Nice show. Kristin is an interesting young woman.
QOTD: Hmmm well I wouldn’t mind being Robert Parker for a day. That day being when he visits all the Grand Crus in Burgundy.

QOTD: I would orbit the earth.

Good episode, enjoy the knowledge even though I probably will never taste the wine.

QOTD – Major league baseball announcer.

Holy crap Gary, I think you found a new co-host. No kidding, there was a nice symbiosis there… QOTD: I hate to be a downer, but there is no dream job. A job is a job is a job. Even if you love it, there will be days you don’t feel like doing it. I have plenty of interests, but the minute I need to commit to it to make a living, I’m not so enthusiastic. Maybe it’s just me. Anyway, all that aside, I’d be a commercial pilot. I’m already a licensed pilot, but I have to pay to fly, so I’d rather fly to get paid I guess.

QOTD: Ironic. To work a harvest start to finish.
I have really been considering applying for an internship the past few weeks. 2009!
Is this episode a sign?
Great guest. She has the passion and took the criticism of her “family’s” wine w/ out getting defensive. Plus, her answer about what she got out of her experience was interesting.

Interesting episode GV… different perspective that we’ve never seen before, like it. Keep up the good work, and Jet’s victories ’cause I like when you’re in a good mood on Mondays – keeps up the spirits don’t you know!

QOTD: Why would I want to do my dream job for only a day? That’s a waste of time…I’m working on doing my dream job for a living – go figure! My dream job is doing food research and development, i.e. I want to professionally play with my food, and that’s exactly my prepared line for career day.

That is quite ironic apj_bobswineguy! I think it is a sign. You should definitely go do a harvest if you want to. It’s such an amazing experience (but be ready for some *long* days and the emotional roller coaster!

Nice ep. as ever. And a very nice guest … .
Yet, Kirsten, think about this: I’m a Belgian, so I’m – how do you call that? – full-bred European. When I heard you tell you experienced an anti-idyll in Bordeaux realizing that ‘even’ European wine is big business with bankers, insurance companies, etc. owning châteaux, you struck a string somewhere. I think you should come back and travel around OUTSIDE Bordeaux: yes, there is big bizz everywhere, yet, European wine is not all that (I know, you didn’t say so). Real wine lovers – not the ones who can afford bucket loads of money on a crappy ‘great’ wine – are getting so fucked up over here with a lot of people outside of Europe equaling European or French wine – whatever – and everything involved with it with Bordeaux. That’s quite a narrow view to say it politely. Travel to the Rhône, the Languedoc, the Madiran, Corbières, the Loire, the Côtes-de-Duras, the Elzas and you will see that winemaking still is for a large part a family business, even a tale of families struggling against the outflattening, evening, undifferentiating effects of globalisation. It’s the diversity inherent to this huge mass of small growers that is in fact key to the expression of real sense of place you talked about. Large owners aren’t interested in this ‘sense of place’ as it hampers the insurance of big revenues (so important for their shareholders): a wine tasting different, a wine you need to know the maker, his family and their idea about wine making before you can love it, is to difficult to market, to difficult to be sure about solid revenue (read i.e. Linda Murphy’s column about consolidation of the winemarket in last November’s Decanter).
I think you should keep that in mind when you do your research on globalisation and French wine.

QOTD: a winemaker in the Jura.

QOTD…..I’d like to be a Formula One race driver for Ferrari.

QOTD: I would take over Gary’s life for just 3 hours.

–great episode guys, cut guest! LOL
AL

Great show w/ a great guest!

Enjoyed the episode! Good guest!
QOTD – My dream job would be to work at a wiinery in many different capacities. I would love the vineyard land, the harvest, the tasting room.

Whoooooa…..was Kristin CUUUUTE….Yo G, Fix Me Up!!!! 🙂

qotd: Be a Taster at a Burgundy Grand Cru Convention!!

Hi there.
Nice quest, interesting vertical tasting.

QOTD
I would love to be the director of the Vienna Fhilharmonic orchestra on new years day.

Groetjes

Classico

lovely guest….and an excellent episode.

qotd: i would be a secret agent, like james bond, only i’d be drinking manhattans (stirred, not shaken)

QOTD: Sad, I don’t know what my dream job would be.

wow… not my thing… I am a fruit bomb guy…

QOTD… to not have to ever work again… travel the globe… eat drink & be merry…

as the Italians say, the sweetness of doing nothing.

QOTD: I would need a lifetime rather than just one day. I would like to work in a vineyard and winery.

I do my dream job every day – running a wine shop. I just wish that I owned it rather than running it for someone else.

I dunno.
Traveling to another country, France in this instance, to study wine? And get college credits for it? Sounds great to me…….for a vacation, but the cost of those credits has to be enormous. I would like consideration of the colleges to not only continue their global thinking, but to act locally. (It’s been said that we have a couple of pretty good vineyards here in the States). Having said that, the show, as usual was very good, and Kirsten was enjoyable.
QOTD- Strange as it sounds, I am pretty much doing what I like to do.

Nice show. Kristen did a great job and was totally at ease. Her stories and information was quite interesting.

QOTD: I’m not sure what my dream job would be, but I think it might be something to do with Major League Baseball. I guess I would be a player, but I lack talent in that area so that probably wouldn’t work. But even being a sportswriter covering a single baseball game would be awesome.

great show! loved the guest. nice to have someone we can identify with visit. a learner, not an expert though she seemed to be very knowledgable.

Thanks for the great show, and introducing a new varietal (to me) – that really brings THUNDER to my world. Awesome guest, thanks!!

QOTD: Shark researcher, tornado chaser. 🙂

…whether they like it… or not. Did you give up on that or what? I miss it.

So, being from denmark, I’ll have to keep my eye out. I’ve not tried it before, but there is also a lot of crap wine from bordeaux up here.

QOTD: Rock star. How do you get an internship for that?

qotd: it might kill a person to do all the tasks of a vigneron on one day!