The first one looks like Rocket Man, and the Last one looks like Swampthing.

Gary,

There are some decent wines coming out of Missouri too. Check out the history: http://showmewines.com/history.php

Gary,

There are some decent wines coming out of Missouri too. Check out the history: http://showmewines.com/history.php

QOTD: I live in California. =P

“I’d rather light a 20-dollar bill on fire”- that is one of the funniest things I’ve heard about wine in a while.

QOTD- I am from Oregon, but I have some bottles of Sparkling Wine from New Mexico in my refrigerator 🙂

Fangorn81 FIGURES: Cylon Centurion

I thought that looked like a Cylon, but I don’t remember Centurions wearing pants.

I’m a Pennsylvanian so I can’t recommend something from the “other 43” (I’m really curious about Alaskan wine) but I would recommend another PA winery: J. Maki (French Creek Ridge). Wicked good sparkling wines and what I’ve had of their still wines I prefer to Chaddsford.

I will have the Linden tonight as my son sent me a bottle from a DC wine shop. The Basignani was served to me at a friends in Baltimore as the best wine in Maryland. I politely told him it wasn’t my style while pouring my glass into one of their house plants. I never asked if I killed the plant but that stuff could have. Haven’t had any PA wine to date.

Thanks, good to venture out but I will be staying with the other 4…..You rocked on “Big Idea”

QOTD: OK is in the house already…..

I think the action figures are some Aquaman villans but don’t know the names….

Love the idea of a Mott cam….

QOTD: I’m waiting to taste some decent wine from SC. I visited Irvin-House Vineyards about 30 minutes from where I live and the tour they gave was awesome–got to punch down some grapes and walk in the vineyard–but Muscadine is just not my thing.

Really interesting on the Petit Verdot that you and Mott agreed on all of the flavors but felt so differently about the wine. Great demonstration of trusting your own palate.

Kinda looks like c3p0 from a distance
Creature from the black lagoon
middle one looks like a Dr. Who character

Don’t me to be spamming the board…but I remembered the name I was thinking of. I think the dude in the middle is Black Manta.

Right??

Yo Gary, where’d you get that tshirt?

A California native, I tend to favor Sonoma and Napa. Oregon and Washington trail markedly and the other 46 are squeezed out of the local wine shops entirely. All things being equal, I’d more than likely experiment with a French or Italian wine over a PV from Vermont. Liked the show though.

A California native, I tend to favor Sonoma and Napa. Oregon and Washington trail markedly and the other 46 are squeezed out of the local wine shops entirely. All things being equal, I’d more than likely experiment with a French or Italian wine over a PV from Vermont. Liked the show though.

MD red wines are horrid. Being a MD native, I have been to MD and VA wine festivals and by far MD wines are the worst. They make a palatable dessert wine (Elk Cove Sweet Katharine) comes to mind but all in all, abysmal. Now, for VA wines a step above but still need some work though there are some good Cab Francs and Viogniers (Horton is fab). That being said, great show highlighting what we have to offer here on the East Coast. I’ll send you a bottle from NC.

Welcome back.

Cheers,
Dom

P.S. I personally helped design an older Linden wine label many moons ago. Glad it showed well. 🙂

Great to see wines from the other 46. Keep it up.

Can’t even guess on the action figures. Too small to make them out. Try a close up…

yeh

Gary, we have to uncheck Maryland. I can’t let that wine represent our state. We need a do-over.

Being part of the CC, I kind of feel left out of this call for arms.

Granted, if it were possible to send bottles over the border without any problems, I’d be game for giving you some more BC wines to check out. But alas, I’ll just have to bring them to you the next time you’re in the province, or in Washington.

Good show though, GV, always good to see some off the charts wines showing well!

QOTD: I would love to send you a bottle of Ste Chapelle Ice Wine, but I can’t afford to buy it for myself let alone ship it to NJ 🙂

Brett…..on the third wine? that’s what is sounds like and or reduction

I would send you an Arizona wine, but it will have to wait until the weather cools below 100F, maybe October. We do have some wineries that are beginning to bring the thunder. Maybe you need to make a trip here instead, if you can take the heat!!

There are some good wines coming from the Elgin area, south and east of Tucson, Arizona,made by Callaghan- one I tasted is called Caitlinâ??s 2004 â?? a mix of 46% Petit Verdot, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Cabernet Franc and the Padres 2005â??39% Tempranillo, 31% Petit Verdot, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc. All the grapes are sourced from his vineyards adjacent to the winery. Good wines with great aging potential.