Film Noir: A Pinot Noir Blanc Tasting

Film Noir: A Pinot Noir Blanc Tasting – Episode #695

June 25, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk breaks down a white wine made from the Pinot Noir grape.

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“Cool show guy. Very interesting how different the grape is w/o skins….” by yowens
“Interesting show – I have read about Pinot Noir blanc with the Domaine…” by Dan-o
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Anne Amie Prisme Pinot Noir Blanc

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

The “Crush It!” announcement page

136 Responses

June 25, 2009

Adam G.
1st??

Woo Wooo!!!

QOTD: the most nerdy thing I’ve done this year……sit around and home and hit refresh waiting for the next WLTV!!! -have to admit, that ranks pretty high on the scale of dorkdom!
June 25, 2009

C-Fiddy
22222222
Now to watch…
June 25, 2009

stefos
Nice educational episode.
June 25, 2009

Vanguy
Looking forward to watching this
June 25, 2009

castello
WHITE LICORICE? Never heard of it.
How about talking a little more about the Sake play? Read some comments or something.
Waiting for WLTV, like Adam said, is one of the nerdier things us Vayniacs can’t tell our friends about.
Also drinking some of the Portugeuse wines you yak about. The Quinta Vale D. Maria I had the other night brought the THUNDER! Followed by a big ass Cali Cab from A. Rafanelli. You should try it.
June 25, 2009

jwink
Just watched pt2 of the sake, and found this easter egg up. Beau was very good. Alwasys love the educational aspect of WLTV.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL that was the best glass of wine you’ve EVER poured!

QOTD:Hmmmmm…probably put my whole wine inventory onto a webtise for tracking. And that’s for everything I’ve done this year not just wine/food related.
June 25, 2009

Lisa
Short and sweet…nice
June 25, 2009

Lb in KS
i couldn’t agree more, Adam….. as I sit here hitting the f5 key
June 25, 2009

Paryb
Geez Gary! I know you are rolling like P-diddy, but that was Alcohol abuse man! Why’d ya have to pour all that out!

QOTD: Nerdiest thing I’ve done so far this year? Hmm, probably buying and reading new Star Wars books…The Dork is strong with this one!
June 25, 2009

C-Fiddy
Thanks GV,
Champagne is white and made from Pinot Noir, right? So was this like a non-fizz Champagne?

Nerdiest thing?
Probably telling all my peeps about WLTV and Top Gear on BBC America.
June 25, 2009

italianwinelover
woo!!woo!! top 20!
June 25, 2009

KAHUNA
I hope Sasha smacks you for wasting that much wine! Now that I would make me laugh!
June 25, 2009

Lawrence Leichtman
Not rolling like P-Diddy so doubt this will be a play for me. The nerdiest thing. The Thunder Cruise but loved it.
June 25, 2009

Andrew
QOTD: Last week I went into my mom’s office and helped her set up a Twitter account (@creativekidstuf) for her toy store Creative Kidstuff in Minneapolis.

Gary, I would have loved to have been under that shower of wine, it is so hot here in Chicago!!!!
June 25, 2009

KAHUNA
QOTD: Nerdiest thing-HUH- happening righ tnow
June 25, 2009

David Dadekian
QOTD: Jeez, I don’t know, but I bet my wife could list a dozen things off the top of her head!
June 25, 2009

Richie
I loved the pouring-action! Really laughted my ass of on that.

QOTD: Well I had a conversasion about wine the other day with my old geography-teacher which was very nerdy.
June 25, 2009

Rich Ritter in NY
Noir/Blanc…hmmm. That’s a contradiction in terms, isn’t it? Thanks for the knowledge, learning all the time.

QOTD: I made this, http://bit.ly/FwxNY .
June 25, 2009

Zino
QOTD: Writing these comments.
June 25, 2009

Pat B
QOTD: Buying an absurd amount of Kellogg’s cereal so I could collect all 5 Star Trek Beam-Up badges. I’d like to say that I got carried away with the movie, but actually it was really just about the Apple Jacks….

http://trekmovie.com/2009/03/26/report-on-kelloggs-star-trek-movie-promotions/
June 25, 2009

stuart tarrant
That’s how every episode should start… Just off the back of “the tinternet’s most passionate wine programme…” a full-on ‘winefall’. If ever there was an excuse to give a wine a sniffy sniff, this was it.
June 25, 2009

Mitwise
One Wine Thursday…8:09….Is this like buying the 375ML instead of the 750ML? 1st time reply and I’m still viewing the back episodes. Love the Thunder Show.
June 25, 2009

Zube
I like the shorter episodes, and must break up my viewing of those that are over 30 mins.

