdo. Thank you.

6. about 16 months ago

   aaronT

   qotd: gonna answer in the context of whites since you’re feelin that flava with summer coming… favorite flavor profile in a wine is sunflower seeds! Get that fantastic salty nutty aftertaste from some of my favorite Chardonnays (Esterlina, for example).

7. about 16 months ago

   JayZee

   Intriguing episode. I am rarely impressed with Cali Chards, but the Passagno sounds good to me - I’ll have to give it a whirl.

   QOTD: I’d have to go with licorice in a red wine.

8. about 16 months ago

   John

   Hey Gary
   This past November we hit Landmark while we were in Sonoma and tasted the 2004 Overlook. Megan (my wife) and I enjoyed it, (notes: lot of granny smith apple on the nose as well as citrus fruit, not too much oak, great toasted notes on the palate)
   We didn’t purchase this we went with the Damaris reserve Chardonnay which doesn’t have as much distribution and doesn’t make it to Virginia. It had much more hazlenut aspects again with a lot of apple and asian pear, and not too oaky.

   Great episode.

   John

9. about 16 months ago

   Matt the Lurker

   Oh, one other thing. I think you are completely right about the change in California Chardonnay. I have noticed from the tasting rooms that I have been to that the first changes of an anti-oak movement have already started. Lucky for us I guess. The real 64k question is is that going to bleed over into the reds as well? Currently I only get a sense that oak is passe in the white department and the new world oak monster reds are still in favor. I guess we’ll see soon enough.

10. about 16 months ago

    Matt the Lurker

    QOTD - What flavor? It changes all the time. That’s what’s so great about wine is that you don’t have to have the same thing every day. Currently I’m a fan of strawberry. But in general I think my palate screams for cinnamon.

11. about 16 months ago

    eatapc

    QOTD:

    White wine: peaches.

    Red wine: pepper.

    – Mark B

12. about 16 months ago

    Garrett

    QOTD: Arm-pit! No seriously, it would have to be currant.

    As for a wine to taste - how about a cheap’er’ Cali meritage?

    Quintessa? Since you do not have St. Supery ‘Elu’ in stock…

    http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=29253

13. about 16 months ago

    flavasauce

    QOTD: TRUFFLES!

14. about 16 months ago

    Cat Pee Smells Like Wine :-)

    QOD: Red: Tart red currant and tobacco. White: Cat Pee sizzling on a space heater.

15. about 16 months ago

    wayno da wino

    QOTD: CHERRIES (bing or black) That’s why i’m a pinophile.

    If ya drink no Noir, ya Pinot Noir !!

16. about 16 months ago

    Matthew L

    Likely too late. Hall Merlot
    http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=29624

17. about 16 months ago

    Louisiana George

    QOTD: 2004 Mas Donis - Loved the 2003, which was rated even higher by RP. I think the 2004 is just as good, although rating a little lower. Great wine for the pricepoint ($12).

    Thanks for all you do.

    Louisiana George

18. about 16 months ago

    Sarah L

    QOTD: red- rose hips; chardonnay- love a little butter; champagne- toasted almonds.

19. about 16 months ago

    GottaGoDrink

    Hi Gary!

    QOTD- This week, for reds- plum/blueberry with a tannin bite, for whites- shiny metal.

20. about 16 months ago

    Jim Walker

    Orvieto Classico please!
    http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=16491

21. about 16 months ago

    Orion Slayer

    Too late for today’s show, but try Layer Cake!

    QOTD: Cherry, but tannins have to be there!

    (Only 2 more days till the draft!)

22. about 16 months ago

    Matthew L

    Thanks Gary. Keep the white wines coming.

    QOTD: Favorite means picking just one. Gosh…ummm…blackberries. Followed closely by raspberries, dark chocolate in reds; and grapefruit and fresh cut grass in whites.

23. about 16 months ago

    TSchampaert

    Doesn’t seem like I miss that much with no Cali Chards over here.
    Try a Ripasso for the show, or at last a Sagrantino di Montefalco of Arnaldo Caprai (never had that on WLTV).
    QOTD: I love the smell and taste of wet moss in wine. Some Barolos, Burgundies, Nero di Troias, Sankt Laurents have it. Great.

24. about 16 months ago

    Ross

    QOTD: Toothpaste

25. about 16 months ago

    ulysses

    QOTD: anything spicy

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