Loved the show. Condrieu with a Donhoff. Does anyone blend viogner with riesling? Not sure how that would go, but love the description for the Nun. Gotta try it!

great show, been waiting for one like this since label design is such a significant aspect to wine bottles, although not always indicative of the quality of the wine or course. That and I’m a designer myself. My pick will go to Three Thieves that Joel Gott is a part of and their “The Show” Cabernet. THe first bottle of wine that led me to buy a case and get further into the wine world. I don’t buy based on labels anymore, but that one worked out pretty well.

Great show, love bringing in a designer AND a new wine drinker…freaking fantastic!

QOTD: I love Mies Van Der Rohe, living in Chicago his design has shaped a lot of our city but I just love what he did to architecture and how he drove modernism into the mainstream. Brilliant stuff.

As an outside designer I like Philippe Stark

NICE … wasnt i just saying how those last 2 very expensive wines had sucky lables! BLAM were totally on the same page.

I really like that you’re always finding new wine topics to cover, Gary. Great Show!

A few years ago, when I really started looking at wine labels, Pacific Rim Winery impressed me. Nice design… can’t wait to see what they come with for Columbia Valley Riesling.

All I remember from Chattanooga is Rock City; apparently the top of the mountain is in Georgia and the bottom is in Tennessee or maybe it’s the other way around.

Mourat Collection Red, you say? I couldn’t agree more:
http://tv.winelibrary.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8306

QOD: the Stenberg Brothers. Look ’em up.

YEAH !! i love this episode, i am a graphic designer & Wine lover
I buy bottle’s for there label, even though i know it has nothing to do with the taste, i actually have a empty wine bottle collection at my house, i collect beer bottle’s as well.

i love the yellow label, with the die cut, & nice new sans typeface. look’s very new world, is the wine new world too ?!

i like the lettering on the napa cab sav, it’s really golden, looks more older, regal

& the old school red label with the nice bottle shape is aweome !! i want it !!

*sjb

QOTD: Oscar Niemeyer

Favorite Artist…..James Rizzi and Leroy Neiman….great show Chuck…love when you have guests…..convince Lizzie to make an appearance….can she be bribed?

Gary,

Great job on calling out Mott on the FLW response to his favorite architect. I had the same previous answer as well because he is the only one I know.. Hilarious!

Great to have Strat on the show.. He seemed like he was getting a hang of it pretty fast.

The second bottle is awesome! More bottling of wine like that would be very cool. It seems very 18th Century Pirate style!

“I get a little of that disgusting cranberry…” Amazing!

Gary, if you’re getting up and leaving the table to keep checking uStream, you need to change your setup, so you’re computer and video camera that Mott films with are next to each other so you can get both recorded side by side… just don’t pour wine all over your Mac. Mac’s don’t like wine… maybe a hard cider or something, but not spilled wine.

QOTD: I don’t really know designers, but I usually like simple but smooth lines in design along with solid colors.

Dany
http://raad.wordpress.com

Todd Mcfarlane is a killer toy designer.

Good show.
Great idea to mix things up.
Continue the theme of different people in differnet occupations and what their opinions of wines/lables/bottles anything about wines are.

Cheers

QOTD: cfnapa.com and Julia Morgan

Great episode! I think the packaging talk actually paired well with the taste profile talk. Keep up the “alternative” episodes.

PS Gary, I NEED that ‘Social Engineer’ shirt!

Very nice show Gary! Your guest did really well!

@QOTD: http://www.pininfarina.com/

QOTD::
so many… i don’t like picking favs. But still freshin memory would have to be Antoni Gaudi, from when I visited Barcelona last summer. Truly insane works that can’t be fully appreciated in photograph (but try anyway: http://twurl.nl/gostbm ). his architecture almost seems to breathing it’s so alive.

I dig lichtenstein and Warhol. However I don’t think they would look good on a wine label. Maybe a Jackson Pollock style wine label would be interesting.. Interesting show. Cool concept and very diverse wine selection.

aka Mike in Nebraska

As an architect far enough out of school to have begun to forget some of my early inspirations, the question of the day was really invigorating.

Michel de Klerk, an early 20th century Dutch Expressionist architect, whose ‘Het Schip’ apartment building in Amsterdam is a complex, richly expressive and finely-detailed structure constructed of otherwise common and ordinary brick, inspires me to look for analogous opportunities in my own work (which seems similarly limited by mass-produced components and inherently low expectations) to create charming, lively, interesting and beautiful places that might give meaning and identity to those who will occupy or use them. This subversive beneficience seems a higher calling than waiting for that dream client to come along someday and actually ask for something wonderful.

Subversive Beneficience might be a good name for a wine, by the way. Dibs.

most excellent episode. i’m also into design and i loved the insights from your guest. he was amazing for a first time appearance and as a new(ish) wine drinker he really hang in there with you. you gotta get him on again, maybe a semi-regular guest 😉

way to mix it up!

Once again, when it comes to the spittoon, Gary first, guest second……..maybe.

Cecil Strat, I can already tell, you will go far.
QOD: 2 of ’em:
Henry Van de Velde, Belgian Art Nouveau designer, died 1957.
Antoni Gaudi, No. Spain architect, died 1926.

These guys designed “WOW” stuff. Wikipedia them. I think I finally win the prize on this one.

I don’t follow designers, so I’ll settle with Buenos Aires. Cecil really did a good job today. For a non wine drinker, he was a quick picker-upper. He also was thinking of his grandmother, and eats his vegetables. What’s not to like? I too have selected wines by their packaging……with mixed results. It was somewhat like how I used to pick out my dates when I was a young man.

QOTD: Artist I’d probably go with Frank Miller, architect probably Frank Lloyd Wright and designer perhaps Chip Kidd.

Very interesting episode. Thanks.

QOTD: I like Ralph Steadman–the guy that does the Bonny Doon labels. I have a book done by him called “The Grapes of Ralph” –very fun. I also like Andy Warhol, Paul Lichenstein and Frank LLoyd Wright.