Hey Gary!

We tasted a bottle of CR Merlot, Petite Syrah, and Cab Sav, the merlot was the best of the bunch. How about Napa with a class trip tied into the function?

Cheers!

Gary – Who sells wine at a garage sale? I’ve never seen that in all my life.

Also – I love the recommendation of having a $40 bottle of wine with a $5 burger. I’ve mentioned in the past one of my absolute favorite food/wine pairings is Pinot Noir with a feta cheeseburger and fries. Burger and beer is good but burger and wine is even better…

You mention the damage jug wines have done to Chablis…I am afraid today’s mass brands with cutesy labels may do the same. QOD: Definitely NYC for the venue. I’m sure there are a ton of restaurants where you could do it, but if you want a really special old New York experience, try booking the (aptly names) Players Club (http://www.theplayersnyc.org/ ). It’s a Stanford White designed building on Gramercy Park, and you feel like you’ve walked back 120+ years when you walk in the door. Lots of fun!

Wow, I would almost hope for more Jet wins if you always have this kind of energy on a Monday, except I’m not gonna hold my breath. But, Dude, man, what’s with the language? I had to stop the cast and wait for my kids to leave the room. 😉

I get to drive from the Netherlands to Switzerland and back in late October, not sure of the route yet, but I think it is all through Germany and not France. Any place you’d recommend on the German side of the border? Any thing I should look for that isn’t imported to the states?

GV,
Thanks for another great episode on whites, which is always appreciated. I agree with you that Chablis is greatly underappreciated in US and I wish that it was even more bashed here along with all white burgundies! At least by 50% more (if you know what I mean)!
I wish you would include in this episode or the next one at least a bottle of Aligote, another white of the same region.

QOTD:
Gary, please arrange for a party in Midtown. It must be within walking distance from Port Authority because I aint driving after the party!
Actually you can pick a place in geometrical center between Penn station, Grand Central and Port Authority. That would cover needs of most local (tristate area) people.
Also, please make it happened on Friday night or Sat/San afternoon.
Hotel New Yorker has a great ball room (we had an office party there) and it is located on the corner of 8th Avenue and 34th street.
I wonder if they allow you to bring wine?

Holy crap Gary…i don’ thtink I’ve seen you this pumped. I’m a life-long J-E-T-S fan as well but I gotta say I was not impressed by the win. Don’t get me wrong. I’ll take it & run. But at times I felt that the Buffalo Shills had their way with us. JP Loserman had some pretty nice passes. Nevertheless a win is a win.
As for my vote for the 1st Annual WLTV Fest I say Nicola Paone. Very nice place & they have a big private back room.

Nicola Paone
207 E 34TH St
(212) 889-3239

I was waiting for you to open up that bottle of ’75 Fevre and give it a taste. The color looked awesome.

This was my favorite episode by far. You were in crazy mode. I loved the bluetooth, the green background, the striped shirt, the celery on steroids, AND the GDs.

Definitely NYC for the party…how about you break in your new apartment??

I am in for Chicago!!! (I dont think that you would get a good turn out in IOWA, so I would make the drive (2.5 hours).

Lose the green background. When you showed the Chablis color, it looked like limeaid.

How about some place in Jersey? WL may be too small for the crowd but there are lots of good venues. How about where your Supertasting is being held?

Lose the green background. When you showed the Chablis color, it looked like limeaid.

How about some place in Jersey? WL may be too small for the crowd but there are lots of good venues. How about where your Supertasting is being held?

Hey Gary
as you can imagine I was pumped to see this episode. The droin is indeed great wine and your call on the others was good as well though I think that the Fournaux will take a few years to come into its own. Give it 3-4 and watch it flesh out. That is one of the amazing things about white Burgundy. Some of the best ones are virtually undrikable in their youth. Case in point, the Jobard (now being made by the son). I have bottles of 1991 Poruzot and 1994 charmes in my cellar neither of which is an extraordinary year. These were undrikable acid bombs in their youth but a friend who knows said get them and wait (this was in my Burgundy youth). Sure enough, they are among the very best bottles in my cellar today. They have gotten broad and rich and they have the kind of depth of flavor cali chard dreams about and never achieves (including some of the one I like such as Kalin cellars). Which brings me once again to the 2003. You aren’t really doing Jonbard any favours by comparing his 2003 Charmes to a 2004 les clos. 2003 is a messed up year, particularly for whites, and all the more so for Chard. 2004 is a classic vintage whose wines have the grace one expects from Burgundy, especially in the grand crus. So aside from the apples and oranges of appelation (which I will forgive you for–though a strait Chablis tasting would be good, as would a strait low end Burgundy tasting-Macon et al), you are comparing a totally funky vintage to a great one. Try the Charmes from 2002 and tell me what you think. That is serious wine.
Oh yea, good on ya for giving Burghound a shoutout. He is THE MAN. Do a comparison of his ratings with Parkers and see how off Parker can really be when it comes to Burgundy–if nothing else. Anyway, thanks for giving us this and I’m waiting for my red episode.

