Comments on: California Chardonnay Tasting – Episode #224

By: John J.

John J. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:20:07 +0000

qotd wow tough question. thats impossible to pick 1, or even 10. Most recently, I really enjoyed the petrol character in this 96 german riesling I had last night.

Gary, how about putting a vin jaune on the show for something new?

By: Phredd

Phredd — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:22:32 +0000

Great episode. Nice to expand palates, but nice to hit the center from time to time, as well.

QOTD: For white, I like apricot. Especially in dessert white, but I also like when chardonnay or dry riesling has an apricot component, as well. For red, I don’t know that there’s only one. If I had to pick a single flavor component, I guess I’d go with vanilla. Not because I particularly like the flavor by iteself, but because it is one sign of a big red wine that has aged. I am much less a fan of astringent, biting wines, and vanilla always seems to be present in one form or another in wines that have had the time to mellow out.

By: Dessert Wine Nerd

Dessert Wine Nerd — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:36:56 +0000

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.

By: Grif

Grif — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:13:56 +0000

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.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:38:11 +0000

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).

By: Lawrence Leichtman

Lawrence Leichtman — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:09:43 +0000

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

By: Harmony

Harmony — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:31:32 +0000

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

By: aaronT

aaronT — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:49:56 +0000

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).

By: JayZee

JayZee — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:06:28 +0000

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.

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:58:43 +0000

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