QOTD – Truffle Cheese with a really good Pinot Noir – 2006 ROAR or 2006 Brewer Clifton or 2005 Lagavain

Is there anyone from Maui besides me?

aloha

Tracy

If any man could turn me gay it would certainly be the shockingly good looks and charisma of Gary Vaynerchuk, NOT 🙂

QOTD: Le Gourmand Rivesaltes and Layered, Chocolate, Kahlua Buttercream, Chocolate Brownies.

~Roquefort and Sautern~

Both insanely complex tastes complimenting and contrasting each other. Love that salty/sweet combo!

Glad you tasted the wines by themselves first, then with cheese. A good cheese can transform even a mediocre wine into a great one, so it’s kinda like cheating!

I’m drooling. But what the heck is “Chesse”??? 😉

QOTD: no favorite…I’ll eat and drink any combo!

Gary, I got hungry just looking at that Tuma Persa cheese today! My favorite combo so far: J Lohr Riverstone Chardonnay & aged English cheddar [don’t know the brand] or [like Jace] 337 Cabernet Sauvignon with sharp cheddar.

I’d like to organize a little wine & cheese pairing to enjoy with some friends. Do you, or does your store, make recommendations for pairing types of wine with types of cheese? If so, I [and perhaps some other Vayniacs] would appreciate some ideas.

Thank you for the excellent show & new cheese to look for; and thanks to your other viewers for some new cheese/wine pairings to try. The Vayniacs have many fantastic ideas!!

Also, Richard Ritter’s whine and cheese comments cracked me up!!

QOTD Cheshire & Tavel

Cool, thanks Gary

QOTD: I love cheese and love wine so really hard to identify any kind of favourites, but I do like a soft creamy cheeses and for some reason I often find myself drinking sparkling white with it. May as well make it Australian
Clover Hill Vintage Brut and King Island Blue Bree

Cheers
Andrew

Cool, thanks Gary

QOTD: I love cheese and love wine so really hard to identify any kind of favourites, but I do like a soft creamy cheeses and for some reason I often find myself drinking sparkling white with it. May as well make it Australian
Clover Hill Vintage Brut and King Island Blue Bree

Cheers
Andrew

I’m liking the use of space in this episode, beautiful hint of trees outside the windows behind you Gary.

Tuma Persa Lost Cheese sounds absolutely amazing, beautiful story too.

I’m liking the use of space in this episode, beautiful hint of trees outside the windows behind you Gary.

Tuma Persa Lost Cheese sounds absolutely amazing, beautiful story too.

Good show, although I’m honestly not so into the comment reading. I read them often, but it makes the show too long to watch, and is sorta dull. Just my two cents.
By the way, my friend Pete Hoffmann sent you a couple bottles of his Aum Cellars 2005 Cab yesterday or the day before. Hope you enjoy.
Qotd – A really good pairing recently was the 05 Faiveley Bourgogne (just plain ol burg) with Fleur de Alps, a washed rind stinker. The fruit and funk partied together well.

Gary –

What a cheesetastic show! Bringing the Thunder with grapes and cows milk!

QOTD: I love to dine on cheese and wine (can’t recall anything of the top of my head)!

Gary –

What a cheesetastic show! Bringing the Thunder with grapes and cows milk!

QOTD: I love to dine on cheese and wine (can’t recall anything of the top of my head)!

Still on fire, G. Cheese story was great- more of that kinda thing, please!

QOTD: A good manchego with Mas Malbec, maybe some quince to boot!

Still on fire, G. Cheese story was great- more of that kinda thing, please!

QOTD: A good manchego with Mas Malbec, maybe some quince to boot!

Mouth is waterin’… nummy. Good show.

Nice shot w/ that cheese

QOTD: good sharp aged provolone w/a nice chianti classico

Another great show. Loved Mont’s stock market comment.

Thanks for the cheeze chuck finale there Gary!

I didn’t taste it, but I definitely saw it fly!

Thunderous!

You seem in an exquisite mood lately. Lots of good vibes. You seem rejuvenated. Whatever the reason, keep riding the wave and bringin’ it.

Never even heard of the Toroldego.

It’s funny that you are doing an Italian show today ’cause up here in Québec, our crown corporation, the SAQ (Société des Alcools du Québec) is having a ‘new arrivals’ festival, welcoming new Italian wine from all over: Tuscanny, Venice, Émilie-Romagne, Sicily. I picked up an interesting Sangiovese, Merlot blend by Umberto Cesari, from Émilie-Romagne which is nice. A little young (2006), but promising. I am enjoying more the Syrah from Bonny Doon called “Le Pousseur”. I have been looking for a Boon product ever since you had Randall on the show. They are hard to come by up here, but I must say, worth the seek. It has got dark fruit and a leather attribute reminiscent of Petit Verdot that I enjoy.
Knowing you are a fan of Petit Verdot, have you ever heard of Mclaren Vale’s Pirramimma, from Australia. I’ve had the 2003 lately and it rocks!

Good to hear that people are leaving more of their thoughts in the comments. Wine is meant to be shared. Your suggestion to the Oklahoma dude was a cool idea. People all over should seek others who share their passion for wine. That is how we discover, by sharing and trading.

Check y’all later!

P.S. Almost forgot the Question of the Day: A Margrain Pinot from N.Z. and a double cream, soft surface, ripened goat cheeze from Rondoux.

Excellent show!love the different varietals,will definitely try these. Italy is my favorite region,keep ’em coming.

QOTD; Parmigiano-Reggiano, Pecorino ; Amarone

GARY!!!!
I thought we discussed this Facebook thing…you need to delete one to add me!! 🙂 I joined FBook for you..now I have peeps hitting me up from when I was 4 years old… LOL (Will checkout the FanPage)

I think I’d like that cheese…

QOTD: Turley Zin & Asiago 🙂

xoxo

Hey Gary, very entertaining show!
I really hope you do more cheese in the coming months, since I’m as big of a fan of cheese as I am of wine. I don’t comment much, but your recent endeavor to read the comments has rekindled my desire to comment, so your gimmick worked!

Dan from MN

If I have wine and cheese I’m a happy guy so I don’t get too particular.

Nice rap, thank goodness for taking a break from people with funny accents. The TEA show? You stole my thunder! I can rap “tea” all day, that’s all I drink, since I was zero. And, back in Italy they got no normal tea, except Lipton. Expanding into the cheese world ? excellent idea. We have this crazy street fair in Piedmont, and you get to try like 700 cheeses. There is not an animal they don’t milk! My favorite cheese: pecorino romano from Tuscany (sorry that’s all the details), it is a little crunchy, almost like chewing little crystals of cheese, a little smoke and citrus on the nose, tiny bit of the white truffle stink (not too much), cuts into chunks. Favorite wine paring: Brunello di Montalcino 2003 by Lambardi. http://www.sitoflash.it/lambardi/web/index.cfm?area=2 Big boy cheese with big boy wine. It is almost drug-like.