Thanks for the episode Gary…..I do Nerdie things all of the time…..One of the most Nerdie things I’ve done might be to demonstrate Bernoulli’s principle using a beach ball and a leaf blower….

I’m gonna have to agree w/ Vintage59. Some of us are struggling to get our bills paid, have two jobs to make ends meet and only have the luxury of purchasing a $45.00 from time to time. So what do you do? Make an ass of yourself by pouring damn near an entire bottle of wine and waste it. I don’t think you understand how this offends some of us. It doesn’t matter if the wine tasted like shite or not. It’s the principle. Please try to show some restraint and humility. We always hear about your humble upbringing but I think you are starting to lose sight of that.

Nice job expanding our wine worlds. I’m curious what motivated Anne Amie to make this if it cost so much, as it must be nearly impossible to market beyond their tasting room. A deep love for Blanc de Noirs?
I’ve been nerding up my wine knowledge lately, tearing through the Terry Theise catalogs until 2 AM.

Very interesting…did not realize someone was ding that here. Just tasted a few from Burgundy that a business partner brought back, but no comparison as they were most likely tainted by chardonnay. We have been trying whatever pinot blanc we can find as of late…a wine distributor friend said that the La Crescent we made came across more like than than the sauvignon blanc I thought…I think it is somewhere in between.

I feel for the dismay and outrage about the spilled wine, and yes, I am more like Sasha and have a hard time “wasting” any wine that is still drinkable.
(Folks, believe it or not, try freezing it…)
However in GV’s defense I have also gotten enough exposure to wine trade events and the folks who frequent them, to understand how one can become desensitized in a way that the consumer might not. Add that to GV’s penchant for passion and mania…and well, it’s not a party until something gets spilled?

QOTD: we just built a home made Aeration-oxidation apparatus for doing S02 on our wines in an attempt to avoid shelling out several hundred bucks for the fancy unit.

Very interesting…did not realize someone was ding that here. Just tasted a few from Burgundy that a business partner brought back, but no comparison as they were most likely tainted by chardonnay. We have been trying whatever pinot blanc we can find as of late…a wine distributor friend said that the La Crescent we made came across more like than than the sauvignon blanc I thought…I think it is somewhere in between.

I feel for the dismay and outrage about the spilled wine, and yes, I am more like Sasha and have a hard time “wasting” any wine that is still drinkable.
(Folks, believe it or not, try freezing it…)
However in GV’s defense I have also gotten enough exposure to wine trade events and the folks who frequent them, to understand how one can become desensitized in a way that the consumer might not. Add that to GV’s penchant for passion and mania…and well, it’s not a party until something gets spilled?

QOTD: we just built a home made Aeration-oxidation apparatus for doing S02 on our wines in an attempt to avoid shelling out several hundred bucks for the fancy unit.

nice to have the kind of dough to be able to pour out almost a whole bottle! such a waste…

Willamette Valley! Represent!

QOTD: 1) Saw Fast/Furious Four. 2) Bought a domain/website and did nothing with it. 3) Bought two Enrique Iglesias songs from iTunes. 4) bought a bottle of wine from you and paid more for the shipping than the wine.

Great job as always Gary… now go mop up that Pinot you poured all over the table.

QotD: Gone to AdventureCon!!! [One of those comic book/Star Wars/Sci Fi/D&D convention thingies.]

Pinot Blanc is a Mutation of Pinot Noir, as is Pinot Gris

I?m envious of that tablecloth!!

Wasn’t easy to see all that wine being wasted! Send me some next time GV. I would love to have the privilege of tasting the tons of awesome wines that you do. I was unfair with me and unfair with the winemaker?s effort. 🙁

QOTD: I have a mini cellar in my bedroom, that?s very nerdy. I watch, every single day (that is on-air), an online video show about Wine. That?s pretty damn nerdy. But I love wine. So, it?s OK. And, I?m currently reading the biography of The Veuve Clicquot. That?s outrageously nerdy. 🙂 (A very good book by the way.)

See you soon GV.
Save me some wine!! 😉

Ps the Anne Amie Riesling is excellent

Love the single wine episodes, bring on the learnin’! I agree it brings out the inner wine geek.

QOTD: My life is geekdom in a lot of ways, so I can’t really isolate one event:)

QotD – Hiked my pantaloons up to my stomach like Ed Grimley.

I too like the one wine shows; short and sweet yet chock-a-block full of knowledge. QOTD: nerdiest thing so far this year…how about spending over $200 on books, and being super stoked to alphabetize them? Man, I love alphabetizing! Keep it real GV.

Oh, I watched that video of that short talk you gave on scaling – how’s the whole no swearing thing going? You broke yet?

QOTD: My wife and I go on nerd tangents all the time.

INteresting show. Too bad it didnt bring the thunder.

QOTD: Joining up on twitter I think is the nerdiest so far. 🙂

Interesting episode, thanks!

QOTD: Hmmm, attempting to choose a highlight from 6 months of nerdiness would be the nerdiest thing I’ve done this year. The fact that I can’t come up with one would be an epic failure, of sorts…

Very interesting, I want to try 🙂

QOTD: Watched WLTV everyday 🙂

I attended an Anne Amie tasting last Friday. The wines were all interesting. QOTD – It is hard to pick one nerdy thing, but at wine tastings I get a lot of grief for swirling and sniffing the wine a lot. People think it is strange to sniff the wines with the glass tilted towards one side of my nose.

It’s a shame this one didn’t bring the thunder, but please keep with the one wine episodes. It slows things down and gives us a chance to look a little closer.

QOTD: Wine geeky? Not much. But my life is geeky-ness so it is hard to say one thing only. Probably attending both an anime convention and a SciFi convention back to back 🙂

QOTD: I watched a marathon of old school Star Trek episodes with my room mate because he’s all about it, and we have to share the TV.

QotD: I haven’t done anything extremely nerdy this year, but a couple years ago I dressed up as spike spegiel from Cowboy Bebop. I took so much crap for that too, because none of my friends had ever seen the show. It was rough going a week or two because its all they would ever talk about.

QOTD: Everything I’ve done this year has been nerdy because I am a total nerd. There is nothing I do that’s not nerdy.

I agree with the “alcohol bite” comment, BUT, that is what makes this an excellent food wine. I had the pleasure of experiencing a pairing of Prisme’ (chilled) with Foie Gras (accompanied by cucumbers, blackberries and local honey) and it was absolutely wonderful. Don’t be so quick to judge this wine right off the shelf; it is not your everyday house wine, nor is it available in mass quantity at $4 a bottle. I challenge you to try again and enjoy this wine in the manner for which it was created.

QOTD: I play your WLTV videos and record them real time to MP3 so I can listen to the episodes in my car.