QOTD: Maybe espresso…

this is for Dr.T in NC … I always behave.

ok, totally unrelated to the show but, when u throw that hoodie on it looks like you’re prepping for an MMA showdown….and are u still wearing the hospital band from Misha’s birth?? that’s cool and nerdy at the same time

1 week without any info and I’m starting to think the forums are gone for good. BOOOOOO. No warning and no explanation means double BOO and negative feelings harbored towards WL and WLTV.

So – where is everybody going to now? I have been looking for you guys on CT boards and ebob but haven’t seen anybody yet.

Kahuna – get a board for your site!!!!

Home run! Enjoyed the Pinot love…

QOTD1: Hmm… gotta have sweet…

QOTD2: Mint chocolate chip…

Who needs Mott when you can just flip it……..

Nice episode and I loved how your perspective changed on the first wine- scores are shite! But don’t stop rating please 🙂

QOTD- Favorite ice cream is either Mint Chocolate Chip or Oreo Cookie

the forums ??

Pete: if the label don’t fit, then I must acquit!

We are bored little lambs,
With no forums to stray (to). . . . .

Enjoy Anderson Valley and Anderson Valley wines quite a bit and I have been going there since the early 90’s. Great show for a flip cam.

wow, how the hell can you live in NYC, especially manhattan. uck.

anyway, gary i got to call you out on this cali crap, cause we (Clinton Vineyards) make some awsome $35 champagnes (yea we been making them so long we are legally granfathered in to call them champagnes). Maybe ill ask my boss if i can bring you some.
… F**K Anderson Valley, how many times do i got to tell you to come to the Hudson Valley (80 miles north of NYC? not as Disney land as other places? more home towny? come on, we got all that and the wine to boot)

what was qotd #1?
qotd 2; raspberry sherbet.

Hi Gary,

I live about 20 minutes from Anderson Valley and I used to work in the wine biz out there, I still drink and collect many A.V. Pinots. I don’t think this was a very relevant tasting because ’06 and ’07 vintages were so drastically different. In ’06 the vines were heavily overcropped and many producers turned out watery, hollow mid-palated wines, (you picked some of these characteristics up in the ’06 Claudia Springs) The ’07’s were back to the more typical small yields of A.V. and more concentrated and ripe flavors. I think you should have tasted both producer’s wines from the same vintage.

Thanks.

chocolate mint

peace.

I’ll nominate Cherry Garcia.
If you are coming to Anderson Valley (great idea), swing through Redwood Valley, and I will give you a taste of my homemade grappa!

sky high mud pie! 🙂

Gary, really love the show… I am in the Air Force and live in Italy so I have gotten to travel all over the country learning about Italian wine. My favorite thing to do is before I go to a region I watch all your past episodes about wines from that area to give me something to look forward to. I am now in Sardinia (for work I promise) for the next two weeks and was disappointed when you didn’t have any episodes about Sardinian wines like Vermentino di Gallura or Cannonau di Sardegna. Any chance you have some around the Wine Library you have been dying to try? Thanks.

Great show! Love anderson valley pinot. Caught this one a little late but great setting, foggy day in NY. Reminds me of the summer mornings in chicago, when you are right in the heart of the city and yet you can’t even see the buildings around you.
QOTD: I would rather eat dark chocolate and cheese for desert than cake or sweets any day!
QOTD2: Pistachio flavor gelato on the streets of venice. Doesn’t get any better.

yo Vinny … http://tv.winelibrary.com/forum/

QOTD2: chocolate peanut butter 🙂

Great show GV. I went up to the Anderson Valley in Dec. and was a little underwhelmed. I think there are not enough tasting rooms up there yet and about half of what I had was just “meh.” Looking forward to your Anderson Valley shows when you explore the hidden gems I wasn’t able to find!

Woodsy Lord made a good point. 07 will be a fantastic year for most CA pinots, especially northern climates, so putting the 06 next to the 07, which was just released wasn’t very fair. While it may be logistically tough, putting together tastings with vintages in mind might be more informative and you could help enlighten the vaynernation on how the weather can affect the vino.

Liked the urban feel of the city sights/sounds in the background. I’d love if you took us on a “field trip” to California wine country. My fiance and I are staying in Sonoma for a week of our honeymoon in November and are always wanting insider info.

My fav. ice cream flavor is cake batter from Coldstone, preferably with brownie chunks and bananas mixed in!

last week i ate a green tea ice cream at a small sushi reastaurant.
it was very nice n refreshing best was that its taste wasnt artificial and not really sweet… very nice would order it at any italy ice store instead of my normal fav pistazie. the asians not only invented pasta maybe icecream too….

Plain Vanilla (with chocolate sauce) and I never follow it up with a pickle chaser.

Want great Anderson Valley sparkling?

http://www.roedererestate.com/TechSheet.php?Wine=113

They’ve been there awhile.

Nice little show. I’ve had wine from Anderson Valley, but oddly not any Pinot Noir. I will have to check it out next chance I get.

QOTD 1: No, just give me the sweets for dessert. I don’t follow it up with a pickle or anything else like that. On the other hand, I love anything made with dark chocolate which is usually bittersweet at most.

QOTD 2: I’m not a big ice cream person, but since I’m a chocoholic, it would have to be chocolate fudge. I also really liked the chili pepper/dark chocolate ice cream I had at XO Primer Steakhouse in Cleveland. Definitely different. Come to think of it, the green tea ice cream I had while in Japan was also very interesting and not all that sweet.

GV:

Schramsberg, an American producer, makes a delicious Anderson Valley sparkler! But its price is a bit north of the range you were talking about. You should give it a try. The also make some more affordable sparklers under the Mirabelle name, but I don’t know if the grapes come from Anderson.

Thanks for the heads-up about pinots from Anderson – I’ll put it on my tasting list.

QOTD: For run-of-the-mill ice cream, I’d say vanilla because it’s hard for producers to screw that up. But my absolute favorite ice cream is the pistachio they have at Blue Marble Ice Cream on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.