Yo Gary!
First time dropping by! I’m downunda in Malbra New Zealand – This weekend I had a Te Wharee Ra Dry Reisling and it was a very thunder worthy wine! Te Wharee Ra is one of the best wineries around here, look into’em if you haven’t had the oppurtunity yet! Keep it rolling baby! – 1F

Gary,

Enjoyed the show, love Burgundy, but it doesn’t sound like I need to rush out to find some Santenay.

You’re killing me with the Fran-kos. Seriously, that little thing hanging below the C, means call him Fran-swah, as in Francis and France. Sorry man, I can’t let that go.

QOTD: This weekend I nerded it up with some 2005 Mastroberardino – Lacryma Christi Del Vesuvio Bianco. Pretty delicious.

Also, congrats on your little girl. My wife and I are expecting our first in October. It’s a boy and we need name sugggestions! Sorry, “Gary” is already taken in the family.

Geeks chest-bump all around

Nice episode. Fact of the matter is I have been loving wine for near on a decade and French wine is still intimidating.

QOD- summer is Sav. Blanc time for me….did an in-house comparison of Kim Crawford ’07 vs Nobilo Icon ’07 and Spineyback ’08….Spineyback with the big grapefruit was my winner

Cali cab lover! I second the wtf is with the nebiolo.
How’s the Moshin pinot? I’ve got one I’m almost ready to pop.

QOTD: Well, let’s see: what did I drink this weekend. Friends opened a 2005 Caymus Cab. (nice to have such friends!….) Also had a 2007 Piesporter (alas, I can’t recall the producer), the Ruston 2005 Cab and the 2006 Via Alta Garnacha. A good weekend.

It’s true, i’ve never had Santenay wines but have seen them in wine club catalogs, I just don’t belong to any.

QOTD: We had a bottle of “Marqués De Cáceres Rioja white 2003” for dinner and it was very very good, we paired it with dates, apples, dark chocolate, mangoes with cinnamon and chicken salad; a very nice date night.

I was wondering if you should not standardize to a single glass type. After your comment during the Sake episode that you did notice glass shape/size can make a different, should you not standardize?

QOD – PBR, Shelburne Vinyard (VT) 08 Cote de Champlain (Cayuga, reisling, Chard), Sam Adams Light (sorry can’t remember the Shiraz I am a drinker not a thinker)

I was wondering if you should not standardize to a single glass type. After your comment during the Sake episode that you did notice glass shape/size can make a different, should you not standardize?

QOD – PBR, Shelburne Vinyard (VT) 08 Cote de Champlain (Cayuga, reisling, Chard), Sam Adams Light (sorry can’t remember the Shiraz I am a drinker not a thinker)

First off, thank you for reading my comment on the show today! Secondly, I laughed my @$$ off when you “fumbled” the comments paper and bounced it off your head. That was priceless! Were you tasting (a lot) before the show? 🙂 Good work!

GV Recommendation: How about you invite Bobby Flay on the show as a guest and do some tasting and pairing of wines that go well with grilled foods. Maybe you could do an outside show where you guys grill and taste. As I’m sure you know, Bobby is a native New Yorker and I believe he has a restaurant in New Jersey. I think it would make for an AWESOME show and the dynamic of you two together could be epic. Just a thought since you mentioned grilling.

QOTD: I opened this RADICAL bottle from Trefethen that they call “OKD” presumably because they are in the Oak Knoll District. It rocked my socks off. (Malbec, Petit Verdot, Cab Sauv)

Best,

QOTD:
Friday was beer night with a couple of old speckled hens!

Saturday:
Coffee, water then off to attend a Brunello tasting with 9 Brunellos and a Rosso thrown in to set up your palate after which I had…. you guessed it… another Brunello with dinner:
2000 Castelgiocondo (Marchesi de? Frescobaldi) Brunello di Montalcino which was very tasty indeed. Aging nicely and drinking well now 🙂

Sunday: Coffee, water, and later in the day (honest) Guinness 250 year anniversary stout

YES!!!! Geek is back! Thank you G-Man, it is most appreciated.

