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i will stop at 3 – now with the show

top 5!

Top 5? on with the show!

QOTD (1): This weekend the UW Huskies will remain the only “defeated” team in Division 1 football.

QOTD (2): Honestly, I haven’t even heard of Temecula until this episode.

QOTD (1): This weekend the UW Huskies will remain the only “defeated” team in Division 1 football.

QOTD (2): Honestly, I haven’t even heard of Temecula until this episode.

Yay, wines from my neck of the woods! Go SoCal wineries!!!

Used to live in San Diego. I hope Temecula can hit it big.
Prediction…..The Pats crush the Bills and emerge from the weekend in the rightful spot. First place!

Great show, as always…

QOTD: Never had a Temecula. Maybe sometime soon…

Cheers!

I lived near Temecula, sort of, but I never had a Temecula wine. There was a Temecula winery that started with the letter “C” that people seemed to like.

QOTD: Giants over Eagles 35-17

QOTD #1 Giants 17 Eagles 10

QOTD #2 Would like to visit the area, especially Palumbo Family Vineyards. They were featured on Fine Living Network and even have small family -style wine dinners on weekends.

QoTd
No football prediction from me, sorry. I’ll give you a weather prediction instead. It might snow here tomorrow.
Temecula- maybe it will grow into something more substantial eventually.

Dude….. you were a little grumpy today! Just kiddin… interesting to see some wines from the Temecula area. I have been there, and they do have some decent wines and wineries in the area, although, like many of the smaller, less known areas, the prices are steep for what you get. Maybe they should pitch in their pennies and buy their bottles by the truckload??

QOTD – football score prediction – I don’t even know who they are playing (yes, a broken hearted Seahawks fan…), but my prediction is: Seahawks 13, whoever their opponent is, 37!

Never had a Temecula wine, but have had plenty of Lodi. What I don’t understand is how wines like this from an area so un-heard of can charge those prices? Who is buying that wine?

QOTD: I see the Titans sacking Rex Grossman 7 times on Sunday and beating the Bears 24 – 13.

football prediction? Well, hope out Univ team gets a win in Delaware tomorrow! I’ve heard of Telecula as a tourist wine region, but have never seen one to actually try it

Good show though I . . .

QOTD: 1) Never had a Temecula wine and 2) Colts over the Steelers 20-17.

Cheers!

I went wine tasting in Temecula while on vacation in San Diego a couple of years ago. Although it was a charming tasting experience, I thought the wines represented a poor value across the board. The wines cost like Sonoma and tast like, well, Temecula.

We ended up buying a case of wine from Costco on the way back to the hotel and made believe we bought them while tasting that day. I’m glad we didn’t shell out $40+ for the mediocre wines we came across since like you said, Gary, they are “not inpsiring”.

Gary,

#1 – Packers by 8 over Vikings (28-20)

#2 – Temecula wines, although I am in Illinois, one of best friends lives in Temecula. He is right off of “winery row” about 30 winerys on a 5 mile stretch of road. Some of by favorites are Mount Polomar, Ponte & Wilson Creek. Wilson Creek makes a dessert wine called Duet that is 50% Cab & 50% Zin, both late harvest – usually not my type, but I can never get enough of this one.

As a side note, I was really looking forward to seeing you in Woodstock, but a camping trip with my 7 & 4 year old, landed on the same date. Maybe next time, hope it wasn’t your first and last trip to Chicago’s far northwest suburbs.

Love the show!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s too bad CA won that wine tasting in France some years ago. They are just too damn big for their britches; mostly crapy way over-priced wine. Are most people afraid to buy foreign wine??
Gary Vay is the Joe Pesci of the wine world!!
Smell it first. TR Glad you are feeling better.

You should find some wine from Death Valley, CA. No branding required there!

Is Mott sick from when you made him taste your secret pack wine while he was sick?

Temecula is definitely “up and coming”. It pays to be selective … and focus on quality.

Just like anywhere else there are some houses trying to capitalize on the name and market market market.

HOWEVER… there are a few good houses that are focusing on growing good grapes, making good juice, and fairly pricing their products.

Check out Stuart Cellars … their Zinfandel is outstanding and their Tatria Meritage is simply sublime.

Gary, is it me or were you talking faster than usual in this episode? Too much coffee?
qotd: I don’t follow football. I’ve never had a Temecula wine, so I hope to try some soon.
I will now mention (again) my request for a Madeira show that will include a vintage Madeira. I’ll give it a rest for a while after this comment, but don’t think I’ve forgotten or given up.

I have a hard time selling super high quality syrahs from Napa and Sonoma, much less Temecula.

QOTD1: I predict I won’t watch any football this weekend.
QOTD2: I associate Temecula with Wilson Creek Almond Champagne. Not a good prediction for its future.

In the early 90’s, went to a few Temecula wineries, as my then girlfriend had moved out to San dee aygo. Callaway (of golf club fame) was the big winery then, and their big product was the Calla-lees, sur-lee Chard, which was always a little better than good enough, and in the fighting varietals price range. I remember buying some reds at Hart, meaning that they were good enough for me to support their industry in my small, token way, but in general, the whites were better developed throughout the AVA. I’m confident that some 15 years later, many improvements have come about with vine age, experience, and industrial standard methods always evolving.

Though grapes were grown at missions since the 1820’s, no wineries were established until the 1960’s. I don’t think they’re gonna steal Napa’s thunder, nor is that their intention, so cut ’em (and the rest of ‘us’ in those other ‘crappy or crazy’, whatever you said the other day) some deserved slack.