HA! Gary hates WOOD in his mouth, me too! Love when you lay the smack down. Santa is bringing some Don Melchor, Pontet Canet, Black Kite, and some cash.

Would you PLEASE, for once, say what you mean and stop straddling the fence 🙂

I probably have a greater tolerance for oak having been residing in California all of my wine drinking life. I may try to find the Henley’s just to see where we are vs oak.

QOTD: Don’t really know. I like surprises.

Would you PLEASE, for once, say what you mean and stop straddling the fence 🙂

I probably have a greater tolerance for oak having been residing in California all of my wine drinking life. I may try to find the Henley’s just to see where we are vs oak.

QOTD: Don’t really know. I like surprises.

Would you PLEASE, for once, say what you mean and stop straddling the fence 🙂

I probably have a greater tolerance for oak having been residing in California all of my wine drinking life. I may try to find the Henley’s just to see where we are vs oak.

QOTD: Don’t really know. I like surprises.

Would you PLEASE, for once, say what you mean and stop straddling the fence 🙂

I probably have a greater tolerance for oak having been residing in California all of my wine drinking life. I may try to find the Henley’s just to see where we are vs oak.

QOTD: Don’t really know. I like surprises.

Love the Where’s SS Chris, hehehehe. And for the Oakmonster, although I think you are FAR more sensitive to oak than me, i have to agree that those over-the-top wines are some sort of science project.

QOTD: I HOPE on The Oxford Companion to Wine… don’t know, so I’m curious and excited!

Love the Where’s SS Chris, hehehehe. And for the Oakmonster, although I think you are FAR more sensitive to oak than me, i have to agree that those over-the-top wines are some sort of science project.

QOTD: I HOPE on The Oxford Companion to Wine… don’t know, so I’m curious and excited!

Love the Where’s SS Chris, hehehehe. And for the Oakmonster, although I think you are FAR more sensitive to oak than me, i have to agree that those over-the-top wines are some sort of science project.

QOTD: I HOPE on The Oxford Companion to Wine… don’t know, so I’m curious and excited!

Love the Where’s SS Chris, hehehehe. And for the Oakmonster, although I think you are FAR more sensitive to oak than me, i have to agree that those over-the-top wines are some sort of science project.

QOTD: I HOPE on The Oxford Companion to Wine… don’t know, so I’m curious and excited!

Always cool to see value plays. I need to try some Aussie wine but I just started figuring out how good the Washington State wine is. With so many regions and so many many wines there is just not enough time to try them all. Thanks for keeping my list of wines to try long and never ending.

QOTD: A better attitude. Took two weeks off work and I am already getting on my wife’s nerves.

Always cool to see value plays. I need to try some Aussie wine but I just started figuring out how good the Washington State wine is. With so many regions and so many many wines there is just not enough time to try them all. Thanks for keeping my list of wines to try long and never ending.

QOTD: A better attitude. Took two weeks off work and I am already getting on my wife’s nerves.

Always cool to see value plays. I need to try some Aussie wine but I just started figuring out how good the Washington State wine is. With so many regions and so many many wines there is just not enough time to try them all. Thanks for keeping my list of wines to try long and never ending.

QOTD: A better attitude. Took two weeks off work and I am already getting on my wife’s nerves.

Always cool to see value plays. I need to try some Aussie wine but I just started figuring out how good the Washington State wine is. With so many regions and so many many wines there is just not enough time to try them all. Thanks for keeping my list of wines to try long and never ending.

QOTD: A better attitude. Took two weeks off work and I am already getting on my wife’s nerves.

Always cool to see value plays. I need to try some Aussie wine but I just started figuring out how good the Washington State wine is. With so many regions and so many many wines there is just not enough time to try them all. Thanks for keeping my list of wines to try long and never ending.

QOTD: A better attitude. Took two weeks off work and I am already getting on my wife’s nerves.

Love the more subtle Aussie wines… too bad they’re hard to find!

QOTD: New Boots! I hope, at least. Pittsburgh’s under 9 inches of snow and there’s more to come. My slippers just don’t do the trick when shoveling.

Love the more subtle Aussie wines… too bad they’re hard to find!

QOTD: New Boots! I hope, at least. Pittsburgh’s under 9 inches of snow and there’s more to come. My slippers just don’t do the trick when shoveling.

Love the more subtle Aussie wines… too bad they’re hard to find!

QOTD: New Boots! I hope, at least. Pittsburgh’s under 9 inches of snow and there’s more to come. My slippers just don’t do the trick when shoveling.

Love the more subtle Aussie wines… too bad they’re hard to find!

QOTD: New Boots! I hope, at least. Pittsburgh’s under 9 inches of snow and there’s more to come. My slippers just don’t do the trick when shoveling.

QOTD: I don’t know.. I do know that Santa is bring Nintendo DS to my kids, so maybe I will pretend some of their games are for them.

QOTD: I don’t know.. I do know that Santa is bring Nintendo DS to my kids, so maybe I will pretend some of their games are for them.

QOTD: I don’t know.. I do know that Santa is bring Nintendo DS to my kids, so maybe I will pretend some of their games are for them.

Sorry, Gary – I like your show, but I have no idea why anyone would want to review a Shiraz from a Cabernet region (Coonawarra). No one in Australia with any idea would buy a Shiraz from Coonawarra. It is like tasting a Pinot from Bordeaux. No wonder it was a shocker.

