2000 and 2005 Cahors Tasting – Episode #810

February 3, 2010

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Gary shows some love for the Cahors appellation in France, a region that gave the Malbec grape its start.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Haut Monplaisir Cahors Cuvee PrestigeCahors play review at cork'd
2000 Chat Lagrezette Pigeonnier Cahors Cahors play review at cork'd

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  1. February 7, 2010

    alaskadevil

    QOTD: Listening to Third Eye Blind, The Killers, Brand New, The Format, and MGMT
    Watching Lost, 24, and other things I can find on Hulu (just found ASU v Nebraska from '96 on Hulu)
    Reading A short Walk in the Hindu Kush Newby

  2. February 7, 2010

    Luc

    Listening to Lawrence Block reading “Small Town” about NYC just after 9/11; been watching “Crazy Heart” seeing the performancethat should give Jeff Bridges an Academy Award (FINALLY!) and reading the last Mike Hammer novel completed two years after the Mickey Spillane's death by Max A. Collins (Mike Hammer essentially was the start of “hard-boiled private eyes in fiction)…

  3. February 7, 2010

    Luc

    Actually I' listening to Hit Man, not Small Town…got my Blocks mixed up…

  4. February 8, 2010

    KVM1985

    Listening: NPR
    Watching: “Planet Earth” series on DVD
    Reading: “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich

  5. February 8, 2010

    jcrazy

    Listening to Old School Hip Hop
    Watching Japanese comedy shows.
    Reading 1984.

  6. February 8, 2010

    norbrook

    Listening to the Killers,
    reading historical fiction about ancient egypt,
    watching Lost.

  7. February 8, 2010

    TimCtheFilmGuy

    Watching a series that I'm mixing that was shot in Kenya
    Listening to LOTS of African music to use as cues in the series
    Reading – Wired magazine

  8. February 8, 2010

    David Dadekian

    QOTD: Listening: tons of different things as usual, Pandora serves me up lately. Last album/disc would be one of the Beatles remasters. Watching: Lost is back for a big finale season! Reading: Serious Pig by John Thorne

  9. February 8, 2010

    charlzee

    WE NEED A MOT CAM

  10. February 8, 2010

    oklahomamichael

    Listening to Vampire Weekend “Contra”…Reading(again) “The Picture of Dorian Gray”….Watching LOST final season waiting on some FREAKING answers…nice Oklahoma shout out

  11. February 9, 2010

    Ore Dagan

    Listening To: Lots more rock than normal but I want to get back into Infected Mushroom and see what new stuff they've been working on!

    Watching: GRamsey is back on and the DVR loves his show where he walks into restaurants and tries to fix them up…

    Reading: My old posts from when I started my blog back in Italy (http://www.PotentialGold.com) The evolution is insane! Thanks for the inspiration, GV!

  12. February 9, 2010

    Mike in C-town

    First Cahors for me was the WS #76 Clos La Coutale. Supposedly a “drink now”, first bottle for my palate was pure meh. Will try the second bottle with food.

    QOTD:
    listen: Muse and some tracks from the Who's Tommy
    Read: still pushing through The Wine Bible.
    Watch: White Collar, Palladia and movies in my Netflix queue.

    One vote for Mott cam – picture in picture

  13. February 9, 2010

    RobinC

    I'm reading Potshot by Robert Parker (not the wine person) – he just died and I'm going into severe withdrawal and mourning so I looked up a book I didn't think I'd read yet.
    Since Conan O'Brien has gone off the air I'm going into another severe withdrawal/mourning state – I still have Charlie Rose and Wine Library. I actually watched Twilight New Moon and am still trying to figure out how a nice girl chooses only monsters (cute monsters but nonetheless monsters) to fall in love with.
    LIstening to Janet Evanovich mystery tapes in my car – . Just listened to Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) but prefer Puccini (La Boheme). Going back to some of Chaka Khan.

    Am feeling sick every time I drink alcohol lately – so every sense I have seems to be disappointing me in some way.

    Cahors sounds so interesting. I'll bet the “h” is not pronounced.

