qotd: Finca arentai albarino! muy delicioso!, Love these guests, especially since im really familiar with the wines. We pour the 04 butterdragon by the glas and its a beast! These wines are not for the faint of heart, they are in fact a true expression of napa valley fruit and i can see them aging well for about ten to twelve years. GO CHARGERS!! L.T. REMAINS A CHARGER AND WILL ALWAYS BE A CHARGER!!

Great show, Gary, thanks! Great guest! Shout out to Mott!

QOTD: Gary has talked about several Albrinos (spelling) — don’t know names particularly.

QOTD _ dunno, i dont think i have had any of the spanish white wines that GV has recommended. sorry.

side comment. CORK’D , gary, i used to log all of my stuff into cork’d, write tasting notes and bottle inventory. i was drawn to it because i was looking for a bottle and i arrived on it. i said WTF and joined up. i guess i stopped doing it cause the majority of the people on it were kinda lame and not taking it too seriously. ON THAT NOTE, i did meet a good friend on it. her name is dagny and she is in brooklyn and i live in EU. we have never actually met, but we e mail often about wine ( esp burgundy) but also our kids. one day we are going to meet in person in NY and drink some good wine together.

I am one of those people who is not buying their allocations. I love California wines,but the price is bit much now and add the shipping which raises the price per bottle by $5 or sometimes more, not going to do it. I am venturing out to other parts of the world and looking for those “under the radar” areas you talk about.
I really enjoy your Thunder Cuvee, gives me the classic Napa smell and taste I love for far less than $75.

Glad you read out the comments even with a guest on the show.
Also glad it wasn’t split into 2 episodes, always up for long episodes.

The whole economy affecting wine, I think it’s similar to the video games, people will still invest in things that they feel they can use to escape from the economy problems.

It’s interesting how some guests seem to come on purely to promote themselves or their business or their winery or their book. But this guys obviously just loves the WLTV community. Excellent guest. Excellent guy. Excellent episode.

I like this episode a lot. Good job Randy!

I much rather see guest like Randy, Charles Smith (K Vintners) and Randall Graham (Boony Doon) than the other type of guests on the show.

Very interesting/entertaining – too bad $70+ is way out of my price range…

QOTD – can’t think of specifics, but I would look for Cava in the Gary’s scores page.

QOTD: Havent had many spanish whites, especially the ones GV has mentioned previously. However, I do feel that R.Lopez de Heredia’s Vina Tondonia 1996 is excellent! For a more value play, Marques de Riscal’s Reserva 2003 is good value.
Oh, big shout out to Mott! Sorry Mott, the heroes behind the scenes usually get forgotten…but worry not now!

Hello Gary!!! I?ve been recently turned into a vayniac and I love it, THANKS!!!

This show was a big contrast to the last guest episode (#637-8). And the thunder seemed to be a bit lacking in this one. I?ve noticed a difference in thunder when the guests are enthusiasts? vs producers. I think you should purposely skip the numerical rating when sampling wines produced by the guest. We?re pretty sure we?ll NEVER see what happened in your last episode (#639) with the J&f Lurton Rueda White 2007 if the producer is sitting right next to you!!!
(btw – That was GREAT! It?s funny to see someone taste that horrible wine. We?ve all done it at one time and it?s nice to see what our faces probably looked like when we did it. I?m also really glad you showed us the Barone from the other show! )

About the price point ? I?m willing to pay $50, $75, and on occasion over $100 for a wine. But, if I?m going there it had better produce a knee-buckling response. I won?t pay $75 for something that is ?good? when I know I can pay $50 or less on something that will “WOW” my palate!!! <-guessing the “o” word didn’t pass your moderator…

Hey everyone at WLTV:
Thanks for the great show. I have to say that that Bacon Brook label is amazing. Love the color combination and graffic, and I loved the fact that Sloan gave a little background info on the naming of the wines because it added the “family factor” that I enjoy so much.

QOTD: I actually had some of the El Perro Verde from the last show and that would be my suggestion to Sloan.

PS: Could you wish my mother a Happy Birthday, she just passed on Saturday and it would have been her 77th birthday on Thursday the 12th. She loved the white Zins.

