Lancatay Malbec 2003 from Huarpe wines

I agree Yellow Tail is not very good EXCEPT their ’05 Reserve Shiraz is actually good…a little over the top but a lot of character and enjoyable for only $11…..number seventy something on WS top 100 list for ’07…

Bodegas Terrazas de los Andes Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina or Concha Y Toro Casillero del Diablo Shiraz from Chile

C-A-R-O-L-I-N-A, C-A-R-O-L-I-N-A, C-A-R-O-L-I-N-A. Would love it if you would come to North Carolina. make sure it is to the triangle area. Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Great resturants and wonderful people who love wine. Please come and visit1

NC would be amazing, but what would be even better would be if you came to VIRGINIA!!!!

QOTD- Don’t really have an everyday wine, which is part of the fun of having a lot of wine. Going down to the cellar to pick something to drink is always one of the highlights of my day.

QOTD – I dont really have a particular region or varietal. For the past 1-32 yrs we have been drinking what ever seems to be a good QPR no matter what it is. We used to go to wine tastings in the area and bring home a couple from that, but lately I pop into our local wine store bull sh*&^t with the guys/gals and ask what is new or what they like at the moment for a reasonable price…Of course I also buy from our “local” Wine Library on line.

Of late, loads of Rhone wines….)

QOTD: Mark West Pinot Noir – Easy drinking, easy to enjoy, very reasonably priced

It’s been Grower Champagnes since New Years, but I’m gonna have to go back to some Godello or Pouilly Fume soon.

I must suggest the Seaman’s Chapel in Port Newark/Elizabeth for a NY/NJ Vayniac meeting. GV, you could bill it as: Kermit Lynch meets Jean Genet, or something like that. I’ll bring a couple of burly minimum security convicts on probation and some handsome long shoremen.

I don’t really have an everyday wine. On non-wine drinking days, I consume swill to keep my constitution in balance. On days when I cook something decent or those times when I’m feeling particularly apocalyptic and I’ve purchased a family-sized kishka for me alone, I guess I prefer Rhones.

I don’t really have one, because there is so much great stuff out there to try, that I could drink 30 great cheap wines a day for the rest of my life and still not drink everything.. however my favorite wine I have been drinking a case of is Luddite Merlot from Coster Vineyard in Sonoma.. I also love the Garrigue Cotes du Rhone 2006

Dear A. H. (That’s you Gary !!)

Jets 4 and 12

Patriots 16 and 0

When you throw crap—- you usually get some on you!

I’ll see you at the Boston Wine Expo—- I’ll be bringing a bucket of crap to toss at you; so wear a rain coat!! You’ll know me.. I’ll be wearing the Patriot raingear!

I’m drinking Pinot Noir as my every day wine………. It’s suppose to have the highest level of Reservatrol, a powerful antioxidant, good for the arteries.Suppossidly Oregan Pinots have the highest levels; then come the french Pinots.

You got me so bad, I can’t even spell my own name!

Lately it was mainly Austrian Blaufraenkisch wines from various winemakers in the Burgenland wine region. Not the top-class ones but rather the basic wines. The 2002s and 2003s are at their best know and I still have lots in my cellar. Good for me. At $10-15 bones they are really great value. Otherwise there is always some Cotes du Rhone and Italian Lagrein wines at hand. Nice and easy-to drink wines for every occasion. Lately I am also tasting some Cahors wines if I can find them. I really like the old-world Malbec style. It doesn’t always have to be from Argentina.

Dearest Gary…….

Jets 4 and 12

Patriot’s 16 and 0

When you throw crap; you usually get some on you!

I’ll see you at the Boston Wine Expo— You’ll recognize me because I’ll be wearing Patriot’s raingear carrying a bucket of crap to toss.

Been drinking Pinot Noir; allegedly the highest levels of the antioxident, reservatrol. Oregan boasts the absolute highest levels; then French Pinots. Reservatrol is suppose to keep the arteries clear.

I’ve been drinking Rex Goliath Pinot; because it’s the lowest priced spread for Pinots around here. It is a little fakie fake. But hey… the price works for every day drinking Pinot!

Good ep G — You need to plan a Vayniac party in NC dude … Good vino and NC BBQ sounds like a thundering experience… We can a good ole down home Pigpickin… teach you yankee boys a good time

QOTD– right now its MacMurray Ranch Pinot Noir… good stuff

Have been trying more new wines lately but the go-to everyday “cheap” wine is definitely the Pillar Box Red. Incredible value for the overall enjoyment you get out of it.

QOTD: Everyday wine for me is the Dobbin Lane line-up. I think every other response I leave on the forums mentions this winery. Only 8 bones per bottle and you definately get your money’s worth per bottle. Cabernet took a gold medal at the 2005 Orange County Fair and the Merlot is an awesome value. Not a big fan of the Chardonnay, but it goes well with fried chicken and fish n chips.

QOTD: Everyday wine for me is the Dobbin Lane line-up. I think every other response I leave on the forums mentions this winery. Only 8 bones per bottle and you definately get your money’s worth per bottle. Cabernet took a gold medal at the 2005 Orange County Fair and the Merlot is an awesome value. Not a big fan of the Chardonnay, but it goes well with fried chicken and fish n chips.

QOTD: Go to lately has been Bordeaux

QOTD: “Go To” wine changes often. Right now, Alamos Malbec (Seleccion).

Also Hedges CMS (Washington). Great QPR

NORTH CAROLINA, YES!!! count me in. I’m a transplant from Kingston, NY and have been here in the Raleigh area (Cary), for 15 years. Would love to see you and some of the Vayniac crew here this year.

QOTD: Everyday (weekends), go to wines have been lately from Argentia. Mendoza Valley for the most part. Malbec, Chardonnay from Alamos. Also some wines under the Crios label from Susan Balbo. I will be adding Torontes to the short list also.

Great show Gary. How about your top 50 wines (Red, White, Pink) for under $10 list? Also, how do we get one your WLTV Big-Ass Glasses, along with our Mott Link it Up T-shirt?

Altos de Luzon, 2005. Great balance and mouth feel.

make the link it up mott shirt

gary i hope that smelling that last wine was a once and a while thing and that the sniffy-sniff was not something of 07. that’s awesome that you’re coming to boston and i’ll look for the guy giving out link it up mott shirts (or wristbands?!?!) at the expo.

qotd – no go to wine since I started watching the thunder show, I don’t even think I’ve bought the same bottle twice. although i do have a restaurant/bar I go to usually about 2 nights a week and after trying every wine they offer by the glass I find myself coming back to this languedoc blend I’ve enjoyed