Gary – Great episode! Love your energy.
Chris S / Winelibrary team – Amazing job on the spreadsheet! Very useful, I love it! Would be even better if I could download it to my PC. Perhaps someone already knows how to?

Looking forward to the WL tasting party GV. Anywhere in NJ or NYC is certainly good with me. I am glad your Jets are doing well but the Bears are going to kill them in the Meadowlands in November. Sorry……………………

Can’t wait until episode 100. Loved the energy on this episode.

John Weippert – I really don’t think California wine is all that overpriced. What is over priced to you? There are TONS of excellent $40 Ca Cab, and unbelievable $40 Ca Pinot Noir. Compared to Bordeaux, it’s relatively cheap. I personally think that price could never kill a market. The market will bear what the public will pay. If sales dramatically fall off…price should follow. There are so many people still after Ca Cult Wines and high priced reserves that I think CA could follow Bordeaux and keep rising.

Where’s all the California people? Where’s all the San Francisco votes? I’ll be there, but why would you all really want it in NYC? Just for convenience sake? Cmon…I would vote for Portland, OR for a great wine experience before I would vote NYC. Now I know NYC is the greatest city in the world, best restaurants and all…but let’s get creative and REALLY make it a time to remember!

B

I love Chablis – only white wine I’ll drink, actually. It’s what my dad used to drink growing up, albeit the Carlo Rossi jug stuff (which, doesn’t even use chardonnay grapes). But, at least it got me intrigued enough to try the real thing. I don’t know, something gratifying about being into a region that everyone else doesn’t understand. Reckon that makes me shallow. Nice to see an episode with so much about Chablis, though.

Come to DC for the wine party, Gary V. Went to a Burgundy tasting last week at the French embassy (INCREDIBLE!!!). I say you do it there. Seriously, a man with your connections in the wine world could pull that off…

Nice aside about Allen Meadows. For Burgundy, he’s everything Robert Parker is not.

Bill,

If you have Excel or Word you can copy and paste the table with a little effort. Remember though, they will be updating the online table..

Portland OR would be a great place to have a WLTV party, heck, make it a whole trip with excursions to the local wineries. Not that I’ll be attending while I work of the debt incurred after my trip to Europe.

Folks: I’m going to Portland, OR next week. Any suggestions on vineyards that shouldn’t be missed? I want to try to check out SakeOne, too, in advance of the episode GV has promised. Thanks!

Gary
WOW!! What exuberance! All that energy is contagious. Made me want to mow my lawn, wash the windows and build a new addition onto my home!

I, like Jaye, wish you’d trash the GD’s….like a bad wine, offensive nose and leaves a bad taste on the palate. I pass.

damon, glad to know there’s another Bengals fan out there. Wasn’t pretty, but the Steelers had to go down. GV, who’s your pick in the Bengals/Pats game Sunday?

Chris Stan: A quality effort on your DB! Thank you for all the hard work. Do you have one available as an email?

QOD: Your new apartment. Think of all the house-warming gifts.

DUDE- the tasting’s gotta be in Jersey! F- NY

FIRST WLTV TASTING PARTY……NAPLES, FL OF COURSE ! You’ve heard about the Naples Wine Winter Festival……Have they heard about you ? All the best, Kathy H. Naples, FL

Gary –

How ageworthy is the 2004 Droin Chablis Les Clos?

Bill Ipp 10 years easy!

Great episode. Keep it coming.

QOTD – The Pegasus at the Meadowlands. Nice place, good food, and convenient to most of us in the area (and not to mention close to Newark airport for those who would come from out of town).

Julia,

Get the map from one of the tourist propaganda bins and look at the hundreds of wineries in OR and have a panic attack. When you calm down, make a plan, something like, head to Carlton and McMinnville, look on the map there are a bunch of wineries close together in both towns. In Portland go to the convention center and get a tasting at Appellation Oregon, http://www.urbanwineworks.com/apporegon/index.html
I really liked the Bishop Creek Pinot Noir, or go over to the Urban Wineworks (same link) if you have more time.
Also visit: http://www.oregonwine.org/
I visited, Laurel Ridge, Rex Hill, Solena, Cueno, The Carlton Winemakers Studio (10 wineries in one building), I get foggy,,,, all had something worthwhile.

Julia,

Get the map from one of the tourist propaganda bins and look at the hundreds of wineries in OR and have a panic attack. When you calm down, make a plan, something like, head to Carlton and McMinnville, look on the map there are a bunch of wineries close together in both towns. In Portland go to the convention center and get a tasting at Appellation Oregon, http://www.urbanwineworks.com/apporegon/index.html
I really liked the Bishop Creek Pinot Noir, or go over to the Urban Wineworks (same link) if you have more time.
Also visit: http://www.oregonwine.org/
I visited, Laurel Ridge, Rex Hill, Solena, Cueno, The Carlton Winemakers Studio (10 wineries in one building), I get foggy,,,, all had something worthwhile.