Monday Night baby!

QOTD: I am a huge fan of this varietal and especially in this region. I have to mention two here; one to represent best value (as always), and one to represent best overall:

BEST VALUE: 2008 Sherwood Pinot Noir, Marlborough (~$15)- it is VERY hard to beat the purity of fruit, freshness and ideally structured frame of this Pinot anywhere near this price.

BEST OVERALL: 2007 Pyramid Valley Vineyards “Eaton” Pinot Noir, Marlborough (~$36-$40) This Biodynamic Pinot offers amazing concentration of fruit and spice, along with an earthy edge and well integrated tannin structure that is LONG, allowing you to think about the complexity of flavors as they keep coming well after the wine has left the palate. Stellar.

QOTD 2: If you’re reading this, GV, you must be quite bored, or on a plane with time to kill, either way I will make it short: Sommelier aspect of my life is going well, although a bit slow with the current economic situation. However, I am using this as an opportunity to showcase the value of the wine world to my customers, and LOVING IT!! As for the acting front, I have booked multiple web series lately, I have a general interview with Sony Casting this week, and I have two live Improv shows each week at Second City LA. Trying to stay busy, and hoping to make more film and TV gigs happen SOON! I hope all is well with you, my friend. Cheers!

QOTD: I also love New Zealand Pinot Noir. Unfortunately there isn’t much distribution of these wines. Most of the imports come from Marlborough. I love Babich’s and St. Clair’s pinots. The latter is really interesting – a little hazy on the eye (I think they don’t filter it) but very very fresh, clear and optimistic on the palate. 🙂

I meant huge win over Green bay, but I had wine on my mind. HAHAHA!

Aaaaaaaand hes is back in full form, you sure know how to appease the nay saying masses GV; welcome back GV and Mott as well. Great show, glad to see NZ bringing the thunder.

QOTD: Harvest, harvest, harvest… did I mention its harvest? Busy as all hell. Just did 32 tons of Zin last week, fermenting as we type/read.

NZ Pinot Noir not my cup of tea. Had about 6 of them this past weekend at the annual Santa Fe wine and Chile fiesta. My favorites were the Antinori and David Bruce Chardonnays, David Bruce Pinot Noir, 2 good Elk Cove Pinot Noirs, all of the K Vintners wines, 2003 Tiganello, Pio Caesari Barbaresco 2005, new Sauvage from Gruet, Justin Isoceles and Justification from 2007.

QOTD: Things are good, thanks for asking! Busy with wedding planning, my fiance and I are getting married in June 2011. Already starting to think about the wine pairings, which is clearly my favorite part! Planning the honeymoon will be fun too. I was getting excited about the Redskins until they lost to the RAMS. Ugh… It will be interesting to see McNabb and Vick square off in Philly. Glad to see you back in the Thunder Saddle!

GARY!!! So happy you’re back on the air…mornings aren’t the same without my coffee and WLTV!

QOTD1: Cloudy Bay

QOTD2: Grinding

Nice to see the both of you back. Keep ’em coming!
Had a number of NZ Pinots at Pinot Days this year and I think I also liked things from Central Otago.

Getting ready to fulfill my daughter’s request to meet my Dad in Texas next week. It’s going to be challenging as he hasn’t had a lot of involvement in my life since my parents split up over 30 yrs. ago. But heck, he’ll be 75 this month and he’s not in the best of health, so if I want to say my peace, now’s the time to do it. After a couple of days there, it’s off to my cousin’s house from my Mom’s side of the family to relax and have fun. Looking forward to having some good BBQ, Pie and seeing if there are any decent Texas wines.

Good to see you back! Solid show, its been a while since I have had a Pinot… kinda went off them…

QOTD: In order, tied for first Bell Hill & Pyramid Valley Earth Smoke, then Escarpment Kupe, Valli Waitaki, Fromm Clayvin, and for shear uniqueness, Glover’s.

Catching up, traveling last week.

QOTD – ready for a long October run for the Yanks!

I’ve only had a couple on NZ pinots. I like the Sherwood, which is from Marlborough, i beleive. Never had one for central Otago. Making a wine tasting event with friends on oct. 30th, costumed and everything. We’re going to have a central Otago pinot, the Akura Gulles Bannockburn 2006. Looking for to it.

I tried out the Oyster Bay Pinot tonight and here are my thoughts. I agree with Gary on the nose, slightly smoky tobacco, i also picked up sour cherries and cranberries for days. In the palate it didn’t do too much. However, this was after just opening it, so I left it open for 3 hours and came back. Much better if you let it breathe. Medium bodied, nice dry tanins (begging for some food with a little fat like duck or dark meat turkey). Bottom line, if you drink it right away, it acts like a $15 bottle of wine, nice, but nothing special. If you let it breathe, it honestly tastes like a lot of 25-40 dollar Oregon pinots for much less.

SALINE or BRINE ? good descriptors????

In NZ now on 3rd trip! So right….Central Otago is where it’s at for Pinot Noir. My faves aere Bald Hills and Bannock Brae.

sorry Gary, i think you missed it this time. we just had the Gunn with some Romanian Kebab and BBQ fries. on the nose its so fruity – strawberries, water melon and Papaya, but the finish was disapointing. i only gave this wine an 84.
ya’all should try some great Garnacha Rose’s fron Spain, it helps to break the heat.

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