GARY, good to see you back big guy. don't listen to the jackasses talking smack. just do your thing. if you don't your show will look like it was designed by a committee!
qotd 1 – i cannot count the amount of alsatian riesling i have consumed…. a lot!
QOTD 2 – i have a few
I love victory pig pizza with coke from a glass bottle
whole milk with cake ( any cake )
margaritas with fajitas
tap water and a hot day
glad you are back

Always a pleasure watching you on my computer
Anyway, sorry for my many mistakes and my poor english, what i really enjoy is drinking oldest sinle malt with chocolate cake, the complexity of the malt combine with the bitterness of very dark chocolate is for my a very good association .
For your episode , riesling is a fantastic grappe, i'm not aggre with you regarding Schlumberger, is not too bad, but so short and the balance with acidity and citrus fruit is not for me an example, but for the value is OK
I never tasted Leon Neyer ……… as soon as possible.
PS I owner of a wine cellar in Bordeaux and is a so relaxing time to watching your show, what véry refreshing for me to see people like you JUST enjoy the wine, (You know in Bordeaux drinking is like a wedding celebration with all the bla bla, for me is so mutch serious AND BORING TIME and i can imagine the face of some Pope of the wine in Bordeaux see you tasted Lynch Bages 96 in front off a road, with a windy and snowy weather and spit as a bad boy on the snow) … i laughting again .If you move to Bordeaux, it 'ill be a real pleasure to meet you on my store and open some good bottles . Good luck for the rest .

QOTD: I love beer from Lithuania “Svyturys”
http://www.svyturys.lt

I love Alsace!!!!!!!! I've enjoyed many many wines from Alsace. In 1996 my husband and I visited Alsace. Love it. Love it.

QOTD: When I wake up, coffee with breakfast is my favorite. With football game snacks, a Samuel Adams beer is a favorite. With lunch, water is my favorite. Let's sing. These are a few of my favorite things…..

PA sells Leon Beyer wines.

thank u so so much DomDomi 🙂

Agree and love your handle. I actually collect antique corkscrews.

You hit the nail on the head.

QOTD: I'm not sure about the best pairing, but I can tell you the worst — camembert and OJ. It curdles in your mouth and it tastes like when you've been running too hard and you throw up in the back of your throat. Try it!

So hard to keep the passion at bay, eh? the mope show lasted until the smile at 2:18.
Go Riesling! so fun to try from the many terroir it inhabits.
QOTD: clean fresh H20 from the ground…followed by fruit juices or root beer.
mini qotd: about a dozen and a half from Alsace.

Vayner Nation:
My cousin has been working in Haiti for the last few years…helped to co-found and organize non-profit there to build much needed toilets and build composted fertilizer for the nutrient deficient food crops…things we take for granted. I think the kind of work they do will be even more important during the rebuilding effort to come. If you are interested please visit http://www.oursoil.org

Check out my wine site then, http://www.winelx.com. Let me know what you think.  Thanks

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I went to a Trimbach tasting a couple years ago and I must say that I was skeptical trying Alsace Riesling's, but found them (I tired several vintages) to be very clean and dry with hints of mineral, lemon, peaches, and almost limey (you blokes). Actually, the highlight of the tasting was talking at length to Jean Trimbach, because at the time the Trimbach Gewurz. was my favorite white.

This year, I bought a bottle of Trimbach Riesling 2007 and was very surprised at the acidity in the wine. It also fell in my price range (below $20) and I went back and bought half a case. I can tell you that when you find a great Riesling, it's so outrageously good, it's mind-boggling. I read somewhere that Alsace Rieslings can great aging potential. I plan to keep a bottle or two unopened for a few years and hope for the best. Any chances on aging working for Riesling?

Where is your store? I'm visiting Bordeuax i september. Of course one is in a hunt for good wines that don't rob you of your life savings 🙂

QOTD : kombucha + sushi

The kombucha is the drink and sushi is the food. Kombucha is an imaginary blend of tea and soda, it tastes acidic and i prefer to drink it slightly chilled. I can't explain the paring, it just works great!

About the riesling, not my favorite white wine, the good ones i had are for my pallet to light. I probably need to find better riesling that deliver more oemf.

Wine Cellar Managing Program.
I wonder what a good program or digital system is, to manage the small but growing wine cellars?

Hey Arvino. I like cellartracker… community scores, drinking windows, grape and appellation info… good stuff – and payment is voluntary. Also has a great app for the iPhone called Cor.KZ that allows you access to your cellar and community scores on the go so you can look up wines right there at the store… it will even scan the bar-code to bring up data. Cool stuff.

Awesome wines from Alsace and in my mind the wines are always linked to Austrians too.
both are beautiful crisp whites with power.
Alsace Rieslings and Austrian Riesling and Gruners rock with seafood (shellfish or rich fish) or suasages and choucroute!!!

and I have drunk more Alsace Rieslings than Chards. (Chards,they are too big and alcoholic, often)

Non Wine pairing
Espresso and Canoli

or savoury……. Jerk pork and a red stripe on the beach in J.A.

ciao

cold cut submarine sandwiches with ice cold lemonade…that's what i'm talkin about!

Blakes! It's been years since I had a Lotaburger. Those are really great green chili cheeseburgers; maybe the best in the state (which would pretty much be the best in world by default). Now I want to jump up and drive to Santa Rosa…

that sounds so good right now!

QOTD: Orange soda with a sugar cookie. It can't get any sweeter than that! 🙂

Royce,
This 13 percent stout is from Chicago’s Goose Island Brewery. Aged in bourbon barrels. It’s stunning. One of the most complex beverages I have ever tasted. And it get better with a little bottle aging.
It’s a seasonal around Christmas time. Some retailers may have some left over. I’m new to where I am here in Jersey, so I don’t know of anyone that carries it. I would suspect that any store that carries a good selection of craft brew would have access to it.
Good luck,
Jim

I've actually had hot chocolate with a reuben (because that's what there was to eat at the time, not because I picked it out) and you're right!

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im, i have lots of Alsace Gewurtz available to me, but havn't tried any. Which do you recommend?

re: football, I'm glad you're backing the Saints. Sorry about the circumstances. :-/

mini question: I never saw any auto shop classes in my Florida schools or the schools my friends went to. But who knows? It's a big state.

QOTD: I'm so bad at making choices and calling things my favorite. I have a tendency to just go with the last thing that I desired strongly and I sort of feel like I've wanted that thing my whole life even though I've only been thinking about it for a few days. The other day, I was being all professional and tasting through some wines while my French friends broke out the Ricard. I really wish I had taken a second to do Ricard (mixed with water) and this liver saucisson. I think that would have been awesome. It looked delicious. I MISSED THE BOAT.

COFFEE and hamburger with onions