This is another show that PISS’s me off so much,,,, We have got to get shipping back to WISCONSIN!!!!!
Plzzzz come to Minnesota,, I’ll make the trip.

My fave my have been being introduced to St.Jean Du Barroux — and I liked the Ash Hollow Gewurtz too.

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I am currently in Wilmot, NH…will be in Portsmouth, NH tonight!

Best experience: Chinon!

Worst experience: No experience is a bad one, we always learn something!

QOTD: I can’t say I have had a worst experience, but I have a tie for the best.
One being the Monica from the Thanksgiving pack, very delicious.
The other would be the Carm, a very interesting wine.

QOTD – Best was definitely the Tempier Bandol. Something I probably would have overlooked on the wine list but am certainly glad I didn’t.

Worst, some so-so Cabernet Franc. There is still so much out there that tastes like pickled pepper juice.

QOTD: Best was a wine from Languedoc (can’t quite remember the whole name). Something with “oligocene”in the name. Delicious Chateauneuf style wine. Worst was the Tensley Syrah. Actually not a bad wine, but just not my style.

QOTD: I don’t drink that much wine… but the love the hell out of this show!!!

QOTD: Thanks for revealing Barbera and Dolcetto grapes and Languedoc region. Thes wines really bring the qpr thunder. Other than that – our little country´s market situation is a bit different from yours; we don´t get the exact wines from the exact producers you talk about.

First of all: I was a lurker for about 200 or 300 episodes. I do not know why I decided to answer this question of the day but here it is:

My best and worst experience are actually with the same wine: Elio Altare Dolchetto d’Alba. After Gary have it a very good score I decided to thry it and I loved it (I would have scored it 91-92). So I bought 6 more bottles of it. I drank 4 of them so far and they were no way near the experience I had with the first bottle. They were nor flawed but I scored them between 86 and 88. I never had a wine with such bottle variation.

Where am I? Antwerpen – Belgium

BTW love your show Gary

QOTD: Best–Tokaji goes really well with roasted chicken and with the hazelnut chocolates we enjoyed after dinner

Worst–don’t think I have one yet. Aside from WLTV, my pal doesn’t really take to Chardonnays. I keep trying them hoping to cultivate a like of them and it hasn’t worked yet.

Tough question today.

Best: A Sicilian white: Cusumano Insolia. Never would have gone there without your encouragement, and it even had a glass “cork”!

Worst: We tried a Uruguayian Tannat / Cab Franc. Monster sulfur dioxide.

The dry Tokaji of secret packs past was a pretty fun experience.

I can’t say I’ve had any bad experiences as a result of the thundershow, though I’ve certainly has a number of lousy wines. Tonight I had a pinotage that tasted thoroughly awful. Fifty points for being alcohol made from grapes. Ten points for some actually complex fruit flavors. Minus five points for being really bitter. That’s 55, folks.

Long time fan, recent viewer. Long time customer with Shoppers Discount Liquors. Thanks for the wine that you recently donated to the NJ Photoconferance held at the Visual Art Center of NJ in Summit.The receptions in which your wines were served were so popular that I had to BUY an additional case.

qotd: I am in Berlin 🙂

I’m a lurker. Your show is quite entertaining. I would visit book tour in Albuquerque.

not that i’m an expert, but i’m glad to hear you say that it was too hot. I’m finding about 2/3 of the 05 whites to be “hot” from alcohol mostly. the 04’s and even more so the 06’s are just slaying it!

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Worst: Had a 24 hour lay-over in Tunisia and purchased a bottle of both red and white to try when i returned home… Tasted like petrol mixed with grapes that were crushed by the fungi foot of a wooley mammoth.

Best: My girlfriend bought home a 1/4 bottle of Chateau Yquem 1985 that was served at a party in Monaco.. That was structurally the best wine i have ever had.

QOTD: Best: Alain Brumont Torus 2003 tanat, cab sav, cab frc

Worst:Cote D’OR GSM from Rousillon

QotD: The best: 2003 Saint Jean Du Barroux L’oligocene
The Worst: Haven’t picked one I didn’t like

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Best: Started getting into some really excellent Italian varietals that I’d never tried before (especially Nebbiolo). Also, the 2005 Sea Smoke Southing.

Worst: had a couple shiraz-viognier that I wasn’t crazy about.

QOTD: The best was the Pasodoble Red that you went wild on so I bought a case and it is outstanding. The worst? THe Quinta Carolina that you recommended. I bought four bottles and the first two were awful. The third one was actually pretty good so I think the first two were a bit corked or something – they just were bad.

Hi from Cyprus …

Have tried more Chateau Neuf du Pape and more white wines. Still deciding what I like and don’t

Wow, pretty deep question that will require some extra thought… I’ve tried many different varietals and regions after reviewing WLTV episodes. Some of the big winners have been the Portugese Reds and Greco di Tufo wines. Torrontes were a good value but certainly have varied in quality!

QOTD: so far I know the best was the white burgundy from the secret pac in March? really liked it and totally new to me. The worst was the last secret pac the petit whatever was just terrrible to me….tasted like moonshine.

Worst was the previous secret pack, the red with the smiley face on it. Cute marketing, but off-balance wine with some funk in there that seemed like bad winemaking.

Looking forward to trying Cornas. I have not yet taken the plunge, but it’s on the list for the next wineshop visit.