Great to have you back Gary! I introduced your show to my girlfriend today and she absolutely adores you! As a matter of fact, I don’t think you two should meet 😉 Hehe.

QOTD: On a whim I decided to take a short trip to Napa and had two solid days of wine tasting at various vineyards and the Chefs Market downtown. The best of the bunch this weekend was J Vineyards 2003 Russian River Valley, Pinot Noir along with Bell Vineyards 2000 Syrah. I had the Pinot paired with Duck Sausage Pissaladiere and the Syrah paired with a marvlous pepper crusted pork tenderloin (with a nice port reduction). Deeeeeeee’lish!

The worst: Duckhorn 2006 Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc. While it started off wonderfully crisp, fruit forward, and acidic, it left a horrible metallic aftertaste which tainted everything I tried afterwards for hours.

Weeeeeeeee!

QOTD: The Best – Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2006

The Worst – Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2006

Been sick recently, so only one bottle in the past two weeks. 🙂 Shame I have to call it the worst, though, as it was really quite good.

I just stumbled upon this great video of the Nantucket Wine Festival. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

http://nantucket.plumtv.com/videos/wine_festival_2007_highlights

Best wine in the last 2 weeks: Jarvis Lake William 2002(maybe the best in the last 2 years)

Worst wine in the last 2 weeks: Bodegas Montecillo Gran Riserva 1998

Gary,

Great to have you back! QOTD: I haven’t had anything that I would consider really good in the last two weeks. Very disappointing.

Ken B.

GV welcome back! Sorry about the 0-3 tasting. QOTD: seriously, a smoking loon viognier. solid bootle, bout 8 bones.

No new wines over the last two weeks. I almost got a glass of Sangiovese at Olive Garden Thursday afternoon, but I decided against it ultimately, as I was going to a church retreat. lol

QOTD…
Best: 2004 Accordini Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso. Had it at a new chic Italian restaurant in town that we fell in love with so it could be a tad biased.
Worst: Some house wine at a random restaurant outside of San Juan… what was I thinking.

QOTD: Best: Planeta Merlot 2002 (Sicily)
Worst: Italian table wine in Molise (red, no further specification)

Gary, Welcome back!

I’ve had a link on my site since I started watching. I even mention you in one of my posts from my Hawaii trip!
http://erdelynet.com/personal/hawaii07/day-3-wed-jun-7/

QOTD: Best: Toss up – Gunderloch â??Jean Baptisteâ? Reisling (don’t remember the year) or Zenato Valpolicella â??Ripassaâ?? 2004
QOTD: Worst: Plum Wine Sake

Check out the wine story from this dinner: http://erdelynet.com/personal/hawaii07/day-5-sat-jun-9/

Dang. I posted a comment and it disappeared. Second try.

I’ve had a subtle link to your site since I started watching. I even mentioned you on my Hawaii Trip Log:
http://erdelynet.com/personal/hawaii07/day-3-wed-jun-7/

QOTD: Best: Tossup Gunderloch â??Jean Baptisteâ? Reisling (didn’t note the year) or Zenato Valpolicella â??Ripassaâ?? 2004
QOTD: Worst: Some Plum Sake

Check out this bad wine experience story:
http://erdelynet.com/personal/hawaii07/day-5-sat-jun-9/

I had a fantastic German Riesling , cant remember the producer. welcome back GV.

Welcome back, Kotter, er, Gary! QOTD: Best wine in the last couple of weeks was the 2003 Garretson Reliquary Red. Thanks again, to Ian and GV.

QOTD: I wouldn’t say it was in the best wine category, but something new and still pretty good – Spier 2007 Chenin Blanc. Worst was Rolling 2005 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon — Do not drink this wine. I swear, 2 barely drinkable glasses and I had a serious headache the next day. Normally that’s a 8 glass requirement. 🙂 Too bad it was the only wine at the party… I should have had the budweiser.

pitty .. i hear the 04 argyle nuthouse is a little tight and young… (it was just bottled recently too) however the ’03 is drinking like a freegin’ champ right now….but good luck finding it i know of only one place it’s available.
there is no e at the end of Oregon …. “Oreegone????” them are fighting words and a serious party foul here in the green state….

Best wine – Silver Oak cab 2003

Worst – Horton Norton 2005 (Virginia)

JO in NJ

I’ve been interested in trying the Fiddlehead for awhile now, I’m actually more interested in it now that Gary gave it an 89. Even though he said it’s a pass, it’s a high enough score for a Cali Pinot to warrant spending $30+ in my opinion.

0-3 after that trip? Ouch. Sorry Gary. At least I can thank you for tasting the wines so we dont have to! QOTD: The only wine ive had in the last 2 weeks was a taste of the Charles Shaw Chardonnay. Year doesnt matter since it was awful. I have to get my parents drinking better wine….. Well if the year does matter it was the 2001.

QOTD-
Best wine: Schloss Johannisberg 2005 Riesling Kabinett, £12, great minerality and balance.
Worst wine: Vins de Vienne 2006 Condrieu (Yves Cuilleron, François Villard and Pierre Gaillard) supposedly c. £25 reduced to £13 in Tesco (the Wal Mart of the UK!) it was off balanced, bitter finish.

qotd best was louis jadot puligny-montrachet ’05. worst was a backhouse cab sav.

a vin jaune on the show would be a great way to start off the new year Gary.

haha, give the oak monster shirts props one day and then complain about them the next 😀

QOTD: I don't know if I can remember what I had in 2007, but this week I had a Greek Moschofilero by Boutari. It was very good. The worst wine was a cab from Cavas Submarinas. It tasted like wet musty cardboard. It could be TCA even though the cork was synthetic.