So, this puts me in a quandary. I would like to try a white Pinot Noir, but know that the one you highlighted today is not the one. (45 bones pretty much makes it not the one regardless, but the so-so review certainly seals the deal). Maybe when you pan a unique wine like this you could offer one or two suggestions of a decent/good wine of the same varietal.

Has anyone out there found a decent white pinot noir in the under $20 range?
June 25, 2009

Pittsburgh Alex
Gary you are a Wildman. Making a mess with a $45 wine. Crazy. Can we Light Cigars with some $100 Bills? I do like the nerdiness.

QOTD: Purchased a Lightsaber that lights up and makes the badass sounds. Its not the Bullshit kiddy ones that extend, its like a replica. It rocks hardcore.
June 25, 2009

Irene King
Even after giving it a pazzz, I’m still curious. Hey, it’s Pinot Noir. I need to try it!
June 25, 2009

manonthemoon
Anne Amie does some nice white, including a Muller Thurgau, but something about the staff the day I visited them turned me off of that place.

QOTD: Either cruising these boards on a saturday night or putting together a future purchases schedule for the entire year. Sad sad life…
June 25, 2009

bt86
Great show, will be on the lookout for it.

QOTD: umm…putting my framed & triple matted original Empire Strikes Back poster on the wall in my basement.

Zube: the best I’ve found has been Wyatt Pinot Noir for around $12-14.
June 25, 2009

DaveyDonut
Interesting indeed… I didn’t know Anne Amie was doing this now… and over 700 cases? That’s totally nuts. Domaine Serene has been doing a white Pinot Noir (”Coeur Blanc”) for a number of years now and it usually gets pretty bad reviews (worse than this), yet costs even more ($70). Just doesn’t seem worth it for the cost of admission. Still, next time I’m visiting the Anne Amie tasting room I’ll definitely inquire about it.

2007 was also a difficult year for Pinot Noir… surprised they made this 14.1% alcohol in this wet year. *shrug*

David
June 25, 2009

my2cents
Qotd: Right now of course!

Like the brief shows but three to five wines. The comparisons are usually more educational.

I sure hope Mott is “rollin deep” Go Mott!
June 25, 2009

ilbe
I knew that white wine (actual white wine, in addition to sparkling) can be made from red grapes but hadn’t actually come across with one so this was a nice ep in that contrast. What also put a smile on my face was the pouring in the beginning =D

QOTD: Seeing the new Star Trek movie
June 25, 2009

Micha
I tried several Blanc-de-Noir over the time. Most from Pinot Noir. There is a different flavour-profil, hints of red fruit, that i tend to like, but all in all, they don’t bring the thunder to me.

QOTD: i watched nearly every Episode from GV. This is nerdy for sure

Greetzz from Germany
Michael
June 25, 2009

Phredd
I do nerdy stuff every single day. How about buying a $35 CD online because the Slatkin/Mazetti version of Mahler 10 is out of print?
June 25, 2009

Phil G
Interesting stuff.

QOTD – I probably nerd it up on a daily basis. Given the plethora of options, I can’t pick the biggest one. Cheers!
June 25, 2009

amir a
i played chess with a friend, online, over our iphones, sitting right next to him. lame.
June 25, 2009

hugh
very interesting….but I have a question about alcohol content….how can it be “controlled”? Is it not just the natural process of the fermentation and the conversion of sugar? Wouldnt the winemaker have to sacrifice the quality or characteristics of the wine somehow by trying to control the alcohol? I would love to hear an explanation on this.

