QOTD: In 2000, I turned 21, finally able to start enjoying wine… and Guinness, because, no disrespect, she’s my first love.

QOTD: The best thing about 2000 is 2000 Bordeaux – the second most numerous year of Bordeaux in my cellar (after 2005s. I just hope that the (very heavily hyped) 2005s turn out to be as good as the 2000s in another 5 or 6 years). I’m no expert but may be even a better vintage than 1995 and 1996.

St-Julien is also one of my favourite Right Bank appellations – good to see you so pumped about a good wine from the area.

The best thing about 2000 is that my boyfriend who still lives with me moved in with me and my daughter who was then a cute 9 year old. Also, an innocent time when we look back to the following year on 9/11.

need me some of that wine!

QOD: Graduation! Savannah College of Art and Design Baby!!!

QOTD: My favorite thing about 2000 was seeing that the Y2K Bug was COMPLETELY insignificant. Whole lotta nothin’.

Mmmmmmm Bordeaux ….. I’d cellar it but it keeps evaporating!

AotD: My first-born arrived 04/18/2000 @ 4:18pm, a son. The single most amazing experience I have ever witnessed.

Gotta love those St. Juliens!!!!
QOTD: The incredible feeling of freedom of moving out of my parents’ house and into my very own appartment in the city.

Wow GV 97 points! It’s been time…

Nice wines, nice view, nice mood Gary!

QOTD: I know only Sasha can talk politics here but: Al Gore almost saved the world from Bush! If it wasn?t for Florida (Ooops, another Bush was the Governor.)?

How is Misha doing?
Best wishes,

Mauricio Fernandes.
Recife – Brazil.

I want to sell my Marilyn Merlot collection, missing 4 early vintages, where do I post it?

2000-The birth of my second son. What else could a man want.

GREAT SHOW MAN
back to what i love about this show great wine in deabt,

i hate’d ny,week with a passion,i dont like guests much,
so when i saw todays show i was really exited,

lots of the same please,more great pricey wines and just you,
great stuff.

Do more French wines. In my own cellar, I know all my New World wines pretty much by heart, but I draw a blank on the French wines, even though I have notes on all of them and re-read them frequently.

QOTD: I have a 2000 Honda Accord that I still have and love, but I actually bought it (thanks mom and dad) in 1999. I wasn’t married in 2000, so sort of a quiet year for me.

Thunder…. thunder… ThunderCats… Hooooo! Finally. Searching the web for the 2000 Chat Branaire Ducru. I knew it was going to bring the Thunder becasue of the look on your face and the way you placed your hands on your head while swishing it around. Great show Gary!

QOTD: I graduated HS in 2000 so it was a big year for me. Spent the summer back in SoCal at my sister’s place on the beach. I surfed every morning and spent the evenings drinking beer and BBQ’n with old friends (I know I wasn’t quite 21 yet). Got a tattoo, fell in love a couple times, blew all my graduation cash in Vegas and had to sell a surfboard for the gas to get back home to Portland. Awesome year.

PS- How about walking down to a local grocery store (with the flip-cam)and randomly, and I mean randomly, pick out four or five bottles of wine in the $15-$20 range and review them? I think it would make for an interesting show and you’d probably taste what a lot of people are picking up for dinner while grocery shopping.

ty for the review Gary, sounds like a steal at that price. now i gotta try to track down that 2000 chat. branaire ducru, or see if i can order through my restaurant

Gary, also can you do a charbono tasting? I carry the summers at my restaurant, and I’ve had the Robert Foley, the Duxoup, the Coturri, and the Venges ‘Scouts Honor’ zin petite sirah charbono blend. seems to be an interesting grape that can come out great for its price when made well. also seems to very versatile in that the examples from different wineries seem to turn out very different versions of the varietal.
I love you’re blogs on the better known wines, but I especially love the ones on more obscure wines where you get to have or find out about stuff that most people don’t know about.
This would definitely fit the bill in that category, being that there’s only about 80 acres in the world, all in California, mostly Napa, and that it’s made by about roughly 13-16 wineries depending on the vintage.
Add to that that it’s made as a single varietal wine, and can turn out very well sometimes in it’s price point makes it even more alluring.
If you do get around to a charbono tasting, it would be nice if you could get a hold of and include summers charbono rose, I tried to get my distributor to bring it in and the other wine steward at my place even went to summers winery in Napa a few months back and he couldn’t even try it there. Very curious as to what that’s like.
Anyway looking forward to you’re next post.

Great show!

QOTD: 2000 was the year I met my lovely wife.

I am a newbie, just found the site. Love the show…. However could you PLEASE not roll the episode index right over Gary’s face during his introduction. Very distracting. I like to see the different expression on his face as he announces: VAAY-NEER-CHUCK…….

Thanks,

Steve

GV, love the outside tapings of The Thunder Show! I’m trying every day to expand my palate and try new things, thanks for the excitement you bring into the wine world.

QOTD: the best thing about 2000 was graduating high school and starting college. Also met one of my best friends in school that year.

Your show is great, but I really think your high salt, high fat heart attack diet is not only hurting your body, but its skewing and dulling your taste buds drastically. I’d really love to see you go on a low salt diet for a month just to see what happens to your pallet. Don’t talk my word for it. Read Dr. Furhman:http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/hurtful-food-eat-less-salt-get-more-taste.html

QOTD: started law school

Utterly puzzling to me why this guy is supposed to be such a guru. Just a few seconds of that terrible voice and those histrionics are worse than chalk screeching on a slate.

GAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

WHY, DEAR JEBUS, IS THE OAK MONSTER T-SHIRT SOLD OUT!?!?!?

So sad….

haha, but on the real….make some more, cause I am sooooo wanting to order one and have it shipped all the way to DIJON freaking FRANCE!!!!!

Vinously Speaking,
The Ceci Sipper

It was the year that we concieved our dear daughter Chloe.

St-Julien rocks! Easily one of my favorite wine appellations in the world.
QOTD: Lots of stuff, but at the top would have to be my then girlfriend, and all the fun times we had together (went to Napa wineries on our first date).

Gazin IS de-LISH-us! Ya done good, G. Without all the distractions, and excitement of exterraneous unnecessary people, your focus and mindfulness is SOOO much better.

You really nailed it here. What’s NOT to love in Pomerol? Nothing except how obscenly overpriced a wine such as the great Petrus is. I’ve tasted a few vintages, and the 1998 on three different occasions (different bottles). Although there’s no doubt it’s great, it can easily be outperformed by lesser, non-classified, and (on a lucky day), even modest level wines of the commune. Typically, the guy who HAS TO have Petrus is screaming with inadequacy issues, yet we have to cater to and provide for these big spenders. I do, however, as you have done here, take particular pleasure in delivering more sensibly priced, and delicious choices as here.

QotD – in 2000? Wine sales were going through the roof. While any good year sustains growth in volume and numbers, this particular year went crazy with openings in products, higher quality boutique trends, new distribution opportunities, and capped it all off with a holiday season of the public realizing that THIS was the REAL Millenium eve. It was f’n CRAZY!
And then I finished it with a bottle of 1989 Pommery Louise!