The choice of a Pinot from Yarra Valley was more like it, as it has been consistently the best region for Pinot in Oz (Mornington Peninsula is a close second).

Can you please distinguish Victorian regions – Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Pyrenees, etc, just like you distinguished South Australia regions – Barossa, Langhorne Creek, Connawarra, etc. There is huge regional variation. It would be great to see reviews for Reislings from Clare Valley/Eden Valley (just awesome); Semillon from Hunter Valley (amazing); Chardonnay from Margaret River; Cabernet from Coonawarra (you get real terroir in those). Noble One Botrytis Semillon is brilliant – amazingly, it is the only wine (bar none) that you would drink from its region – Griffith. Please review this at some stage.

Biggest problem in the US – choice of Aussie wines is not great and tends to fit certain defined (not sure by who) “expectations”, so good stuff can be hard (but not impossible) to find. Reputation screwed up by cheap rubbish with animal pictures on the label and other crap wines under 10. Pinot can be a good choice, as I find West Coast Pinot way over priced for what you get. Sadly, Shiraz available in the US is good only at the higher price end of things.

Enough rant: loved the show.

Sorry, Gary – I like your show, but I have no idea why anyone would want to review a Shiraz from a Cabernet region (Coonawarra). No one in Australia with any idea would buy a Shiraz from Coonawarra. It is like tasting a Pinot from Bordeaux. No wonder it was a shocker.

The choice of a Pinot from Yarra Valley was more like it, as it has been consistently the best region for Pinot in Oz (Mornington Peninsula is a close second).

Can you please distinguish Victorian regions – Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Pyrenees, etc, just like you distinguished South Australia regions – Barossa, Langhorne Creek, Connawarra, etc. There is huge regional variation. It would be great to see reviews for Reislings from Clare Valley/Eden Valley (just awesome); Semillon from Hunter Valley (amazing); Chardonnay from Margaret River; Cabernet from Coonawarra (you get real terroir in those). Noble One Botrytis Semillon is brilliant – amazingly, it is the only wine (bar none) that you would drink from its region – Griffith. Please review this at some stage.

Biggest problem in the US – choice of Aussie wines is not great and tends to fit certain defined (not sure by who) “expectations”, so good stuff can be hard (but not impossible) to find. Reputation screwed up by cheap rubbish with animal pictures on the label and other crap wines under 10. Pinot can be a good choice, as I find West Coast Pinot way over priced for what you get. Sadly, Shiraz available in the US is good only at the higher price end of things.

Enough rant: loved the show.

Sorry, Gary – I like your show, but I have no idea why anyone would want to review a Shiraz from a Cabernet region (Coonawarra). No one in Australia with any idea would buy a Shiraz from Coonawarra. It is like tasting a Pinot from Bordeaux. No wonder it was a shocker.

The choice of a Pinot from Yarra Valley was more like it, as it has been consistently the best region for Pinot in Oz (Mornington Peninsula is a close second).

Can you please distinguish Victorian regions – Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Pyrenees, etc, just like you distinguished South Australia regions – Barossa, Langhorne Creek, Connawarra, etc. There is huge regional variation. It would be great to see reviews for Reislings from Clare Valley/Eden Valley (just awesome); Semillon from Hunter Valley (amazing); Chardonnay from Margaret River; Cabernet from Coonawarra (you get real terroir in those). Noble One Botrytis Semillon is brilliant – amazingly, it is the only wine (bar none) that you would drink from its region – Griffith. Please review this at some stage.

Biggest problem in the US – choice of Aussie wines is not great and tends to fit certain defined (not sure by who) “expectations”, so good stuff can be hard (but not impossible) to find. Reputation screwed up by cheap rubbish with animal pictures on the label and other crap wines under 10. Pinot can be a good choice, as I find West Coast Pinot way over priced for what you get. Sadly, Shiraz available in the US is good only at the higher price end of things.

Enough rant: loved the show.

Sorry, Gary – I like your show, but I have no idea why anyone would want to review a Shiraz from a Cabernet region (Coonawarra). No one in Australia with any idea would buy a Shiraz from Coonawarra. It is like tasting a Pinot from Bordeaux. No wonder it was a shocker.

The choice of a Pinot from Yarra Valley was more like it, as it has been consistently the best region for Pinot in Oz (Mornington Peninsula is a close second).

Can you please distinguish Victorian regions – Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Pyrenees, etc, just like you distinguished South Australia regions – Barossa, Langhorne Creek, Connawarra, etc. There is huge regional variation. It would be great to see reviews for Reislings from Clare Valley/Eden Valley (just awesome); Semillon from Hunter Valley (amazing); Chardonnay from Margaret River; Cabernet from Coonawarra (you get real terroir in those). Noble One Botrytis Semillon is brilliant – amazingly, it is the only wine (bar none) that you would drink from its region – Griffith. Please review this at some stage.

Biggest problem in the US – choice of Aussie wines is not great and tends to fit certain defined (not sure by who) “expectations”, so good stuff can be hard (but not impossible) to find. Reputation screwed up by cheap rubbish with animal pictures on the label and other crap wines under 10. Pinot can be a good choice, as I find West Coast Pinot way over priced for what you get. Sadly, Shiraz available in the US is good only at the higher price end of things.

Enough rant: loved the show.