QOTD: I’m thinking (HOPING) I’ll be drinking lots of Patz & Hall Chenoweth Vineyard Pinot Noir… because I’m having dinner at the Chenoweth’s!!!!!!! 🙂 (Charlie Chenoweth is my boyfriend’s neice’s husband. And I’m hoping to take my post-dinner stroll through the rows of vines if I can!)

go easy on my poor, poor Steelers! QOTD: I have no idea what I am drinking on turkey day, but I did get my turkey day 4 pack so I might bring some of those to the future in laws!

Great episode. QOTD: Blood from my date’s neck

Blanka was from Street Fighter, not Mortal Combat. FWIW. 😉

Great show. I’m drinking an Australian GSM on Thanksgiving for sure, and probably a Riesling, as well. Likely something local for the Riesling – Hogue or Covey Run.

The best value wines in the world right now, I believe, are coming out of the Languedoc. Great episode. Totally pumped me up.

QOTD: What’s going down the hatch with the Turkey? Well, for starters….

2006 Weingut Josef Leitz Rüdesheimer Drachenstein Riesling Dragonstone
2005 Coudert Fleurie Clos de la Roilette Cuvée Tardive

Come on, Gary, everybody knows that Blanka was Street Fighter!

Found an interesting wine from Chile –
OOPS! it is the LOST Variety from France that makes the Chilean Merlot taste so different. Carmenere!
Looks and grows like Merlot but has a different structure kinda between Merlot and Cab Sav.

QOTD: Well, it’s a work day for me so Coke or Dr. Pepper… But at least I’ll get some left overs over the weekend!

Yes, like Toke-Dawg pointed out, Blanka was street fighter. Anyway, I plan to drink Wilson Creek almond champagne or Frank family zin 2005 which I bought last weekend with my mom’s classic turkey on Thanks giving day. What about you?

Qotd… nothing in particular, probably something non-alcoholic since we don’t really care for thanksgiving very much here. But maybe I’ll open a bottle of white port on the upcoming weekend 🙂

Why haven’t more people commented today! I can’t not say something after an episode like this. It’s definitely scary to see an eight dollar wine on the US market from France that reaches the 90 point barrier. For someone like me, a recent CKC graduate, I can afford drinking this again and again – and not get bitter about shipping costs!

This is why almost all of my wine comes from across the pond – the Europeans are making wine that outperforms California wine in corresponding price-points, while also overcoming the exchange rate. I don’t think I have ever had a wine from California that impressed me with its structure or balance as even some 20 dollar wines from Italy. Am I just having bad luck from CA? Or is it really the silicone valley of the wine world – fake fruit/breasts and fast women without brains/structure?

On this topic, one of the most memorable wines I have ever had was the 2002 Pieve del Vescovo Tezio – Cabernet and Merlot blend from Umbria. The terroir of this wine just shined through so wonderfully to me, and so different than a California Meritage or Bordeaux. Cherries cherries, leather, tobacco, dirt….. Not the most complex wine, but so so delicious. Normally the deliciousness factor is associated with sugary wines, but this the old world equivalent – like being 3 years old and sucking on a piece of leather until your mom scolds you. I enjoyed this wine on my Mediterranean honeymoon cruise with my wife.

QOTD: As in the past, I enjoy both red and white wines in the same sitting because some dishes such as stuffing and baked sweet potatoes in maple glaze need a sweet and acidic wine to cut through the butteriness. Pine Ridge Chennin Blanc/Viognier has been good to me in the past, so I went with it this year. However, Riesling has also worked well in the past.

For reds, because there are going to be several people dining with us at my parents house, I can’t bring myself to bring a high end bottle that only my wife and I will appreciate – I’m paying for the wine. And as you showcased on your Thanksgiving show last year, I decided Sangiovese would do well to complement the Turkey. And to deal with the cost issue of serving 8 people wine, I decided to go with 2 Rosso di Altesino 2004 – the baby brunello as you put it. The last 2 years I went with CA/Oregon pinot noir, so I hope this comes off without a hitch. (Pinot seems to be the classic pairing with Turkey on Thanksgiving)

Great show Gary! as always it is a pleasure to watch the show.
Question of the day: We are having a German Riesling that I recently discovered at costco, it tastes like a lemon with honey and pineapple with a hint of leeches running on your tongue and then licking a rock yum! it is only $7.99 it is very rare that I find a wine for that price that I truly enjoy. And for our red wine we’ll have cambria pinot noir & an Italian pinot nero blauburgunder(nice and dirty very burgandian).

Salud!

Serggi

3 of 3? I’m thinking 3 of 4, that’s 3/4 because Beaujolais is French and I know you, the GV, knows that.

QOTD: Well, I don’t have much on hand now, so if I don’t get to the wine shop before Thursday then I have a Primitivo from Salento that’ll make its way to the Thanksgiving table this year.

Long time lurker just wanting to show some love. Looking forward to having a quiet Thanksgiving meal at home with my girlfriend and some Schistes.

Sticking with Aussie wines this Thanksgiving. A Clare Valley Riesling for the white drinkers and a bottle of 05 Ares from 2 hands that I have been dying to try as well as the Angels Share. Love those Shiraz’s from down under

QotD: 2005 Woot Cellars Polyphemus. During dinner: 2005 Héritage du Château Sauvignon Blanc Touraine & 2003 Poliziano Vino Nobile di Montepulciano [WL has the 2004 vino nobile and the “Asinone], and after dinner Warwick Valley Port from NY State.

Loved the show Gary!!!

QOTD-I’ll be drinking the secret Thanksgiving 4 pack!!! Still don’t know what’s in it…saving the big opening for turkey day! Also be drinking a Braganini Reserve Pinot Noir, Geyser Peak Sparkling Shiraz, Groom Sauvignon balnc and Groom Shiraz!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ok, say with me, Schpate then laze then uh , alltogether Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh Spate-laze-uh

Another varied assortment of wines, and all for Thanksgiving. Too bad I didn’t know about some of these when the free shipping was available. I’ll add them to my wish list.

It’s so much more fun to watch on a Monday after the Jets win!

QOTD: I’m going to have some wines from Missouri! My sister was there during summer and brought back some wines. Both are white (Chardonnay & ‘white wine’) so I’ll bring a Klinkerbrick Zinfandel.

Love the Blanka thing….xcept he (it?) was from street fighter man, not mortal combat.
QOTD- Klinker Brick Zinfandel and probably some random stuff from the cellar.

to start off….you pronounce it ORYGUN

QOTD- I’ll pop a Mandolina 2002 Toccata and/or the Mandolina 2005 Sangiovese, just for kicks.

Jacoby Ellsbury…..from OREGON………the man

QOTD: Making it simple. Breaking out a couple of bottles of the Coppola Claret.