70% food, 30% without.

Isn’t Mer Soleil from Santa Lucia Highlands (Monterey County) rather than Napa?

70% food, 30% without.

Isn’t Mer Soleil from Santa Lucia Highlands (Monterey County) rather than Napa?

BTW, the last time Gary wanted to achieve a certain number of responses, (300, I think) we beat his number but I don’t remember if he ever told us what the bet was. Anyone?

GV- Awesome episode. I see this as a trend that WILL change the wine world. I think naked chards will increase in popularity and as they do winemakers will gradually start re-introducing wood into their wines but as a seasoning and not the main component of the dish.
QOTD: 80% with food, 20% without food (10% of that being with clients). God my job is tuff. KEEP THE THUNDER ROLLING!

GV- Awesome episode. I see this as a trend that WILL change the wine world. I think naked chards will increase in popularity and as they do winemakers will gradually start re-introducing wood into their wines but as a seasoning and not the main component of the dish.
QOTD: 80% with food, 20% without food (10% of that being with clients). God my job is tuff. KEEP THE THUNDER ROLLING!

QOTD: 90% with food, 10% without food. Heck I even eat almost all the time when I am drinking beer (nuts, beef jerky, chicharones, buffolo wings, etc.). The only alcoholic drink that i usually don’t eat food with are cocktails, but i hardly drink those at all.

QOTD: 80% with food and 20% without; although, I usually continue to drink after dinner when the food is gone.

Did you know: Today is Naked Chardonnay Day on Wine Blogging Wednesday ( http://www.winebloggingwednesday.org/ ). So if people are interested in hearing more opinions about hott Chardonnay-on-Stainless-Steel action, they should check that out in a day or two when the roundup is posted. If you have something to say about a bottle of naked Chardonnay you can contribute too.

Ten Cents here!

QOTD: 80% with food, 20% without.

The Oak Monster has left the building!

Ten Cents here!

QOTD: 80% with food, 20% without.

The Oak Monster has left the building!

man, and I wanted to hold out for a bit on buying more wine, now I’m gonna have to go out and check out the Four Vines, 🙂

QOTD: I’m probably at 98% drinking without food. I like drinking wine just on its own. Part of that though is that when I go out, I normally don’t like the wine selections and I rarely cook for myself. If I cooked for myself, I’d probably drink more with food

Nice show today Gary. I have enjoyed most of the â??nakedâ? chardâ??s that I have tried. Iâ??m going to look for that 4 vines for sure.

QOTD â?? 80% with food.

Good show (aren’t they all?). Will try the Four Vines. QOTD. 80% with 20% w/o

Hey Gary. That was a good show — I’m not a huge white wine fan, but was convinced to have a 2005 Miner Wild Yeast Chardonnay with Indian food a week ago. It was okay, but still not a favorite. I’ll give the Four Vines a try, though.

Show notes: the moobie thing was weird, but you did manage to wink out of both eyes on this episode. so you redeemed yoruself.

Video notes: i look amazingly like Miss Piggy so no videos/photos of me, but I will try to think of something clever.

QOTD: 95% – 97% of the time with food. even if we go to a wine bar, we always order cheese or salami with it. the only time i am having wine w/o food is when i am cooking the food i am about to have with the wine.

Interesting Show QOTD:95% with food Viva Italiano

Interesting Show QOTD:95% with food Viva Italiano

Hey Gary,

Long time between drinks. Things have just been pretty hectic and I should make more of an effort to fit your shows in.

I am surprised that you mentioned the movement to unoaked chardonnay in Australia and NZ but then didn’t showcase any examples from these regions.

I know Stanley Lambert sell their ‘Pristine’ Chardonnay up your way for all your US viewers (see: http://www.stanleylambert.com/index.cfm?method=storeproducts.showDrilldown&productid=31dbc1f0-ae8c-252e-32ed-7723afdb3fb4&ProductCategoryID=a682eea4-f93b-ef59-7ac1-e2d7c9896632&OrderBy=Price1%20Asc) for Australian viewers (see: http://www.squashedgrape.com.au/tcontrol/product_details.php?pcode=132).

I agree that this is a growing trend. I know personally I had moved over to drinking a lot of Viognier as a substitue for a white with substance but without the oak monster!

QOTD – 50/50

Hope you reach your 700 comments… And I will do a video intro… One day…

The Thundercats you have there Gary are Lion-O (of course), Vultureman (an evil mutant), and the Snowman of Hook Mountain (a Thundercat ally).

QOTD: Probably about 80% without food, 20% with.

QOTD: 99.999% with food .0001% without food.

the bouquet is at least 50% of the wine experience for me. i’m definitely down with the sniffy sniff and the nose factor!

qotd: 80% with food

QOTD: 85% W/O Food 15% W/Food

do people ever make comments on the wines tasted? seriously, everyone seems so concerned with being first or in the top 10. i’d like to see you urge people to comment more on the wines tasted in the episode.

– 2 centz

QOTD: 90% with food. 10% without food.

Thanks for the show, A haven’t had a California chardonnay in a minute because of the “characteristics”. I have been subbing blends with my food in place of chardonnays during this time as well. I am excited to explore some new options.

QOTD: 70% with food, 30% without.

do people ever make comments on the wines tasted? seriously, everyone seems so concerned with being first or in the top 10. i’d like to see you urge people to comment more on the wines tasted in the episode.

btw, 80% w/o food (i know)

– 2 centz

I actually suprised reading the comments the large percentage of time people are having wine without food.

QOTD: 99% with food 1% “just because”