Comments on: Malbec vs Malbec – Episode #417

By: richardvinifera

richardvinifera — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:40:44 +0000

QOTD: Just had a craving the other day for black forest gateau, chocolate and dark fruit, mmmm!

By: ulu ulu ulu ulu

ulu ulu ulu ulu — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:06:18 +0000

I rarely eat dessert, but probably anything my mother makes me. Cheesecake.

By: Chillon

Chillon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:22:55 +0000

WTF just drinck and enjoy the d@$m thing.I most be new at Wine drinking thing (be drinking wine for 10 years now) but can stand all the fu@4#ng words this people use to descrive them wine ,it reminds me of and abstract painter (a quack) overlaping diferent colors on a cambas and calling it art ..go figure.

By: Miguel Javier Ayup

Miguel Javier Ayup — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:00:24 +0000

Gary´s scoring and preferences reflec his personal standpoint. Mine is problably the opposite. 84-85 for Punto Final Malbec 2006 (Lujan de Cuyo) is 86 and 86 for de Origen Malbec 2004 (Cahort) is 83-84 or even less. If its not very drinkable its no very good at all! Toothpaste component? That´s akward to a wine.
Anyway I liked the way Gary put every bottle on the table.

By: Dessert Wine Nerd

Dessert Wine Nerd — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:57:20 +0000

QOTD: A flourless chocolate cake. The denser and richer the cake the better, coated with chocolate ganache. Served with a 20 or 30 year port. Total decadence.

By: c

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:51:06 +0000

I just tried an amazing new wine from Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina — called Belasco de Baquedano Malbec. It’s 100-Year Old Vine, but just introduced in the U.S., its website says (www.belascomalbec.com). I had the Llama, and there are three others (Swinto, AR Guentota, Rosa rose) all from the same Malbec estate. Have you tried this? What do you think? I was amazed at how low the price is, about $15 for the Llama. Are all Argentine malbecs so excellent?

By: Ray Barnes

Ray Barnes — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:39:59 +0000

Another enjoyable episode..always interested to see a review on a French wine from a so-called minor growing area, in this case Cahors (pronounced kah-oar, two silent letters).

QOTD – zabaglione, have had it less than a handful of times. excellent with one of its ingredients, a glass of marsala

By: LuvsChandon

LuvsChandon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:20:17 +0000

QOTD: Enjoying strawberries dipped in Elena Late Harvest Riesling

By: Brit Hammer

Brit Hammer — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:42 +0000

Posting this way after it aired because…I just picked up a Malbec rosario the other day at the supermarket – I wanted to try something other than my usual choice of whites. And I’m enjoying it! Had I not already seen this episode I wouldn’t have known that Malbec was a varietal – and so I had to watch this episode again ‘just because’. And then I started Googling and came across a handy site (especially for anyone living in the Netherlands) that has some information about flavor profiles of the kazillion varietals…which I didn’t know existed (site in English, German, & French). http://www.twis.info. Gary, I wish I had your tasting knowledge on a PDA for when I go to the store! And again thanks, Gary, for opening my eyes wider than the wine tasting classes I took! What a huge service you do to the industry and to us!
Best wishes,
Brit

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:50:41 +0000

Blue cheese and sweet wine (normally stilton and tawny port)