How to Blend Wine with Peter and Rebecca from Ampelos Cellars

How to Blend Wine with Peter and Rebecca from Ampelos Cellars – Episode #630

February 25, 2009

Peter and Rebecca Work stop by to talk about the wine business and blend some Pinot Noir.

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February 26, 2009

dusan maletic
Maybe not the best way to bring this issue, but I guess you’ll notice it here and maybe some other users will comment on it…

New recent file naming scheme for WLTV episodes. At first I thought that it may be a temporary departure from the norm you are known for (ex. episodesix09). However, the change seem to have an air of permanence. There are simple non-end-user-friendly issues with it. While in the “olden days” old episodes would automatically arrange themselves by the name (starting with “episode” followed by the “NNN” number) this is no longer the case. Inserting the show title between the WLTV and episode number messes up file organization. Easy to correct to get better usability for the end user who keeps all the old content (ex. WLTV NNN Title). Another naming item I don’t get at all are numbers after the episode number at the very end. So far I don’t see any purpose for those, likely there is some production reason (but, keep those away from the episode number if you do rearrange the default title to my “self organizing” suggestion…).

Just in case this is the result of the manner in which I receive episodes: I get them by automated downloads using your RSS feed.

If the problem is not clear, I’ll underline it: New episodes are not in chronological order in my folder. Hence a need for end user to search through them to find new ones inserted in the order by the title. Easy for the recent few episodes but imagine the mess of searching through hundred(s) to find where the most recent have dropped in… Arrange folder by dates? That would mess up my other files (all other video/pod-casts I follow do follow self ordering naming scheme).

Keep on good works!
February 26, 2009

Slushpuppy
Party on dude!
Smell it first. TR
February 26, 2009

ex-lurkdawg
nice first part … I like the blending idea. It’s really interesting to me to see how the components come together.
February 26, 2009

MaRc
Have been tuning into your shows lately and I have to say, awesome shows, great guests and the thunder booms ever greater! Cant wait for part two…

I’ve also been reviewing lots of your previous episodes, but the one that has just left me awe struct and dumb-founded, laughing and gasping for breath on the floor was epi#148 (where you tasted a whole lot of flavour profiles)…that’s just hilarious! You’re the man!

Keep it coming, dude!
February 26, 2009

Susan B
Love that you had Peter and Rebecca on your show! We first enjoyed their wines while on a tour of vineyards using sustainable viticulture – actually had a picnic lunch in their vineyard – and joined their wine club after returning home. We had also enjoyed some of the Badge pinot while in the area, so it is interesting to hear more of the back story. I look forward to the discussion on blending in the next show.
February 26, 2009

Adam J
Can’t wait for part two!
February 26, 2009

Vino Vangelist
All hat and no cattle? Only kidding. All good in wineland?
February 26, 2009

hugh
Call it the “passion show”……this is top notch stuff gary…
February 26, 2009

Pizza Vino Joe
I hope in Part Two that you had asked them if they blend towards a consistent flavor profile from year to year or with the intent to make the best wine possible from the given vintage even if that means to depart from the previous years profile.
February 26, 2009

Phil G
I enjoyed watching this – they seem like nice people and the blending is interesting. Also, very interesting that their land has had grape vines for 8 years, and the last guest’s vineyard was over 800 years old…
February 26, 2009

apj_bobswineguy
Great week for WLTV! Like those early spring training stats in baseball-you’re batting 1000!

And I agree w/ others. Planned or not, it is a great contrast between Joly & these two. Although, both make sense in their own way.
February 26, 2009

chuy
love the show, me and my girlfriend were in lompoc doing some barrel tasting with peter cargasacchi and i told him i was a fan of the ampelos wines, well peter carg got on the horn with peter work and he invited us to his house. We spent 3 hrs sitting on their back patio with peter and rebecca, drank a btl of viogner and a btl of the lambda pinot 04. He drove us around the vineyard on his golf cart and went up and down the rows! He was beaming like a proud parent so proud of his vines, and he taught us a little about grafting which i think is very interesting. By far my best winetasting experience ever! nice nice niiiice! people. Thanks for having them on and im glad we joined the wine club when we did i think peter and rebecca are gonna make a name for themselves. good work!GO CHARGERS!!
February 26, 2009

BostonKeith
good show very interesting guests, very knowledgable, can’t wait for part two
February 26, 2009

winetrader.dk
Great show Gary, finaly some Danish people on the show *s*
February 26, 2009

ZJK
I love how your starting to incorporate science into episodes. I love this kind of stuff, it’s like the discovery wine channel. I love hearing how their son is the winemaker for Sea Smoke, good stuff.
February 26, 2009

Richard Ritter
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February 26, 2009

Richard Ritter
Thanks for covering this topic, I’ve been wondering about this for a while now. I think of it like tuning a guitar, some wineries can or have to grow the “strings” and some wineries are able to grow the whole damn guitar. You do what you want or have to do. That’s my comment for SteveW up above.
February 26, 2009

DAveA
good guests. Nice to see how IT geeks become wine nerds. smile. Good for them!
February 26, 2009

Daniel Kemp
I thought this whole week was going to be on biodynamics (is this clone stuff biodynamics?).

It was still a cool episode though.
February 26, 2009

LIttle Jonny
Really interesting stuff. I’ve always wondered about clone types, and the significance in the vineyard, and now I have a feel for the importance in making wine!

Amped up for part 2!
February 26, 2009

SteveW - Colorado
Anyone else see any irony between the Nicolas Joly piece and this one? What I mean is, what would Joly think of this ‘wine making’? What would he think of all of this effort that goes on in the lab after the vines have done what they do best? Would he see any of this as adding a cosmetic element to the wine? I’d like to here anyone’s comments on this.
February 25, 2009

RANDI
GARY!!
Love Seasmoke!
And you know, the movie Sideways may have made its Hollywood mark on the wine industry…and created a popular trend…but I really loved that movie!

Great ep…
Thanks Gary!
xox
February 25, 2009

my2cents
Interesting story behind the starting of the guests winery.

Not sure I like having to refer to vines as clones. Almost makes it feel like the ingredients are not good alone and need to be blended. although this is not always true as Gary just noted really liking the “777″ on it’s own.

Big swing from the previous guest’s approach of growing the flavor of the wine on the vine. “like a difficult child”.
February 25, 2009

A dumb Rhine king
Very interesting.
February 25, 2009

David T
So there’s no QOTD- you can still leave comments, Vayniaks!
I thought this was also a good learning episode- but different from the last 2 days. More wine-business in regards to pricing/press. Looking forward to the actual blending tomorrow.