Gary:
My mom’s name is Joan Ritter. Forgot to put that in.

wines sound great. will look them up next time through Napa. Don’t know much about anything, especially Spanish white wines, but I DO KNOW I will sorely miss my Niece Raissa. Enjoyed our Halifax visit and returning to Edmonton today. Gary, please please give her a shout out from buyko biktop.

Hmmmmmmm…My “QOTD”

Do the majority of people out there buy wine to stick in the cellar for 4 to 10 years?

Most of the wine I buy is drunk within the month. Although I have a couple of cases we’ve had for a year and a half.

Gary….. I think you hit on a very relavent topic. Is this price structure sustanable in this economic climate. I suppose there are still a lot of well healed buyers out there.

Just being average……it’s beyond our reach. If we were to spend that kind of $$$, it going to be on a player with a historic track record.

QOTD: i have to admit vaniack failure… have not tried any spanish whites!
my pal is sad.

also failed to spell Vayniak… days not starting off well

el perro verde baby!!!!!!!!! oh Gary, nice middle cork finger

I like the way this show played a little bit to the forum users – not that I’ve been in there a long time but long enough to have really enjoyed this episode – good stuff! Please keep this kind of show in the mix.

QOTD: I’d have to say that the Perro Verde (Rueda) from yesterday would be the best QPR (7 bones over here) and we go through a lot of it (especially in summer!)…but my favorites would have to be Fefiñanes III Año (Rias Baixas) or Trio Infernal #0/3 Blanc (Priorat)

hey dcrob, it’s … V A Y N I A C … ok … 😛

Well “played” GV, pun intended. Another quality show.

Loved the pointed questions to the guest. Made for a more polished and fluid interview/dialogue.

Despite enjoying this guest quite a bit, he made for a good show quite honestly, from now on I recommend we enact a WLTV Guest Rule. ANY guest pre-screened that does not know and understand the idea of “the question of the day” should be scratched or relegated to Obsessedtv. The Vaynernation is TOO smart and TOO keen GV, we don’t want to hear the bull crap that some guests spew about being such a big fan then turning around and faking the house dealer like they don’t know the house rules. We spot it a mile away. You can’t fool us. To future guests, please do your homework and we will EMBRACE you. Fake your homework and we will CRUSH you.

drew

QOTD: Gary seemed to like the El Perro Verde from the other day. I haven’t had any Albarinos or other Spanish whites recently to recommend. However, I do have a bottle of the 2002 Match Cab that I bought on a whim, a while back. Am excited about trying it!!

not a good day indeed

$70+ a bottle from 6 years old vines – ridiculous. Well that’s selling a brand and not the finished product. You can only get away with that in places like Napa, Bordeaux etc. I’m very surprised that you liked those wines as much as that. I haven’t tasted the Match wines so can’t comment on them, but in my experience, wines from very young vines can be seductive, but soon show their hollowness.

I would never pay that amount for infant juice. In these difficult times, new producers like Match run the risk of losing out big-time. Start your pricing lower and build up. If you do it the other way around, you’ll lose people forever.

It is enjoyable and informative to see/hear from actual winemakers/owners. Too often Napa focuses on limos and corporate head offices of Multi-national corporations that own the vineyards. It is so hard to meet and talk to ACTUAL people and not the glitz in the tasting rooms. Washington state and my own experience in Walla Walla was so enjoyable, comfortable, unpretentious, inexpensive. See it now before the tour buses and limos come in…In all fairness, yes Napa wines are expensive but even in this episode they were referred to as luxury items. Spoil yourself once in a while Vayniacs! We deserve it!

Extremely Entertaining Episode!! Moooochooo Thanx, Guys!!

Yo G, all these people come on the Thunder Show to pimp their Wines,
Books, etc., but when Ya tell them to ask the “Question of the Day”,
they are like a Deer in the Headlights……. Ya gotta tell them to
watch the Show once in awhile, I myself, Highly Recommend IT!!!! 🙂

Nice show Randy (and Gary). No idea what Spaish whites Gary has been recommending. I’d say go for an old white Rioja. Lopez de Heredia has great ones from the 80’s out there available in wine stores. They’ve done all the aging for you.