QOTD: Try a wine from the Bierzo or Empordà-Costa Brava areas in spain.

Gary:

Atalon Napa Merlot

Gar,

(Good) Burgundy is great, but come on, you are showing way too much reverance to the French. When are you gonna bring the heat?

Hey Gary,

I freakin’ love Burgundy. If I had to pick one style of wine to stick with for the rest of my life, it would be Burgundy. So, kudos to this episode.

Ummm, I’m working and don’t have time to look through your inventory for something interesting to try, but I have a bottle of either 2000 or 2001 (I forget which one is sitting in my storage) d’Arenburg Dead Arm Shiraz. I’d be interested in hearing about that and I’m assuming you have either of those vintages in stock. If I get a chance I’ll check to see which vintage, but no biggy.

Either way, good luck with your super tasting tonight. As for the Wine Library TV party, if it’s in Chicago, I’ll try and go. I will decline being an event co-ordinator because I’ve just got too much on my plate to tackle something like that.

See you later,
T

GO BEARS!!!

That was an awfully big glass you used today.

4 wines to try: Cabernet blends, one each from Bordeaux, California, Italy, and South Africa or Chile.

Price points should be within a $10-15 range, recent vintages of similar quality. Taste them blind and give us your thoughts on how each best would be used (aperitif, with a meal, after a meal, watering the plants). Then reveal the results.

Oh yeah, it wasn’t really $1.65 billion for YouTube, it was pieces of paper with “Google” on them that you could potentially trade for $1.65 billion, unless you tried to do it all at once, at which point you’d get less and less for each piece. Anyway, they can’t drink’em and they may not get better with age.

Gary,
Long time viewer and customer, first time poster from PA. How about tasting 2002 Charles Creek Cab. Enjoyed a 01 bottle over the weekend and would be curious as to how the 02 is showing.

George

Hi Gary! It’s Douglas in Chicago, let’s have a party! (In other words, I would love to coordinate this with you! There are lots of BYOB places here in Chicago, so the natural choice is for everyone to come to one of these places with their favorite WL recommended wine!)

If you’re planning to come on a weekend, I can tell you which weekends this winter are three-day weekends for me (in case we have a long party!)

WOW! #30 instead of 80! movin up!

Gary,

The wine tasting event last night was great. I am already looking forward to next year.

I would like you to taste the 2003 Kanonkop Pinotage from SA.

another vote for coop and the

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jared – comment #20

“I was wondering if it matters how one would store a non cork bottle of wine, either synthetic or scre cap. I mean i assume that such a bottle would not need to be stored on its side.”

nope it does not make a difference as there is no cork to dry out

QOD – Rosenblum Cellars Vintner’s Cuvee Zinfandel Library Code: 30290

Gary you set a price on yourself of 2 billion…doesent that make you a whore?….lol..j/k, but seriously though dosent it? its ok I fully addmit that I am a whore

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Great show! Januik Merlot 2003 (It’s nice to get feedback on WA wines…I feel they get less interest from critics so we are clueless half the time we buy them)

Gary,
Please taste the Hess Estate Cab. IMO, year in and year out a nice weeknight cab.

I am willing to assist in the Chicago event, but being 90 miles north I can not do any field work.

We had the Corte Riva this weekend with steaks and it was fantastic, thank you for the tip. When can we expect the next gem? Waiting in Wisconsin, GO PACK.

PS: Who will have the better record, JETS or Packers? Can you say 4 & 12?

You know what would be interesting, is to turn the equation upside down and do one wine, any wine, out of multiple glasses–the little cheap plastic job you get at wine shops, a water glass, an ordinary wineglass, maybe a few different Riedels, the idea being to cement whether Riedels &c. can actually make good wines taste better and/or bad wines taste worse.

QOD: either the Librandi Ciro or the Bembibre Bierzo.

Great show. How about tast one of the Bracco wines since she is going to be there.
http://www.thewineglass.net

QOTD-Cape Mentelle Shiraz!!

http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=43760
http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=43760
http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=17100
Compare the Gruet to the Chandon to the St Michelle

Yeah I have to agree with a few of the others. Time to go chaep for awhile. How this for cheap. Ravenswood Vinter Blend. The Bracco wines wouldnt be a bad idea, maybe it would help with sales….or hurt them.

Hey Gary,
It was great to meet you in person this Saturday. We had a great time in the store(well, I did and my wife was just bored).
Anyways, I would love to see you taste the Pillar Box Red. Great wine for under $10.00. The Razon was drinking awesome last Saturday night…how awesome is the corkage policy in NJ; I love it!!!

Luscious ripe cherry and strawberry character flirts with hints of cedary spice and vanilla in our 2004 Night Owl Pinot Noir. Nine months in small oak barrels temper the juicy fruit with soft, round tannins for a sensuous flavor that lingers.

Gary, How about tasting the 2001 Allegrini Amarone!

“The First Duty of wine is to be red… the second is to be a Burgundy.”
-Harry Waugh

“The First Duty of wine is to be red… the second is to be a Burgundy.”
-Harry Waugh

I’m looking forward to joining you at a 2007 WL Tasting. In answering Zerocreap’s question you reiterated your mantra to “taste as many wines as possible.”. A couple months ago I e-mailed you to tell you I was going to Seattle, and could you recommend a winery or two for me to check out. You recommended Woodhouse Family Cellars. They are closed during the week off-season, but I decided it wouldn’t hurt to “name drop” and try to get in.

Now, please don’t let this go to your head . . . but your name worked very, very well in this instance. My husband and I got to try not only the wines they normally offer on weekends for tastings, but also all the wines WL carries (even the ones that are now sold out at the winery), and the newer vintages of the Maghee, Dussek and Darighe, too. Guess your name carries quite a bit of weight in some circles!

I have to tell you, this was quite possibly the best tasting I have ever been to! Their wines are really, really awesome. Our hostess, Victoria Lane (Director of Operations) even took the time to decant the wines for us, even letting the Darighe breathe for an hour while we stepped away for lunch and then returned. Gary, we tried all the Woodhouse wines you sell at WineLibrary (as well as wines only available locally), and I have to tell you . . . they ROCK! I will be placing an order online with WL right away. Also, you need to get their 2002 Maghee (new spelling) — as good as the ’01 is, the ’02 blows it away!

If you pick my number to taste tomorrow — any of the Woodhouse wines will be super since their tastes are still very fresh in my mind.