13 Responses

1. June 15, 2006

   Sam Zen

   Nice guy. Too bad for the corked cabsauv. It appears like a consistent, can’t go wrong, appelation. Thanks for great story Raymond- I look forward to your wines in DC.

2. June 16, 2006

   Buddy

   I’ve tried wonderful wines from Raymond, but my last experience with their wines was with a rep that was tasting with my local shop. Out of eight wines, three were corked. Need to worry?

3. June 21, 2006

   Mike

   This was an entertaining episode that unfortunately ended somewhat abruptly. I felt the corked wine issue was left hanging in the air like, well, like the musty stench of wet newspapers. I tried an ‘02 Raymond cab a few weeks ago and it, too, was corked… incidentally, it’s not so funny when you don’t have another bottle to open and you have to drive several miles to your local wine shop for a replacement.
   Gary should have pressed Mr. Raymond to confront this problem or at least give his opinion about alternative bottle closures.

4. July 28, 2006

   Lawrence Leichtman

   How weird. I had a 2002 Raymond cab last week at a wine tasting that was also corked. I’m seeing more corked wines coming out of California than ever previously.

5. September 25, 2006

   Brandon M

   I’ve had TONS of Raymond in the past and can’t ever remember a corked bottle. I hope it’s not a trend. Has anyone had a corked Raymond over the last couple of months? I’m not drinking it as much as I used to, so now I’m curious.

   B

6. March 8, 2007

   Lars

   A corked bottle. Wonderful. Love it.

   Thank for the description. I had a wine at a tasting that spelled of wet cardboard. Now I realize it was corked!

7. June 28, 2007

   David Canada

   Never heard of this label….shows what I know….I’ll be on the lookout.

8. June 30, 2007

   Colleen

   I read about you in Time Magazine – the article was in between their promos for iPhone. I mean 5 iphone stories in as many months!! Anyhow- glad I stumbled across this/ I will forward url on.
   See if you can get Stamos on to try some wines- I hear he is a big drinker.

9. August 31, 2007

   WA Ambassador

   Wow, it seems they may have a quality control issue. I’m a QA test engineer by trade. I’d be happy to QA their product. =oP

10. February 9, 2008

    The Fanjestic

    Corked Wine? He seemed really cool about it. My favorite guest so far!

11. July 9, 2008

    Dan Leavy

    great guest

    word 51 “one”

12. February 10, 2009

    yowens

    What a nice guy, I’ll try a Raymond sometime soon.

13. July 21, 2009

    A dumb Rhine king

    Awesome guy. It’s good to see that he took the corked bottle in stride. My buddy is working for them as a cellar monkey. You should totally have Walter on again. Tell him to bring two bottles of the cab this time

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