Also, I am curious-if you had tasted today’s wine blind, what would you have guessed?

oh….and how’s Misha doing?
June 25, 2009

Dr T in NC
QOTD — I’m an academic, every bit of my research can be called ‘nerdy’
June 25, 2009

Slushpuppy
I watch every episode of WLTV. Now how nerdy is that! P.S. I agree with my man Mott! Smell it first. TR
June 25, 2009

Jay Campbell
QOTD: Nerdiest thing I’ve done this year (to me) is make a spreadsheet detailing all of the bottles that I have.
June 25, 2009

mark b
QOTD: I made a beer blog: http://atattooedtale.wordpress.com/
June 25, 2009

Kell Brigan
Love the color on this one — bright like a sauv. blanc, but with a bit of golden warmth to it. Nice. The licorice and minerals (from the tasting notes) might get my cash, but I’d need an unoaked version. Great idea, though.

QOTD: that would be during the 72-hour EEG (results were normal — no big whup), when I was walking around with a big old bandage on my head with a couple dozen wires sticking out of it and hooked up to a backpack thing with blinking green lights. The nerdy part was the technician and I making up things to say to people when they asked me what it was. (Which nobody did. Culture picked a great time to start being polite all of a sudden!) The top two on the list were “You should see the other girl,” and “What? [pause] The aliens! Listen, maybe YOU don’t care about your thought processes, but some of us love America! [said while stomping off].” Darn. I was really hoping to get a chance to use that second one.
June 25, 2009

ex-lurkdawg
I like when you do more than one wine. I still enjoyed the episode, though. I had a white wine made with pinot noir from Germany recently that I thought was quite good and cost much less than the wine you reviewed. Since you’re trying to “nerd it up” with the one wine episode, it might have made sense to mention Champagne. You know why.

qotd: tasting wine in the morning. It’s not out of the ordinary for me, but it is kind of nerdy standing in front of the kitchen sink tasting and spitting wine before work.
June 25, 2009

Scruff
Interesting show, love that you try new wines. Missed the comparison to another wine though.

QOTD: oh probably lots of stuff on a daily basis but recent ones include

- Put my http://www.cellartracker.com spreadsheet into a new Business Intelligence tool called Explorer just to play around with the data and visualize it (yes, I am a sad software nerd)
- Read a Manga comic about wine!
- Wine tasting; Tried Granache Blanc, Granache Rose (the grape not the wine style) and zero dosage “ultra brut” champagne. The Granache Rose was the only wine that was a pazz.
- had withdrawls with the WL forums were down!!
June 25, 2009

Phil Oxera
QOTD thats easy. I tested the Mott on Unlimited Nested Quotes in the Forum..we got to 40 and he pulled the plug…..power trip! now we respect the GREAT Mott. who giveth and taketh away.

Blanc de Noirs, Whites With skin contact. Red grapes without…. after a wine made from rice you go to a white made from red???. Time to go back to basics GV. The old ways of making wine are best
June 25, 2009

Marc-China Wine Tours
Excellent choice GV.

qotd: IM my kids..in the next room.
June 25, 2009

Elias
Great episode, will look up for white Pinot.

QOTD: I am a film nerd, into all sort of weird stuff (Jodorofky, Lynch etc..). But two nights ago i sat down an hour and a half and watched Terminator 3 just to remind myself that this is probably the worse film ever made
June 25, 2009

Elias
QOTD2: Oh, I am also a neuroscientist, so every piece of work I do blows out the scale of nerdyness…
June 25, 2009

Andrew D
Thanks Gary

QOTD: Well developed a big DR Who fetish. Even got a poster in my lounge room….

Cheers
Andrew
June 25, 2009

Marshall
QOTD:Ahh.?? Watching WLTV.
June 25, 2009

jonomck
I bought a bunch of small glass prep bowls for my kitchen- my girlfriend calls them my gay bowls
June 25, 2009

CreightonE
QOTD: I guess it would have to be building a computer for my brother. That seems like a pretty nerdy activity.

I am a super nerd that loves Football (MN Vikings) and working on cars, so I get to straddle both worlds.
June 25, 2009

ben from boston
qotd- read the euthyphro dialogue. twice.
June 25, 2009

Chateau_Plonk
QOTD: I’m in the process of learning how to program a “digital frequency modulation” synthesizer from the 80’s. Super dorky. Also bought an Austrian Zwiegelt just because it’s nerdy.
June 25, 2009

rajiv
I attempted to use the Buckingham-pi theorem to do a meaningful dimensional analysis of perception of wine quality, from an aesthetic perspective. Trying to identify dimensionless groups was probably just plain silly.

