QOTD : I should have stayed in college , maybe then I could be vacationing in Tuscany like I want to.

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QOTD: The one thing I’d love would be to get a ride in an F-15, F-16 or F/A-18 fighter!

QOTD: I’ve always been a pretty good writer, and I know I’ve got a novel in there somewhere. Just waiting to find the right words.

My two cents to everyone who wants to live in Europe is DO IT! I lived in Rome for 6 months and it was such a personally enriching experience that it doesn’t even matter to me that I will be paying for it for many years to come.

QOTD: Someday I want to make a film.

Good episode, Gary. Not a huge Fume Blanc fan in general, but I’ve found a few I liked.

QOTD: A good few hundred acres up here, plant five to ten of them with vine, plant another twenty with fruit trees, invite ten or twenty of my closest to come live there with me, and live in Arcadia forever more.

What’s fume mean?

Hence? Anne Hence?

I’ve had that St. Jean and liked it.

You donate the contents of the spit bucket to a homeless shelter, right?

Oilness? Smells old like Grandma?

You wouldn’t shut up about the unoaked Chard the ENTIRE TRIP. It was Twilight-Zonesque.

Partial barrels? Partially cool.

Do it for mommy.

How do you properly analyze the wines color in a glass with etching?

Is the ‘S’ on the ‘SOON’ getting bigger?

You’re chasing a red herring with the Thundercats.

Grill piece? Is that anything like your cod piece?

Winemaker GV? Don’t quit your day job.

QOTD: Left the country.

You should do a Jack Palance imitation from Ripley’s Believe It or Not on the next show.
“Whether they like it… or not”

Gary you were just at Spottswoode, and you had wonderful wonderful Cabs there (and I hope you got to ride in Mary’s little electric car)– but you no doubt also tasted their superb Sauv Blanc, of which there is a small percentage (I want to say about 20%) of French oak barrel fermentation. They also use the new cool biodynamic-zen concrete eggs for some of the SB. Now please tell me that there is not some role for contact twixt Sauv Blanc juice and oak tree. And by the way, the world’s most sublime SB’s are not from the Loire, but from Bordeaux, where, with a touch of oak and semillon, exquisite whites are born.

QOTD– I don’t like to think in terms of “regrets” so much as incomplete or not-yet-started projects. Reading “Don Quixote” in the original Spanish. Fly-fishing for bonefish in the Florida Keys or Bahamas. Breaking 70 in a round of golf (in another 10 years I can start thinking about “shooting my age”). Seeing my daughter married to the man of her dreams. And my son to the woman of his dreams. As I have learned from my friend Gary V., what is more important than family?

You go Gary!!

Cheers!
Rich

Wow! Fume Blanc. That takes me back. On one of my very first business trips to San Francisco back in the early 70s (no we didn’t have to travel by covered wagon!!)I was taken to dinner at the North Beach Restaurant and had Mondavi Fume Blanc with grilled seafood. It might have been my first REAL wine (because Annie Greensprings doesn’t count, right?) and I have always had a fondness for it.

QOTD: Je ne regrette rein. Well, that’s not quite true. I regret not having lived in Italy. I suspect it’s too late, but maybe not.

Thanks for clearing that up Gary, great show.

QOTD: A vineyard producing great fruit, the knowledge and a place to make it into great wine, long table for dinners with GV, friends and fam,a wine cave, folks to love it for it’s great qpr and a GV 91+, or, Mr. Elizabeth Hurley.

Gary – Loved the wine-mixing. In my experience, that always makes the wines taste much, much worse. But kudos for you for doing what we’ve all tried before, and for all the world to see. Any loser that calls you ‘unprofessional’ or other negative adjectives for that (or anything else you do) just doesn’t get it: Wine is for EVERYBODY, and once in a while, EVERYONE gets curious as to what a blend of two wines would taste like.

QOTD: I have always wanted to go on a backpacking trip somewhere remote, for several weeks. Still can – my knees aren’t shot yet!

QOTD: SO MANY THINGS! SO SO SO MANY…

great episode, of course i’d love to a see this battle next, pouilly fume vs sancerre…..

sooooooo I’m guessing no sherry….

Funnily enough I have a couple of New Zealand Fume Blanc’s that date from the eighties. As for your comment about the ‘smoke’ I often find subtle smoky charicteristics in those oaked or partially oaked Fume’s. If you are looking for a great Kiwi example try Te Mata’s Cape Crest (has a hint of Semmilon and Sauvigion Gris as well).

