Taking down the forums to try and get us to watch more episodes ?
Nice Try !

Wined Up! Love it..

QOTD: Thai/vietnamese kinda play. had a Banh Mi sandwich today with catfish sweet relish and spicy jalepenos/ siracha sauce..delicious. pickles after pie.. not so sure

QOTD2:Mint chocolate chip

being from australia i have never come across anderson valley wines in any stores here so this was great to see what they are about. gary you seemed more at ease and less the showman today
someone commented before and i tend to agree – i liked the realness of today’s show

QOTD: might be “boring” but classic vanilla made from REAL vanilla pods.
oh and there is a place in melbourne that makes lemon, lime and bitters gelati – incredible on a hot summer day

Ironically my job title is assistant manager at an ice cream and pie shop.
QOTD:Mesh Green Tea and Cookies and Cream together and that would be it.

I bought a half gallon of blue raspberry sherbet today, for my mom. She’s really having a hard time since my grandfather’s funeral last week.

– Gary, If you could give a shout out and wish her well it would really mean a lot.

Thankyou,
Lindsey

Anderson Valley is a gem. Gorgeous redwood forests, phenomenal rugged coastline, unspoiled and grateful producers. This place is worlds away from Napa. If you go there, you will almost always taste at the owner’s or winemaker’s house. You will get to know his kids as well as his dogs. Try Toulouse, Breggo, Londer, Phillips Hill or a very small producer Demuth. Claudia Springs is actually a much much stronger Zin producer. GV, Roederer (California) is based in Anderson Valley. Schaffenberger is another champagne house in that area. So they got you beat.

chocolate chip mint…no doubt

the white….NOT THE GREEN

Gary, I eat a lot of ice cream but this one is it: Licorice ice cream, White Restaurant, Hilton Hotel at Princes Wharf Auckland New Zealand. The best I ever had.

GARY, I love the pickles after pie play. One of my all time favourites is pickles on my peanut butter sandwich. It’s awesome on rye with caraway.

QOTD 1) The dessert has to be ridiculously sweet for me to go with the bitterness of pickles, I often suck on lemons after dessert though.

QOTD 2) Its a toss up, I am a vanilla guy, French Vanilla all the way, but green tea ice cream is an up and coming challenger.

Great show Gary and I completely concur how the taste can be influenced.

Off topic,
Did I see holiday lights on the railing? If you’re going to leave those things up all year, you might as well use them next time. 🙂

QOTD1: During elementary and middle school I was known as the guy who ate his cafeteria desert before his lunch. Not because I wanted the desert more. In fact it was just the opposite; I wanted it least and was simply saving the best for last. Grew out that as soon as I stopped buying school lunches where they did not serve both dishes at the same time.

QOTD2: Vanilla

Salud

Gary,

Anderson Valley does have some killer sparkling – Navarro and most especially Roederer Estate. Check out Esterlina in the hills for some great wines and Lazy Creek for Gewurtz. Husch and Anderson Valley Winery also good. Stay at the Boonville Hotel and eat there if you can. Great place.

My favorite flavor of ice cream? Are you kidding me? It takes me 1/2 an hour to pick somethnig at Baskin & Robbins! That’s like asking someone with a big cellar what is their favorite wine.

Dude, if you do go to Anderson Valley, I would be glad to ditch work for a day and join you. Just give me 2 days notice.

As far as your wine comparrison, I don’t like one-on-one comparrisons which cross vintages because there are too many variables. The weather in 2006 burnt its mark into most of the 2006 vintage (zinfandel liked it, pinot suffered) and your complaints about the 2006 pinot are the same ones I have about the vintage in general. I had the 2006 Kite’s Rest and loved it, so much of this comparrison is also about style. The Kite’s Rest is more consistent year-to-year it would seem.

Sac State? Come on, give Sonoma State a little McLovin!

http://www.roedererestate.com/ is making rip your face off sparkling there.

Good show today. Like all the different scenery lately.

