Thanks for this opportunity to get some of Ms. Barrett’s insight.
I love northern rhone syrah, and find the QPR to be much better than pinot.

That was an awesome show. I love Heidi Barrett.

QOTD: I love Syrah. I have said for the last few years that it is my favorite varietal…

Thanks Gary Love these last 2 episodes.

The high volume/low quality aussies killed quality Syrah!

@apj_bobwineguy
You are correct. Radishes are not in wine and only one person in the world has tasted/smelled them in wine. Keep it simple! Cut out the esoterico.

Heidi! Please comment here. Did you like the movie? Can you give us a deal on the wine. You do want your brand out there don’t you. We will spread the word if we could afford to. You can make millions on a book. Don’t gouge the wine lovers.

Gary,

Great 2 part show, Really enjoyed the whole thing. Heidi was a class act with great insight for the Viewers.

This show is why I click on everyday.

Mott: great job, nice balance on the sound and picture!

QOTD: Syrah is my go to wine when I don’t know what my guest will like to drink, It makes a nice surprise when they find out what it is and that they love it.

great show..once again, great guest!

QOTD: Shiraz was one of the grape that I started drinking with. After that, I realised the different types of shiraz that’s made which shows its uniqueness and versatility.
Pinots by themselves are great as well, but they should both be compared individually not against each other like what many people are so fond of doing.
Hence, I’m a shiraz person or a pinot drinker. Hate those!

Great two part episode with Heidi Barrett. What a knowledgable, classy and interesting woman. Brought me out of lurker mode. I will definitely be sampling more Syrah, I have not made a point of drinking Syrah. Keep up the good work Gary.

QOTD. I completely and utterly agree. Syrah delivers far more and way more consistently than pinot. It is more suitable to being styled differently, whereas pinot just is not good when It tries to be different styles.

Great guest. Very informative.

Gary,
This episode was just superb. Heidi Barrett was a wonderful guest and the interaction between the two of you was nothing short of mesmerizing. If ever you have brought the thunder to the Vayner Nation, this show did it in every regard. The way that you both described the wines as you tasted them had me feeling almost as if I were tasting them myself. How I would love to get my hands on some of those La Sirena wines.

It is episodes like this that make me come back time and time again to watch Wine Library TV. Thank you so much, Gary, for bringing this guest to WLTV and delivering a massive thunderstorm to your viewers.

Neil in Kentucky

Thanks for the amazing guests!

QOTD: I would not have thought to compare the two wines, and I honestly drink MUCH more pinot noir than Syrah, but I will say this — I’m NOT a fan of bolder pinot noirs, especially some big Oregon names, and I rarely find Syrah objectionable. I enjoy 9 out 10 syrahs that I drink and probably 8 out 10 pinot noirs, although I consume much more of the latter (maybe I should think about that for a while…)

hi heidi you’re welcome in the languedoc as a guest too as a languedoc resident and a wine actor i love syrah too rather than pinot noir think you’re right this varietal has more things to say and express i remember last year a very small production we picked up with a wonderful liquorice flavor smthg incredible ! syrah is simply horizontal in your mouth in comparison to a vertical pinot noir
thank you again for this show again gary from south of france

Awesome episode, Heidi was great. This pirate thing sounds exciting, Gary make sure you get it on the show when it’s released.

qotd – timing couldn’t have been better for this question, I’ve been thinking about Syrah a lot lately and I think that’s the direction my palette is going to be headed in the fall. My suspicion is that it’s similar to Pinot in that it has the potential to make some phenomenal wines but the vast majority are mediocre-worse. My best experiences have been with Northern Rhone wines, I’ve yet to have anything from California or Australia that’s really changed my world but I have got to believe they’re out there and the 05 Barrett sounds like as good a contender as any.

QOTD: Syrah is probably my desert island grape. Touriga Nacional and Muscat are some other favorites, largely because of the aromatics.

@ castello

I think that your loud opinions scream your ignorance in a very boastful way.

