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1. November 15, 2006

   Dan G.

   Very nice layout. Brandon; 10 days, thats gotta suck. Finally ordered my first case 2 day arrival. Guess I’ll have to try the Farm Tractor and Haybalers Zin. Nothing too memorable for thanksgiving and Im sure no ones going to beat Vonroach. Damn that takes the cake. Well off to the order screen.

2. November 15, 2006

   PeteB

   Thanks for the episode, now I’m ready for the Turkey!!!!

   QOD: 1999 – when I spent Thanksgiving on vacation with my bride to be celebrating our recent engagement that happened on the trip.

3. November 15, 2006

   Russ J

   Toto, I don’t think the Vaynerchuk’s are in Edison anymore!
   Great episode, GV, and props to your mom for the awesome spread. I already purchased my T-day white but I am liking your idea more than mine….next time.

   QOTD: During college, the swim teams were not allowed to go home for T-day as we had practice right through the whole week so we stayed on campus feeling bad about missing a home cooked meal. One of the assistant coaches, a graduate student, had his parents up to visit in the tiny house he rented off campus. His parents did a T-day feast for the whole team, guys and girls. We all stuffed into his house and stuffed our faces. No wine back then, but I think I had about 15 beers along with my six plates of food. I was, after all, a growing boy. My mouth still waters when I think about it!

4. November 15, 2006

   Rick "The Model" M

   Fantastic episode. Analogies were flowing like wter from a bubbling brook. My family is ordering all of these right now for thanksgiving dinner. Very Very informative show today V-man.

5. November 15, 2006

   KAHUNA

   QOD- Once I got to eat 3 thanksgiving dinners at three seperate houses that was the best- Gee can’t imagine why I have to buy new pants every year!

6. November 15, 2006

   K Spengler

   Love the home-spun location. It had to be either Liz or your mom that created such a beauty of a bird…now we know it’s MOM! These are great recommendations, I say we put one bottle of each on the table and enjoy them all.

7. November 15, 2006

   Paul

   Hope you feel better, BrandonM.

8. November 15, 2006

   Paul

   Yes, Dan, but was the haggis good? Personally, I can’t imagine a BAD haggis (as long as one doesn’t contemplate what went into it or what it went into). You were lucky!

9. November 15, 2006

   Dan

   Great episode.

   If I keep buying wine that is shipped freely I will overflow my house!

   T’giving is a great holiday. No expectations of gifts. Just eating and drinking.

   Once, though, I was in Scotland for the holiday. One of my buddies cooked me a haggis.

   THAT was memorable.

10. November 15, 2006

    Sydney Australia

    OK, there were 24 comments before mine as I wrote this; 7 of which had anything at all to do with the show. Amazing.

    QOD: My best Thanksgiving Day memory is the year I was MVP of the football game I’ve been involved in for some 20+ odd years.

    Gary. you used a flavor example of “white clove”. WTF is white clove? Where at all does one find white clove? I’ve had both the Zin and the Auslese you recommend and I concur. Both very nice choices.

    Also, off-topic, can I have the BEARS this week against your Jets for a bottle?

    Clove

    Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum, syn. Eugenia aromaticum or Eugenia caryophyllata) are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisine all over the world. The name derives from French clou, a nail, as the buds vaguely resemble small irregular nails in shape. Cloves are harvested primarily in Indonesia and Madagascar; it is also grown in Zanzibar, India, and Sri Lanka.
    The clove tree is an evergreen which grows to a height ranging from 10-20 m, having large oval leaves and crimson flowers in numerous groups of terminal clusters. The flower buds are at first of a pale color and gradually become green, after which they develop into a bright red, when they are ready for collecting. Cloves are harvested when 1.5-2 cm long, and consist of a long calyx, terminating in four spreading sepals, and four unopened petals which form a small ball in the centre.

    Uses

    Cloves can be used in cooking either whole or in a ground form, but as they are extremely strong they are used sparingly. The spice is used throughout Europe and Asia and is smoked in a type of cigarettes locally known as kretek in Indonesia and in occasional coffee bars in the West, mixed with marijuana to create marijuana spliffs. Cloves are also an important incense material in Chinese and Japanese culture. Clove essential oil is used in aromatherapy and oil of cloves is widely used to treat toothache in dental emergencies.
    Cloves have historically been used in Indian cuisine (both North Indian and South Indian). In the north indian cuisine, it is used in almost every sauce or side dish made, mostly ground up along with other spices. In the south indian cuisine, it finds extensive use in the biryani dish (similar to the pilaf, but with the addition of local spice taste), and is normally added whole to enhance the presentation and flavor of the rice.
    Along with the recreational uses of cloves, they are also said to be a natural anthelmintic.

