You are in SUCH a weird mood today Gary! Great show though, as usual. Love the sheep-butt aroma myself! Good call on those 2 wines. QOTD: Gardening and drinking, in any order I see fit.

Carmenere, Cab Sauvignon, and malbec.. about 480 lbs in total…I just double checked the order becasue Christian M. had asked the same….oh and a 6 gal pail of Sauvignon Blanc!

QOTD – Doing Wine Tours in the Sta. Rita Hills…

Like your name. Sustainability is the future, or at least it should be.

was not aware that sancerre made pinot… interesting.

QOTD: Going to lounge home drink my wine from the monthly wine club. might throw in some rock climbing since it'll be raining

QOTD: We are having an Australian Cab tasting for 60 or our closest friends.

Brown bags on the couch!!!

Going home to visit the fam and for a few birthdays, hopefully good weather in Seattle

Sippin' some '05 Pommard, listening to Sinatra's “Only The Lonely” album. Magic!

I still have no weekend wine plans. I'm supposed to attend a cookout tomorrow evening, so I'll probably pick up a cheap toscano for me, and a muscato for the chick's house we're going to. She only likes “sweet wine”, and normally has a few jugs of Ohio Catawba muscat paint thinner sitting out for public consumption.

Morels?

yep

come on Gary – 🙂 a fairly lame show overall. i guess the earthiness and “truckdriver armpit” “sheepbutt” descriptors were worthy of my time today. but seriously, why not pick french pinot from more obvious regions. I have never purchased and pinot from sancere. pinot at that price point is tricky. but thanks~~ time for gamay….come on Gary…a great chilled summer wine with lightly grilled food. be well. ron

IMO they are the best shroom on the planet. I didn't hunt for them last year, but ended up with a fair amount found while trout fishing. They dry wonderfully as well. You can find them here in markets for about $40/lb. Most of the local restaurants snatch them up though, so you have to be there when they open if you really want them.

Aside from morels, I find tons of wild chanterelles. They're quite common and it seems that nobody picks them.

My newest discovery you might not believe though. Last year I was helping a lady till up a garden on her property. The back end terminated into a great big old hickory tree. I reached down to pick up a stone, but it wasn't a stone. Truffles. I shit you not. I've been trying to research and find if there are indigenous truffles here, and have found a few scattered reports, but the proof is in the pudding. I ended up unearthing about a dozen of them, most larger than a golf ball. I was skeptical at first. I took them home and cleaned them off and dug the truffle shaver (that had never been used) from the box of useless kitchen utensils. They were the real deal. They were a little different than the black truffles I'm used to. More of a mocha color, but the flavor was rich and intense. I ended up keeping a few, gifting a few, and selling a few. I offered them back to the lady, but she didn't know what they were or what to do with them. So I've offered to help her with her garden this year. Hopefully at the end of the year I might find a few more.

Wow – Ohio truffles. What a huge discovery that would be if it turned out there were lots of them. As a MI Wolverine alumni, I am supposed to say I wouldn't eat them on a bet because they came out of OH soil. But I love truffles even more than I hate OH State so bring em on. I think I would be checking out any area that is remotely similar to that lady's garden. You know how it is finding Morels, it can take forever to find the first one but once you have they start showing up everywhere. Maybe there is a stand of hickory just behind her lot or something that is loaded with them. You need to get yourself a pig.

On aime bien les bourgognes mais les bordeaux 2009 . . . il faut les gouter . . .

“Hey, drink up you happy people….”

I too have wondered for all the episodes – what he does with the opened wine bottles? Guess that is why his dad does rare visits, just too busy finishing the opened bottles. hahahaha.

Good episode, still enjoy this concept. Glad to see you on target.

QOTD – Have Friday off, will take the wife out for an evening of fun, then back to the grind on Saturday and Sunday.

LOVE The Barry Horowitz

RE: QOTD… Negotiating on a new house. Just gave them our final offer so we'll see if it's a good Champagne drinking weekend or not so good and wine drinking weekend 😉

I wish I could find Founders here in Sactown, but alas…
And yes, it’s expensive, but a really good bottle of world class beer is $15 to $30 dollars as compared to $50 and up for good wines (I am admittedly a Pinot fan and have been for many years). So please don’t fall into the marketing blitz that is PBR these days. 🙂 Oh yeah, good to hear from another knowledgable fan of BALANCED hoppy beers. Hoppy beers may not be my favorite (That would be Belgians of all stripes) but being the beer/wine slut that I am, I do loves me some WC Barleywines and IPAs!!
Searching for Founders… wait for it…

OK, I'm never first – but I have a life. snicker. chuckle. haha.

So….? Gary, what was in the glass you had to dump out at first and then lick the edge? Doing the hard stuff prior to the show? hahaha.

Good good show.
Qotd: tending 5000 vines, and bottling 200 gallons of finished wine. That takes up my whole weekend. phew.

Stuck working all weekend 🙁

Visiting girlfriend, get some stuff done, rainy and grey out.

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