Salut Gary,

Un message en français pour te faire pratiquer la langue de mes vins préférés: Les vins de La France.

La diversité et le savoir faire des producteurs français est indéniable.

Bravo pour ton émission sur internet! Tu es très doué et tu connais très bien tes vins pour ainsi être capable de les présenter à ta façon unique, vrai et sans prétention tout en étant capable de livrer les informations et tes sensations gustatives.

Si tu visites un jour tes voisins du Nord, la ville de Montréal, ville de ma demeure, tu seras bien servi de culture, gastronomie et naturellement de bons vins. C’est aussi la ville des Alouettes de Montréal….qui recevrons cette année en 2008 le match de la final de la Coupe Grey.

Au plaisir,

Kris

Best wine _ there have been so many 2003 Casa Emma Chianti Classico reserva, Acheval ferrer Malbec, vigna vecchia chianti classico 2004, dolcetto in general

The worst 2004 Pasodoble – just didn’t like it and I bought a case! My friends loved it thought so they got alot of gifts..ha —what can you do!

Gary – wife and kid don’t give me enough time to think and respond – so I’ll just say ‘great show’. I haven’t posted in a while, but you shamed me out by calling out the lurkers (which I am most definitely not … usually)

I can’t buy from WL directly, so it’s more your (GV) influence and opinions and reviews and education of course that affect my tasting/buying.
I haven’t had anything totally horrendous since watching your show, but found the Hugel Gentil to be totally meh, also the Santa Margarita Pinot Grigio meh-zor, a Muscadet that tasted of nothing, off the top of my head.
Sooo many nice wines I’ve tried at tastings & purchased, most of which I haven’t opened yet. Just for instance a wonderful Domaine du Duerre Cotes du Rhone Villages Vinsobres I tasted at a class. I wouldn’t have gone to this class but for your, you know, tuition.

Great show again Gary! I’m thrilled that you mentioned Albuquerque on your book tour. I want to let all the New Mexicans that post here (and I know there are a bunch of you) to look on the book link for our thread and sign up! Come on you guys. Let’s show Gary some NM love.

QOTD- I loved the Sainte Leocadie Minervois and it was certainly something I never would have tried had it not been for you. I haven’t had anything I haven’t liked so far, but then I haven’t opened all of them yet. I’ll keep you posted.

…do I watch “the big idea”? do I watch WLTV? Big idea it was… nice…GV sporting the wristband

Gary-Where am I??????? In the most beautiful city in the USA!!!! Charlotte, North Carolina. We are the Queen City and we are rule !!!!!!! Where are you???????????? 🙂

i remember one of the best recommendations was the zardini valpolicella….cant think of much that has been BAD

QOTD: I haven’t had much success here where I live in finding the specific wines that you have tasted that have intriqued me but in general, Viognier is definitely the worst, Reisling (Trockenbeerenauslese) probably the best. I also have a bottle of Amon Ra(episode #18 I think)that our local store special ordered for me that I am excited to try but will probably wait a few years before I do so. I am actually a red wine person but the two I mentioned are both whites…go figure. As always I enjoyed the show.

GARY,

IF YOU’RE ON THE ACELA TO WASHINGTON AND READ THIS–E-MAIL ME AT [email protected]. I WORK AT CNN ON FIRST STREET, A BLOCK DOWN FROM WHERE THE ACELA ARRIVES AT UNION STATION. WE SHOULD GET LUNCH OR DINNER OR SOMETHING.

HIT ME UP.

JEFF

QOTD: Man I can’t tell you a best wine experience WLTV has given me, there are so many because I am a huge fan and order wine from you every month or more. To name a few I loved the Tokaji in the secret pack, the Matassa stink bomb, Meadowlark Cab, Gewurztraminer laundry detergent, and really love Cab Francs now thanks to WLTV!
Worst: Not from WLTV, but try the Bulls Blood wine, I think from Hungary, that was total crap!

QOTD- not necessarily related to WLTV, but recent favorite was a Barolo, and least liked was a beaujolais noveau at Thanksgiving.

QOTD:
The best wine I’ve had (because you had it on WLTV) was the 2005 Giuseppe Campagnola Valpolicella Classico Superiore Caterina Zardini. I still have 2 more bottles in my cellar. Waiting for a special friend or occasion for these two bottles.

The worst wine I’ve had is the 2005 Falesco Merlot Umbria IGT. Gary scored this 88 points and Robert Parker scored it 90. NO WAY!

I guess it’s true that you have to trust your own palate.

Best- Tempranillo
Worst- Still need to try more to EXPAND my palate

Gary, Big up to Per Se!! My wife and I went on March 31 and yes, it is magical for sure. We had the 2003 Monprivato Barolo which we both loved (especially with the braised pork belly course). The next day we came home very excited for the April Fools day secret pack tasting..which brings me to the question of the day: I couldn’t really think of a situation where I expanded my pallate to something I didnt enjoy because of WLTV, but I really didnt like the white bordeaux that was on the April 1 show as much as I thought I would… i usually love white bordeaux (generalizing..I know). The best new thing I have discovered because of wltv has been Cahors. I find them to have a lot more of the flavors that I enjoy VS. an Argentinian Malbec. Anyway, thanks for the show Gary and take care!

