That place is Bitchen with a capital B.

QOTD: All I know is High Time Wine Cellars here in Costa Mesa, CA. The staff is great, and the wines are always interesting. Need to get out more. Would love to see something like this place in SoCal.

Oh – I also like Ino in Grenwich Village. Italian wine bar. The goat cheese and fennel frond brusceta is reason enough to go. Hope it still exists.

Terroir, in NYC’s East Village. Wine guru Paul Greico’s selections are always provocative and thoughtfully chosen.

QOTD: It’s in my dining room.
I have a great house, great wife, great selection, at a great price point.
What’s not to like?

ps. Next time you have a cough, try the menthol drops. They won’t turn your tongue red.

What I really like about you Gary is that you are not intimidated by your environment. You can sit in ‘their camp’ and tell it like it is on the wine you are tasting. Love the honesty. Love the variety of location. Love the show.

QOTD: Three Rivers in Walla Walla. My first real experience with wine. I will never forget that memory.

QOTD: Lincoln St. Fredericksburg, Texas http://www.lincolnst.com/
One of the only good wine bars I’ve been too

QOTD for you, What do you like better, baby artichokes or fried okra?

QOTD:I dont go to any bars. But if I did, I would go to that one.

QOTD: Proof in DC

QOTD: Terroir in NYC is the best there is. Inoteca comes in at #2.

Clo is a place i can clearly skip in September. too antiseptic and techy. or i am too old?

QotD: W.I.N.O. in New Orleans is like a cool version of Clo.

QOTD: You’ve asked this before and I still have the same answer, Domaine Hudson in Wilmington DE.

CLO is like Disneyland or maybe it’s like Willy Wonka’s wine bar would be.

58 Degrees and Holding in Sacramento, CA

nice interview of a new spot. thanks. My favorite wine bar is my dining room table with friends or neighbors over.

My fave wine bar right now is Lelabar wine bar in Manhattan – west Village.

Richard

Gary, you can’t rate a wine that has been sitting under gas. Pop and pour one and then judge. Under gas it can get a little flabby and certainly subdues the tannins. It hurts the wines balance. Yeah, I didn’t believe it until my wife (a pinot lover)was disappointed with a glass of Roessler pinot noir and the sommelier said “I keep telling them not to put that wine under gas”. He opened the same vintage, he said it came from the same case as the gassed bottle, and it was like a different wine, great nose, nice fresh acidity and a much longer finish than the gassed wine. Pinot’s are finiky so maybe they are more sensitive to that treatment and most can’t sit around under vacuum, gas or recorked and refrigerated very long and still be drinkable, but I would not rate any wine from a “wine dispenser”.

That technology was sick. I am completely blown away.

Cosmic technology at CLO.

Gary, wish you had tasted the Jonata which was one to the left from your taste. Have their inaugural vintage and have not opened yet!

@shorespeak

kir in portland oregon!

Nice place and I love how they did the wine menu.
It seams that there a little pricey though, and I don’t think you got $19 worth of wine. Cool concept but I think I’ll pass if I’m ever in NY.

Vincent

My favorite wine bar right now is the Wine Loft in Mobile, AL. Maybe because it is the only true wine bar I have ever been to. . .

Gary I believe you will like this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KzprGxpZU

We have a wine bar at one of the local movie theaters. -about 24-32 bottles. I like that you can select two four or six ounces (full glass). So, if you just want to taste a more expensive wine, you do not have to pay an arm and a leg, if you love it, you just get more. Very nice system. My palate is not refined enough to say it affects the flavor or not.

Wow that place is really cool. The problem with places that have a high degree of novelty is that you are likely to pay for that novelty rather than the products that are contained therin. To me those prices for a glass (and this goes for most wine bars) are absurd. I don’t mind paying for a good bottle of wine, but 14 dollars for a glass of “I hope this is good” just isnt worth it. But the technology was impressive, if only we can get a wine bar to make the wine truly approachable.

QOTD Brix in Sunset Beach, CA

Well my favorite wine bar, was a wine shop in Kobe (Japan), called Bellier. Free Wine / Sparkling tastings on Sat, Sun, they would have 5 – 15 wines on the counter. random tastings, tastings by region, by type, awesome place for a hot summer afternoon….. but it closed…

Oh, on Clo. I like the concept, but I’d rather have stone and wood around than metal and plastic, not to mention it seemed noisy in a “busy mall” kind of way. Good wine selection and I do like the machines (if they let you purchase just a taste as an option).