How does that translate to the glass? Just curious… Not attacking!

Really, really, really a great 2-pt episode. Well done GV and PW!

QOTD: I think I would have to agree with Peter. Complexity and balance are key. I think I appreciate more New World wines at this point, while my palate is gaining appreciation for Old worldliness. For any everyday wine it should be drinkable too – more medium than full-bodied. We eat a lot of fish and veggies, so drinking syrup on a nightly basis would be tough. Also, $20 and under for the everynight wine.

Hehe! : )

Sent from my current frame of reference in space time.

That is exactly how I roll!
We could difinately hang.

I agree, I would love to see Gary talk more about the strange distribution aspects of the wine/liquor world.

Pass me a swig. ; )
For a laugh check out Boons Farm fan site. Google it.

Great guest. I like his passion and his philosophy towards wine too.
Qotd: In everyday wines I look for good quality for the price point and I also look for a good balance. The first quality is mostly out the money necessity obviously, but it’s also fun for me to find hidden gems I can recomment to my college friends who think that wine is just too expensive or unattainable for them. And the balance thing is because I am a very spur of the moment type person when it comes to food. So if I can have one or two versatile wines on hand for almost any food situation, it makes my life a lot easier. Now once I get money to store wines in a cellar or wine storage unit it would be completely different, but my current situation makes it an important factor.

Finger lakes? Virginia is also making some wine these days.

Beer Library TV…….

Great guest. You guys worked well together. Have had some of his wines throughout the years.

QOTD: First off, I don’t buy a specific region or varietal every night. The most important thing is price. After that, I want to try something that is different from what I have had before. I like Rhone wines, Portugese, Spain, Australia, and South American. Those are areas where I feel, I still get great value. I really enjoy Italian wines as well, but often find that their affordable wines are not nearly as good as some of these other areas.

What a gentleman. I so enjoyed your comment that you would go back to the farm. I would guess we are close to the same vintage and as you I grew up on a cattle and small grain farm in the midwest. To those who have not had the opportunity to work land with family it is nearly impossible to explain “the joys and sorrows of agricultural life” we are fortunate to share that bond.
QOTD; I too look for more traditional rhone, not over ripe or oaked with just a faint aroma of wet earth in the fall as you’re plowing on a crisp morning. Speaking of crisp, a crisp steely chablis is a charmers too.

I feel better 🙂

It nice to see, or in this case read, others that have a true understanding of the earth. Be sure you are not alone in your thoughts about the “agricultural life”. My wife finds it in the church, I tell her I go the the church of De Vine, as I walk through my small vineyard.

Of all the episodes I have seen, watching since episode 220, This is my Favorite! What an educational and intyeresting guest and GV your best interview by far!
QOTD: A wine I don’t want to overanalyze! Drink for pleasure not investigation.

What a wonderful, soft spoken gentleman!!! No I didn’t mean you, Gary!!

QOTD: Totally varies with my mood.

I will soon change my name from plcb to something else as I am moving on from the plcb.

QoTD: I look for balance, good fruit and some complexity (better is great, but not a requirement).
Love the Rhone region. Especially ones with at least 10% mouvedre. Too much grenache and make them too acidic and unbalanced for my palate. I also love monastrell, but it all has to be balanced.

I enjoyed the format where it was more talking and a lack of rating. Wasn’t too much talk about the wine, but it worked. You’ve definitely upped your interviewing skills, Gary. Take care.

Excellent show and incredible guest. Peter reminded me so much of Jeffrey Davies in his softspoken, gentlemanly but incredibly knowledgeable way. I’m looking forward to the day you can interview Neil Rosenthal and Joe Dressner (I hope his brain tumor is doing better!).

QOTD. I look for a wine that is drinkable and always paired with food. I very rarely have wine by itself so it has to go well with the cuisine we like (lighter foods, seafood, salads, cheese, pastas…) and my wife and I must be able to finish the bottle, just because it’s drinkable and delicious. I loathe industrial wines and I look for something that is artisanal and unique and talks to me about the earth in the place it was made.

Fantastic show! I loved it! I think Part 2 was even better than Part 1. Gary, I loved your rapid-fire Q & A – nice job and very interesting. Thanks for having so many awesome guests, especially lately, on the Thunder Show. Now for my complaint. Gary, you majorly complained about the 2007 CDPs. That’s after you and your staff sold me a crap-load of them. How do you think that makes me feel? I’m bummed and feel a bit shafted.

QOTD: I like complex, well-made, food-friendly wines at a good QPR during the week. On weeknights my wife and I make dinner when we are home and we share a bottle of wine. So it has to be food-friendly and it is usually a reasonably-priced wine. It could be a Bordeaux, a Rhone, a Chablis or Riesling or an Italian wine, the majority of which I find rather food-friendly.

John,
I work for a great company called Wineflite. You can check them out at wineflite.com. We’re about to start offering USA outbound international wine delivery. We have a sweepstakes up on the site. You should enter it and tell others. We don’t have many people signed up and someone is going to win that trip for 2 to France. You have a really good chance at this point. I’m learning about wines from people like you and greatly appreciate the insights. Thanks again for the list of wines. Good luck with the sweepstakes. I’ll let you know what I think of the wines as I go through your list. Sounds like fun.

QOTD: A wine that makes me want to drink the whole bottle (even if I can’t really on weekdays). Like a nice little burgundy, a cru Beaujolais with a good QPR..
These kind of wines make me happy and match with my weekday food!
Very nice 2 parts episode, love to see passion!

QOTD: I think I’m on a similar page as Weygandt here: bright acidity, balanced fruit and prevalent mineral notes, whether white or red.

qotd: Hmm everyday wine. I very mood based for my wines and I watch WLTV and twittter with wine people and that affects what I drink, I drink maybe 3days a week due to money etc so even a wedneday night wine can be a special wine. I recently been craving Sangiovese, White Rhones,

Another good show and I have to agree with you in your preference for a less hyped vintage as I’ve recently had the same experience with Caymus. The 06 and 07 for me are way over vanilla’d out and just plain contrived and made for people who like the taste of American oak barrels. The 08 is more interesting but still a formula wine(Silver Oak)without any soul. It seems that when a person starts to really try to get inside finesse wines such as Beaujolais they see oak as an obvious flaw to be avoided. This is just as apparent with Bordeaux as it is with Napa. On the other hand I agree with Peter in that Beaujolais can be better with some ageing and need food or after a meal to really sing. Many times I’ve been underwhelmed with a top Beaujolais and vacu-vined the wine and found it to be gorgeous and totally satisfying on day 2 or 3. What I look for in a wine these days are bright fruit, cooler climate finesse,acid and complexity and an honest approach without being contrived and pandering to the masses. That’s what I’m buying but I’ll pretty much drink whatever is being poured such as the Yellow Tail Rose magnums at my neighbors house!

Great guest – lots of good information in this episode. I would love Peter’s job!

It’s amazing how much the perception of Beaujolais has changed this year.. pretty much every wine critic has lauded it and said how underrated it is.

QOTD – Nothing above 14%, nothing too fruity and nothing too tannic. Something like a Spanish grenache or Cotes du Rhone or Beaujolais for red.