  14. February 9, 2010

    jsums

    MOTT CAM! MOTT CAM! MOTT CAM! Seriously, Mott Cam. Mott Cam. QOTD – Listening to: Clinton Curtis music.clintoncurtis.com / Watching: well, was watching a lot of football stuff, now, we'll see / Reading: a backlog of this past year's issues of Scientific American. Mott Cam.

  15. February 9, 2010

    Bee_Dub

    QOTD:

    LISTENING TO:
    All things Josh Homme for some reason: Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss, most likely brought on by the release of Them Crooked Vultures a while back.

    Also (and always), Howard Stern on Sirius.

    WATCHING: Charlie Rose, Family Guy (nice dichotomy, eh?), Movies and Wine LibraryTV!! I'm a suck up.

    READING: Malcolm Gladwell books (yeah, I'm late). CSMonitor weekly, Esquire, email and text messages.

  16. February 9, 2010

    LizCol

    Hey Gary,

    Right now I'm reading Salman Rushdie's “East, West”, I just finished Andrey Kurkov's “The President's Last Love” and I'm excited to start Jasper Fforde's new novel “Shades of Grey”.
    I'm mostly watching House – the early seasons again. Listening to Emerson Hart, Newton Faulkner and Sister Hazel's “Lift” album.

  17. February 10, 2010

    lawrenceleichtman

    Listening to Le Hot club while trying to learn how to play gypsy guitar, watching Lost, Reading Daily Kos. Not buying $150 wine even though it sounds great.

  18. February 10, 2010

    John__J

    qotd Sonic Youth's newest album “the eternal”, finally got a flatscreen so right now “Planet Earth”, love the classic books way more than contemporary and right now it's “Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller

    And yes you guys need to get a Mott cam.

  19. February 10, 2010

    Tholland

    Great episodes lately. Love the 2 bottle format (almost as much as the blind format). Have only had 2 Cahors and neither blew me away, but will have to revisit. Love Agentina Malbec.

    QOTD 1: Jurassic 5, Chali 2na, Blink 182, Beatles, and Mike'd Up (he's ready to go, on the FAN, NY sports radio!!!)
    QOTD 2: NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Wonder Pets: got 2 kids- sorry gotta love Ming Ming
    QOTD 3: Not much lately, but want to re-read Lord of the Rings b/c it has been about 5 years. Thinking about getting any recent Chuck Klosterman…

  20. February 10, 2010

    eli2tyree

    Cause you asked 13 times!
    Listening to: Radiohead ok computer, Wilco – YHFT, Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker, Spooon ga ga ga
    Watching: Criminal Minds, Band of Brothers series (watch every year to remind me to appreciate our freedom and the generation that sacraficed for it) any Rangers game
    Reading – Brandweek, Wine spectator (no time for books)

  21. February 10, 2010

    boomy13

    Nice show Gary.

    How about, Reading: The End of Poverty (Jeff Sacks), Watching: WLTV or BBC/CNN, Listening: Old school Van Morrison and Economic and Business Pod-casts.

  22. February 10, 2010

    barwarrior

    Listening: KEXP on-line.
    Watching: Lost.
    Reading: The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink

  23. February 10, 2010

    JoshL

    hmmm….i just heard the real french pronunciation of Cahors and it sounds SOOOOOO different!

  24. February 11, 2010

    cebe

    Anne-Sophie Mutter- Johannes Brahms – D-major, op.77
    The Psychology of Wine/ Evan and Brian Mitchell
    The Avengers '67 season

  25. February 11, 2010

    Ozzy

    Hey Gary great show, I do like that idea of the Mott cam the would be awsome.

    QOTD1. Listening – Motley Crue, Wilco, Kiss, Jimmy Buffet, Elvis, and to many others to keep naming.
    QOTD2. Watching – WLTV, King Of Queens, The Office, How I Meet Your Mother, Man VS Food, Home Improvement, Fox News blah,blah,blah.
    QOTD3. Reading – In the Process of reading 3 books Babylon Rising by Tim Lahaye, Deliver Us From Evil by Sean Hannity, And I m reading the classic book Willy Wonka to my daugther.

