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1. April 9, 2009

   dcpatton

   QOTD: Gin and Tonic

2. March 16, 2009

   QUE

   loving these old episodes. Wow what an evolution on GV’s part. Favorite beverages:
   Sparkling water pelligrino or voss
   Black tea (hot with honey) I drink liters of this stuff a day
   Used to drink tons of soda and have since stopped but I still crave coke in a glass bottle hard from time to time!

3. April 6, 2008

   Kristen

   QOTD: I have a few- a very cold 12 oz Diet Coke (within 15 minutes or so of opening), Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee with skim and sugar from the East Main Road store in Portsmouth, RI (I’ll get it in other places, but this is my favorite store), and various flavors of tea.

4. February 23, 2008

   Fangorn81

   Wow. I saw the Clos Mimi on the table and decided to see what you thought, I passed it up at my local shop last week, but now I think I will go back and pick some up!

   QOTD: Genmaicha Tea w/ a pinch of raw sugar (or a good glob honey if I am sick).

5. February 12, 2008

   T. Holland

   Catching up on some old episodes. Great QOTD on this one.

   Would have to go with any great Stout Beer. Recently had the Brooklyn Imperial Stout & the Rogue Stout- awesome!

6. February 12, 2008

   thefanjestic

   Qotd- JD and Coke or a White Russian with a cigar – or a Carmel Machiatto – mostly because I feel cool saying it.

   Good episodes – really good questions. Gary – you drank Vodka on #400 – what gives, has your palate changed? will that be revealed in later episodes? I must go on…

7. February 1, 2008

   Chris

   QOTD- Jack and coke or gin & tonic

8. July 16, 2007

   Dave Canada

   QOTD – Club Soda with Lime is my favorite drink……..

9. February 7, 2007

   Elliot Essman

   Besides wine, my favorite drinks are:

   Alcoholic – Barbancourt Haitian rum (15 year old), neat, just the two of us for a thoughtful, civilized sit-down together, often reading a book.

   Non-Alcoholic – Diet Coke, on a hot day, the 12 oz can cold out of the machine, no substitute.

   In-Between – Good fall farmstand apple cider, when it starts to ferment on its own in the bottle so you get that special zip and bouquet (doesn’t always happen).

10. January 19, 2007

    Kirk

    Gary…being that I turned 21 in Germany I acquired the taste for something that would translate into “Diesel” in Germany they will sometimes mix coke-a-cola and their beers. While I was deployed in Korea there was no access to German beer and I started drinking Heineken beer with Pepsi. So my other drink of choice….is 50% Heinecen and 50% pepsi…

11. October 11, 2006

    bomy

    Yo, Gary do your Russian family members really drink French wine? Ouch!

12. August 31, 2006

    karl satirev

    Water

13. August 30, 2006

    Craig

    Gary,
    Excellent EP, with variety in the wines and the topics. I really appreciated your comments about personal palate changes when answering SAFSAM’s question. Back in 93/94 one of our favorite Cab contenders for 8-12 dollar tastings was Chateau Souverain. For the money seemed to deliver decent fruit on the nose and in the mouth, but was favored because it tends to be forward. As with the times the price increased, and they might have been guilty of goosing it higher toward 20 because of good reviews/scores over the years. I’ve not tried Souverain for about three years, but last time I did it did not seem as good as the earlier days. Now I’m curious to give it another shot. However my expectations are low, not because of your “pass” review, but because I know my taste has changed, and hopefully it is more educated than it used to be. A related point is that there are a huge number of wines that are fabulous *and* come in under 15, just as you showed us today Gary with the Mimi — totally jazzed about that one!! QOTD: Thank you Susan! You reminded me of my favorite non-alc beverage: Ting, especially with a splash of aromatic bitters.

14. August 30, 2006

    Lawrence Leichtman

    When not drinking wine I drink Kettle One dirty martinis. Thanks for reviewing the Mimi; they were very friendly and poured generously of some very good wine. They deserve all the positive publicity you can give them. Their wines are definitely value priced.

