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1. September 22, 2009

   John J.

   qotd: Mr. Fleming 11th grade english. Always kept things fun. Only teacher I ever saw climb up inside the ceiling tiles to the adjacent classroom and squirt another teacher with a water gun. This was while that teacher was in the middle of teaching class.
   Gary, good episode, glad to hear you want comments because I want to see a vin jaune episode. Watching you do a tasting on the different charbono’s out there would be fun also.

2. July 19, 2009

   steven tweddell

   Thank you so much for your honest and, ultimately to me anyway, solicitous review of the Evesham Wood Seven Springs. I had the pleasure of working with Russ Raney during the 2008 vintage, and it was eye opening. He’s like a mad scientist with a deep respect for the fruit. And he’s not afraid to let the vintage rule his decisions, scores be damned. And, in my humble opinion, he is one of the only winemakers in the US to let terroir, not only come through, but to define each vintage. Also, his qpr is almost unbelievable. Again, thank you. This guy, to me, is one of the few grand cru wines of the US.

   Steven Tweddell

3. April 5, 2008

   barrelmonkey

   QOTD: My favorite teacher of all is Mr. Brad Martin. He officially taught me in 5th grade, but he’s never stopped teaching me. Now retired, he lives on a beautiful farm in a house he designed with his wife (incidentally my 3rd and 6th-grade teacher), in El Dorado, CA. Every time I go to visit him, life slows down, and I learn something new.

4. December 9, 2007

   Dave

   Is this the first big ass glass episode?

5. March 15, 2007

   cyrock1

   QOTD1:Dusty, like when I was hiking in the desert as a youngster and started down a big sand dune and fell and rolled down the hill and got a mouth full of dirt. A 97 M. Chapoutier Hermitage. Weird eh?

   QOTD2:Coen Dexter, High School chemistry teacher that i now get to sell wine to every once in a while. He was the teacher that everyone would listen to because he was captivating, intelligent and a good teacher.

   Had to comment just to give him acknowledgement.
   Catching up is getting tougher now that I am watching the new episodes and am in the forum. Catching up is like eating a steak that tastes so good that even if you are full, you keep eating.
   It takes a while but is worth every bite!

6. January 31, 2007

   daddy

   willamette valley and santa lucia pinot noir are the goods.

7. January 16, 2007

   Oregon Jim

   Gary just saw this episode, in fact just found your website and am bitten big time by your show! Especially when you passed on the ‘05 Rex Hill. I live 15 miles form the winery and love Oregon Pinot and the ‘04 Rex Hill was great. The ‘05 Willamette Vally was a huge disappointment to me and when I saw you go to taste it I was hooked on your opinion when you hated it!

   NOw I’m going through all the old episodes and you crack me up! Funny but serious as a heart attack when giving your opinion. YOu are going to be huge!

   Oregon Jim

8. November 11, 2006

   Al D

   My Best teacher well I have two Mrs. Faulkner my third grade math teacher who told although I had some trouble with the language because of my skills I would do all right, and my high school social sciences teacher Dr. Ernesto Travieso Jesuit priest who taught me all the REALLY important things about life. That being said my next best teacher has been YOU since when I first joined WLTV I knew nearly nothing about wines and now when at parties I don’t sound like a total nerd when people talk about wines. Thank you Gary.

9. November 9, 2006

   UserFredly

   If you’ve been a fan of Oregon Pinot Noir for so many years, you should know by now how to properly pronounce the name of the state. It’s not “ora-gone”, it’s “ory-gun”. And you never used the name of the Willamette Valley, so I don’t know whether you know that it is pronounced “will-LAM-it” rather than “willa-MET”.
   As a native Oregonian transplanted to central New Jersey many years ago, I’ve become kind of on a one-man campaign for proper pronunciations of Oregon place names.

