QOTD: Josiah Bartlett! By far the best President in The West Wing.

Buehler Estate Napa CAB 05 – WS got it right. Great QPR.

Not really getting the South African hype. Tasted some decent wines but no WOW wines. I’ll try to hunt down the Anwilka. I feel WS tacks on a few pts to get people to try SA wines.

I recommend the mini-series “John Adams” to all. Use the “Facts are a Stubborn Thing” button to pick up some interesting sidebar facts on American History

Drinking Shiloh Road 2006 Paso Robles Syrah. As far as presidents go, I will choose our founding father. George Washington. This is my first time posting a comment to the Thunder show. Looking forward to tomorrow’s California Chard. episode. I am tired of the oak monster and want a California classic.

Drinking Shiloh Road 2006 Paso Robles Syrah. As far as presidents go, I will choose our founding father. George Washington. This is my first time posting a comment to the Thunder show. Looking forward to tomorrow’s California Chard. episode. I am tired of the oak monster and want a California classic.

GV, Straight up,
My wife thinks you’re a spazzz, (with three zs), but I love you. We jumped into our first secret pack, and invited some friends over… I think you, (with a little bit of me) made a new vaniac tonight. The women are still “undecided voters.” It was fun and the palettes were all over the place. The white was okay. A beautiful nose, but I thought it was water on the initial taste, and then the flavors build into a nice round tasty wine. Suprising, and we all said it was “nice”. I liked the Thunder very much. an interesting, old world nose with lots of red fruit and earthiness. I kept going back to it and liking it more and more. The Anwilka is Darth-Vader-Dark! My wife got licorice. I wanted a buttery filet to go with it. Thanks for all you do, and God Bless America!

Nothing to worry about, the energy was all there!

QOTD: Popped open a 2004 Edmunds St. John Rocks and Gravel for the election.. Clinton is probably my favorite.

QOTD: Pasqual del Toro Argentina Malbec…Theodore Roosevelt, took a bullet to the chest but still kept working

Frank bringing out POTUS, nice touch.
POTUS of my lifetime….Ronald Reagan

QOTD: no favorite pres, just proud to be an American. Friends and I are drinking the Election pack….

Mr. V thank you so much for toughing it out and bringing the thunder while your a little sick. This was my first secret pack and it did not disappoint. I took it to a friends house and I introduced them to you and WLTV. As the votes where being tallied we tried tasted along with you. We definitely had never tried anything like the white you gave us, the group liked it for the most part nobody hated it. I liked it but it was a hot on the back end. We loved the Thunder Napa. It was nice and smooth and the price made it taste good to. Knowing that we could drink this wine again made it taste a little better I think. 15 bones is a steal. Last but not least the Anwilka was a hit. We liked it everyone picked up the coal type smell in the sniffy sniff, and I have such good friends they saved me a glass or so worth so I can try it tomorrow. I sealed it with the pump so I know it will be good.

Love the Show, Your the Best Gary

First off, Mrs C-Fiddy has it right, Gary ? you’re a spazzz! Anyone approaching 33 and doesn’t know better than to share his bad case of sniffles with a friend and colleague is a spazzzz. Man, was I feeling bad for the Mottster.

QsOTD

1) Non-American POV, Jimmy Carter, as shouted out earlier for his forward looking intuitions and his work in retirement. And all the unmitigated crap he took from the Ray-gun-ites. And Bushies!

2) The Aglianico from last night is now blossoming nicely (don’t need no pump).

THANKS FOR VOTING SO OVERWHELMINGLY. Would be nice (great, in fact) if Canadians could have a similar experience in the not-too-distant future. Unfortunately, not very likely 8>(

QoD: Teddy Roosevelt was the real rock star and helped form our landscape by encouraging the park system. TJ was brilliant. FDR helped push us through the Depression and had strength through WW2. Recently, I liked Reagan and daddy Bush’s firmness and honesty through the early Iraq times. You seemed to know exactly where he stood.

First of all Gary I applaud you for trying to get through another episode in spite of being under the weather. Must say your palette working on less than all 8 (or 12) cylinders is more than good enough. Having read the 80 prior reviews, I share the concerns others have raised about you sharing your glass while having a virus.

