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1. December 13, 2006

   steve

   all right, all right, I’m a lurker and finally posting…
   QOD…makes me feel drunk and like opening another nice bottle…nice toss GV! You have a better arm than Chad Pennington!! Let’s go Giants!!

2. December 13, 2006

   Luke L.

   QOTD: when i’m drinking a nice bottle of wine i’m hoping i have more in the cellar! LOVE WLTV!!. i think you’re making more than just a “little” noise out there.

3. December 13, 2006

   eugene

   Great episode!.
   I love chenin blanc and Loire wines for that matter.

   Dry Creek makes pretty good chenin blanc btw.

   QOTD:
   depends on quantity.

   H***y?

4. December 13, 2006

   DomTheSomm

   Okay….Yo…I get the point! As for today’s episode, not bad. Chenin-Blanc can be a “mystey grab bag” in the tastings I do with it, however always there to surprise me. I have to agree with the vayniacs!!…blow up the T-Shirt dude!! From the distance I see it from, it looks like some sort of cover for “High Times” or better yet a canned vegtable advertisement. Now I know the shirt is way better than that, but eh?? Can we can an EXTREME CLOSE-UP here? Anyways…when I open a bottle of wine that I love it makes me want to parlay on the JETS!!..lol. Now but really…makes me want to not be so damn quick to drink it and enjoy the bottle, and if I am with somebody, I’m switching them onto something like Yellowtail, and I’m running for the hills with that bottle!! Go YANKS!!!!!…I know it’s early…buy I’m already prepping for the trash talk’n!!

   DomtheSomm!

5. December 13, 2006

   Sergio

   QOD; Happy, very very happy. Then I start to think of what should I cook and have it again.

6. December 13, 2006

   Dan C.

   Gary- Almost a shout out for me. Thanks. I bugged you to throw left-handed at the camera for awhile in my comments and today you said “that’s what you want” when you very accurately hit the camera left-handed. You’ve got it workin’.

   QOD- I feel…”like having more” hey as you, and Parker, say, wine is primarily a form of enjoyment

   I still have many wines to try, but I have been drinking some Chenin Blanc and it is a huge variety of flavors. I’m not sure what grape to compare it to in terms of versatility…anyway, great show and you’re gonna win in Minnesota Sunday.

   Regards, Dan C.

7. December 13, 2006

   Kai

   Gary,

   Another great episode. I can’t believe that you mentioned Hong Kong for the first time on your show. Thanks.

   I love Chenin Blancs. Unfortunately, the pickings are verrrrrrrrrrrry slim in Hong Kong. We get Foreau and Joly but not much else.

   Since you mentioned Loire Valley, any chance you can do an episode on Didier Dagueneau’s(sp ??)Silex, Pur Sang etc….

   Still watching everyday from Hong Kong.

8. December 13, 2006

   Skol

   Question of the day…. what else but horny….

   BTW nice episode I love Vouvrays. Disappointed in the Foreau since I had some profound and excellent demi-sec and moulleaux. It would be interesting to see a couple of Foreau against Huet. I was in Chapel Hill this weekend and saw the Foreau in a College coffee shop which surprised me. Its great that you are getting into some tastings other than the usual suspects.

9. December 13, 2006

   Dave-from-Katonah

   Naa. A few shows ago the wines were open 4 1/2 hrs!
   Gotta be something significant. And it is counting down…

10. December 13, 2006

    Dale Cruse

    Rick: The number is how long the wines had been open. Two hours, 49 min. Haven’t figured out if that’s true for every episode, but I’ll be watching

    QOTD: … it makes me want another one!

11. December 13, 2006

    barbotus

    QOTD… it makes me wish I hadn’t opened it while my mother-in-law is around to swill it down.

12. December 13, 2006

    Capt M

    Very, very interesting episode. Sam Zen you bad dog. The cork tossing was an INSTANT CLASSIC, a Kodak Moment, a spur of positive energy from Gary. QOD: makes me.. fell love, and love coming! I’m in for this contest 100%. Will submit my first entry when I get the shirt, and very soon there after. Gears in my brain are turning.

13. December 13, 2006

    JOEYdaMUSH

    Weh I drink wane , it akmes me horny baby, yeaaah

14. December 13, 2006

    Dave-from-Katonah

    Lurker – no more!

