EP 596 Wines from the island of Cyprus

Achilleas Georgiou a great friend of the Thunder Show sends Gary some wines and he tries them live on the Thunder Show!

Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Tsangarides Xinisteri
2006 Tsangarides Cabernet Sauvignon
2006 Tsangarides Mataro

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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Luca Bercelli

89/100

line of the day – ‘I’m shockingly handsome and outrageously humourous’

Includes a minor rant about trying new things (which is always a winner with me). Great to see an oddball wine producing country given airtime

Tags: cabernet, Cyprus, Mataro, red, review, Video, white, wine, wines, Xinisteri

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  • Great show. I just passed up a Greek wine from the Pyrrennes today (in favor of a Portuguese red). I’ll have to let my bro know to try the white and let me know what he thinks (he’s in Athens this year on a Fulbright!). Maybe I can get him to smuggle me home a bottle 😉

    QOTD: Cyprus –> Olives

  • Great show. I just passed up a Greek wine from the Pyrrennes today (in favor of a Portuguese red). I’ll have to let my bro know to try the white and let me know what he thinks (he’s in Athens this year on a Fulbright!). Maybe I can get him to smuggle me home a bottle 😉

    QOTD: Cyprus –> Olives

  • ex-lurkdawg

    qotd: phish (different spelling, of course)
    Gary, were you drinking before this episode? Maybe you shot this one right after that last 2-parter. I am glad that you did this. I’ve never had a wine from Cyprus and I’ll have to try one soon. Thanks again for the good episode.

  • ex-lurkdawg

    qotd: phish (different spelling, of course)
    Gary, were you drinking before this episode? Maybe you shot this one right after that last 2-parter. I am glad that you did this. I’ve never had a wine from Cyprus and I’ll have to try one soon. Thanks again for the good episode.

  • Thanks for the education.

    QOTD: Hlll (Insane in the Membrain) or Gardens (from Florida).

    P.S. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to you. You call yourself a fan??? How dare you??? My, NY JETS are still in the hunt and you say they won’t win another game all season??? Come on dude, trade in that bucket if that’s what you think!

  • Thanks for the education.

    QOTD: Hlll (Insane in the Membrain) or Gardens (from Florida).

    P.S. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to you. You call yourself a fan??? How dare you??? My, NY JETS are still in the hunt and you say they won’t win another game all season??? Come on dude, trade in that bucket if that’s what you think!

  • Moselman

    QOTD: Billy Ray? Well, no worse than the many “cypress” answers…

    These homophones are rarely confused: cypress is the tree, Cyprus, the Mediterranean island.

  • Moselman

    QOTD: Billy Ray? Well, no worse than the many “cypress” answers…

    These homophones are rarely confused: cypress is the tree, Cyprus, the Mediterranean island.

  • QOTD: Hill … Which always makes me think of House of Pain…. weird how that works 🙂

  • QOTD: Hill … Which always makes me think of House of Pain…. weird how that works 🙂

  • kaybee

    QoTd
    Cyprus- I think of Cypress Tree. Really don’t have an association. Except I like Greek gyros for lunch.

  • kaybee

    QoTd
    Cyprus- I think of Cypress Tree. Really don’t have an association. Except I like Greek gyros for lunch.

  • Anonymous

    Gary!!
    Yes, I definitely watch the show for YOU..and also the wine! 🙂
    QOTD: Cypress = George <-someone I knew..his father won the lottery in Greece…TWICE! LOL

  • Gary!!
    Yes, I definitely watch the show for YOU..and also the wine! 🙂
    QOTD: Cypress = George <-someone I knew..his father won the lottery in Greece…TWICE! LOL

  • John Farrin

    QOTD: My God, I’ve become totally parrochial because what pops into my mind is the Lone Cypress on the 17 mile drive on the Monterey Peninsula.

    Feel better!

  • John Farrin

    QOTD: My God, I’ve become totally parrochial because what pops into my mind is the Lone Cypress on the 17 mile drive on the Monterey Peninsula.

    Feel better!

  • Cameron W

    Thanks for the cool show – good information.

    QOTD: Cedar.

  • Cameron W

    Thanks for the cool show – good information.

    QOTD: Cedar.

  • Paul One

    Good stuff!

    QOTD- Hill

  • Paul One

    Good stuff!

    QOTD- Hill

  • Chris in Tulsa

    Hey caught that you thought the first wine was, “F—ing awesome!” Was I the only one that heard that?
    QOTD: Don’t know anything about Cyprus or their wines.

  • Chris in Tulsa

    Hey caught that you thought the first wine was, “F—ing awesome!” Was I the only one that heard that?
    QOTD: Don’t know anything about Cyprus or their wines.

  • Rowland

    I know a man who served in Cyprus as an officer when it was still part of the British Empire.

  • Rowland

    I know a man who served in Cyprus as an officer when it was still part of the British Empire.

  • Anonymous

    QOTD: First thing that comes to my mind are the ‘Cyprus audio recordings’ on a past season of the TV show 24.

  • David T

    QOTD: First thing that comes to my mind are the ‘Cyprus audio recordings’ on a past season of the TV show 24.

  • jaredlevy

    QOTD: Hill, of course.

  • jaredlevy

    QOTD: Hill, of course.

  • QOTD: Van Morrison, “Cyprus Avenue”

  • QOTD: Van Morrison, “Cyprus Avenue”

  • sam

    CYPRUS:GO RAVENS, BOO JETS

  • sam

    CYPRUS:GO RAVENS, BOO JETS

  • wayno da wino

    Yo G, will watch in da future…….all I got ta say now is…….
    GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JETS JETS JETS !!!!!!! STOMP DA BILLS !!!!!!!
    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!! 🙂

  • wayno da wino

    Yo G, will watch in da future…….all I got ta say now is…….
    GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JETS JETS JETS !!!!!!! STOMP DA BILLS !!!!!!!
    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!! 🙂

  • Who doesn’t love Mott?

    Everyone should give the Mottster a hug!

  • Who doesn’t love Mott?

    Everyone should give the Mottster a hug!

  • Anorthosis Famagusta!

  • Anorthosis Famagusta!

  • Nice show, although that must be a new all time mispronunciation extravaganza!
    QOTD- Aphrodite and partition.

  • Nice show, although that must be a new all time mispronunciation extravaganza!
    QOTD- Aphrodite and partition.

  • funny to watch a russian (who i thought was British several years ago) speak Greek. QOTD: overtaken, again.

  • funny to watch a russian (who i thought was British several years ago) speak Greek. QOTD: overtaken, again.

  • Simon A

    QOTD: Insane in the (Mem)Braaaain!!!!!

  • Simon A

    QOTD: Insane in the (Mem)Braaaain!!!!!

  • zac weiss

    QOTD: the seperation of the island… whatever that’s called. And Haruki Murakami (I’m thinking wind-up bird chronicles but I’m not sure it’s that one).

  • zac weiss

    QOTD: the seperation of the island… whatever that’s called. And Haruki Murakami (I’m thinking wind-up bird chronicles but I’m not sure it’s that one).

  • M

    QOTD: Island

  • M

    QOTD: Island

  • MikeN-in-BC

    “QOTD” Cyprus……. Local Vancouver BC ski hill (spelled “Cypress Mountain”)

  • MikeN-in-BC

    “QOTD” Cyprus……. Local Vancouver BC ski hill (spelled “Cypress Mountain”)

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