Awesome show Gary!
June 25, 2009

Kevin
Novel indeed – never heard of it.
QOTD: nerdiest thing is likely the gajillion hours of research about planting grapes this far north.
June 25, 2009

WinePT
Great pour!!! I’ve heard of Domaine Serene’s Coeur Blanc (white wine from Pinot Noir) but haven’t tried it & its pricier. QOTD: My girlfriend.
June 25, 2009

GeneV
Great short episode. You should do more of these. Interesting wine as well. I also think that the link in the forums is a great idea. It got me here.
June 25, 2009

Pete B
Hey Gary,
I met the next Gary Vaynerchuk on Monday at the US Open. The parking situation on Long Island was terrible, so this 13 yr old kid saw a business opportunity and rented out all the driveways in his neighborhood to the fans. Then he organized all the parents on the street to drive people to the course. The kid was a pure hustler and rumor has it, he pulled in over $3000 and lined up an internship over the summer. Not too bad for five days work. Maybe when your ready to hang it up in 20+ years you can look him up.
June 25, 2009

Vintage59
GV, There you go again pouring wine out like a F-ing low life. This crap doesn’t work anymore. How about the lowly 55 comments you got. Remember the days when you received 1000 comments when this show had momentum. I have called you out before on this rediculous move. You shame the history of wine, built around culture, class and elegance. Everytime you pull this stunt your putting down the Wine world. This arogance will catch up to you. Really worked , 55 comments, da!. Take a note from your dad who was genuine and frugal with his $12 wine you featured on Father’s day. He is still humble. You my friend will fall from Grace. Back to shoveling pig crap!
June 25, 2009

Kirk
Good show…and it’s always exciting to see some Oregon wine love on the show…

QOTD: unplugged my wine cooler because it was running too hot!
June 25, 2009

oscar falcon lara
Pinot Noir Blanc sounds exciting… will look for one even though you almost dissed it, have to try for myself.

QOTD: nerdiest thing I’ve done so far this year is hacking a Palm Lifedrive to see if I could change the operating system, it was a handful, couldn’t make it work properly.

Good show.
June 25, 2009

Bobbie Smith
QOTD: Re-read the Harry Potter series in preparation for the upcoming movie. Yeah, I’m a dork and proud (or nerd, or whatever).
June 25, 2009

Scott EJ
Thanks for the content.

QOTD: Most who know me would say watching WLTV. I cannot disagree.
June 25, 2009

AUSSIE SAMMY S
Nice Eduacational ep Gary,

I have tasted a Pinot Noir Blanc out of the Yarra Valley here in Australia. Didn’t blow my socks off, good for the novelty though.

QOTD….I got new glasses 3 weeks ago….they make me look a little nerdy
June 25, 2009

sam
Wazzuppp!!!!!!!

Fun nerd show! I knew Pinot was made to be white wine at times. Never had one though…Maybe sometime, if I win the lottery.

QOTD: I’m not a total nerd, but I like nerdy stuff: theoretical physics, teaching myself Deutsch, wine, classical music, etc…

Yeah, I’m a nerd…

Love nerds!
June 25, 2009

BobMac
I can’t believe you wasted that much wine.
June 25, 2009

Jake
Interesting! I’d love to try this Pinot Noir Blanc.

QOTD: I attended a themed blind tasting wine party called “Show Me Your Pinot.” Pretty nerdy. The next one is reportedly called “There’s No Riesling Not To Come.”

Thanks Gary
June 25, 2009

Dick M
Damn I really like the single bottle nerd episodes. I like them so much, I’d actually like more geekdom with them. Even though the wine didn’t work out with your pal Gary, I’m gonna research them in the future.

QOTD: after many years, my inner geek made me build a computer from the ground up…..never again.
June 25, 2009

Bill Tynan
Interesting review- we do pinot noir in all its guises-25 acres of the stuff in the Australian Alpine region-yep it snows-we have done a white pinot noir for a number of years-no oak-and let the fruit talk-keep it really dry and the stonefruits shine thru-mid palate is always big and the whole package has character. We sell it for around $20 Oz and it seems to go out the cellar door- I agree that $45 US is at the upper end for this experience. That said pinot noir does make a really nice white wine and I encourage drinkers to seek it out.
June 25, 2009

nicko
QOTD: Probably souping my computer up with a new 500GB hard drive (internal)
June 25, 2009

Adam J
Cool episode. I had only thought of Pinot Noir in that manner when dealing with champagne…
QOTD: my worm composting bin. They are amazing and everyone should have one.
June 25, 2009

John Hanna
Still love your show! I hope you do it forever.

