How To Get Your Wine Palate Trained. – Episode #148

December 15, 2006

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Wines tasted in this episode:

Today Gary tastes a wide variety of “THINGS” to show you how important many of the flavors are to training your palate to find them in wine. Have a good weekend.

Hello newcomers ( and there are a lot of you) This is a long video and it builds up but to see what EVERYONE is talking about you can see the last 2 minutes here CLICK HERE

491 Responses

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  1. December 9, 2007

    Tim Vining

    I am new to winetasting and new to the site (the site came first, in case you were not sure). Thanks for doing this. You have removed all the obstacles for me (concern about snobiness and price) to be able to appreciate the gift of wine. Wine is the force that will bring us world peace :-)

  2. December 8, 2007

    David James

    Best episode ever? Maybe

  3. November 24, 2007

    Ben F

    Gary, I love your site and love what you are doing for us novices out here. I am opening a small wine bar in my hometown and your site has been very useful. I am just a guy who loves wine not a guy that knows a whole lot about it so these lessons are invaluable.

    Thanks, and keep up the great work!!!

  4. November 21, 2007

    Amanda

    Wow, amazing. I laughed and even cried a little. You Rock GV!
    Amanda

  5. November 19, 2007

    Ben S

    Ok, you win. I’ve been watching for a short while, but after seeing this episode there’s just no way I could be a lurker anymore. Gary, your insanity is absolutely brilliant. I’ve been drinking wine for years, and can’t even begin to count how many times I could parse out certain flavor elements of whatever it was I was drinking only to go crazy trying to identify them. I’ve eaten just about everything under the sun, but the idea of methodically tasting through isolated, concentrated flavors like this never occurred to me. It’s such a great idea. Thank you so much for what you’re doing. Keep up the great work!

  6. November 19, 2007

    Matt Cawley

    Classic episode – I’ve only discovered WLTV in the past few days, and I’m loving it so far. Keep up the good work!

  7. November 19, 2007

    sobojosh

    Hey Davey, his mouth got numb from the clove, not the arrowroot

  8. November 13, 2007

    Sue K

    Found out about you through Men’s Health article on wine. I started with The Traveling Vineyard in May and we are always getting together to try the wines from our list and this episodes tasting would be great to try at a team meeting sometime. Maybe even with an adventurous host. (We are the tupperware of the wine world, if you haven’t heard of us we do in home wine tastings we are a division of Geerlings and Wade. Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for wine – its awesome. I’ll be recommending your site a lot.

  9. November 13, 2007

    Adam

    This episode is as great or greater than the “The Competition” episode of Seinfeld. No lie.

  10. November 8, 2007

    Davey

    Heehee. Arrowroot is also used to make things like jellies and glazes shiny. No wonder your tongue went all numb. =D

  11. November 1, 2007

    GalvezGuy

    Holy crap! You are a bona fide madman. There are some profiles I would have like to see covered. I won’t got for the ridiculous barnyard and cat pee, growing up on the farm, I know the aromas. I was really glad to see black raspberry, I use it so often, it is something we used to pick as children. I would have liked to see:

    Grapefruit peel – In so many NZ SBs
    Lychee
    Starfruit
    Anise
    Loganberry
    Pie Cherry – Found in so many pinots
    Mint – a classic cab flavor especially Chile
    Mulberry – a sick sweet berry that I use for wines I do not like
    Ground Cherry – Rare outside the Midwest, maybe Lars knows about it, tomato like but very sweet
    Tobacco
    Cedar
    5 spice powder

    Great episode. Still laughing 20 minutes later.

  12. October 23, 2007

    the impchimp

    FYI:

    Arrowroot powder is a thickner for sauces, soups, gels, etc. It is tasteless, like normal quantities of gelatin is tasteless.

  13. October 18, 2007

    Diana

    Just watching this episode now, definitely had me laughing.

    I will certainly be more aware of the foods/spices/flavors I eat now and am going to seek out some new ones. Great episode.

  14. October 1, 2007

    Jon W

    Fantastic Gary, you make me laugh. 99 Cristal was a nice touch too! Very funny episode.

  15. September 27, 2007

    MW_DM,IA

    Thanks for some great ideas a ridiculously long, very fun episode! I’ll have to start piecing together a shopping list and getting some friends to commit to a few palette building nights. Maybe I’ll treat em to pizza after each night if they’re mad about making them try certain things…

    QOTD: Yeah, it’s my project for the next couple weeks. One thing I started wanting to see as you went on- parsley to go with sage, rosemary and thyme. It also coulda been fun to watch you bite into a lemon… maybe a crayon and glue to emphasize keeping an open mind? Enjoy the suggestions :)

  16. September 23, 2007

    Sue in Vegas

    I saw you do this on both Conan and Ellen but you really went all out here!!! Loved it. I am having a wine and cheese party in Dec and I am going to have some fun with my friends and incorporate this stuff. Great episode.

  17. September 20, 2007

    Chris

    This is quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. I commend and applaud you for undertaking it with the depth of commitment you have. You’ve gained a loyal fan. Thanks!

  18. September 20, 2007

    Beefy

    I suggest focusing on characteristics of one varietal at a time.

    get a list of items that are found in Merlots, Chardonnay’s etc… and then taste and smell items for each varietal. This will help to sharpen the focus and allow a base to be established by varietal rather than all at once.

    Great job Gary. The wine world needs a person to gather all itimidated people and let them see how easy and fun wine can be.

    Corkdorks suck…just enjoy wine. Cheers!

  19. September 15, 2007

    Francisco

    You’re a genius! Love what you do!

  20. September 13, 2007

    Deanna

    I LOVED this episode… ever since you were on Conan, I have been wondering how I could train my palate and I saw this episode on the right hand side…and thus me watching it! The white pepper was classic… way to tough it out for us! This would be a fantastic party to do!!!! Thanks for all you do Gary!

  21. September 11, 2007

    DrewDog

    Yes, I am a lurker. Yes, I want to leave comments but don’t know what to say because yes I do love wine but have no idea what it is that I love about wine. This ep is huge! Like the Rosetta Stone of the wine language to me. The more I watch the more I understand and yes, I am going to go shopping and train my palate a la GV. BTW, I love that I get to laugh my ass off every single weekday. Sorry to all the Buffalo fans, great defense, but BRONCOS!!! man BRONCOS!!!

    This is a bad ass episode. Big LOVE to GV and all the fine people behind WLTV. My new favorite show. Promise not to lurk so much as my repertoire develops.

    And yes I want the lurker T shirt

  22. September 6, 2007

    rodallas

    do you have a shopping list??

  23. September 4, 2007

    Alex

    That was one of the best episodes i have seen… however… There are other peppers other then a jalepeno, you really should try a Habanero on camera. :P

  24. September 1, 2007

    Kevin

    Brilliant idea. I got jalepeno on a New Zealand Sauv Blanc today for the first time – prior to watching the episode. I also got my first good dose of ’slate’ in an alsatian riesling. I’ll be buying some Hero jams this week. Thanks for the inspiration.

  25. September 1, 2007

    Helios Gallery

    Hands down greatest episode ever. Thanks GV for eating dirt and then Cristal at the end. I remember in one episode you mentioned firebugs. I’d love an episode where you taste all the unconventional taste notes you’ve mentioned on the vlogs.

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