Gary: Please…it’s “Pree-mee-teevo”. Stop with the “Primo”. Its not there!

Enjoyed the informative show.

QOTD – Veal Marsala…have made it before, but it never turns out exceptional. I would make it for my Italian in-laws assuming it was good enough.

Listen to Joe R! Also, it’s WATER not WOOD-R

Gary,
Nice job on the Primitivo – actually picked up a little bit of this at the Enoteca in Sonoma from a small local guy.

GV – The Felline nose sounds like this “Russian Tea” mix my mom made (tang, ice-tea powder, dry black tea) – which I smelled for hours on end as a wee lad. Will be seeking out. QOTD – I’d love to be better at pork, which I would serve to my bride-to-be…

by the way had to shine some light on Augustus’s statements – Ravenswood does do some good Zin in their non-grocery store single vineyard stuff and Rosenblum is so overrated. I have heard so many describe Rosenblum (chocolate covered raspberries rolled in freshly ground black pepper) this way. When in reality Rosenblum has been blamed more than just about every other California producer for bottling Zin’s (including their single vineyard stuff) that do not taste or smell like the grape it’s claimed to be! I liken their Zins (Rosenblum) to tasting extremely over ripe fruit with a wrapper of Kerosene, an annoying mid-pallet, and a finish that makes you want to scrape your mouth with a paper towel…………………………….

gv watched this episode 3 times already a great lunch pail…punch-in, punch-out and then some quality show, thank you!

QOTD: Always grilling or sauteing some fish for my sweetheart. So I would prefer to cook for myself one of these days….a big porterhouse and 01 Pavie would hit the spot. 😉

Gary, keep rocking.

QOTD: probably chateaubriand surrounded by little carved button mushroom for my better half

Loved this episode and can’t wait to get the Felline and give it a swirl. I also love the A Mano Primitivo. As for the meal? ( And, I CAN cook…) Being a carnivore, it’s got to be a big roasted tenderloin encrusted with herbs and pepper, truffle mashers and creamed spinach gratin. Think of all the awesome vino options! Actually, I just made this for pals a few weeks ago and we had a big spicy Mollydooker Shiraz with it….it rocked.

QOTD: Pork Butt BBQ for me and all of my forum members!

Great lines today…um, did you say you know what Oil Can Boyd tastes like….doood…that’s gross!!

Peace and Chicken Grease…

Greg

I WANT my PODCAST!!!

Interesting Episode as usual!! Never had a
Primitivo. After watchin’ Ya go bananas over
da Felline Primitivo, gotta go get somma dat!!

QOTD: Maybe a Szechun/Kung Pao/Curry Shrimp/
Chicken/Pork Dish for this Gorgeous Lady I
meet da other day!! Oh Yea !! 🙂

Good epp Gary,

I just wish I could have seen you attempt to pronounce Crljenak Kasztelanski.

I wonder if its name alone will lead to its being passed into oblivion as the parent of Primitivo and Zinfandel.

Jeez a day later and 2 of the 3 are sold out!

Well to answer the QOTD I have a step up since I’m chef but I would love to cook for Frank Zappa before he died or maybe create a menu based on his songs and lyrics – “The Dangerous Kitchen” menu: Grilled “Bread Things” – dry and scratchy toasts topped with ripe tomato caviar, poached quail eggs and fresh herbs; “Frightful salad” – warm salad of wilted greens, Shaft bleu cheese, roasted pear and caramelized pecans; “un-balance your glands” – crispy fried sweetbreads, peach melba, balsamic onion relish; “the meat things where the cat ate through the paper” – sous vide ribeye steak, Primitivo reduction sauce “lumpy gravy”, creamed cipollini onions, apple-wood smoked bacon and watercress; “where the cream is all clabbered or sometimes the milk can hurt you (if you put it on your cereal without smelling the plastic container)” “the bananas are black they’ve got flies on the back” – roasted banana pot au creme. Well anyway there it is! – Keep up the good work Gary and all at winelibrary! What about tasting some Calaveras county or Sierra foothill wines from my neck of the woods!?

I could dig on makin’ some saganaki. Maybe just because you get an excuse to yell while you’re cooking. Hey Gary, howsabout doin a show on wines from Bolgheri. Last issue of Spectator was praising Bolgheri emphatically. I know advertising with certain wine mags probably are good for ratings. Just wanted to see if they can hang with the likes of Montalcino or Montepulciano.

I could dig on makin’ some saganaki. Maybe just because you get an excuse to yell while you’re cooking. Hey Gary, howsabout doin a show on wines from Bolgheri. Last issue of Spectator was praising Bolgheri emphatically. I know advertising with certain wine mags probably are good for ratings. Just wanted to see if they can hang with the likes of Montalcino or Montepulciano.

QOTD: I’m talking Old School, Out of Spain, Cooking it for Days, in the Huge Castrols, kind of Paella. All the fixings. I would love to have a big evening, outdoors in the country side or even in a Brooklyn rooftop (that’s how we did), on a huge wooden picnic table full of wine, dominos/cards/monopoly(for GV and i’d even let him buy the green and yellow property because that’s how great of a mood i would be in) for all good friends and neighbors…

A cippino for my wife(if she liked fish)! But I love it!

Man, I want some of that 2nd wine. Another great show.
QOTD: I wish I knew how to make sushi. I’d like to have a sushi and wine nite w/all my friends and loved ones.

Gary, you’re like the Bob Ross of wine tasting. Not so much of the boring side, but as the standard.

Great Show!! Always have loved the Primitovos!! Girls felt Fonzie!! Too funny!! But no “p” please in my mouth!!

QOTD:Home made pizza with my son…oh wait already do that! Life doesn’t get any better than that. Of course a beautiful Nebbiolo to go with it!!!

This is maybe the 4th episode I have watched and my first time post. Great show. Very interested in the debate over the lineage of this grape. Inspired to try and track down the Fanelli.
QOTD: My long time favorite. Oysters Bourgogne followed by Pompano en papillot. With my wife.

Hi Gary! I love your show! I have a new pledge to watch it EVERY DAY. This is first time I’m writing to say that so your Primotiva episode must have been an especially moving show. OK, I’m also writing you with a trivia question: what’s the biggest wine/spirits store (not company, but building) in the country? Thanks!

Gary, great shows and education…very much appreciated. Have you done a show on the wines from the Abbruzzo Province in Italy? Would love to see those wines explored by your sniffer and taste buds…Many thanks, Joe