QOTD: 2000 Chateau La Vieille Cure Fronsac, 1996 Kistler Chardonnay, 1989 Mondavi Cab (Extra one – 2002 Edgewood Cab)

QOTD: 2000 Chateau La Vieille Cure Fronsac, 1996 Kistler Chardonnay, 1989 Mondavi Cab (Extra one – 2002 Edgewood Cab)

1. 2005 David Bruce Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
2. 2006 Eroica Reisling (Ch St Michelle/ Dr. Loosen)
3. 2006 Turkey Flat Rose

Thanks for sharing your faves…
QOTD – As of right now, how about these:
Torbreck – The Steading, 2003
Paul Autard – Cotes Du Rhone, 2005
Almost anything from Montalcino

I think I might have to load up on all three of those wines featured tonight. Good show, Gary.

QOTD:
1. McPrice Myers Viognier (Mac makes some amazing juice – and Robert Parker scores this in the 90s)
2. Denner Grenache (it makes the hair on my arms stand up)
3. Silver Stone Chard (chard so good it will make you laugh – the winemaker’s name is Dan Kleck).

Gary, another SPECTACULAR episode. Is amazing how, over more than 300 episodes, you can still bring a lot of thunder. I’ve been watching you since your early days and is amazing how i’m still waiting impatiently for every single episode. Congrats again…
QOTD: wow, tough one to choose only 3 but i’ll go like this:
1) Any vintage port or Tokaji
2) Mollydooker Carnival of Love Shiraz
3) Concha y Toro Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon

Gary, Social Brian here, formerly TagWorld Brian. 🙂 Great to see you getting back to old school WLTV sort of. Maybe you’re able to get out the other energies on youtube, FB, Ellen, Conan, Nightline, Time, etc. And now you’re able to focus 100% on the wine again. (And the Nightline piece was excellent. Excellent. I’m glad you won’t get pigeonholed in the mainstream media as the “guy who eats dirt and sucks stones.” You got to explain the WLTV philosophy, and it was great to hear. And the WineLibrary operation grosses $60M a year? No wonder you spit D’Yquem. 🙂 Seriously though, it’s been a great ride over the past year.

Gary, Social Brian here, formerly TagWorld Brian. 🙂 Great to see you getting back to old school WLTV sort of. Maybe you’re able to get out the other energies on youtube, FB, Ellen, Conan, Nightline, Time, etc. And now you’re able to focus 100% on the wine again. (And the Nightline piece was excellent. Excellent. I’m glad you won’t get pigeonholed in the mainstream media as the “guy who eats dirt and sucks stones.” You got to explain the WLTV philosophy, and it was great to hear. And the WineLibrary operation grosses $60M a year? No wonder you spit D’Yquem. 🙂 Seriously though, it’s been a great ride over the past year.

Yay! SF Vaynerglass!

QOTD:
1 – 2003 Habrard Crozes Hermitage (exactly what I want in a wine)
2 – 2004 Farnese Casale Vecchio Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (fresh blackberries & all the best characteristics of a good Syrah/Viognier)
3 – 2004 Dominio de Tares Baltos (beets, cabbage, blackberry cheesecake, taffy, Worcestershire sauce – 100% Mencia)

Nice show.

3 favorites – Well if you don’t include sherries…

Current list:

Greco di Tufo
Muscat Buame de Venise
Tabernero Borgona

1. OMG I NEED the la chappelle “SNIIIIIIIIFY SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIF” as a ringtone NOWWWW!!!!!
2. Love your shirt
3. DO A SHOW AS LAST’S YEAR SUPERTASTING!!!! (THE 4 MOST SOLD” PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASEEEEEEEE THAT ONE IS ONE OF ME ALL TIME FAVS!!!!!!!!!

Great Episode!!!
QOTD:
1) 2003 Boudreaux Cabernet Sauvignon – went out and found a 1/2 case on the back shelf of my local grocery store after you gave it 96+ points in epsiode 324 – and you were right!
2) 2004 Owen Roe Cabernet Franc – WOW.
3) 2004 Sequoia Grove Cabernet Sauvignon – another great Gary recomindation.

3. 2004 Tempranillo Ercavio
2. 2003 Chateau la Sablaniorre Bordeaux
1. Some wine I can’t remember the name of but it was a Reisling, amazing…

QOTD: I had a wonderful Nebbiolo last week from Cascina Adelaid…This producer has only been making wine since 2000 but is already putting out 90-94 point rated barolo wines. The Nebbiolo I had was from Langhe, just a great mix of old world and new world…can’t go wrong with this one…so I bought a case! here is a link to a write up I did on it…I liked it so much I made it the “wine of the month” on WINE16.COM

http://www.wine16.com/id10.html

P.S ….did you give a point score on the last wine from Graves? I bought A six pack…thanks for the heads up bro!

