Portuguese Douro Wines – Episode #232

May 7, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

Gary has been talking up Portugal, today 3 VERY highly rated wines step up and get challenged.

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October 21, 2009

dcpatton
Been doing twitter for a long time. Love it.

Great episode. Would love to see a new one on Portugal in 2009 discussing the different regions and where the value is now.

@dcpatton, @palatematch
September 9, 2009

Kalimahxo
What can twitter do for you?
February 7, 2009

Robin C
I will definitely be looking into Portuguese wines.
QOTD: I tried Twitter, but it said that it would never send me a text message. No explanation. I have privacy concerns, but they are outweighed by the enriching ability to access so many areas of information and to become familiar with people such as Gary V.
January 14, 2009

mdb
Accidentally crashed with this site!
Very nice Gary,!! but I could not help laughing when I eared “Douro, the next Napa Valley”
In terms of quality, everybody is entitled to his opinion, so I won’t make comparisons, but there is an historical issue:
Wine making was introduced in Portugal by the Phoenicians between the X and the V century before Christ was born, the Douro marked region of origin was the first one to be declared in the word, by the Portuguese king D. José I. in the year 1756.

regards
July 6, 2008

Dessert Wine Nerd
Nice. Who doesnt like a mouthful of silk? Moss Man? You remember so much about your childhood its amazing. QOTD: I think its eventually going to get to the point where most people wont go out and do anything (beach, hiking,etc) because we will have far too much time spent wasting on useless technology. I actually know some that already do. Ha.
December 21, 2007

No Face
Hello Wine Lovers! I have a bit of an off-topic question for everyone: Does anyone know of a website or a something that does exactly what Gary does except for Pipes and Pipe Tobacco? If anyone has heard of anything like that I would love to know about it. I’ve always thought the two went very well together – Wine and Pipes. Very classy. Mm-hmm.
May 18, 2007

Elliot
Great wines under 8 bones? Reallllllly….. Lay one on me.
May 14, 2007

eatapc
I have a (mild) concern about the exhibitionism that the new technology enables. It’s creepy and unhealthy.

I love my computer but want my phone to be a phone and no more. (Well, maybe a PDA plus phone.) Twittering with a phone? What a waste of my life! (I do enough wasting of my life without adding that distraction.)

As to Twitter, I don’t get it. Seriously don’t get it. I didn’t like the idea of it but I registered on Gary’s recommendation. But I don’t understand what to do with it after that. I can’t figure out how to add Gary as a friend — all I see is a way to invite friends to join up by giving Twitter their e-mail addresses. That’s not gonna happen. I wouldn’t do that to friends.

Twitter seems like a cheesy, crappy, badly designed site. Like I said, I don’t get it.

On a positive note: Winelibrary TV is becoming very cool and full-featured. Great work, Gary!
May 12, 2007

TSchampaert
Great new design Garry! Kudos… . But, can you make it Mozilla-friendly? The page is all over the place. Need to do smth about your CSS place markers.
QOTD: I love new tech, especially telematic and domotic things, but I’m afraid that instead of bringing people together it is too often used to replace people. That’s smth I hate.
May 11, 2007

aaronT
Our favorite moment from this episode

cameraman: sniff sniff “mmmmmm”

Haha! Not sure why, but that slayed me!
May 10, 2007

nougat
Love the non-fortified Portuguese reds…today’s show not so much. The distractions were a pain and Gary’s commentary suffered too. Still a huge fan, albeit a lurking-hermit.
QOTD- Viddler, skype, twitter – man, there aren’t enough hours in the day to take advantage of all this sh**.
May 10, 2007

Elliot Essman
The Twitter is interesting, but make it a once-a-week resource, otherwise it will take over.
May 10, 2007

kirk B
QOTD:emails are a half duplex communications technology. It is a giant leap backwards in technology. In the dark ages of computers, you would dial up a server on an acoustically coupled 300 baud modem and the machines would take turns talking. You can accomplish so much more by picking up the phone and having an interactive, full duplex conversation in real time. Use Skype if you want to throw technology into the conversation. IM’s are like talking with walkie talkies. Talking with these technologies is like talking at someone, not with someone.
May 9, 2007

sharon
It’s just my opinion but the TWITTER is really annoying. I’d prefer not to hear it or be distracted from the real reason I’m watching your show…information on wines and wine tasting.QOTD: As far as technology goes it is way WAY overrated…Love some things but a Luddite needs down time from all the racket. Slow is good if not better.
May 9, 2007

Julius
Since the set is still too dark, I must assume that you don’t really care, otherwise it would have been fixed by now.
May 9, 2007

97brunello
i agree with the previous poster. When are you going to be getting more of thes?!!!!. I love Portugese wines.
May 9, 2007

Freddy
interesting episode, too bad all the wines have sold out so quickly.
May 9, 2007

Louisiana George
only problem i have had with viddler is that if i have to pause it, most of the time it won’t restart (freezes and won’t restart); i have to reload the page, start it and then move the cursor to where i left off.

Louisiana George
May 8, 2007

Acousticdoc
Gary,
I say bring back the weird tasting glass. You would get less heat than you are getting with Twidder.
May 8, 2007

JimVarney01
That buzzing phone would absolutely drive me nuts…

Nice ep, good idea with twitter. I just don’t care to be bothered by it that much.
May 8, 2007

Lb in KS
Nice ep, G.
Not sure if I should be concerned or not… I guess maybe I’ve actually got used to people scambling for their gadgets…so I guess the BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ…. didn’t annoy me? Love tech when I need the info…. learned to dislike it very much when people want ME. me thinks we all need our alone time….as I “fondly?” remember me 1st cell phone….. the one I carried in a big heavy fabric bag to carry the huge 2 lb battery, ah….those were the days
May 8, 2007

Takilma Kate
QOTD: It’s waste, trash, poisons. Let’s use this genius we have to design a clean system. I have no doubt we can, we just aren’t motivated to. What a shame. Plus I like being unreachable: get this: I have no TV and no cell phone! AHHHH! I’ll be sending you all good thoughts as I gaze across the flowering meadow at the high Siskiyou peaks out my window. (It’s a good thing Oregon makes great wines because this is a long, long way from anywhere else!)
May 8, 2007

wayno da wino
Gary, Great Episode (as usual)! Sounds like
another worthy place to explore!

QOTD: It’s a little MUCH. Thank GOD dis geezer
was born when he was. Comment #91 pretty much
summed it up!!
May 8, 2007

D Banks
QOTD: You practically picked my future thesis topic! I’m concerned about an immediate turn to high-tech as the answer to all of our problems. We assume a linear progression of technological innovation when really we’re constantly picking and choosing from a multi-directional assortment of possible directions that we can follow. The result, is we get in a technological rut. A rut where a single bad idea can propagate itself and we build upon that mistake making it worse. As a society, we are afraid to return to earlier methods because we have the conception that if its in the past, it can’t possibly help us in the future.

Our energy crisis and climate change all come back to our suburban land development. We look to high-tech inventions and miracle fuels to deliver us to a carbon-free future, but we’re just putting band-aids on broken arms. We need to reach back to traditional neighborhood development so we don’t build our human environment to the scale of cars. We need human-scale neighborhoods with public space. Otherwise, these comment strings will be our last vestige of civil discourse.
May 8, 2007

RedLoverJim
QOTD: As things get faster and faster, I’m afraid that as a society we’ll lose sight of the things that can only be appreciated at a slower pace, particularly personal relationships with people.