Wish more wines would list clone info.

Keep it nerdy!

John
June 25, 2009

DAveA
GR8! I love to learn, not just be entertained!
June 25, 2009

Marvin
Great show Gary, easy on that cologne though, may get some attention from the fuzz with that one
June 25, 2009

*/^_^\*
QOTD: i spent 2 weeks on a single Empire Earth game. by the time i had finished my military had inflicted over 14K casualties. that is a lot.
June 25, 2009

Dominus
A sad, sad day today. Two icons during the prime of my life passed today. I am crushed but thank goodness there’s an outlet that I enjoy every day no matter what happens and that is WLTV with my hero, Gary Vay-ner-chuk.

I love the one fun show and can see myself nerding it up with this wine. I know their “red” pinot is very, very good.

QOTD: I participated from beginning to “end game” in an internet strategy game called Travian, only to be defeated by a traitor.

I raise my glass in honor of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. MJ’s performance of Billie Jean on Motown’s 25th Anniversary gives me goosebumps.
June 25, 2009

goncasurus-Rex
QOTD; two days ago I bought a T-shirt that featured the original advertisement for the first (fourth episode) star wars movie, the real nerdy part was that it was the poster that was put up in China so all the wording is in Chinese.
June 25, 2009

Grant
Love Anne Amie Pinots (I try to visit every other year or so). But $45 does seem a bit high for a “novelty” wine. I will attempt to find this wine, though. And what’s the deal with Vintage59’s comment? One step away from cracking up?

QOTD: I dabble in molecular gastronomy. I love the fact that I buy some of my cooking equipment at Home Depot!
June 25, 2009

WineWoman
QOTD: Most everything I do has some degree of nerdity to it, depending on whom you speak with….
June 25, 2009

Thomas Moore
You were really right about the squeaky chairs….time to replace them!

QOTD ~ attempted to take up PHP programming to develop what is now a booming site. Lets just say I now have a full time programmer because it didn’t go as planned.
June 25, 2009

wayno da wino
Yo G, Everybody (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson) is droppin’
like flys. I need some Vino NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!
June 25, 2009

N Hayes
QOTD: As a proud member of the CKC I live in a small room in an apartment. I calculated how long in would take investing in solar energy to run the gadgets in my little room to pay for themselves… 15 YEARS!! No solar for me. I’ll have a BS in Electrical Engineering 10 months from now so I guess that is my answer next year.
June 25, 2009

guymandude
good find, thank you!
June 25, 2009

David T (@ONUMello)
QOTD: Probably making an obscure reference to pharmacy/drugs when no one cared or wanted to hear a thing about it.
June 25, 2009

RonD
QOTD: I calculated all of the different sizes of tires available that could replace the rear tires of my sports car, leading to faster overall times around the local track.

Good find – I like the interesting wines like Pinot Noir Blanc that you occasionally find.

Love your dad from the other day too! You two remind me of my wife and her dad, very entertainin.
June 25, 2009

laposte
QOTD:
Let’s see; I eat my cheese at the end of the meal, button my top button, only drink espresso that I grind from equal exchange beans, build my own computers, run linux, have a Prius, have 1200+ wine cellar with only about 20 domestic, no cable or satellite tv, listen to npr, love opera…
June 25, 2009

wayno da wino
qotd: Nerdiest thing that i done this year???? Ain’t tellin’ Ya, don’t wanna soil what little creditability i got left……
June 25, 2009

Orion S.
qotd: my wife let me build a home theater pc for my birthday
June 26, 2009

Mike Nelson
Gary,

I love the choice of the wine, but I found your actions and comments quite contradictory. You began the show by being over the top (your usual self) by pouring out most of the bottle. What a waste of a nice (pricey) bottle on the table and in the spit bucket. You then go on to tell viewers that this bottle is too expensive to recommend to the everyday drinker, though you praise it for being a good nerdy wine. Next time sync up your words with similar actions. Don’t waste a great bottle and then tell your viewers to not waste their money.

