congrats on the Ellen show and on another great WLTV episode. keep up the god work!
glad you tasted the bogle pinot noir. i had it 3 days ago while at a pinot / red burgundy tasting, and I actually thought it was very pleasant. yes… a bit light compared to alot of the super extracted new world PN’s, but i found some nice fruit and none of the eucalyptus notes you mentioned. it was one of the crowd favorites and a great deal in my humble opinion.
QOD;
2006 C.V.N.E. (Compania Vinicola Norte de Espana) Rioja Cune Rosado
2005 Domaine de Colette Morgon Le Charme de Colette – Beaujolais

QOTD: ’03 Ciccio Zaccagnini Montepulciano d’Abruzzo; and coincidentally ’06 A to Z Pinot Noir.

Thanks for the preview on the A to Z pinot gris…I love the noir, and always hesistated on trying the gris. Maybe now I’ll take the $11 plunge.

I gotta admit, I’m liking the lack of point scores so far. Though it would be nice to not have it mentioned every so often what you *would* have given a particular wine that has impressed you, GV. Consistency is cool. 😛

I’m really liking the pass/fail system as to whether or not the wine you’re tasting is worth the declared dollar price. It drives home the fact that scores are indeed rather irrelevant in such a subjective field like wine tasting. As a person who buys wine when my budget allows for the luxury, I’m more interested in getting a good value for my purchase rather than a sample of mediocre and overly-hyped wine.

And I’ll STILL be willing to try out any wine that is given multiple Z’s, if only just to see for myself why it got so many of them. 😀

I’m Digging these value wine reviews, and starting to buy cheaper wines lately. Just tried a Gnarly Head Zin and Irony Pinot last week, the Gnarly Head came out on top.

QOTD: Sheep’s Back 2002 Old Vines Shirax, Bridlewood 2006 Central Coast Viognier

Love that you are doing value wines. Last two wines: 2001 Chateau Tournefeuille Lalande de Pomerol; 2005 Matua New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. I am always looking for good wines that you can pick up for less than $125/case. Can you combine all of your “value wine” picks into a nice spreadsheet or link for us? Great show, I’ll have to YouTube your Ellen appearance next week. Have fun in Cali!

Thanks for the value wine episode. Bargains are very interesting. On the other hand, my last wines have been at the more middle area: last night with a visiting family from France, we contrasted a Chateau Talbot 2000 with a Penfold Coonawarra Shiraz 2004, bin 128. Pretty amusing with the new vs. old world contrast. I don’t have to tell you which one my Antibes friends liked better! Actually, I agreed as the Talbot really had a lot of interesting flavors to play out. Tonight I went out alone and enjoyed a couple glasses of Girardin 2003 Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Epenots with bruschettas. Really smooth with a dusty finish. Nice wine from the Beaune area. A memorable evening, but back to $8 starting tomorrow: Promise!

QOTD: 2004 St. Supéry Sauvignon Blanc, 2002 Clos Du Val SLD “oak vineyard” Cabernet Sauvignon. I recommend both.

Great great show! I’m happy to get the Heartland in Germany as well!

QOTD:
2003 Graceland Shiraz from South Africa
2004 Kilikanoon Testament Shiraz

QOTD: 2005 Oxford Landing GSM and 2003 Il Leo Chianti (thanks to you)

QotD :
03 – Vina Sastre Tempranillo @ Blue Ribbon Manhattan
NV -Nicholas Feuillatte @ Flight home

I hope you´ll try some more pinot noirs this week. so hard to find deasent pinots under $15.

Swedish T

QOTD:

Montecillo Rioja 2002
Palumbo Family Viognier 2004

Both awesome.

1999 Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz
1998 Penfolds St. Henri Shiraz

just opened an Innocent Bystander Shiraz Viognier in the decanter…… mmmm

GARY– I was an intern on the Ellen show last fall, which was when I started watching WLTV… this is huge news! Can’t wait to watch, and I’ll talk to my peeps over there to see if I can get to see your show (probably taping it on Thurs of this week or Mon of next).

QOTD: Well, my room mate bought Gallo “reserve” Cab (yeah, right) for celebration of my new job, and it was ok. Could’ve got something comparable for half the price. BUT, I also had my first Alsacian Chasellas tonight (AT my new restaurant job), and it was fantastic, with similar Alsacian gewertz or riesling minerality and GREAT acidity.

A timely question my good sir as I just enjoyed two great bargains that would certainly come under the $13 mark.

Gruner Veltliner Traisental 2006 – amazing grapefruit thing happening.
Par Preignes Petit Verdot 2004 – Beziers giving real PV bang for the buck.

Take it easy,

a

QOTD:
1999 Chateau Malmaison Baronne Nadine de Rothschild
2002 Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste Pauillac

Next bottle to be opened is the 2000 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon. Really looking forward to that.

Great Show
–Rani

QOTD: Coudoulet de Beaucastel 2004 and Verget St. Veran Cras Caniculus 2003 – both outstanding.

Hi, Gary. Great line of shows you are doing this week. This is what make WLTV so GREAT – helping us to fine bargain wines that are excellent values. Although I know your views with respect to wine scoring, some of us have a lot of respect for your palate and, I for one, would like you to continue scoring the wines you taste.

In that regard, I’m looking for a good QPR Pinot Noir. I went through the WL listing of the 100+ Pinots you have in stock and found the you have only rated one that is $48 bones. How about doing some more?

Gary, great show theme this week!! I love finding bargains for good solid wines! QOTD- Opolo Zinfindal and 337 cabernet ( under 10 bones and not too bad! ) I can’t wait to see some more of this weeks shows!!Looking forward to the Ellen show next week!

Joe

TREMENDOUS!! Even the birds are on fire every day! QOTD: Incidently, two australian shirazes. Last night, Yellow Tail Shiraz The Reserve. I found a word for it: Popular. Not ordinary, but popular. Showing the obvious somewhat artificial and sugarfied characteristics. The previous wine was the Slipstream shiraz/grenache blend. Cherry cola and peppery.

Last two wines:
Exlibris Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 Columbia Valley. Very nice!

Michael Joseph Collection Grand Vin de France Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 OK

Have a great trip out to Cal!

Great Show.
QOTD:
2003 Langwerth Von Simmern Erbacher Marcobrunn Riesling Spätlese — enough said, love it with sushi.
2001 Bodegas Montecillo Rioja Reserva — A little too oaky right now, came around a bit the second day.

Ellen? How cool are you? I see Howie Mandel is on the same show, I cant imagine you two together in the green room, it will be nuts! I made sure it is set on my TIVO…cant wait to see it.

you said the Heartland Stickleback was light in alcohol.
I grew up with Rieslings and the majority were about 7.5%!!
I like lite(low alcohol not taste) wines, they burn less on the mouth.

1984 Sichel Riesling QUALITATSWEIN 8.2% by vol (alcohol)

light and very fruity – nice for a twenty yr old table wine ($3.99)

QOTD: Jackson-Triggs 2004 Hate Harvest Vidal (yummy yum yum, esp with fruit danish) which is one of my all-time faves and Salmon Run Rainbow Rose (also yummy)… although the Salmon Run was the last of 17 wines I tried (all Dr Frank and Salmon Run) at a wine tasting on Friday, which was an awesome time!

Great show Gary! I’m glad you liked a few of the affordable wines today. I’ll have to keep my eyes open for those! (although with free shipping… maybe I’ll just order them!)

Can’t wait for the Ellen show! I’m not as much a fan of hers as Connan, but I’m sure it’ll be awesome!