10. November 5, 2006

    JayZee

    QOD: My favorite teacher? That’s a tough one. There were so many. I guess I would have to go with Mr, Jack Bruening at Lake Catholic High School in Mentor, OH. He taught me in 10th and 11th grade and I took Latin I and II from him. (I know, Latin – ugh!) He was very cool in a weird way. Besides just teaching, he had these extra credit games he would do. In Latin I, we had “wrestling matches” where he gave everyone a wrestling name (I was “Yanos Vlatok, the Vampire”). Each day there would be several matches where he would announce who was in the match, and the two “wrestlers” would get a Latin question, and whoever answered it first would win the wrestling match. Whoever had the most points at the end of the quarter got an automatic “A” regardless of how he or she did on the tests. Also, he collected comic books and invented his own language. He was a really neat guy.

11. November 2, 2006

    JCT

    Gary-

    Tonight was the first night I caught your program. I loved it! My wife and I moved from Salt Lake City to Portland last year mostly because of Oregon’s amazing Pinot Noir. I was disapointed that you didn’t have Sokol Blosser or DDO–Domaine Drouhin Oregon (one of my favorites…marijunia, or packing tape, nose). Anyhow, the show was great. If you ever make it to Portland, make sure to visit Oregon Wines on Broadway. They have the best selection of Oregon wines in the world…and the gals are amazing!

12. November 2, 2006

    NateDogg

    Yo GV,

    Favorite teacher: Hands down, Mr. Atlas, 10th grade geometry, 12th grade calculus and all four years musical director at Concord-Carlisle HS in Mass.

    BTW, love the new sign-off you’ve incorporated the last couple of shows. I think you’ve finally got one that sums up you & your Vaniacs raison d’être!

13. November 1, 2006

    Bob Berke

    Don’t have a favorite teacher per se, but I have to consider my mother and father as my personal favorites since they taught me much about how to live, and besided both were teachers by trade!

    Just did a local double blind pinot tasting with 4 wines in each of 3 flights.

    2 Burgs Mortet and Dujac of different vintages and vineyards
    2 Calif Dehlinger and Dain different vintages and vineyards.

    People should try this, it really helps a person get to know what they really like.

14. November 1, 2006

    Andrew B.

    QOD: sorry I’m late on this one. My favorite teacher of all time is my high school Japenese teacher Mrs. Watlington, because she was so elegant and profound in influecing a strong passion for the japanese language and culture into me at a young age, and made me so excited to learn, do homework, speak and write this wonderful language I have always admired. She had a way of speaking and communicating that got through to me more than any other teacher and she helpmed to want to achieve the greatest things. I had her from fall 1996 to spring 1998 and then again fall 1999 to spring 2000, so it was a lot of time with one teacher. My 2nd favorite and its a close 2nd is my Renaissance to Modern Art (history) Professor from my senior year of college just a year and a half ago, I think she was Russian or Chech, but we shared the same passion for the wonders and beauty of the greatest paintings and sculpture of the last 700 years that made each class so pleasurable and a delight. She was so enthusiastic and had the greatest descriptions and ideas about each work of art we studied that excited me so much and influenced the way I think and admire. Talking about all this wants me to go back and study some Japanese and Art History, great question Gary.

15. October 31, 2006

    Dominus

    Great, great show. Being a member of the Oregon Pinot Noir Club (OPNC) I can appreciate these wines and your scores. And yes, the Willamette Valley is a great place to visit.

    Tried Domaine Serene?

16. October 31, 2006

    Jonathan G

    Favorite Teacher of All TIME!!!

    Gary,

    I had this prof. in college. When he was lecturing, you could hear him from across the building. He was so animated and excited about what he was teaching that he would just draw you in and every time he came to a conclusion and told us the punch line of 45 minutes of lecturing he would scream and just ask us if we thought it was as incredible a thing as he thought it was. I took every class he offered and studied under him for my PhD. He was by far my favorite and most influential teacher of all time and the reason behind me one day becoming a teacher. I want to do to children what he did for me, make me want to learn more.

    Oh, his name was Prof. Richard Bopp at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and I studied Aqueous Geochemistry with him.

17. October 31, 2006

    Aimee

    Coming out to say hi! I must admit, the man with the NY Times ad stuck to the cactus, he’s my father. He was kind enough to send us a case and a half of wine and hook us in Wine Library TV!

18. October 31, 2006

    Tyler H

    You got Gary. Going to try the Evesham Wood as soon as WL can get it to me.