  26. February 11, 2010

    boughtrecords

    Listening to bands that are recording in my studio…
    Watching firefly
    reading velvet elvis, a book of interviews of Bono, Exodus, and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity?

    We need a Mott Cam!!!!

  27. February 11, 2010

    Trucbinouche

    Hey gary, I know I'm kind a late whith my comment but… here it goes. I love cahors wines, I think they're the best QPR's. By the way, CÔT, that little thing on the O is called
    “ACCENT CIRCONFLEXE”.

  28. February 11, 2010

    markuspeloquin

    I must consider Cahors for my next rare wine purchase (I'm up to three now).
    Listening: Rammstein, the only music I can listen to on loop and never get tired of.
    Watching: Battlestar Galactica with commentary on Bluray.
    Reading: computer science research papers in distributed systems (search “cheating husbands and other stories”). I also just finished 'The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories'.

  29. February 11, 2010

    robbeishline

    QOD: Bob Mould (listening), Anthony Bourdain (watching), Dan Brown (reading, o.k. not great literature but it's entertaining when you are lying in bed with a cold)

  30. February 12, 2010

    pawncop

    Good episode – love Malbec, but only familiar with the wines from Argentina. Will look for Cahors in the future.

    I listen to smooth jazz mostly although my musical tastes are quite diverse.

    I don't watch much TV or movies

    I read history and non fiction primarily

  31. February 12, 2010

    rieslingrich

    Christian music and talk radio L.A.
    Sports, American Idol, and Food & Travel channels
    Non Fiction only, Reagan Diary, etc.

  32. February 12, 2010

    mle902

    Listening to The Swell Season, watching Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother, and reading historical fiction from the middle ages (nerd alert).

  33. February 12, 2010

    ddellinger

    Reading Wilbur Smith “The Leopard Hunts in Darkness” a great adventure writer
    NCIS, CSI, Gray's, Criminal Minds, Numbers, mentalist, and the Winter Olympics starting tonight.

  34. February 13, 2010

    SkySusie

    Listening to: Diana Krall and Michael Buble

    Watching: Modern Family…LOVE IT!

    Reading: The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

  35. February 14, 2010

    Schoon

    Reading: Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
    Watching: Catching up with Wine Library TV – I don't have cable.
    Listening to: Owl City and Frank Sinatra

  36. February 16, 2010

    Alvin

    Listening to Gigi's “Maintenant”, which is just classic '60s pop, and a solid album all around.

    I've been watching old episodes of The Simpsons online. Everything pre-season 10.

    And in reading, I just finished Haruki Murakami's “Sputnik Sweetheart”.

  37. February 20, 2010

    leni

    Listening- Markos Vamvakaris

    Reading- any info/history/travel books about Scotland, I want to visit sometime soon.

    Watching- no cable, so, WLTV and “The Universe” on Hulu.

  38. March 31, 2010

    amm3rd

    Reading “When Vulchers Dance” Michael Goodwin. Great book based on wall street. Recommended…AMM

  39. April 7, 2010

    richardvinifera

    QOTD: Listening to classic hip hop (De La, Tribe Called Quest) Gentleman (German reggae artist), Yo La Tengo, Jens Lekman, Ben Folds University A Cappella cd is good.
    Reading Larsson Millennium Trilogy.
    Trying to catch up on lots of shows, never miss the Colbert Report!

  40. April 23, 2010

    K4C3Y

    BOOKS: just finished “The Magus” by John Fowles (most excellent), “Sirens of Titan” by Kurt Vonnegut next. MUSIC: Sage Francis, mc chris, my sing-a-long playlist (crooners, Motown, older country, classic rock), and a Brit Pop mix for the driving times. TV/MOVIES: Current shows are back episodes of WLTV, since I only discovered it about a month ago, and “Man to Man with Dean Learner” which is a must if you enjoy the Mighty Boosh/Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Last night's movies were 'The Road' (written by the author of 'No Country For Old Men') and a quirky Japanese horror pic called 'Uzumaki'.

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