QOTD: Pillar Box Red – everyone seems to love it – I dumped it after half of a glass. Plus, I tasted it immediately upon opening, at the 1 hour mark, and at the 4 hour mark.

Nice episode. QOTD Quara 2004/Cafayate Valley Malbec. My first Malbec and it was pretty lame, I have not visited an Argentina wine since, I will have to go back and try another one.

Nice episode. QOTD Quara 2004/Cafayate Valley Malbec. My first Malbec and it was pretty lame, I have not visited an Argentina wine since, I will have to go back and try another one.

Good episode.

What a great interivew on NPR! It will make you the most sought after wine-man in history!

QOTD: Tie between Marquis Phillips anything and Silver Oak (all oak – nothing special underneath)

Joe

Good episode
Are we counting to the next full lunar eclipse?

G,
Nice Episode….
Sill no Rudi 🙁
QOTD: Toss up between Silver Oak (either one) & Opus one…pick a vintage….

Go to Mendoza, the place is beautiful and has changed a lot in the past years… Wine quality is really good in general. Cab are great even if I believe MAlbec remains number one in term of authenticity…

QOTD: Gotta agree with Joe, e.fremont and Mikeyrad, 2001 and 2002 Silver Oak Cabernet. The Alexander Valley is slightly better than the Napa Valley in both vintages. Anybody know who’s making the wine there?

Ciao

I guess I’ll stay with the Malbecs. Wow for the QOTD. The guy above me is shocking. Mine has to be the big one 2 Buck Chuck. LOL

QOD: To be honest, I haven’t really tried many highly rated wines because they’re too expensive and I don’t want to take the shot. I must say, Gary, that of all the wines I’ve tried that you’ve rated 90 pts. plus, I have totally enjoyed. I have learned not to go by the wineries’ assessments of their own wines. More often than not, I’m disappointed.

QOTD- 2003 Cakebread Cellars Pinot Noir. Turpentine.

QOTD: Sadly, the most overrated wine I’ve had in recent memory was one my friend hyped up – – between the price ($70 a bottle) and the fact that he bought 4 cases of the stuff, I was expecting AWESOME. It wasn’t old world or new world . . . it was third-world 🙁

OH! And I forgot to mention, it was the Longview 2004 Block 11 Cabernet Sauvignon that I cracked open as a result of Episode #219 QOTD: â??What special bottle of wine are you going to open this weekend?â?

Man, what a let-down. Give my regards to Mothy,
-Matt

QOTD: 2005 Provenance Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc. That is the worst most boring Sauv blanc i have ever had, and the fact that it got 93 points astounds me.

i didnt look up the score until after i drank it. i was shocked.

QOTD

The Robert Parker 90 point Di Majo Norante Sangiovese 2005.

Gary nailed it when he referred to it as “under-whelming” – that’s exactly what it is.

QOTD: 2000 Fratelli Revello Barolo
Wine Spectator gave it 93, I was expecting something nice. It appears that they put only over ripe, unhealthy berries into the vats, producing a unsettling, out of balance mix of sickly sweet flowers, prune and dust flavors. Very depressing, reminded me of a funeral.

Yeah, GV, do an Old World show!
QOTD: a Dom Perignon, think it was a ’99. Dom’s generally are ridiculously over-rated.

Holy cow!!

“Incest” taste?? Does that have anything to do with the sibling wedding you served us last week?? hahaha!! Just kidding you, this is what makes the show so cool! None of the people on the WS website could put videos like this online!

QOTD: I guess that when wines get a 95 and over score the expectations are SO high that event though they might score a 91 or 92 for you, you’re still disappointed… Then I guess a 2001 Beaucastel (RP:96) disappointed me when I had it (although I think it was it what they call the dumb phase…)

nice facetime on ESPN, toooo bad Revis is gonna get torn up by randy moss. God i hate the patriots.

QOTD:
Any of the recent vintages of Opus and Cristal. Dom and Bollinger alot better and much cheaper.

nice facetime on ESPN, toooo bad Revis is gonna get torn up by randy moss. God i hate the patriots.

QOTD:
Any of the recent vintages of Opus and Cristal. Dom and Bollinger alot better and much cheaper.

Big Cocodrilo fan here. You captured the right qualities with that one; the incense and smoke were really evident to me. I’ll also admit to being a lesser fan of Crios, but Iâ??m basing that on their malbecâ?¦

Okay â?? interesting take on the Cadus. Reminds me of a recent wine tasting I attended (zins) where one bottle had an ungodly amount of earth and must element to it â?? from the nose, to the attack and through to the finish, it was poo-poo city with this wine. I hated it, but a lot more seasoned wine drinkers rated it the highest for the night.

Is this something that happens with too many tastings? Is it akin to becoming jaded, so that suddenly only the oddities stand out? Or, is it a level of tasting sophistication that newbies just don’t have?

Maybe itâ??s both, but Iâ??m sticking to my guns â?? Iâ??m staying clear of poop.

2001 Heitz Cabernet was a let down for me. I can’t really think of any others, because I usually try and stay away from the over-hyped wines in the 10 dollar range like Di Majo Sangiovese… wait… I did try the ’03 in 2005 and it was OK, but that is when my palate uneducated, and back then it didn’t impress me.

I have tried to read up on wines before I purchase whatever my local wine stores push, which is so much more fun than just walking out with what some guy tells you to buy. Instead, I try to get an idea of what I want, and sometimes ask a store employee if they have tasted a wine I read about to corroborate my hypothesis on what to buy…..

This leads me to the following statement – I love hunting down interesting bottles just as much as drinking, sort of like how a hunt is probably as entertaining if not more enjoyable than eating the catch.

I feel like I’ve accomplished something special when I find a 15-20 dollar bottle that makes me happy; because anything 30 and above had better impress me, or I’m pissed off – I don’t get pissed at a mediocre 15 dollar bottle.

2001 Heitz Cabernet was a let down for me. I can’t really think of any others, because I usually try and stay away from the over-hyped wines in the 10 dollar range like Di Majo Sangiovese… wait… I did try the ’03 in 2005 and it was OK, but that is when my palate uneducated, and back then it didn’t impress me.

I have tried to read up on wines before I purchase whatever my local wine stores push, which is so much more fun than just walking out with what some guy tells you to buy. Instead, I try to get an idea of what I want, and sometimes ask a store employee if they have tasted a wine I read about to corroborate my hypothesis on what to buy…..

This leads me to the following statement – I love hunting down interesting bottles just as much as drinking, sort of like how a hunt is probably as entertaining if not more enjoyable than eating the catch.

I feel like I’ve accomplished something special when I find a 15-20 dollar bottle that makes me happy; because anything 30 and above had better impress me, or I’m pissed off – I don’t get pissed at a mediocre 15 dollar bottle.

I woke up to this guy on NPR talking about wine. And man I was sure he sounded like Gary – just somewhat more understated… more NPR. Well Gary on NPR made my Saturday morning! Thanks.