Ive been using your casts for about a year and a half. I have a certified exam at the end of august. So I definitely use your casts in between breaks for reading or while getting ready for work. Sometimes I read theory in your voice lol. HUGE FAN!
Glad to see you had a slide from Johan. We are always impressed with their production and Jack in the tasting room is a wonderful source of information.
Really great to see you posting new content. We think your videos are absolutely brilliant and always learn a lot whilst watching them. Hope everything is OK your end and looking forward to more amazing videos soon :-)
Hey man! Just wanted to let you know that your casts really helped me to pass my wset 3 with merit. I am now pursuing my wine studies and aiming to start my WSET Diploma by the end of next year. Hoping to see more of you in the future. Cheers!
Please continue to make content. take breaks, and don't feel like you have to keep to a scheduled. Your videos are unbelievably helpful and I've been watching them for so long. When I first started watching these I just worked in a bottleo with a mild intrest in wine. And now I manage a wine bar haha.
Great to see you back. Would love to see a more in depth look at California like you have done with specific areas of Cali. Napa, Sierras and Lodi would seem the best solo casts. Although more Spain would also be nice, since TJs has made some of the smaller regions their go to stuffs.
Still one of my favorite videos, because it's home, though it might be already time for an update.. don't remember if I had asked you, I was very curious to come across some general mentions of Oregon's pre-prohibition wine industry, when studying history for my other job. Some may think it is irrelevant to today's wine world, but I think it's fascinating, especially relating to diversity in Oregon.
So excited, I was training someone today and I told her about you as a resource , and she said she thinks she actually knows you!!! Her husband works in Tech also!!!
Just returned from wine tasting in Yakima valley and Willamette Valley, found some really nice small producers. Definitely want to return to Dundee Hills
Love your casts but saddened to hear you say you’re hear to stay but not see any recent casts posted. Really feel like I missed out on a chance to support your wonderful efforts here.
Do you have any thoughts on why the WA winemakers just across the line from The Rocks didn't lobby harder to make it a cross-border AVA? I've read that a number of them are now building second wineries in OR just so they can use The Rocks AVA on their label (one is allegedly even converting a disused elementary school!). This seems to me to have been a bit of an "Oops!" on the part of the WA winemakers who own vineyards or purchase fruit from The Rocks.
I think the issue with making The Rocks cross-border is twofold: First, I don't know to what degree the proposed boundaries for an AVA can be modified once the proposal is consideration, particularly by individuals who didn't propose the AVA. Remember that AVAs aren't proposed by a government entity (just approved by one) and it's private citizens who propose them. Second, the justification for the AVA was to a large degree soil-driven with a particular focus on the galets or cobblestones that litter a lot of the vineyards (though not all of them); so, an attempt to extend the proposed boundaries might have been fought on those grounds. The strategy that WA winemakers did attempt was to get an easement from the TTB to the effect that as long as the wine was made in the Walla Walla Valley AVA it should be allowed access to the Rocks designation since it's made within the parent appellation even if on the other side of the state line. Alas, the TTB said, no dice. Hope that helps and thanks for the question. Cheers!
@@TheUnknownWinecaster I definitely considered the geophysical aspects of defining the AVA, and the growing desire among American winemakers to use the AVA system in a more terroir-centric manner. However, the solution (as I see it) was relatively simple - namely a tiny sliver of cross-border land in WA being included. Too small to be useful for farming, but incredibly useful versus the TTB's draconian implementation.
@@ecmo11 I see. Sort of a vinous gerrymandering. I imagine the TTB wouldn't want to open that can of worms, but it might have been worth a shot. Cheers!
The Oregon Requirements are taken very seriously, we have several wines we source from Washington that wine bars and restaurants refuse to carry, because they are NOT exclusively from oregon. However, we source our Barbera from the Rocks, so we can call our Italian blend an "Oregon" wine, so our local establishments will sell it... it is a huge selling point in the land dominated by Pinot, to have estate and Oregon grown italian varietals.
Hey Man! Welcome back! Here is a questions. Should i do wset 4? It will be an enormous time commitment, and cost about 15K. Or, apply to work as a waiter and get experience? Thoughts?
Hello! Thanks for the question. I haven't done 4, so I have a limited perspective. Ultimately, the answer depends on what you want to do in the wine industry. Are you looking to be in service, wine making, marketing and sales or something else?
The Unknown Winecaster yes, that is part of the difficulty. I am a public servant by day, but very interested in wine. That said my access to industry jobs is limited. I can retire in 10 years. I fear if i do the course now, it will be irrelevant in 10 years. Hotel work may be a good thing to position me for Bed and Breakfast, or similar in the future. Or i could be the wall-mart greeter equivalent at a winery. Are you training in wset or cms, or independently?
