Welcome! I'm popping a Telegramme Chateauneuf du Pape tonight to celbrate Gary's victory.

This episode cracked me up – Gary, your reaction to the first Dolcetto was priceless. Thank you for continuing to bring wine to the masses without dumbing it down!

Oh yea! Love the Pape! Sorry about the double post my modem just crashed. 🙁

I feel ya, but life=work and life+wine=happy

Had a Muscadet Sèvre et Maine a couple of months ago, no wait it's almost a year, wow time flies. The grape is Melon de bourgogne a grape native to Burgundy but now used only in Loire for making Muscadet (not Muscatel or Muscat, that's diffrent grapes) It's a crisp and excellent wine for aperatifs or to fresh shrimps/lobster/ other shell fish. The wine I had had a nice smell of lemon peel, some pear and a little yeast. Tasted crisp and clean, pera, lemon balm, slightly of bread and wet pebbels. The varietal was brought to US in 39 by Georges de Latour. Wines have often been labels Pinot blanc. Oregon was the first area that put the grape on the label in a correct way, to my knowledge. Damn I must tell my brother there to buy some.

Icewine riesling 🙂

Great comments on Dolcetto's. I haven't had one I was crazy about but look forward to finding the Masante.

I can't believe you have me rooting for the jets.

A solid show – only had a handful of Dolcettos.. but that is only because they are fairly hard to find.

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New to the show! Viewing from Orlando,FL. love Dolcetto D' Alba. You are right on with the great bang for the buck! Very excited to watch your show also love your excitment for wine and wish there were more like you!

Another great show Gary. Plan to try some Dolcettos soon after seeing this. Had a '03 Barolo for Christmas dinner after watching several positive shows on them – it rocked. Perfect complement to the meal.

QOTD: Favorite Show ? tie between Nicolas Joly and episode 800.

Keep 'em coming.

Moselman says: Hey, Mr. Vay-ner-Jets ? I've only had one dolcetto, a coupla years ago when I was so naive as to think I was looking for a white wine (!). Anyway, it was related to the Camerano, I think, and I was quite disappointed. Added to my deteriorating view of Italian wines. However, in researching a few wine sites, I discovered it to be held that Docetto should be consumed young (“best 1 to 3 years from bottling)”, and the one I tried was like '03. This seems in contrast to your comments before getting into the tastings here.

Now for something completely different, I'm having a rough winter, hockey (fan) wise. The Sucky Yucky Canucky team keeps climbing the standings while my Alberta and Minny teams keep underachieving against teams like Columbus, Phoenix, Anaheim. And after a great start, both the Sens and Habs are making me blue, too.
QOTD: So, what to do? AOTD: Climb on the Ryan bandwagon! See you at the top!!

Good episode, have never tried a Dolcetto, but will add it to the list.

Well a little bit – reserve police officer – work the pawn shop detail- lots of property crime and criminal intelligence gathering.

Work as a respiratory therapist in a busy pediatric emergency room.

Been learning and enjoying wine now for about three to four years, still learning and loving the quest.

Try a domestic Dolcetto like Pavi…organic Napa fruit. As stated Dolcetto is
such a food friendly wine (except for steak and hardy fair). An unsung varietal that
has such a strange stigma in the U.S. because most consumers think “dolce” hence sweet.

I'm a wine Noob and want to get my wife more interested. As far as tastes, she likes tropical flavors like mango and pineapple. And leans towards sweet to very sweet. Can anyone help me fine something in my area, Pasadena, CA? Thanks.

Hey Luis. My wife used to lean toward the very sweet Piesporters and the likes. I got her trying some Vinho Verdes which she fell in love with and has since moved toward the Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs which have loads of tropical flavours layered behind the grassy notes. Beyond that maybe you could try some unoaked Chardonnays. Good luck!

Well, was at my daughter and son in laws house this evening and the meal was to be Italian. So after watching this episode I went to the wine shop close to their house and purchased a 2006 Dolcetto d'Alba Pe're Alessandro. It was very good, with good fruit, very bright with good tannin structure. Medium bodied, flavors of plums, dark fruit,

Thank you for continuing to push us to try new varietals and expand our palates.

This was a very enjoyable show! The tasting went from crappy to good to outstanding…Gary, when you are tasting, is that the progression you prefer?i.e, bad, good, great? Always a treat to watch your shows!

Gary, you should follow your own lead on this topic and say something more that a smiley face when you tweet back to people. I know you like to bust out volume but ….. content baby, content.

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*SO* good to see I’m not alone in my fanhood of the Chiefs and Hawks here on WLTV

First of all, great show. The last two Dolcettos sounded very interesting and I will have to seek them out. I have to admit that I have had very little Dolcettos and I really need to get some on hand at home in the cellar for whenever. After all, we can't drink Brunello, Barolo and Amarone every night!

Let's see… you want me to “say something”. Okay. I hate Twitter.

Love it when you drop a bomb on a wine… you need to do that every once in a while to remind them who's boss!

As king of the lurkers I really like your show and because of the Vaynerchuck Cab experiment I am making a Dry Creek Syrah and a Carneros Chard at home. I love your show and thanks. However it would be much better if you wanted to post comments that separate window would open because my DSL is slow and I wanted to post an comment while I was watching a show and it started the shows down load all over. I would comment more but I hate to start the download all over again.

Yeah, we have a Dolcetto at work (TJ's) last year and man did that bad boy need some air before it was drinkable. At first it was dry and not good, but after about 30-45 minutes it was much smoother and the crew kinda liked it. Italian wines are some of our most popular, especially because of the value-driven price points.

We tried some Shiraz/Syrah & Zins last night and the favorite was the Castle Rock
($5.99 in CA at our stores) which had big berries on the nose, slightly jammy, light without being thin, nice over-all Tuesday night drinker. The loser of the night was the 2007 Jacob's Creek Shiraz which had a sweet, fruity nose, light with berry notes and a hot finish.
For $5 I can get a much better Italian or Spanish wine than this stuff. Yuck!
Not a fan of the lower-end Australian wines. Too sweet and/or just plain boring.

“Tight like a tiger.”

Great episode. Always looking for good Italian Reds in the $20 price range. As requested, I've created a profile and added an avatar…no more blank faces.