Mike
June 26, 2009

Matt P
QOTD: Difficult to narrow it down, but I think the nerdiest thing I’ve done so far this year is take some Star Wars action figures (old school 1995-style!) with me on a trip to my girlfriend’s parents’ house. And yes, everyone got to play with them.
June 26, 2009

lmnopinot
QOTD: I work for the BCLDB ( British Columbia Liquor Distrabution Branch ) And when people return empty bottles for there bottle deposit, I’ll dig through the bin to see what’s out there that I’ve not yet tried….hunt it down….and taste it. ( I mean try a “fresh” bottle.)
2nd nerdiest thing is writing comments on Wine Library T.V. ( According to my girlfriend ).
June 26, 2009

Augustus
The nerdiest thing I do every year is quite simply this: I watch, every single day, an online video show about Wine. That’s pretty damn nerdy. But I love wine. So, it’s okay.
June 26, 2009

Michael D
QOTD: Reading a book about modern Spanish wines and “drinking” my way through Iberia! Killer wines for the money.

Question back to you GV – how does a wine maker control the amount of alcohol in the wine?
June 26, 2009

Phil M
Heya Gary!! Sorry but I’ve been away for awhile.. Having a pregnant wife is like having a second full time job… I hope to get back to collecting soon!!
June 26, 2009

Glen
Great show Gary! I have white pinot noir wines al the time! i live near germany (Belgium) and here they are easy to find (without the oak and high alcohol)
June 26, 2009

Ola
Do you really have throw out that much wine. I get it when you rinse. But pour so much to leave half on the table and then just throw out almost whole glass to the bucket.

It’s like burning money. It is exagareted, don’t you think.

QOTD: I guess starting yet another blog;)
June 26, 2009

Patrick
Mott brought the Thunder at the beginning of the show with his comments. I wholeheartedly agree.

Nerdiest thing: Playing D&D.
June 26, 2009

Adrian aka AnGkEr
Great single wine episode…..so far in my excursion to my liquor store I’ve yet to find a Pinot Noir Blanc…..hmmmmm…
June 26, 2009

Uncle Meate
Gary you need two buckets.

1. The Spit Bucket(copyright 2009) to spit into.
2. The Rinse Bucket(copyright 2009) to dump rinses, over-pours, wring out the tablecloth, etc …

Then you can re-bottle The Rinse Bucket and sell it for half the price to us po’ folk. Sometimes it would be a varietal and sometimes it would be a blend. The Spit Bucket re-bottling is optional, but it too may be very lucrative.

QOTD: Besides building a wine cellar in our basement (pretty nerdy) I have rekindled a childhood passion of collecting 1973-1976 vintage Wacky Packages (the ultimate in Nerd-ism).

I drink with my nose.
June 26, 2009

Jayhitek
Huge Mess! Clean that flucker up.
QOTD: Go to a fish aquarium hobby meeting/auction.
June 26, 2009

Sassodoro
At least for Vayniacs in the Chicago area, there is a white Pinot Noir available for a lot less money. Frecciarossa is a wine producer in the Oltrepò Pavese area of Lombardia, Italy, and they make a white Pinot Noir they call “Sillery.” Wine-searcher.com shows the 2007 to be available at Binny’s for $17 and at Sam’s for $18. It also shows it at Cabrini Wines in New York for $16.53. (Knowing about and suggesting Sillery is a pretty wine-nerdy thing. Does this count as my answer to the QOTD?)
June 26, 2009

Herm Dunwald
Thanks for the episode Gary…..I do Nerdie things all of the time…..One of the most Nerdie things I’ve done might be to demonstrate Bernoulli’s principle using a beach ball and a leaf blower….
June 26, 2009

aj
I’m gonna have to agree w/ Vintage59. Some of us are struggling to get our bills paid, have two jobs to make ends meet and only have the luxury of purchasing a $45.00 from time to time. So what do you do? Make an ass of yourself by pouring damn near an entire bottle of wine and waste it. I don’t think you understand how this offends some of us. It doesn’t matter if the wine tasted like shite or not. It’s the principle. Please try to show some restraint and humility. We always hear about your humble upbringing but I think you are starting to lose sight of that.
June 26, 2009