    History

    Until modern times, cloves grew only on a few islands in the Maluku Islands (historically called the Spice Islands), including Bacan, Makian, Moti, Ternate, and Tidore.[1] Nevertheless, they found their way west to the Middle East and Europe well before the time of Christ. Archeologists found cloves within a ceramic vessel in Syria along with evidence dating the find to within a few years of 1721 BC.
    In the 4th century BC, Chinese leaders in the Han Dynasty required those who addressed them to chew cloves so as to freshen their breath. Cloves, along with nutmeg and pepper, were highly prized in Roman times, and Pliny the Elder once famously complained that “there is no year in which India does not drain the Roman Empire of fifty million sesterces”. Cloves were traded by Arabs during the Middle Ages in the profitable Indian Ocean trade. In the late fifteenth century, Portugal took over the Indian Ocean trade, including cloves, due to the Treaty of Tordesillas with Spain and a separate treaty with the sultan of Ternate. The Portuguese brought large quantities of cloves to Europe, mainly from the Maluku Islands. Clove was then one of the most valuable spices, a kg costing around 7 g of gold.
    The trade later became dominated by the Dutch in the seventeenth century. With great difficulty the French succeeded in introducing the clove tree into Mauritius in the year 1770; subsequently their cultivation was introduced into Guiana, Brazil, most of the West Indies, and Zanzibar, where the majority of cloves are grown today.
    In Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, cloves were worth at least their weight in gold, due to the high price of importing them.
    The clove has become a commercial ’success’, with products including clove drops being released and enjoyed by die-hard clove fans.

    Active compounds

    The compound responsible for the cloves’ aroma is eugenol. It is the main component in the essential oil extracted from cloves, comprising 72-90%. Eugenol has pronounced antiseptic and anaesthetic properties.

11. November 15, 2006

    vonroach

    Most memorable Thanksgiving:

    After eating the turkey and drinking a case of Beaujolais Nouveau between four people (yes, in one afternoon) I asked my wife for a divorce.

    Everyone lived happily ever after…

12. November 15, 2006

    Tony S.

    I have to ask…did you make that whole Thanksgiving spread just for today’s episode? Or do you just happen to have a whole turkey and all the fixin’s lying around??

    Great wines…I may take you up on your free shipping on a couple of those bottles, I just have to check with the wife if I can spend some money first. QOD: My most memorable moment was 2 years ago when I finally got to have Thanksgiving dinner with all my sisters and my parents and my wife and all my nephews and neices and stuff, and not only that, but the Bears were playing the Cowboys (the Cowboys are my dad’s favorite team), so I got to watch a Bears/Cowboys game with my pop. The Bears lost, but whaddya gonna do? That was it. Great day.

    See you later, and have a great day!
    GO BEARS!!!!
    T

13. November 15, 2006

    Phil Ward

    Gary,
    How can you smell any wine aromas with all the food aromas wafting off the table?

    Phil

14. November 15, 2006

    Paul

    Most memorable TDay – hard to say. Usually the big ones at my parents’ house when mine, my brother’s and my sister’s family show. Kids stuck out in the living room at the card table, people jammed so close together so they can barely move to eat. Fantastic!! And then the turkey and stuffing sandwiches at around 10 p.m. Hard to beat and we’ve had more than one of them.

15. November 15, 2006

    Brandon M

    Just checking in…from my house…hunched over….sicker than a dog!
    But I won’t go into that…may I bust some balls for a minute? GARRRRRRRY…cmon…you know it takes at least 10 days for those wines to get out here. But I will go with your recommentdations on varietal.

    Beautiful place…beautiful spread…you guys are livin the life!

16. November 15, 2006

    Jill

    GREEAAAT episode and belated HB~GV, many more to come. And yes the Jets, really, made the Pats look bad.

17. November 15, 2006

    TampaSteve

    I would have to guess that it’s got to be mom and dads house.

18. November 15, 2006

    AnthonyS

    Need any help getting rid of all that food?

    Another great episode. Day after day, the education and entertainment keep me coming back for more and more WLTV. Keep up the great work everyone on the WLTV team!

    I’m still hungry.

19. November 15, 2006

    ChrisR

    Great episode. Where did you tape it? And who cooked all that food?

    Thanks for the shout out!!

20. November 15, 2006

    Italian Stallion

    AWSOME!!! Thanks Gary, Once again….You Are The MAN!!

21. November 15, 2006

    TampaSteve

    Very nice episode. Marth Stewart….watch out.

22. November 15, 2006

    saul

    One of my most memorable turkey days was when i was in college at asu we had a pot luck dinner at a bar called the library and a local band played on i don’t remember any wine in those days it was shots of tequila with a beer chaser have a great turkey day i’m sure you wish that your jets played on thanksgiving and kicked the bears ass enjoy

23. November 15, 2006

    lizv

    big shout out to ‘VAYNERMOM’ for spending HOURS making the best looking thanksgiving meal for all of us in vaynernation

    xo

24. November 15, 2006

    Justin

    mmm…Turkey….wine….nap…
    Gary, thanks for the recommendation on wines for turkey day. I got so hungry looking at all the food in front of you. I am gonna make this comment short so I can go grab some food. I was prepping for thanksgiving last night… Mashed potatoes, stuffing, veggies, gravy… anyway…man i am hungry..
    laters

25. November 15, 2006

    IRA

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL

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