QOTD: 05′ Tandem Ritchie Creek Vineyard Chardonnay with some risotto. La vie est belle!! Shout out to Greg LaFollette

QOTD: What alcohol didn’t I have this weekend? (they were all in small amounts)

Lake Superior Kayak Kolsch Beer
Louis Jadot 2006 Beaujolais
Arbor Mist Blackberry Merlot
Cannon River Graciela
Jonesy Port
Hananomai Sake Junmai Daignjo
Patron
Chambord

Wow, now I sound like an eclectic lush

Hey Gary

Love the ‘wine nerd’ shows, great style.

QOTD: Zema Estate Coonawarra Cabernet 2004, some average rose by the glass at a restaurant, Kiran beer and Sunday I went to a brunch buffet so several glasses of poor quaility, too sweet sparkling wine from California.

Cheers
Andrew

Was that a fumble or the tuck rule? Keep nerding it up, love it.

QOTD:2005 Bodegas Luzón Jumilla Altos de Luzón(Spain), very good bottle.

Was that a fumble or the tuck rule? Keep nerding it up, love it.

QOTD:2005 Bodegas Luzón Jumilla Altos de Luzón(Spain), very good bottle.

I’m finding that most of my 2005 Red Burgundies are locked down hard these days. I wonder if some of that was going on here… I won’t be opening them for quite some time until they reemerge from their slumber (2015?).

QOTD: Had some wine geeks come over on Friday and we had some decent stuff… 1990 Ponzi Vineyards Pinot Noir Anniversary Reserve, both 1988 and 1989 Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape and we closed it out with a 2000 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese. Yummy.

David

Great dirty nerdy show today. Keep ’em coming! Also, you might want to venture into the nerdiness of wine and food pairing. You often say this would go great with mussels or clams but a show specific to a type of cuisine would be well, kinda nerdy and alot of fun. Red wines with fish, of course.

QOTD
1) ’07 Simone SB (Chile)
2) ’07 Monmoussea Vouvray (FR)
3) ’06 Eilenz Ayler Kupp Kabinett Riesling (Germany)
4) ’08 Opaline Rose (Beaujolais)
5) ’07 Henry’s Drive Pillar Box Red

P.S. More like a Willie Joe kinda pass! 😉

Cheers!

I am definitely a griller, especially now bbq season is upon us. With Burgundy such a minefield in terms of both price and quality, I’ve recently found Santenay to be a more reliable “value” from this region, and have yet to be a disappointed. Interesting to see such a mixed bag on the show.

Though I have loved some of the guests you’ve had on, I was a bit overwhelmed by the number of guests in past weeks/months, so I’m glad there’s been something of a return to the individual, more personal episodes, really getting into a few wines or exposing quirky or unheard-of wines to the masses.

QOTD: This weekend we had a 2004 Marques de Vargas Rioja Reserva – pretty good stuff, actually.

GV, great show, I am glad you go back to pure education baby, mixed with your humour and energy it’s the best cocktail.
While you are open to feedback: when will we have google earth type interactive maps popping up to show the regions you are talking about ? I could picture some “Map that up Mott” flowing pretty good there.

QOTD: Hennessy Private Reserve 1865, Hennessy X.O, Ardberg single malt (Islay) Ugedail. Smoke me up buttercup.

QOTD: I drank skyy vodka with a splash of grape cranberry juice. Very good, light and easy drinking. Your show today caused me to pause half way through an pour a glass of Shiraz. You made me thirsty for wine with the one’s that you reviewed. Job well done!

Good Show GV, I have not had a Santenay yet, but it will be added to my list of wine i must try.

QOTD: This past weekend I enjoyed a Pinot Nior From British Columbia which screamed of pig, smelled and tasted like ham… not sure if i was really into it but it is all good, expanding my palate. Also had one of my favorite white blend from BC as well “Anastasia” from La Frenz, just a great fruit filled white wine, nice crisp and clean.

a lot of dirty plymouth gin martinis. i mean a lot.

a lot of dirty plymouth gin martinis. i mean a lot.

this weekend…. drank Ceyln Orange Pekoe Classic Dimbula Black Tea + Wente Vineyards Cab Sauv. Very interested in the future of tea tasting.

hey Gary, when is the whore-off?