Comments on The Gray Report: My winery and wine of the year

Blake - please share the names and wineries for th...

2012-01-07T11:45:04.356-08:00

Blake - please share the names and wineries for the Michigan rieslings you liked so much. I'm sure the wineries won't ship to the great state of Pennsylvania with its restrictive laws. However, with my son at school in MI, I'll either have him track them down or look myself when up there for a visit.
thanks Dana

Gerry: Good pairing, I love clams or mussels with ...

2012-01-04T16:49:18.430-08:00

Gerry: Good pairing, I love clams or mussels with chorizo and a slightly sweet bubbly is great with that.

I bought a few bottles of Gruet Brut Rose for the ...

2012-01-04T11:59:20.327-08:00

I bought a few bottles of Gruet Brut Rose for the holidays. Not quite as good as the Blanc de Noirs, but good nonetheless, especially at the price. We had a bottle with some Spanish / Mexican style (hybrid) clams last night and really enjoyed it.

Thanks for the Sacto places something to try when ...

2012-01-03T17:57:48.025-08:00

Thanks for the Sacto places something to try when coming through town

Cool, thanks for the tips. I have to confess that ...

2012-01-03T16:57:43.173-08:00

Cool, thanks for the tips. I have to confess that more than 50% of all dinners I've had in Sacramento to this point have been at Raley Field.

Andy here.. The Waterboy has the best QPR and the...

2012-01-03T13:29:21.216-08:00

Andy here..

The Waterboy has the best QPR and the Grange has an interesting all California wine list. Press Bistro is even better priced although maybe one notch below the others in quality. If you are a pig lover like I am, then Mulvanys rocks. For something a little less pretentious and expensive, the magpie Cafe is wonderful. All are Farm to Table and have a lot of "local&

Andy: I'm glad to read your second point. He...

2012-01-03T13:17:14.172-08:00

Andy: I'm glad to read your second point.

Hey, which one of these should I try to eat at when I'm in Sacramento for Unified?

Andy here... A few comments First -- Wine Specat...

2012-01-03T09:42:30.703-08:00

Andy here...

A few comments

First -- Wine Specator has written numerous favorable reviews (and given good to outstanding scores) on Gruet, Virginia, Arizona, Finger Lakes and even Michigan wines. None on Texas wines that I can recall, although I';ve had a few good experiences with Texas wines at DFW.

Second, in Sacramento, which is not snotty at all, there

Yes, thanks for letting me know. Not all sites pub...

2012-01-01T10:18:25.052-08:00

Yes, thanks for letting me know. Not all sites publish the same way and WRO apparently doesn't have a dedicated landing page for these items. But I know more about Virginia Dornfelder than I do about HTML ...

Should the link instead be http://www.winereviewon...

2012-01-01T10:11:32.250-08:00

Should the link instead be http://www.winereviewonline.com/wine_blog.cfm?SelDate={ts%20'2011-12-01%2000:00:00'} ? (Man, whatta URL!)

Sophia: I completely agree with Madeline Dow in th...

2011-12-31T15:35:37.484-08:00

Sophia: I completely agree with Madeline Dow in the link you provided. It's one thing for a restaurant to claim that it's providing the wines that go best with its food, but quite another for a restaurant to boast about farm-to-table cuisine yet completely ignore local wines.

Washington's climate does generally make red wines under 13% alcohol difficult if not impossible.

We appreciate your comment about NW wines and how ...

2011-12-31T15:20:50.011-08:00

We appreciate your comment about NW wines and how we locals try to support them because... we really do want to see them succeed.

The most common reason I've encountered for the European/S.A. wine preference vs. U.S. wines in restaurants is the unfortunate fact that lots of cuisines are better accompanied by wines with a lower level of alcohol than 13.5-14.5%, and if you want more