15. August 30, 2006

    Dan

    I’m a newbie to the blog here, and not much of a wine connoisseur. My alcoholic beverage of choice is beer; it’s very hard to pick a favorite but I really like the American Barley Wines. Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale is a winter seasonal and one of my favorites. It ages really well too. Floral, hoppy India Pale Ales are also great, like Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA and Rogue I2PA. For those interested in learning more about beer, beeradvocate.com is an excellent resource. I don’t really like soda; I mainly drink lots of water and beer in moderation. Recently I’ve been enjoying single malt scotches from Glenmorangie and Macallan and some blended Canadian whiskies like Crown Royal and Chivas Regal.

16. August 29, 2006

    Rick McQ

    Gary

    Great Episode 92 point

    I drink Coffee, Diet Coke and Wine usually in that order.

17. August 29, 2006

    stewart l.

    to Russ j #27,Joe Walton is alive and living inBeaver county,pa and still the head coach at Robert Morris Univ. He always has a cigar in his mouth[never lights it]

18. August 29, 2006

    GOL

    Agree with zerokreap on the vacu-vin. I find it works really well with whites (up to 3 days of extra drinkable life in my experience), agree on the 1-day recommendation for reds, and if a wine isn’t really good don’t bother pumping because the impurities and imbalance quickly overpower the wine. For both white and red I find the better the wine the better the “save” ability of pumping.

19. August 29, 2006

    bryan

    Good episode, I love it when you can find good values. My favorite non-wine beverage is Knob Creek bourbon on the rocks.

20. August 29, 2006

    tony vincent

    favorite non-wine bev?– a glorious, extra-dirty martini…  belvedere, grey goose, or pravda vodka.

21. August 29, 2006

    Brandon M

    Gary…it’s been a couple of episodes, work has been killing me!

    Diet Pepsi / Water
    Homemade Pilsner

    And that’s pretty much it!

    B

22. August 29, 2006

    zerokreap (kw)

    oh yeah…1 day is all i would suggest with this technique…although some really good wines, and even some only decent wines, have shown well with up to 2…i would stick with 1 though

23. August 29, 2006

    zerokreap (kw)

    hey bruce…i just read your post…i have to tell you that i have a great way to store wine if you do not drink the whole bottle the first night. buy a vacu-vin…use it…pump til you can’t pump no more….throw the bottle in the fridge…yes, even red wine….then break it out about 2-3 hours before you plan drinking it (red), open and enjoy. the cold slows the ‘bad’ aging down to the perfect pace…most of the wines i do this with (which is a lot considering i drink only half bottles at a time by myself) usually taste better the next day…especially good cabs and bordeaux (that is what i mostly drink…a few italians have showed well with this technique)….just thought i would send that out to you man…try it. there have been a couple of bottles that this did not work so well for, but these bottles were not good when opened…sometimes you get a bottle with either an acidic tinge, or just a bad, what i like to call ‘heavy’, taste to them…this technique will not help these bottles…their just bad bottles…the more complexity and flavor…the better this works. cheers

24. August 29, 2006

    zerokreap (kw)

    it doesn’t surprise me at all that people would be asking you to taste a bad wine…a ot of people like bad wine…there needs to be some sort of course to teach people what wine is supposed to taste like. i mean, wine should not be pigeon-holes, but at the same time there is a taste that is the mark of a truly great wine. i think the main idea here is complexity…people need to understand that a great wine has complexity of taste…that may mean that your first taste of the wine is somewhat awkward…you might not know what you think when you first taste it, but it should grow on you if it is good…the flavors will fill your mouth, it will NOT drink like WATER! smooth does not mean, easy for people to drink….it means that you don’t notice anything out of place as it goes down….okay, there is my rant…stop drinking crappy wine! thanks gary for the review.
    QOTD: is there another drink besides wine? okay…i like a nice crown reserve on the rocks, but i don’t really drink the hard stuff any longer…not since i discovered the great deals at winelibrary.com…hahaha

25. August 29, 2006

    Sam Zen

    Gary, I wonder if you could include your surprise “home run hitters” onto your list of suggested/recommeded wines that are accessible through the WL home page. For example, it seems that you are up on the Castano Hecla 2003 and on the Clos Mimi Petite Rousse 2004. So please include these to the stagnant list that includes sharpshooter and the like. This would be a great quick pick guide for anyone looking to heed your advise. And congrats on your 80th episode… thousands more to go!

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