I also want to ask (not raised yet elsewhere) which vineyard(s) in Napa sourced the fruit, who grew the grapes, the aging history, and the alcoholic content. I am assuming you and your colleagues were responsible just for the selection of the final blend – something like the consulting work of Michel Rolland, in and of itself a major job.

Your evaluative comments on this wine were done with excellent discretion.

QOTD – being Canadian I am reluctant to answer, but I always respected the great intellect of Jimmy Carter. It is unfortunate his legacy will be the Iran hostage crisis.

I had another glass late tonight of the 2004 Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Spatlese (AP #5 I believe, there were two 2004 Spatlesen bottled there). The bouquet had opened considerably since being uncorked Monday afternoon. A very fine wine.

YES! We got some BLUE paint spilled on the US map tonight! Obama plus the turnout in the House and Senate- I’m a happy, happy man. History.

QOTD: “Yes We Can Cola” was the highlight of the night, accompanied by Chandon California Brut and Alma Rosa Pinot to celebrate my (current) state’s expected vote for Barack. Nothing special (only because I didn’t have anything special on hand, but it worked out that both were CA wines). Cheers.

good show gary, get well soon !

qotd: lets just say im partial to all presidents from illinois. I also like FDR. As for what im drinking, coffee…. at some point I will toast to the new president elect.

I drank Fox Run Vineyards Reserve Riesling for Election night–will taste the Secret Pack wines another night. I enjoyed the Election Day Secret Pack show.

Congratulations to your new president, maybe he is going to be the best??? We had a nice Spanish Cabernet blend watching some of the election.

Greetings from Cologne and get well soon!

2 suggestions: 1) next secret pack do it live and arrange ahead of time to link into a webstream w/ a group following along at home – that’d be cool, more interactive. secret pack shows should be a bit different than regular shows; 2) since w/ secret packs you are asking people to buy wines from you, i would think they’d be wines you recommend (when ever do you ask people to buy wine from you that you wouldn’t recommend?). but, you had never tasted the ‘2007 Hortus La Bergerie Blanc’ prior to the show, which seems not quite right for the secret pack shows. just my 2cts.

2 suggestions: 1) next secret pack do it live and arrange ahead of time to link into a webstream w/ a group following along at home – that’d be cool, more interactive. secret pack shows should be a bit different than regular shows; 2) since w/ secret packs you are asking people to buy wines from you, i would think they’d be wines you recommend (when ever do you ask people to buy wine from you that you wouldn’t recommend?). but, you had never tasted the ‘2007 Hortus La Bergerie Blanc’ prior to the show, which seems not quite right for the secret pack shows. just my 2cts.

33? pulease – ur just a kid!!

Hope you are feeling better!

That must be president Palmer from the 24 series 🙂
What a guy.
Drank some languedoc Grenache Syrah blend very nice. A bit hot but then again the weather asked for it.
Good luck with your new president.

Groetjes,

Classico

QOTD: In my lifetime: Reagan. All-time: George Washington (basically defined several of the key virtues of the office that still exist today, albeit with a more modern flavor).

Last night for the election we were drinking a Cliff Lede Cabernet.

You did not just hand Mott your germ-infected glass. That’s just wrong. Alcohol does not kill the germs.

QOTD: George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Bill Clinton

My birthday is the day after yours. I’m a little older.

I actually am working my way through the Michelob sampler pack and had the Porter last night. Good stuff. I had a bottle of Thunder the other night, my wife and I loved it, great stuff GV.

Fav Prez has to be George Washington. Stepping up to the plate as the first Commander in Chief had to have been one of the most daunting tasks we’ve ever asked of a public official. He set a great precedent for those to follow him.

QOTD: James K. Polk

Because we all need a little polk every now and then.

I have only gotten to the Thunder Cuvee so far, but I was pleasantly surprised. I picked up on a nice anise note on the nose that I just could not get enough of. There was fairly long finish too. I agree it “brings the thunder,” especially at this price. Seriously considering picking up a case of this if I can swing the cash. Thanks Gary.