Pink wines: always taste ’em, hardly ever buy ’em. As in, maybe (maaybe!) once a year. Last weekend I had one at Moshin (Russian River, Sonoma) that I snapped up some of. Great stuff! Here’s the deal, though: the rose on their own label is listed on their site as sold out…but what we had was a side label, maybe only in the tasting room (and now I don’t remember the name), maybe the winemaker’s side work. But it was just fabulous, maybe the best CA rose I’ve had–100% Pinot, and it shows. $12-13 or so, and well worth it!

Gary,

Went to a tasting today for Zerba Cellars in Walla Walla. Just fabulous Syrah in ’03, but they had a bad freeze in ’04 and are trying to recover. It’s coming along, but not there yet. I told Mark the winemaker about your show. He said he would check it out.

’05 Capitelo Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. $33 and a great qpr. New winemaker originally from NZ.
’04 Archery Summit Arcus Estate Pinot Noir. $68 and really good, but qpr is so-so. The ’03 got 95 WS.
’03 Benziger Family Vinyards Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma. $16 great value! Nice with a steak. I think these are the folks who sold Glen Ellen after making 11 jillion gallons of white Zin for the world. Made a tidy sum and now their kids just lay back and make nice wines.

Poor Chris. He’s frustrated by your failure to score the 2005 Fleur Des Pins Graves. You can’t get soooo excited about your favorites that you forget to score them (yeah, we know, trust your own palate). QOTD: I have been REALLY enjoying South African Pinotages. Found a really great QPR at the store for only $7.99 a bottle – – Nederberg Pinotage. Really enjoying it, especially for the price.

QOTD: I always talk about my modest budget, so here are my 2 recent favorite wines purchased for 9.99 OR LESS: 2005 Chateau Hauts-Cabroles Bordeaux, 2006 Chateau Beauregard Coteaux Du Languedoc, and one above the $10 pricepoint: La Cuvee Mythique (Syrah, Grenache, Muvedre, Carignan) from Languedoc (2004 or 2005). Cheers.

Good show dawg!

Jazzed to try all 3 of those puppies.

QOTD: Since I have been all over the place lately and under the school of not drinking the same wines all the time I will list the last 3 wines I have had which all rocked and I would drink again.

Imagery 2004 Sunny Slope Vineyard Merlot, Valserrano 2001 Rioja Reserva, and 2005 Vietti Barbera d’Asti.

Keep rockin’ the episodes. Megan and I really wished we could have made it to the super tasting. If we lived in NJ it would have been more realistic.

J DUB

Serious show Gary! Can’t find any of the last two vines over here in Germany :/

QOTD:

2004 Knipser Sauvignon Blanc Spatlese Trocken
2006 Ashbrook St. Emillon
2004 Di Majo Norante Aglianico Molise Contado

QotD:
Poliziano Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2003 [which you’ve tried on the show]
Long Flat Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot 2004 [box wine in the hizzy]
Vina Santa Carolina Carmenere Riserva 2006

QOTD: Top 3 wines? No such thing, just a long list of I’d-definitely-drink-that-agains. The most frequently purchased is dodgy too, as it’s too heavily weighted by the crappy local off-licence and supermarket where I fall into buying at the last minute. So here’s a list that’s not very meaningful:

– Sean Thackery Sirius Petit Syrah $70ish (try and find it when I’m in CA)
– Chateau Meaume Bordeaux Superieur 12 (think we’re drinking 2003 these days)
– Wither Hills Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 15 (2006, I’d say)

Again,as always,excellent show G!I can feel the force of vaynernation.

QOTD: Hamilton-Russell Pinot Noir 2005 (The best Pinot in the world,sorry burgundy,oregon etc, but South Africas coolest region Walker Bay really kick your ass!) Kanonkop Pinotage 2005 and Chateau Brane Cantenac 2001.

Niklas, the finnish vayniac

I enjoyed the show! I also took up your challenge to share your show with others, I’m working on a blog post on my site and maybe I can run a little traffic your way. I hope!

QOTD:
1. Glenora Catawba (blush!)
2. Castello del Poggio Dolcetto (Gary, you were right, i had a bad dolcetto, but this one rocked my socks and kicks butt with pasta),
3. Jackson-Triggs Late Harvest Vidal… yum!

Gary, thanks so much for a great episode! THIS is why i love WLTV… not only did you recommend three wines that sound delish, but two of them I can actually afford! You’re the best Gary! Spasibo!