You’ve struggled for years to find a memorable pinot? You think you had a pretty good one, but don’t remember the name? Let me help you: You didn’t. Either that, or your cognitive capacities are pitifully limited, in which case, I, appropriately, pity you.
First off, try spending substantially more than $9.99 for a bottle, and maybe you’ll have a chance to discover what good wine is. 90 out of 100 Pinots at levels below $27 are worthless drek. 90 out of 100 over $60 can be incredible. It is extremely insulting when loud mouthed bufoons such as yourself cry about the price of an artisinal quality commodity, which cannot be replicateted by any other hand, and you’re crying that you want your money back for your shit $10 sewer water. You know NOTHING of the crafted skill, love, patience, and intelligence, not to mention the actual cost of making such things of beauty. And it extends to the world of food, flavors, and quality ingredients, not industrial corn-garbage-fodder that they foist on unthinking schlubs.
For a product like a mere 400 cases of her Syrah, for the barrels, alone, to get the BEST of French Oak (better, (different too) and costlier than good American) would be $15,000 – $20,000. That’s for, like only 5000 bottles. That’s just for the barrels. It is discussed here, and through every wine magazine and forum, topics such as real estate and terroir, and their cost and worth, hand sorting and selection, vineyard/grape management, cellar practices, and on and on. This kind of wine, though it comes in a glass bottle just as your drek does, has NOTHING to do with machine harvested, industrial crap that you buy with stupid/ cutesy animals on it.
As for apj_bobwineguy, keeping descriptos simple works for simple minds. There’s a good chance that Gary, Heidi and others may be a ‘supertaster'(high density of tastebuds. that includes roughly 25% of the population) 50% are ‘normal’ tasters, the final 25% have low density of taste buds, and may be called ‘non-tasters’. Maybe you’re one o’ dem. yea.

QotD – Ugghh. Murso think Syrah good. HdV, Lewis, et al, are awesome, but out of my realistic range, save a bottle/year, or two. Paso Robles, and the range of central coast has lots of good, drinkable, and affordable syrah, even if most are not stellar, mind blowers. Have had the priveledge and pleasure of meeting JL Chave, and had several of those. Happily, even the little Chave products like Offerus (St. Joseph?) and Mon Couer are every day reachable. In Oz, the first things in mind are Jim Barry wines, and Roman Bratusiak’s Clarendon Hills, though one could go on and on…

Gary….one of the best shows….Heidi is such a fantastic ambassador for wine.

QOTD: Since my favorite wine region is Rhone and there by also the Syrah based wines, it kind of went over my head that Pinot Noir is everybody’s “liebling kind”…..:-)

Wonderful and entertaining guest. Really enjoyed her knowledge of wine and her experiences of CA wine country and how it has evolved and changed. The wines she makes all sound as if they would be great. I enjoy syrah, but have mostly had Rhone syrah and not CA syrah.

Great show. Great guest.

QOTD: I have find very few Syrahs that I like. I keep trying, but its just not for my palate. I’ve been a Pinot fan long before Sideways.

Great guest. They are probably my new favorite episodes.

Graceful, passionate, thought provoking and refined. Do I mean the La Sirena wines or Heidi Barrett? Yes.

Gary you were restrained and respectful (not that your “overtop” style usually bothers me) and it made it even better.
However, I can’t believe that during part 2 of these “classy episodes” you licked the glass…twice!

QOTD: I really like syrah and drank a lot of it for a period of time, especially from AUS. I haven?t had one in a while though.

Absolutely love Syrah – favorite wine without a doubt. Just had a bottle of Moollydooker Blue Eyed Boy last night and my favorites within the last year are the Landmark Steel Plow and Neyers Old Lakeville Road.

Hello, Wine tv.. I didn’t finish this video, but this woman Heidi Barret is very graceful, and about time I can see great quality of wine.. There are many good wines and many bads, but it’s awesome to see a woman having a great consumer product..

Thanks Heidi & G. Great, informative show. About the ’07’s, I had a feeling it was gonna be a great one the moment I cracked that ’07 Seghesio Zin that got the 10 spot on WS top 100.

QOTD: Two different beasts and both loved for their uniqueness and varietal character. I’ll take both over a Cab. and Merlot.

Case syrah syrah: whatever will the be will be..

Case syrah syrah: whatever will be will be..