    QOTD: My mom’s a teacher so I’d have to put her first, but other than her, my fav teacher of all time was Ms. Dodson, my high school English teacher at MHS in Minford, OH.

19. October 31, 2006

    zerokreap (kw)

    QOTD1: okay…i had a wine by paternoster…up front it had the flavor of green olive…which reminded me of living in spain and drinking cheap beer and eating fresh olives in la plaza de cervantes in alcala de henares….that is the best i can do.

    QOTD2: my favorite teacher….well, his name was Dr. Eddins. I took many classes with him as an undergraduate. he was very dry-humored, proper, and i think he liked to have a nip of brandy or something before class…he always seemd in good spirits and was a seemingly endless stream of knowledge with respect to literature as well as culture…
    http://www.as.ua.edu/english/04_faculty_staff/faculty/eddins_d.htm

20. October 31, 2006

    Brandon M

    Ditto Susan

21. October 31, 2006

    JR Laz

    Ok GV, you finally unlurked me. Not a huge Pinot fan, but do recall a ‘91 or ‘92 Drouhin Estates paired with Thanksgiving turkey & incredible wild mushroom stuffing (1995), nearly an out of body experience….I do recommend it highly. Sounds like the Evesham might keep up.

    QOD: Above meal was w/Dr. Micahel Moffett, Professor global finance at Thunderbird, Glendale, AZ (MBA). Self-righteous guy, but has earned it. Challenges students to actually think, reason, and argue points, famously with the question – “Why…?” Other is Donn Force, 8th grade US History. Great teacher, friend, mentor, and advisor to thousands from Green, Ohio (N. Canton area – Football H.O.F.!)

    (Probably out of place, but given GV’s lamenting felt it should be said here. My grandfather bought his first pair of season tix to the Browns in 1946 when they moved from LA. SIXTY years of tradtion in my family – less 3 thanks to that Baltimore thing – went to 100+ games growing up at Municipal Stadium, freezing my pituties off and crying over the interception in ‘80 (Sipe vs. Oakland -38 degrees), the drive, the fumble, etc. For 40 years being a Cleveland Browns fan has equated to bitter disappointment and desperation….with no apparent relief in sight. My grandpa was BURIED in his Sunday best – Browns sweater, socks, and beanie cap! That’s right, a true Cleveland die-hard!!! So forgive us fans this ONE week of joy at the expense of your team. We may not have won 100% clean, but it was a ‘W’ either way, and we may not see another one all year.)

22. October 31, 2006

    Susan

    Today’s into was GREAT!
    I love the creativity and the little girl is so precious!
    Good job!
    

23. October 31, 2006

    ChrisR

    Favorite teacher: Geraldine Carroll, 11th/12th Grade Honors English, Triton Regional High

    Most Bizarre Tasting Note: An Italian red wine that reminded me of Grade school vomit. You know the smell that lead to the intercom announcement “We need a bucket and a mop by the water fountain on Hallway B” Needless to say it was one of the most disgusting wines I’ve had.

24. October 31, 2006

    Lawrence Leichtman

    Another great episode Gary. Enjoyed the radio show despite not being able to get through the phone lines. Very timely tasting as Pinots are so good with Turkey but mine is never dry. My favorite teacher, after my dad, would have to be Dr. David Smith the father of modern Clinical Genetics who was one of the most influential people at teaching me my craft.
    Would be interesting to know how many people here are first or second generation Americans. My dad came here from Hungary and my Mom’s family from Poland.

25. October 31, 2006

    Matthew L

    Very nice espide Gary. I’m a big fan of Oregon Pinot Noir. It seems that $20-25 is about the average price point for Pinot from that region. It’s nice to find some gems under $20, though. I admit that the Sharecropper caught my attention by name alone.

    I read once that if you are overwhelmed in a wine shop by vineyards and producers you never heard of, go to a varietal you like and look for a label that appeals to you. The article said that a producer that puts great attention into the label likely put as much as attention into the wine. I thought this was garbage because I’ve tasted a lot of swill with pretty labels. What say you?

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