QOTD: Not really any. Thanks, Gary.

QOTD: I’ve had more than 20 and less than 50 bottles of Mouvrvedre…it’s a great blending grape as someone else mentioned…and it’s also known for holding fruit flavors well in the process of aging. I think it works well with Cabernet as we’ve seen with El Nido and Clio…but I prefer the more elegant versions from France over the fruit forward versions of Spain, USA, and Australia. That’s my $.02

Great to have you back Gary, these long weekends kill me..:-)

QOTD: my only experience with Mourvedre is in Bordeaux wines, haven’t tried it as a single variety yet.

Excellent épisode !

Mes expériences en matière de Mourvèdre: Mourvedre Terre Rouge Amador County et Chateau Pradeaux (Bandol). Bien aimé le côté épicé et fumé des deux, avec le Pradeaux plus tannique que le Terre Rouge.

Bonne année à vous deux, GV et CM !

If you’re gonna do mourvedre you have to do Tempier (totally requisite).

QOTD: CNDP’s,CDR’s, a few decent Spanish bottles and a little Bandol rose here and there. I rarely see the domestic market taking a serious interest outside of Tempier for Bandol. And its really hard to find a domestic producer doing varietal mourvedre.

GARY!!! <-NOTORIOUS!!!
Thought you were in Vegas?
I have had Turkey Flat Shiraz…and I liked it. Have not had their Mourvedre..or that varietal at all..YET. 🙂
QOTD: None..will seek out…
xoxo

Gary & Chris, Another fabulous episode!!!!!!! Love the energy!!! Also love mouvedre!!!!!

Football season is over. 🙂 On to better things in life, WLTV with the G-Man.

These are the wines I adore and you hit it out of the park (a Wii-ism) on this one. Great, great show though I must say after Saturday there is nothing in this world that is “great” unless it’s this show.

Depressed and no love for my boys. I can’t believe the tired-ass teams left in the playoffs and the Colts beat them all, i.e. Ravens, Steelers, Chargers (reg season) and Titans. Oh well. Back to the show.

QOTD: My Mouvedre experience has been extensive though in the “blended” variety from Australia particularly and France. As someone else noted, it is a great blending varietal. I think I may want to try the Turkey Flat and the Bandol to do a “taste test.”

Cheers and GO TITANS! I’m rooting for a Titans/Panthers Super Bowl. Sorry Mott. Fischer is a class act and Jerry Richardson (ex Colt) owns the Panthers plus I vacation on the Outer Banks each year. If there is a G-d, let it not be Pittsburgh.

Football season is over. 🙂 On to better things in life, WLTV with the G-Man.

These are the wines I adore and you hit it out of the park (a Wii-ism) on this one. Great, great show though I must say after Saturday there is nothing in this world that is “great” unless it’s this show.

Depressed and no love for my boys. I can’t believe the tired-ass teams left in the playoffs and the Colts beat them all, i.e. Ravens, Steelers, Chargers (reg season) and Titans. Oh well. Back to the show.

QOTD: My Mouvedre experience has been extensive though in the “blended” variety from Australia particularly and France. As someone else noted, it is a great blending varietal. I think I may want to try the Turkey Flat and the Bandol to do a “taste test.”

Cheers and GO TITANS! I’m rooting for a Titans/Panthers Super Bowl. Sorry Mott. Fischer is a class act and Jerry Richardson (ex Colt) owns the Panthers plus I vacation on the Outer Banks each year. If there is a G-d, let it not be Pittsburgh.

One of my favorite wineries from Sonoma, Quivira, is starting to do Mourvedre now. They are a small producer. I have a bottle of their 05 and 06 vintage. In April they are releasing their own GSM blend which I am really looking forward to. Thanks for all the good work

Full throttle show today, gentleman. Awesome selections with mataro, a cameo by Mott, and one of my favorite producers with Tempier. Hoping for a good week of shows, especially the blind.

QOTD: I have a lot of experience with Mataro, usually in GSM blends from Oz, Spain, or the PNW, but also on its own from Bandol. I have been fortunate to try a few past vintages of the Tempier cuvee and the La Migua, and have the upper tier, Cabassaou bottling, sitting in my cellar. Always nice for a change of pace.

OMG!! I just watched #148 for the first time… You had me in stitches at the end! Thanks for putting an episode on Mourvedre. Good stuff… have not had much experience with this wine varietal but will give it a sniffy sniff and a whirl sometime soon. You rock Gary!!

Do Turkey Flat make a bad wine?

I’ve Had Mourvedre in Gigondas & C-d-P Rhone blends which is about 10-11% of the blend with Grenache and Syrah, but Would like to try it on it’s own now to see what component it brings to the blend. Thanks… We Like the new tasting (Comic relief)technique.

Very Little expereince with Mourvedre. I believe I’ve only had it as part of a blend.

Very Little expereince with Mourvedre. I believe I’ve only had it as part of a blend.

Wow I actually had to peruse my wine journal and I only found 3 entries since 2006 of mourvedre tastings. The first was during a visit to the Torre di Pietra Vineyards in Fredericksburg, Texas. It was a 2005 varietal bottle. I didn’t take hardly any notes during this visit other than that none of the wines impressed me and they needed more bottle aging. Number two was a 2005 Pairie Rotie Tallent Vineyards during my visit to the Becker Vineyards in Stonewall, Texas. This was Day 2 of the same visit and the bottle was a blend of Mourvedre, Grenache, Syrah, and Carignan. Again this was during a period where my notes were quite lacking, although I really liked this vineyard and I noted the following, “The top winery of the trip. The Viognier and Zinfandel were amazingly expressive and my overall favorites. The Malbec, Prairie Rotie, and Claret were also very enticing.” Number three was a Toad Hollow, Erick?s the Red non-vintage that I tasted at a local wine tasting at WineStyles in McAllen, Texas (I worked in Texas for 4 years). I rated this wine a 7 out of 10, although may have been more mesmerized by the fact that it had a blend of 18 grapes!… one of them being Mourvdre. I noted the following, “Very fruit forward, black berries, dry, balanced acidity, light tannins, full body. This is an awesome wine for the value and the novelty? 18 FREAKIN? GRAPES. It screams New World wine. I?d be interested to know how some of my more traditionalist French friends would care for the wine. It really is good and works perfect for a hearty outdoors BBQ, which is precisely why I purchased the bottle. Sorry but the details are limiting on this tasting as the setting wasn?t too wine journal friendly, with the drinkin? and BBQin? and all.”

So basically I NEED TO DRINK MORE MOURVEDRE!!!

What I heard: “…one from California, one from Australia, and one from Bob Dole.”
lol 😀

QoTd
No experience, but will keep the eagle eye out to find it. thank you GV

QOTD: None! We’ll have to do something about that, it seems.

Fun show, loved the new technique! 😀

QOTD: Hey I just had that Turkey Flat Mourvedre. Thought it was excellent.

Happy New Year to you Mott!

Gary, two words: REX RYAN

QOTD: my experience with mourvedre is watching episode 603 of the thunder show.

as a fan of gary, i say great episode. as a fan of the steelers, i say i hate you too. 😉

QOTD: my experience with mourvedre is watching episode 603 of the thunder show.

as a fan of gary, i say great episode. as a fan of the steelers, i say i hate you too. 😉

How can anyone hate the Steelers?! Cheering for another team, sure. But hate the Steelers, I don’t know about that. They are true class, I think. But, I am a fan so maybe I’m jaded.

QOTD: I have had good experiences with this varietal.

my team out for the season as well as my phins got banged up sun.well, go philly. don’t think i’ve had a mourvedre but interested to try. glad to see you in the new year.