QOTD #!: I definitely have to “reset” my palate after ice cream or other dessert. I usually go for a few chip, nuts or crackers though. Pickles only occasionally. It’s more about the salty than the bitter for me.

QOTD #2: Dulce de leche

Now I thought they were getting plenty of notice up the road in AV. But in these times any and everyone needs a boost.
Very nice change of scene today. I wish you’d had more wines to try though.

My all time favorite of ice cream is coffee almond fudge! In about 1982 I used to make milkshakes with it and had friends lining up. We of course always used a big ass glass!

Now I thought they were getting plenty of notice up the road in AV. But in these times any and everyone needs a boost.
Very nice change of scene today. I wish you’d had more wines to try though.

My all time favorite of ice cream is coffee almond fudge! In about 1982 I used to make milkshakes with it and had friends lining up. We of course always used a big ass glass!

QOTD: Coney Island Waffle Cone!
I would eat almost a pint most nights after work & pass out. Turns out I was diabetic (haha).
I feel like a junkie everytime I walk thru frozen food section, eyeballing all those flavors of ben & jerry and haagen-daz or whatever (blue bell). I swear I get the shakes just thinking about it.

QOTD: Coney Island Waffle Cone!
I would eat almost a pint most nights after work & pass out. Turns out I was diabetic (haha).
I feel like a junkie everytime I walk thru frozen food section, eyeballing all those flavors of ben & jerry and haagen-daz or whatever (blue bell). I swear I get the shakes just thinking about it.

sorry, meant to say 10:55 in, you dun did it… you cursed lol

Hey Gary:

Great show, once again. Love that you’re being casual and flying solo and focusing on the wine.

Would love to see a show of Anderson Valley sparklers sometime: Roederer, Handley, and Scharffenberger.

Also would love to see a brown-bag tasting of either: cool-climate pinot from all over or cool-climate Syrah from all over (put up a Sonoma Coast syrah vs. Crozes-Hermitage).

Is Black Kite a picnic bird whine? I’m all whined up now.

Hi Gary,
Cool show (not only because of the weather). I would love to try some of the wines from Anderson Valley, but I guess it’s pretty impossible to get them here in Europe ( at least I haven’t found them yet).
QOTD2: couldn’t decide for just one so here it goes: campari ice-cream and mango ice-cream.
Cheers,
A

Fun show. I love the head-to-head with similar wines, and even more that you went back. It can make such a big difference to the “set” of your palate. Very nice.

QOTD: Nope, I am cursed with being a sugar junky. If I have dessert, I don’t want anything more sour than a sauternes after it.

QOTD2: Cookie dough. I used to live right up the street from the Dreyer’s/Edy’s world headquarters and would have to drop in for a couple scoops after a hot day at work.

Fun episode again Gary!
QOTD 1: When you said that I was really happy. As a matter of fact I am still happy. Because I now know that I am not the only one who does that! 😉
QOTD 2: Raspberry and Vanilla.

Visited Anderson Valley in ’98. Loved Navarro and have been on their mailing list since then. Great Gewurtz and up and coming Sparklers. Wanted to visit on last trip to Sonoma—couldn’t fit it in. Had the Black Kite recently–was excellent. Enjoyed the Breggo Cellars even more.

QOTD 1: I do sometimes eat my courses out of order. It’s not always appetizer, small plate, entree and dessert(sweets)I’ll sometimes skip the sweets entirely and go back to something salty (chips) or cheese, a salad or veggie–not a radish or pickle or something sour necessarily.

QOTD: Friendly’s used to make a flavor called Butter Crunch. Don’t know if they still do. Otherwise Butter Pecan. Hagen-Dazz Vanilla Swiss Almond and Cheesecake Ice Cream rate highly. Don’t get to indulge too much with Ice Cream due to cholesterol issues, etc.

QotD1: I do enjoy me some pickles and milk, never really had the urge to do what you said with the ice cream, except for vanilla, which I love to add a bit of hot sauce to. Mmmmmm.

QotD2: Chocolate Chip Mint… specifically Edy’s Dreamery Mint Chocolate Chip which they don’t make anymore.