Any red out of Spokane, WA. I know you dig the Wash wines and Spokane is only 2 hours north of Walla Walla (Arbor crest and Caterina are my faves).

I also want to give you credit for making me “resident wine nerd,” around all my college buddies (I’m only 5 months into being 21).

Cheers

are you frackin’ kidding me GV … the Jets WILL knock the Titans from the unbeaten ranks.

QOTD: Please do a show on Királyeányka – a Hungarian white varietal that produces some very value-driven, fruit & citrus driven wine. Here’s my cork’d review on a Királyeányka wine I had earlier this year:
http://corkd.com/wine/view/56569-2006_Hilltop_Winery_Kir_lye_nyka_Craftsman

QOTD, these varietes are really missed:
Vin Jaune and the wines of Jura
The lesser known nebbiolos: Valtellina, Gattinara, Ghemme, Roero
Carmignano wines
Sweet wines: Banyuls, Beerenauslese, Eiswein…
Madeira

Thanks for a great show from a former lurker in Sweden.

Hey Gary, good show…WOW, a POWER wine for 10 “bones”!! … dude, you just about get a good six pack of (insert microbrew name here), for 10 bucks! I just realized, that wine to beer PRICING has changed significantly, in the last 3 or so years! It’s obvious you are making an impact. As wines have gained in popularity, more product available & more competion, so price drops. (Marketing 101)! Sorry, on a tear…

QOTD: Tried 2 new (for me) types of wine recently…Proseco & Viognier. They were awesome! GREAT with food! (Spicy food at that)! I’d like to see something about sparkling wines as alternatives to champagnes. Thanks, for asking, man. You are the best! Good luck to NY Jets today..it would be great if they won just to se Mondays show…YOU would be OFF THE HOOK!!!

Hey Gary,

How about exploring ‘Roero’ to see wheter the nebbiolo there is bringing any thunder? The pricetags are nice these days 😀

Have a good one!

Regards from Denmark.

//Kapers

What about Ch. Grillet? So far as I know, it’s the only single-vineyard AOC (or equiv.) in the world. (Oh yeah, and can I try some?)

Jack william 2006 zinfandel – 125 cases produced

seghesio 2007 zinfandel – #10 in the top 100 wine spectator. Lot’s of talk about his wine. You have the 2006 vintage but the 2007 is said to be one of the best seghesio vintages ever.

We need more cheese on the show. Nice job with the chocolate

Hey Gary

QOTD:
1. A wine from China

Now let’s talk about some Australian wines. You always stereotype Australian wines as big Shiraz based fruit bombs, but this is just a certain style from a couple of certain regions. The American market perhaps encourages this style of wine, but hey let’s get down with Australia’s real wine diversity.

2. Tasmanian sparkling wine (Janz, Clover Hill, Arras etc)
3. Coonawarra Cabernet (this is an all time classic Australian wine style, why haven’t you done this yet???)
4. Hunter Valley Shiraz (Shiraz maybe more your style)
5. Hunter Valley Semillon (oh yeah…)
6. Eden Valley Riesling (You’ve done one of Grossett’s from the Claire – try an Eden Valley one)
7. Tasmanian Riesling
8. Henty Riesling (maybe hard to find)
9. Western Australian Riesling
10.Grampions Shiraz
11.Old style Victorian Cabernet (Balgownie, Talbilk etc)
12.Yarra Valley Cabernet
13.Geelong Pinot
14.Mornington Peninsula Pinot
15.Mornington Chardonnay
16.De Bortoli Noble One (The best value/quality dessert wine in the World!)

Let?s see some good Australian wine reviewed!

Cheers
Andrew

Great Friday show (that I’m lazily watching on Sunday morning). I love Tannat.

QOTD: I know how much you love Petit Verdot, but I don’t think you’ve ever done a show exclusively on offerings of that great grape.

What about a late harvest zinfandels?

I’m glad you feel recharged. We all benefit from high-energy Gary! Keep being you!

How about doing a Muscadine show? I’m down here in Florida where it’s pretty much all that grows. We have several local vineyards but I’m interested in what you think about the varietal. I gotta say, it’s probably one of the most unusual grapes on the freakin planet (and to be honest I don’t even like the grapes themselves).

Hey Gary, look for some cold hardy wine varieties and didn’t find any… Check out Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, LaCrescent or St. Croix. No hugely mainstream but I’m sure they would pleasantly surprise and educate some folks!

JETS!! JETS!!! JETS!!!! JETS!!!!! MOE-JOE !! MOE-JOE!!!
JETS!!! JETS!!!! JETS!!!! JETS!!!!! MOE-JOE !!! MOE-JOE!!!!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 🙂

Dude, search for Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese and you find NOTHING!
Please change that 🙂

QOTD: 1) I had mentioned a non-alcoholic wine show awhile back. Could be interesting.
2) I also miss the days where you were doing some crazy stuff, like with weather and other things. Maybe put a bottle of wine in a paint can shaker to see if a lot of agitation can affect an unopened wine. There are proteins and other things in wine that don’t like being agitated a whole lot, so it could have an effect.

Hey Gary,

Don’t get upset, but that bottomless pit of football knowledge – Yahoo! Sports – has today released a story stating that while twelve NFL teams make the playoffs, only the seven listed below have a chance of actually winning the Stupor Bowl. Those seven teams are (in order from least likely to most):

7. Dallas

6. Baltimore

5. Green Bay

4. Pittsburgh

3. Arizona

2. Tennessee

1. The New York Football Giants (good for YOU, Mott!)

Guess this opens up your January, huh…?

Regards,

Roger Goodell

Txakoli – lets jump into Basque country.
Two other ideas that I only found single references to:
Langhe Nebbiolo (great values!)
Maidera – such a wild wine making history for the Vayniacs.
Peace

How about a little Gamay action?

late harvest chardonnay… just picked an Argentinian 2008 Bodega Norton at costco for $7.50… Haven’t popped it yet.

Leonard Kreusch 2005 Liebfraumind Rheinhessen from Germany.

I got this wine for Christmas in 2007. Drank it in August 08. Very light and smooth. Is very sweet, almost desert wine like. I will be buying more of this.

What about english wine?

GV – good show, I do not know a lot about Tannat, but I like to learn and taste.

QOTD – I would like to see a show about the whites and reds of Greece. I know that you had wines from Greece before, but it would be good to get a little bit more history and some knowledge as the funky grape names from Greece and what they resemble from the Old/New World.

A tasting with three different Riesling from different countries for example: Germany Austria New Zealand… ;)would be cool

Enjoyed the show. I would love to see you find a 100% carignan. Decant, decant, decant. I would also like to see a map of the wine’s region inside a map of the county put into the corner of your screen while you are talking about the wine.

QOTD. Gary – how about red wines from Sardinia? Obscure grapes (cannanau, monica, bovale, malvasia nera), great value. You could do a set of 4 from Argiolas, from the low end (Perdera, Costera) to the high end (Korem, Turriga).