QOTD: Paul Jaboulet Aine or M. Chapoutier, or anthing from the Northern Rhone

QOTD: My favorite Syrah is the 2003 Zaca Mesa Santa Ynez, Estate grown and bottled. This is a wonderful wine and I just received a full case of this stuff to share with friends and family over the holidays.

QOTD: La Ninas 2006 Syrah, it’s a Chilean wine, a little young but amazing flavors strolling around in that wine.

QOTD:
“Sirrah, whose grave is this?” said Hamlet to the Clown. “Mine, sir.” The Clown (a gravedigger) replied.

Since I haven’t tasted many Syrahs in my life, and none worth remembering the name of, I cannot answer the QOTD, except to quote from Shakespeare: in those days, Sirrah just meant a polite “Hey, you!”

“Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.”
[Othello, II. iii.]

Quite a comfortable episode, thus I nearly leave with my smile and without a comment…QOTD, Cotes du Rhone, E.Guigal, 2003, my favorite of the year so far.

The Blue Ribbon looks good, and I just love it and its peace. Maybe I will keep such a wine bar someday, that is beautiful.

Nice episode, and let’s move on.^_^

Great show, cool place. Mott should’ve panned around the wine bar!

QOTD: My favorite shiraz? Well, seeing as I’m a part of the CKC and done particularly *love* it, I don’t often buy it (ask me about Vouvray, though, and I’ll give you a list!). But if I go with a Shiraz, it’ll be something like Layer Cake or Mad Fish. The HI-C Australian versions are so easy to drink…But I do like Syrah grapes from France!!

QOTD: even though I have NEVER tasted a Pax Syrah, it had better be my fave since I have 27 bottles of it in my cellar!

QOTD: syrah? STRAIGHT syrah? I haven’t yet found one that didn’t underwhelm me…. I seem to only like syrahs when they are in blends, especially GSM (e.g., Rhone) style blends. Of those, my favorite is the Boekenhoutskloof Wolf Trap, which was primarily Syrah (53%?) in the last vintage of it that I tried.

I really dug this one. Very cool. I WISH I had access to a cool wine bar like that here. When I’m in NY, I will keep it in mind.

And really? Am I missing something with champagne? Really?

QOTD: It’s a blend, but I’m going to go with Domaine de Mourchon from Seguret.

I really dug this one. Very cool. I WISH I had access to a cool wine bar like that here. When I’m in NY, I will keep it in mind.

And really? Am I missing something with champagne? Really?

QOTD: It’s a blend, but I’m going to go with Domaine de Mourchon from Seguret.

QOTD: Straight, fruit bomb syrah?? Bonny Doon or Rosenblum. I prefer to have my syrah blended with grenache ala Jumilla or Yecla…or the tried and true Cotes du Rhone…Gigondas…ah yes…Gigondas with bacon…bacon dipped in mocha frosting…MMM

And how could I forget, as far as blends…REILLY’s Shiraz/Grenache out of Clare Valley…not only cheezy fun at a party – whipping out my personal product (Ha!) but it’s actually very tasty in an over-the-top-Aussie-fruit-bomb-sort-of-way!

And how could I forget, as far as blends…REILLY’s Shiraz/Grenache out of Clare Valley…not only cheezy fun at a party – whipping out my personal product (Ha!) but it’s actually very tasty in an over-the-top-Aussie-fruit-bomb-sort-of-way!

Geat show! Rolling with Lizzy? Oh, that’s right you don’t have kids. Enjoy while it lasts, pal.
Got to love all the Syrah talk from the last two guys. I can’t wait fo you to try our three. Maybe I can bring you back over to our side. I’d bet they are way different than you think they’re going to be. If you want to open one with Lizzy, try the Kimberly’s. It’s coofermented with Viognier, and I know how you feel about the big V. As far as what I like syrah wise, Alban, Saxum, Beckman, Stolpman, Red Car, and Linne Colado.

Gary-QOTD: Favorite Syrah is the the 2005 Olson-Ogden Syrah. QSS brought it to our first NC offline and I asked him to bring it to the third offline. It is such good syrah, even for Old World Fans!!!
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Thanks for the show on bubbly! It’s one of my favorite food groups. I agree that if you have to choose one wine to go with everything, go with bubbles…..maybe even rose bubbles. In fact, had a Duval-Leroy rose two nights ago that was very yummy. I didn’t want to grow up and move on; but did eventually move on to the reds.

Anyway, QOTD: The best Syrah I’ve had is the Betz Winery, WA Chapitre 3 2005.

Thanks for the show on bubbly! It’s one of my favorite food groups. I agree that if you have to choose one wine to go with everything, go with bubbles…..maybe even rose bubbles. In fact, had a Duval-Leroy rose two nights ago that was very yummy. I didn’t want to grow up and move on; but did eventually move on to the reds.

Anyway, QOTD: The best Syrah I’ve had is the Betz Winery, WA Chapitre 3 2005.

Perrier Jouet Fleurs is the Gallo of champagne? Is Ridge Montebello the Charles Shaw of cabernets? Interesting to hear about other champagnes though. Still pretty pricey. I like flowers on my bottle of wine.
QOTD: Penfolds Grange

Great episode, champagne is one of the wines I know the leaset about, so all edycation welcome. Favorite is a Shiraz — Mollydooker The Boxer

QOTD: 2005 Pax Syrah, Kobler RRV Old School meets new world.

Gary, you read my mind on a champagne show!! Perfect timing.

QOTD: I do not have any particular Sirah that I would consider favorite.

Great episode, its nice to see you get out on the city for the last 3 shows.
QOTD: Cayuse Bionic Frog and Amon Ra

I went to a grower champagne store tasting a couple of weeks ago and tasted the Gaston Chiquet and a couple of others.

QOTD: I don’t have much syrah experience, but I’m into the syrahs from Edmunds St. John. My plan for the beginning of the new year is to spend some time exploring the northern Rhone.

So what about Duval-Leroy? The fact that they call their Blanc de Blanc “Blanc de Chardonnay” is a little weird, but can’t beat the price.

QOD: Crozes-Hermitage! The two most thought provoking Syrah I ever had were C-H: the Habrard that smelled like sardines and an old Jaboulet/Thalabert. Honorable new world mention to the Curtis Crossroads Vineyard, which I can’t get locally anymore and miss dearly (Firestone’s Rhone Ranger outfit) and Guy Davis’ Guyzer Block syrah, which while I’m not sure I liked per se reminded me of no other syrah on the planet. You’ll get lost in this stuff.

I’ll have to try some of this grower champagne…had no idea it was so food friendly…
QOTD: Chave?