    Great show at least for the cork toss!! Way to stick the landing, Gary!
    I’m not a huge Chenin Blanc fan, though. I’d rather have a sharp New Zealand sauvignon blanc.

    QOTD-”sad” that I finished the bottle again if my wife doesn’t care to partake,
    or “glad” that I shared a terrific wine with friends and/or spouse,
    or like a “Vayniac” if I start to describe the nose or taste of chocolate, cream de cassis,
    raspberry pie and burnt cedar!!

    Nice Vaynergag on the too big sip!!

    Since I’m not a lurker anymore, now will you answer my e-mails?
    What’s up with the count down? 9 months to parenthood, I hope you should be so blessed?

15. December 13, 2006

    E

    What’s that I hear, rumbling in the distance?

    I think it’s the long-awaited Cheninathon!

    Extra bonus points for something I ain’t never seen before (Savennieres), talkin’ smack and tossin’ corks and thoroughly brightening the day.

    QOD: it makes me want to remember it. Forever. Because I’m probably going to go and try something else I haven’t had yet.

16. December 13, 2006

    Tom T.

    Hey Gary,

    Nice toss. QOTD – relaxed and realize that life is good.

17. December 13, 2006

    rino70

    Gary, I believe the word you were looking for to describe the Joly is “quince”, a type of fruit much like a bitter apple or pear. Although “rusty penny” works just the same.

18. December 13, 2006

    E-Rock

    QOD = Simple…. Happy

    and when it’s bad I get sad

19. December 13, 2006

    Rob M.

    Another fabulous episode, topped off by quite a toss (the cork that is).

    I enjoyed learning about Chenin Blanc. I will pick up a bottle the next time I order. You have done this for me for several other wines (sparkling wines, Sancerre, etc)- get me out of my comfort zone and make me try new things that expand my horizon and add to the enjoyment of wine.

    QOTD- … satisfied. The hunt for excellent wine is part of the fun. The suspense of the first pour, swirl, sniff, and then the taste is part of the enjoyment. And when you hit one out of the park and really enjoy a bottle, I feel like I won the game that day.

20. December 13, 2006

    Alaska1

    QOTD= takes me to a great place and time with freinds and Fam, + Great food. Did I tell you I WAS A CHEF??? prob not but hay…..

21. December 13, 2006

    MiamiDolphins

    QOTD: . . .tell my wine geek friends about it

22. December 13, 2006

    chayut

    Great episode Gary.

    I’ve seen some ice wines from New Zealand are made from Chenin Blanc. Maybe you should have an episode on NZ ice wine sometimes. Also, can you do an episode on Valpolicella? I have had an Allegrini Valpolicella 2003 and I think it’s pretty good.

    “Wine is a compound of light and humor” – Galileo.

23. December 13, 2006

    Ken

    Gary,
    Good Old Ludwig Van has a point. Who in their right mind leaves a bubbly open for so long? And when you decant (well, whites are of less consequence) do you then pour them back into the bottle? The ‘Old World’, so called ( by D. Rumsfeld?), takes a hit when you don’t open finer examples, as in this episode, of Chenin Blanc. Methinks the ‘New World’, the tide of Parkeresque dispeptic fantasy wines where even a deceased squirrel after being resurrected from hot gravel and soaked in oak chips could garner a 96, perhaps he, Mr. Parker, may have made as yet unsuspected inroads into your preferred flavor profile. Just as with the Hotlanta TV interview, wherein French wines, read ‘Old World’, were loaded with ‘dirt and worms’, your choice of Chenins was unfocused. Take more time and care. We want to learn, not just take sides.

24. December 13, 2006

    Wine-o

    YO ADRIENNE!!!!! (12/20/06)
    Who was the lucky lurker who won the shirt there jerky?
    QOTD…..It makes me pee like a race horse and my ears turn red. Go figure.

25. December 13, 2006

    Denise

    I’ve always thought of Chenin Blanc as “the little wine that could” (specifically, Chappellet Chenin Blanc).

    Two contest questions: 1) Can you enter more than once?!, and 2) Is the trip for one or two people?!

    QOD: …share it with someone…

    Thanks, Gary, for another terrific episode. (See you CA, baby!!)

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