Anne Amie does some nice white, including a Muller Thurgau, but something about the staff the day I visited them turned me off of that place.

QOTD: Either cruising these boards on a saturday night or putting together a future purchases schedule for the entire year. Sad sad life…

Great show, will be on the lookout for it.

QOTD: umm…putting my framed & triple matted original Empire Strikes Back poster on the wall in my basement.

Zube: the best I’ve found has been Wyatt Pinot Noir for around $12-14.

Interesting indeed… I didn’t know Anne Amie was doing this now… and over 700 cases? That’s totally nuts. Domaine Serene has been doing a white Pinot Noir (“Coeur Blanc”) for a number of years now and it usually gets pretty bad reviews (worse than this), yet costs even more ($70). Just doesn’t seem worth it for the cost of admission. Still, next time I’m visiting the Anne Amie tasting room I’ll definitely inquire about it.

2007 was also a difficult year for Pinot Noir… surprised they made this 14.1% alcohol in this wet year. *shrug*

David

Qotd: Right now of course!

Like the brief shows but three to five wines. The comparisons are usually more educational.

I sure hope Mott is “rollin deep” Go Mott!

I tried several Blanc-de-Noir over the time. Most from Pinot Noir. There is a different flavour-profil, hints of red fruit, that i tend to like, but all in all, they don’t bring the thunder to me.

QOTD: i watched nearly every Episode from GV. This is nerdy for sure 😉

Greetzz from Germany
Michael

I tried several Blanc-de-Noir over the time. Most from Pinot Noir. There is a different flavour-profil, hints of red fruit, that i tend to like, but all in all, they don’t bring the thunder to me.

QOTD: i watched nearly every Episode from GV. This is nerdy for sure 😉

Greetzz from Germany
Michael

I do nerdy stuff every single day. How about buying a $35 CD online because the Slatkin/Mazetti version of Mahler 10 is out of print?

Interesting stuff.

QOTD – I probably nerd it up on a daily basis. Given the plethora of options, I can’t pick the biggest one. Cheers!

i played chess with a friend, online, over our iphones, sitting right next to him. lame.

very interesting….but I have a question about alcohol content….how can it be “controlled”? Is it not just the natural process of the fermentation and the conversion of sugar? Wouldnt the winemaker have to sacrifice the quality or characteristics of the wine somehow by trying to control the alcohol? I would love to hear an explanation on this.

Also, I am curious-if you had tasted today’s wine blind, what would you have guessed?

oh….and how’s Misha doing?

QOTD — I’m an academic, every bit of my research can be called ‘nerdy’

I watch every episode of WLTV. Now how nerdy is that! P.S. I agree with my man Mott! Smell it first. TR

QOTD: Nerdiest thing I’ve done this year (to me) is make a spreadsheet detailing all of the bottles that I have.

QOTD: I made a beer blog: http://atattooedtale.wordpress.com/

Love the color on this one — bright like a sauv. blanc, but with a bit of golden warmth to it. Nice. The licorice and minerals (from the tasting notes) might get my cash, but I’d need an unoaked version. Great idea, though.

QOTD: that would be during the 72-hour EEG (results were normal — no big whup), when I was walking around with a big old bandage on my head with a couple dozen wires sticking out of it and hooked up to a backpack thing with blinking green lights. The nerdy part was the technician and I making up things to say to people when they asked me what it was. (Which nobody did. Culture picked a great time to start being polite all of a sudden!) The top two on the list were “You should see the other girl,” and “What? [pause] The aliens! Listen, maybe YOU don’t care about your thought processes, but some of us love America! [said while stomping off].” Darn. I was really hoping to get a chance to use that second one.

I like when you do more than one wine. I still enjoyed the episode, though. I had a white wine made with pinot noir from Germany recently that I thought was quite good and cost much less than the wine you reviewed. Since you’re trying to “nerd it up” with the one wine episode, it might have made sense to mention Champagne. You know why.

qotd: tasting wine in the morning. It’s not out of the ordinary for me, but it is kind of nerdy standing in front of the kitchen sink tasting and spitting wine before work.

Interesting show, love that you try new wines. Missed the comparison to another wine though.

QOTD: oh probably lots of stuff on a daily basis but recent ones include

– Put my http://www.cellartracker.com spreadsheet into a new Business Intelligence tool called Explorer just to play around with the data and visualize it (yes, I am a sad software nerd)
– Read a Manga comic about wine!
– Wine tasting; Tried Granache Blanc, Granache Rose (the grape not the wine style) and zero dosage “ultra brut” champagne. The Granache Rose was the only wine that was a pazz.
– had withdrawls with the WL forums were down!!

QOTD thats easy. I tested the Mott on Unlimited Nested Quotes in the Forum..we got to 40 and he pulled the plug…..power trip! now we respect the GREAT Mott. who giveth and taketh away.

Blanc de Noirs, Whites With skin contact. Red grapes without…. after a wine made from rice you go to a white made from red???. Time to go back to basics GV. The old ways of making wine are best

Excellent choice GV.

qotd: IM my kids..in the next room.

Great episode, will look up for white Pinot.

QOTD: I am a film nerd, into all sort of weird stuff (Jodorofky, Lynch etc..). But two nights ago i sat down an hour and a half and watched Terminator 3 just to remind myself that this is probably the worse film ever made

QOTD2: Oh, I am also a neuroscientist, so every piece of work I do blows out the scale of nerdyness…

Thanks Gary

QOTD: Well developed a big DR Who fetish. Even got a poster in my lounge room….

Cheers
Andrew

QOTD:Ahh.?? Watching WLTV.

I bought a bunch of small glass prep bowls for my kitchen- my girlfriend calls them my gay bowls

QOTD: I guess it would have to be building a computer for my brother. That seems like a pretty nerdy activity.

I am a super nerd that loves Football (MN Vikings) and working on cars, so I get to straddle both worlds.