Harry
Nice job expanding our wine worlds. I’m curious what motivated Anne Amie to make this if it cost so much, as it must be nearly impossible to market beyond their tasting room. A deep love for Blanc de Noirs?
I’ve been nerding up my wine knowledge lately, tearing through the Terry Theise catalogs until 2 AM.
June 26, 2009

lando
Here is nerdy wine question for you Gary:
In your opinion, do you think the fruit and aromatics were sufficient enough to make the wine in a stainless steel-non MLF style? Or do you think the wine benefited from the barrel ageing, and MLF?
June 26, 2009

BurroBoy
Very interesting…did not realize someone was ding that here. Just tasted a few from Burgundy that a business partner brought back, but no comparison as they were most likely tainted by chardonnay. We have been trying whatever pinot blanc we can find as of late…a wine distributor friend said that the La Crescent we made came across more like than than the sauvignon blanc I thought…I think it is somewhere in between.

I feel for the dismay and outrage about the spilled wine, and yes, I am more like Sasha and have a hard time “wasting” any wine that is still drinkable.
(Folks, believe it or not, try freezing it…)
However in GV’s defense I have also gotten enough exposure to wine trade events and the folks who frequent them, to understand how one can become desensitized in a way that the consumer might not. Add that to GV’s penchant for passion and mania…and well, it’s not a party until something gets spilled?

QOTD: we just built a home made Aeration-oxidation apparatus for doing S02 on our wines in an attempt to avoid shelling out several hundred bucks for the fancy unit.
June 26, 2009

Daniel Schlossberg
nice to have the kind of dough to be able to pour out almost a whole bottle! such a waste…
June 26, 2009

PrimoVino
Willamette Valley! Represent!

QOTD: 1) Saw Fast/Furious Four. 2) Bought a domain/website and did nothing with it. 3) Bought two Enrique Iglesias songs from iTunes. 4) bought a bottle of wine from you and paid more for the shipping than the wine.

Great job as always Gary… now go mop up that Pinot you poured all over the table.
June 26, 2009

Ryan D
QotD: Gone to AdventureCon!!! [One of those comic book/Star Wars/Sci Fi/D&D convention thingies.]
June 26, 2009

jason carey
Pinot Blanc is a Mutation of Pinot Noir, as is Pinot Gris
June 26, 2009

Mauricio Fernandes
I’m envious of that tablecloth!!

Wasn’t easy to see all that wine being wasted! Send me some next time GV. I would love to have the privilege of tasting the tons of awesome wines that you do. I was unfair with me and unfair with the winemaker’s effort.

QOTD: I have a mini cellar in my bedroom, that’s very nerdy. I watch, every single day (that is on-air), an online video show about Wine. That’s pretty damn nerdy. But I love wine. So, it’s OK. And, I’m currently reading the biography of The Veuve Clicquot. That’s outrageously nerdy. (A very good book by the way.)

See you soon GV.
Save me some wine!!
June 26, 2009

jason carey
Ps the Anne Amie Riesling is excellent
June 26, 2009

Cameron J
Love the single wine episodes, bring on the learnin’! I agree it brings out the inner wine geek.

QOTD: My life is geekdom in a lot of ways, so I can’t really isolate one event:)
June 26, 2009

Murso
QotD – Hiked my pantaloons up to my stomach like Ed Grimley.
June 26, 2009

C-Lo
I too like the one wine shows; short and sweet yet chock-a-block full of knowledge. QOTD: nerdiest thing so far this year…how about spending over $200 on books, and being super stoked to alphabetize them? Man, I love alphabetizing! Keep it real GV.

Oh, I watched that video of that short talk you gave on scaling – how’s the whole no swearing thing going? You broke yet?
June 26, 2009

Kevin K
QOTD: My wife and I go on nerd tangents all the time.
June 26, 2009

JasonA
INteresting show. Too bad it didnt bring the thunder.

QOTD: Joining up on twitter I think is the nerdiest so far.
June 27, 2009

Laurie in VT
Interesting episode, thanks!

