i like your style. keep up the great work! so happy i found your page

watching and learning from japan,

dustin

Good news about the Thunder Show!! (But then, I never believed you were REALLY pulling the plug.)

QOTD: The greatest thing I’ve ever done that didn’t involve family – hmmm – I guess that would be touring Bordeaux several years ago on a side trip during a business trip to Europe. It was very cool. Oh yeah, and I’ve turned several friends into wine geeks now, which is so much fun.

This sounds like a great region *IF* I could find it.

BTW, I’m the lurker who first tried Tannat from Uruguay. Guess I’m no longer a lurker. E-mail.

But I tried a few Morellino di Scansano wines a few years ago…maybe five and thought them great. A little expensive being 20 bones US give or take a few. I have no idea what they go for now. Italian wines in my county have gone up tremendously in the past few years, no matter the worth of the Euro vs the US dollar. And my county is far more expensive than the rest of the state of Maryland…won’t even go into that, well, except to say the County is importer, distributer, and reseller of ALL alcohol. Even local breweries have to sell to the county, pay tax, buy it back, pay tax and sell it, pay tax.

I’d like to try some of those Sagrantino wines even if I did have to pay $12 or so over what everyone else pays. I take it the name comes from the color…blood like.

Yeah, you were going to quit at 400. Give us a break.

Glad to hear you’re stickin’ around Gary.

Gotta agree with you about the Bea (in case you’re wondering it’s pronounced Bay-uh). I tasted that wine not too long ago in a lineup including some great Burgs (Hubert Lignier, Denis Mortet, etc.) and the ’03 Pavillon Rouge and my reaction was similar to yours.

It totally blew me away!

Yes, it’s expensive but anytime you can get one of the world’s greatest wines for under $100 that’s not all that bad. I need to get this stuff on my list ASAP.

I work as a bartender. This past New Year’s Eve, after work, the entire staff went to the boss’ house, and drank the leftover sparkling wine. We stayed up for about 24 hours, played Rock Band/Guitar Hero, watched TV, made steak and eggs for breakfast, more booze, and hung out.

Thank you for this wonderful review of “my” wines! Cheers from Montefalco!

There has been nothing greater than the dorm experience. When you talk about love and family, Gary, there’s not a lot better than living in close quarters with close friends, and spending endless quality time together.

Thanks for keeping up WLTV!

GV – glad that you are going to keep the show rolling!
I had never even heard of Sagrantino – I will definitely seek it out.

That is a very tough QOTD! My best times are with my family!

But one of the coolest things I have ever done is water ski in an Alpine lake in France – Lac Annecy. There was nothing like looking around and seeing massive mountaine peeks while I glided across the extraordinarily clean, cool water.

QOTD: As a part-time culinary student. I would say the day I cooked in one of our local family-oriented homeless shelters. That was truly a fulfilling day.

Thanks for taking my advice and trying our local Sagrantino. There’s plenty more that cost a lot less though, but you gotta come to Italy to find them. It’s a great steak wine. Enjoy!

Gary,
I just watched your reviews on the Sagrantino di Montefalco wines.
Several years ago, I was sent to Montefalco to eat in a specific Umbrian Ristorante by Lidia Bastianich.
Boy, does she know where to eat.

The house wine was a Sagrantino from Arnaldo Caprai.
They used it to make a purple-tinged strangozzi pasta.
They braised a Cinghiale (wild boar shoulder) in it.
Oh, they also poured it for us as out wine with lunch.
It was nice to watch you “fall in love” on camera.
Welcome to the cub!

Rosso di Montefalco? 100% Sagratino is magnificent, but what about blends featuring this mighty grape?

Gary, this was such a valuable episode to me and my vino loving friends. I would love to know some other sagrantino wines, including blends. I found one excellent blend: would you review –and stock at WL– the “Santambra” Montefalco Rosso 2005 made by Tiburzi? A 65% Sangiovaynerchuk, 20% Cabernet, and 15% Sagrantino; this wine is so very good. It has the bigness and depth of some young Barolos I sampled at a recent Italian Wine Merchants tasting, but it’s rather affordable at ~$17 (chanced upon it at Chelsea Wine Vault in my office building, after not finding it at WL).

WOW, WOW, WOW, you are right Gary, this is one of the best wines ever I’ve had from Italy. The aromas, the flavors, full of fruit……..I had to go and buy lots more of this wine,
Thanks for your review on this wine and turning me on to something different.
Alex form LA.

Gary,

I broke down and bought the Paolo Bea for my wife’s Birthday. It’s not for a couple more weeks, but I was wanting to roll big this time. Can’t wait. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .are we there yet. . . . . . . .

Mikey Schotts

very amazing! and it’a a pity that the vine produced in Umbria is not well kwon all over the world as – for example – the tuscan one… overall you can oten find farmhouses as for example http://www.agriturismo-quattro-stagioni.it where you can buy excellent wine but home made

If the sagrantino breaks the bank, try a Montefalco Rosso. Yes, you are getting less sagrantino in the blend, but you still get the gamey, plumy aromatics from the primarily sangiovese (60% or so) wine rounded out with montepulciano (30% or so) and sagrantino (10% or so). Caprai makes a good affordable Montefalco Rosso, but Paolo Bea makes the best, called “Piparello”

Hello gary:
I am in California & have an 8 acre vineyard.
I want to graft one of the acres over to sagrantino grape.
Can you direct me to someone who has certified clippings that I can purchase.
Hello

It is now November 2nd 2008…. and I have decided to watch ALL of the 2008 episodes before the end of the year…. and then keep watching every episode in 2009…. keep going bro!

Erik Wait
“Adventures in Wine Tasting”

QOTD: This is one of those hard ones because you try to go back so far and either cant think of anything from long ago, or conflict with all the things up to this point in your life. I think Im going to have to go with donating some money to the hurricane Katrina victims. Every little bit helps them, and I know that Im well off enough that I can afford to give them some of my money. I can only hope it went to the right places.

G Man Chuk,

Sick episode. One of the reasons I love you brosef. You’re a good man, doing what God has in store for you on this rock. Sales, marketing, bs constantly, we all understand. It’s what we do. However, the passion is amazing. NEVER….N-E-V-E-R let that dissapate, for if you do, than everything else dies a slow death around it. Kind of like infected vines…

I love your show, and although I wasn’t watching you at this particular point when it came out, I have been trying to watch an old show, or 2, or 3 a night to catch up on all I’ve missed. You’ve taught me some serious shiz the past couple months.

QOTD: I help every winter with the Toys for Tots program during Christmas time here in Chicago. We hold fundraisers all over the place and collect toys to which we distribute to kids during the holidays who have virtually NOTHING. Many, many, people in this country don’t realize just how wonderful they have it. And this endeavor I take part in each Xmas reminds me of just how damn good my life is…..especially when you go deliver it to the kids on xmas morning who have nada.

P~

classs stuff…luuv the Sagrantino myself…I supose it’s easier to get in Mainland-Europe….but not that easy here in Ireland!, still I manage it from time to time!,,,great stuff MR.Gary……

Another heavy weight varietal to take note off….and one heck of a show…..keep WLTV going let’s celebrate it’s Silver Anniversary at least….

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