401, let’s keep it going!

Good to find a solid wine under ten bones. my pocket book and the CKC’s are gonna love that. QOTD: bout 85% without and 15% with.

Really like the naked chards . Will have to try the four vines soon . Thanks Gman !

Qotd : 20% With – 80% Without

Great show…as always. Hope you get the 700.

QOTD: 88% with food, 12% without.

Great show…as always. Hope you get the 700.

QOTD: 88% with food, 12% without.

Unoaked Chard, well, maybe once in a while, but not just yet.

QOTD – 80% without, 20% with.

See you in a week.

Gary,

Liked the show; I hope I can find the naked chards to try.

QOTD: 60% without 40% with

QOTD: 90% with, 10% without. Hey, you know what Drew Carey (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) says about the points: “The points don’t matter!!!!”

Nice educational show – didn’t know about the Nakeds.

QOTD 70 without / 30 with

QOTD: 90% with food (not counting when there is a little left in the bottle the next day)

And how about this Gary, for my groomsmen at my wedding, they are getting a 2001 left bank Bordeaux as a token of my appreciation.

Expect some wedding pictures for the WLTV intro, and we will be getting married on Aug. 24!

The wine world is a funny place – we get over-oaked Chardonnay in abundance, then there is a movement towards totally unoaked Chardonnay. Hey! What about learning to use oak PROPERLY!?! Where is the middle ground? I’m all for unoaked Chards, heck, unoaked wines in general are intriguing and different and very worthwhile, but where is the learning curve? STOP THE BANDWAGONS! Bandwagons equal trends, and since trends tend to lack any individuality, trends suck ass, ergo, bandwagons suck ass.

QOTD: 100% with food

oh, and to the qotd: 60/40 no food/yo food

soooo….you seem a little shy of 700….no white castle for you, eh mate?

400 comments, half way there!

Scary Gary! Please, no more milk gestures! :0

Great episode! I thought I didn’t like Chardonnay, but I just needed to find the right ones. I’m excited to try some of the wines featured today!

QOTD: 60% with food, 40% without. If I had my way, it would be 50-50. One before meal, one with.

QOTD: 75% with food, 25% without. I prefer the Chehalem Pinot Gris to the Chardonnay.

Look at the FOUR VINES “NAKED” label , the vines are naked women! no kinding.

Great show, Gary, and an outstanding QOTD.

QOTD: I tend to regard food without wine as a sad and incomplete thing. I tend to regard wine without food as RESEARCH for what to have with some dinner in the future. (And I like research.) So, apart from wine tastings, I very rarely have wine without food. (I don’t count palate-cleansing bread between tastes as wine with food. I’m not even sure that I count wine tasting as wine drinking, especially if I’m spitting.) I guess I would say that something like 99% of my wine consumption is with food.

This attitude toward food and wine going together then affects my attitude toward oaky wine. To me, it all depends on how it works with the food. One evening my wife and I had salmon fillets along with some fish stew (shrimp, scallops, tilapia, various veggies, all in a broth with some light tomato). In the spirit of research, I opened two white wines, one barrel fermented and the other stainless steel. The oaky wine was great with the salmon and terrible with the fish stew, while the situation was reversed for the stainless steel wine. (By the way, my wife and I open two wines and compare them just about every night. Anything leftover gets pumped to be drunk over the next couple of days. We find that comparing wines side by side allows us to notice things that we would never pick up if we tasted the wines in isolation.)

Back to the QOTD: I have found it fascinating to read people’s answers to the QOTD. I had no idea that there was such diversity of opinion about this. I think you have hit on something major here. I started tallying people’s answers, or at least the first 230 answers that specified or implied a percentage. (Comments still keep coming in, and I had to stop somewhere.) The resulting distribution of people’s answers is trimodal. (Hey, if you can say sniffy-sniff, I can say trimodal.) Put more simply, the Vayniacs divide into three camps. Some 57% of the Vayniacs put their with-food percentages at or above 70%. About 23% put their with-food percentages at or below 30%. The remaining 20% of Vayniacs put their with-food percentages between 35 and 65 percent, although just under half of this last group is bang on 50/50.

I think it would be really interesting to know the demographics of just who is falling into these three groups. Are women more in the foodie group than men? Are more experience drinkers in one group rather than another? Perhaps most importantly, do people in the three groups tend to prefer different wines? I bet they do — some wines go better with food, and the foodies are going to prefer them.

The bottom line is that there is a grouping here that could be as important as the distinction between Old World and New World fans. Maybe you should be recommending some wines as probably appealing to the foodies, and other wines as probably appealing to the wine-by-itselfers.

Gotta go drink some wine (with dinner).

Cheers.

QOTD:
5% with meals
16% with snacks
79% without food

My god it took me forever to get down here! All Hail stainless steel!!!! I was shooting for comment # 420! QOD-80% food

Awesome show. I have kind of been turned off by chardonnays so I will have to try some of those. And as for you question, I would prefer to have wine with food more often, but being with the ckc, I can’t go out to eat that often. Sad to say, the most common pairing is wine with hot pockets or hamburger helper, which is %10 of the time. Most of the time I’ll drink my wine after I eat, kind of part of my friday night pre-bar ritual.

I’d say its ussually 90% with. I only think of the pairing 75% of the time but its usually at least with take out

QOTD: 75% with food, 25% without.

Great show GV. Put me down for 95% with food, and my lovely wife at 70% with food. (She sips and watches cable while I prefer WLTV.

Big G, Boo….Oak Monster Good.

QOTD 25% with Food 75% without!