Funnily enough I have a couple of New Zealand Fume Blanc’s that date from the eighties. As for your comment about the ‘smoke’ I often find subtle smoky charicteristics in those oaked or partially oaked Fume’s. If you are looking for a great Kiwi example try Te Mata’s Cape Crest (has a hint of Semmilon and Sauvigion Gris as well so could almost be described as Kiwi Graves as Hugh Johnson did in a recent Decanter). And Sauvignon Blanc does need oak – just not too much. A lot of Marlbough producers are experementing with old oak which give the wine a finer textural component and make them much more elegant and food friendly without giving them an oaky note. Try Mahi ‘Francis Vineyard’ or Craggy Range ‘Raupara Road Vineyard’. Anyway great show.

Funnily enough I have a couple of New Zealand Fume Blanc’s that date from the eighties. As for your comment about the ‘smoke’ I often find subtle smoky charicteristics in those oaked or partially oaked Fume’s. If you are looking for a great Kiwi example try Te Mata’s Cape Crest (has a hint of Semmilon and Sauvigion Gris as well so could almost be described as Kiwi Graves as Hugh Johnson did in a recent Decanter). And Sauvignon Blanc does need oak – just not too much. A lot of Marlbough producers are experementing with old oak which give the wine a finer textural component and make them much more elegant and food friendly without giving them an oaky note. Try Mahi ‘Francis Vineyard’ or Craggy Range ‘Raupara Road Vineyard’. Anyway great show.

I had heard the origen of the fume-blanc name several years ago. When you started out with the history of the name, I was on tenterhooks to see if the version you gave was the same. It was.
QOTD: No real regrets, I’ve lived in foreign countries, tried an early career and now am doing something that others in my field envy.

Sounds stupid, but if I could accomplish anything in my life, if I could get one thing done, I would like to see Joe Namath in pantyhose one more time…

Fumes nothswithstanding.

Interesting as usual, since I have been watching your show, my wine consumption has doubled I think. At least it’s good for the heart. Also, I think Gary, you should come to Québec for “des lessons de Français”, you can pay me in wine, pas de problème.

QOTD: Right now, I regret not travelling more before I had my 3 children( I thought I would do it after university, but had my first baby during). Now they are 5, 7 and 8 and my travel is basically to work and soccer. But, in the process, my husband and I made 3 great travelling companions for the futur, so it’s o.k.

The one thing I’ve always wanted to do, eh? Strangely enough, there’s a few.

I’ve always wanted to fly an airplane.
I’ve always wanted to go skydiving.
I’ve always wanted to enjoy a nice merlot while skydiving off of an airplane.

OH! Here’s a very crazy suggestion that I’ll offer since I owned NO ThunderCats as a child:

How about somebody in Wine Library persuading Larry Kenney (voice of Lion-O) to do a voiceover intro for the Thunder Show?

Great episode, Gary! QOD: My apartment in Paris. (However, that’s in the making….)

Great episode, Gary!! QOD: My apartment in Paris (however, that’s in the making…)

Benchmark episode today my man! Mixing those wines was such an awesomely organic experience. Well done I say!
You hit the nail on the head with your commentary about NO OAK IN FRIGGIN SAUVIGNON BLANCS. Can’t agree with you more Gaz. We have enough oak already, why mess with something so pure and correct.
QOTD: I recently bought my first set of drums and sat in on a song with a band that was playing at a party. I want to start a band!

Benchmark episode today my man! Mixing those wines was such an awesomely organic experience. Well done I say!
You hit the nail on the head with your commentary about NO OAK IN FRIGGIN SAUVIGNON BLANCS. Can’t agree with you more Gaz. We have enough oak already, why mess with something so pure and correct.
QOTD: I recently bought my first set of drums and sat in on a song with a band that was playing at a party. I want to start a band!

hey man, watching your sea smoke episode right now, and I realized you called me out as a lurker! So here’s my first comment of many to come, I wish every podcast host could be as enthusiastic about their topic as you are, you’re truly gifted at hosting and also probably the funniest host I have ever seen.. keep doing what you do

Just a comment on your closing line because it has to be said. Don’t think for a SECOND that we havenâ??t noticed the new closer. Personally, for me, for my palate, for what Iâ??m into, I never much cared for the â??â?¦weâ??re changing the wine world, arenâ??t weâ?. Your new tag is indicative of the revolution that is brewing. Iâ??m not entirely sure you truly realize the part youâ??re playing in this revolution. Peopleâ??s attitudes towards wine ARE changing, thatâ??s a fact. Revolutions start small and they take some time to reach the point to where people really take notice, and they even take a longer time to get to where they need to be. But we will get there. Period.

My point. â??Weâ??re changing the wine world whether you like it or notâ?. I hope you know how right you, and I, and everyone else around here, really are.

Thunder? Itâ??s more like Lightning. Thunder is all auditory, all sound with no action. Lightning is that which is feared. Lighting is action. Lightning is lethal. So, is there such thing as Lightning Cats? I dunno. If there was, I would send you some. ;]