QOTD: Best has got to be Fleur De Pins, never had such a great dessert wine, really was fabulous, and only like 7 dollars?!@#!@?#! worst has to be that Voga Pino Nior i think, i dont even think it was vintage, it was pretty bad, too liquidy, watered down, but yeah! still tryin to expand my pallet.

QOTD: Best has got to be Fleur De Pins, never had such a great dessert wine, really was fabulous, and only like 7 dollars?!@#!@?#! worst has to be that Voga Pino Nior i think, i dont even think it was vintage, it was pretty bad, too liquidy, watered down, but yeah! still tryin to expand my pallet.

No lurkers here…did I hear right? Train ride to DC??? Do tell!!! I’ll have to lurk around Union Station to get a peek of the Thunder. BTW…Great show!!

Best: Paolo Bea – Montefalco Sagrantino Secco 2003 – Very dry. Completely new to me. Great discovery.
Worst: Is there really such a thing?

Alright, well I have yet to try any wines that you have tasted on the show. But I have taken your advice of trying something new instead of getting stuck in a rut and have encouraged my fellow vino drinkers. I recently picked up a Mencia out of Spain and really enjoyed it. For the first time I tasted slate rock in a red. It was pretty sweet! Thanks for the show.

QOTD: Maybe not ultimate best and worst, but two that come to mind are the Marc Ollivier Clos Des Briords for best (via a forum rec) and Pillar Box Red for worst.

QOTD: The best? I don’t think I could name a “best”. The Stag’s Leap cab or the Kunde cab were tremendous. Worst? A Michigan wine called Tabor Hill.

Great question of the day, and great episode. The wost is easy. You did not have it on the show, but I was expanding my pal and tried the 2005 Garretson ‘The Chumhra’ from Paso Robles, on a clerks recomendation to go with a spicy curry. It had a very interesting nose that drove me nuts cause I could’nt put my finger on what I was recognizing, but it finally came to me as sugarcane buned and put out with a tire and lemons. As far as the taste goes, if you like rye whiskey, you might like it, cause it was so full of oak. I remembered what you said about working wines you did not like, and man cold did’nt help, 2 days of sitting did’nt help, but still a good experience even though it was 35 moose bones (Oh Canada!). Best is either the 2004 Mazzei Zisola Nero D’avola, 2005 Schloss Wallhausen Riesling Kabinett which made me appreciate high quality Riesling, or the 2006 Mike Wier Cab/Merlot cause I wanted to try a Canadian Red and I found I totally was down with the greeness which suprised this Barossa Valley lover.

I will end this novel with a very sincere thank you for all you do.

QOTD: The ones I’ve liked best so far that come to mind are the 2005 Chateau Moulin De Lavaud Pomerol from the Christmas secret pack; and a Raats Family Stellenbosch 2005 Cab Franc that we had at our most recent Third Thirsty Thursday (that we have on Friday) tasting- which was due to WLTV’s influence even if that specific wine wasn’t.
The worst wasn’t actually a worst, it was mostly ‘meh’- a Casa Lapostole Cuvee Alexandre 2004 Merlot (and I generally enjoy Merlot) from the above tasting that I found to be one-dimensional.

Hey Gary,

Have a suggestion for you… I don’t know if you’ve done a show on it before, but you should do a show on Alsatian Gewurztraminer or, if not Alsatian (where the most floral and “perfumatic” Gewurzes come from, in my opinion), just a show on Gewurztraminers in general, including one Alsatian. Perhaps a show just on Alsatian wines, maybe one Gewurz, one Riesling, one Pinot Gris, would be cool. It’s great to have a nice drier riesling, floral Gewurz, or crisp and refreshing without being over-the-top acidic Pinot Gris, and it would be good to see what you have to say about some of them.

QOTD: Best wine I’ve had because of the influence of WLTV? Honestly, it was probably the Pallagrello Bianco I had tonight… The 2003 Vestini Campagnano Terre de Vulturno. If you can get ahold of some (perhaps from a more recent vintage if you drink it more than a year from now), it’s fantastic stuff. If not that, then the best I’ve had as a result of watching is a CdP blanc I found, the 2005 Domaine St. Benoit Chatauneuf-du-Pape Elegance. Incredibly well-balanced and complex with a beautiful and silky finish, without being over the top.

As far as the worst wine I’ve had because of the influence of WLTV? That’s a tough one… it would probably be either the ’05 J. Vidal Fleury Cotes du Ventoux, which wasn’t terrible but was not appealing at all, or the 2005 Doniene Gorrodona Getariako Txakolina Gorrondona Tinto… again, not terrible, but this one was really not my style at all. Bacon and ham on the nose, bacon on the palate while still being very light-bodied, and an awkward finish, overall flabby and… just strange.

– Ross