QOTD: Hmmm, attempting to choose a highlight from 6 months of nerdiness would be the nerdiest thing I’ve done this year. The fact that I can’t come up with one would be an epic failure, of sorts…
June 27, 2009

Derek F.
Very interesting, I want to try

QOTD: Watched WLTV everyday
June 27, 2009

Jim in Atlanta
I attended an Anne Amie tasting last Friday. The wines were all interesting. QOTD – It is hard to pick one nerdy thing, but at wine tastings I get a lot of grief for swirling and sniffing the wine a lot. People think it is strange to sniff the wines with the glass tilted towards one side of my nose.
June 27, 2009

Christopher Scoggin
It’s a shame this one didn’t bring the thunder, but please keep with the one wine episodes. It slows things down and gives us a chance to look a little closer.

QOTD: Wine geeky? Not much. But my life is geeky-ness so it is hard to say one thing only. Probably attending both an anime convention and a SciFi convention back to back
June 27, 2009

YoungDave
QOTD: I watched a marathon of old school Star Trek episodes with my room mate because he’s all about it, and we have to share the TV.
June 27, 2009

teckdeck2008
QotD: I haven’t done anything extremely nerdy this year, but a couple years ago I dressed up as spike spegiel from Cowboy Bebop. I took so much crap for that too, because none of my friends had ever seen the show. It was rough going a week or two because its all they would ever talk about.
June 27, 2009

M
QOTD: Everything I’ve done this year has been nerdy because I am a total nerd. There is nothing I do that’s not nerdy.
June 28, 2009

R. Sims
I agree with the “alcohol bite” comment, BUT, that is what makes this an excellent food wine. I had the pleasure of experiencing a pairing of Prisme’ (chilled) with Foie Gras (accompanied by cucumbers, blackberries and local honey) and it was absolutely wonderful. Don’t be so quick to judge this wine right off the shelf; it is not your everyday house wine, nor is it available in mass quantity at $4 a bottle. I challenge you to try again and enjoy this wine in the manner for which it was created.
June 28, 2009

Keith
QOTD: I play your WLTV videos and record them real time to MP3 so I can listen to the episodes in my car.
June 29, 2009

Stephen
QOTD: Worrying about whether or not my basement would make an adequate passive wine cellar because my “16-bottle silent wine fridge” is on the fritz.
June 30, 2009

Tom T.
QOTD – built a new bike.
June 30, 2009

Xnegd
What’s the nerdiest thing I’ve done this year?

Oh lordy how I could go on, I will give the top two:

1) I wrote an argumentative quantitative essay trying to convince a girl that it was in her mathematical best interest to go on a date with me…it didn’t work.

2) One girl told me I was too much of a dork, so I broke down her name phonetically and number/alphabeticaly terms to prove that her name equation was twice as nerdy as my own.
July 1, 2009

JayZee
Interesting little episode. I get that this is Pinot Noir Blanc, but you also said that there is a Pinot Noir Blanc grape. Do you mean Pinot Blanc?

QOTD: I set up my own weather station in my yard and have it reporting to my laptop and to the internet. i think that qualifies as nerdy.
July 1, 2009

JayZee
BTW, Xnegd sounds like he outnerds everyone else!
July 2, 2009

pawncop
Sorry I have been away. Great show and greaat information.

Not really nerdy, but I had the cheesiest arrest I have ever had to make last week. “Failure to return Library Property” was the charge. It took me a while but got the judge to deal with this and did not have to take the person to jail.
July 2, 2009

KyBoy
Made my own Limoncello!
July 3, 2009

PSPatrick
QOTD: Probably flying from Germany to Miami to go on the Thunder Cruise!
July 3, 2009

lurkernomore
QOTD: Utilized my free time as an unemployed banker to take the Wine And Spirits Education Trust “Intermediate Certificate” and “Advanced Certificate” classes and exams…and passed the both! My best study material…WLTV!
July 19, 2009

Dan-o
Interesting show – I have read about Pinot Noir blanc with the Domaine Serene release of a similar wine. My dad once tried to get me to fall for White Merlot – I thought that it was hideous.

QOTD – I do not understand the word nerd because I am a dren. Do you remember the Happy Days episode when Joanie had a crush on Potsie? She called him “dren”, which is nerd backwards. I honestly can’t think of one, which may simply mean that I am a nerd.
August 17, 2009

yowens
Cool show guy. Very interesting how different the grape is w/o skins. QOTD: Prereading for conferences.