A Lazy Friday – Episode #206

March 30, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

1995 Chat Ferriere

Question of the day: “What are you doing this weekend?”

A lazy Friday afternoon with Gary Vaynerchuk. Sit back and relax as Gary answers your questions and tastes some wine.

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154 Responses

March 30, 2007

CW
lazy is as lazy do
March 30, 2007

yoshi
#2
March 30, 2007

Dave-from-Katonah
Hey! Top 10. Wooowooo!

(top ten is so lame)
March 30, 2007

John Blue Label
OOOHHH Top Ten. Yeah Gary!!!
March 30, 2007

Dave-from-Katonah
QOTD – Waiting for my free Vayniac wristband!!
and going to a black tie poker fundraiser – should be fun!
March 30, 2007

Brian
Woo Whoooooo

Top 10.

GV. Love what you are doing.

Brian
March 30, 2007

SoCal
Have a great weekend G!
QOTD: Having a BBQ, many bottles to open!!!!
March 30, 2007

Brett Favre
QOTD: Go Hoyas!
March 30, 2007

flavasauce
top lame!
March 30, 2007

cgf
top 10
March 30, 2007

CW
what is a hoya ? why does anyone care ?
March 30, 2007

CW
QOTD: Working on organizing a wine tasting group in Atlanta the I was made the head of. One of the first how-to’s will be ‘Obtaining Wine from Vendors that won’t ship to Georgia’……
March 30, 2007

TimF
You should have seen the cork I pulled out of a 1975 Port. I’ve got another bottle and will post a picture of it when it gets opened.
March 30, 2007

Dave-from-Katonah
“…eating a bullfrog’s beating heart…”

where do you get this stuff??
that is a classic GV line if there ever was…
March 30, 2007

Susan
Gary-

You are
Always filming
fabulous eps!
Love the decorating!!!
I
MUST
find your decorator!
March 30, 2007

Fiorentina!
I’m in the top 15! yea!!!
March 30, 2007

Fiorentina!
DAMN!
March 30, 2007

John Blue Label
Gary,
Sea Urchin? You will eat anything.
QOTD: Playing golf, going to church, making Sunday dinner for family, and finding the right wine to go with dinner.
JW
PS Your sister and Brandom, emailed me back. She agrees: You are a lunatic!
March 30, 2007

TimF
Yanking the foil off is the only thing I ever learned on WLTV. That came early on — I’m thinking the first 10 episodes or so when Gary used to open the wines on camera.
March 30, 2007

SP
Going to a tasting tonight, Chateau des Karantes, Languedoc, France. Tomorrow, friends bachelor party.
March 30, 2007

TimF
QOTD: Sounds like I’ve got a new video to shoot
March 30, 2007

Susan
GARY-
QOD:
My
BIRTHDAY
is this weekend so I am going to stay with
my
family and
celebrate my birthday
AND
Palm Sunday.
2 fabulous things= 1 GREAT weekend!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way- I now subtract not add when I have birthdays!!!!
March 30, 2007

GottaGoDrink
QOTD- Entertaining friends from St. Louis and Seattle on Saturday and serving wine with whatever I grill. It’s all good!
March 30, 2007

hugh
Gary,

I suggest using the wristband as a drip collar!!
QOD- Hanging with my girls, watching the Final Four
yesterdays QOD- that’s a tough one….i’ll go with the Golden Bear….
March 30, 2007

Canuckchuk
QOTD: Joining them asses at the International Wine Festival here in Vancouver. Have a good weekend!
March 30, 2007

flavasauce
Gary you turd! I actually bought your answer to my question for a minute until as I watched ep. 34 realized you were pulling my leg! DOH! But wait 3+4=7!! AAAHHH it’s like that Jim Carey movie!! What does it mean??? Oh BTW SS what’s up with the beer links on the spread sheet??? Something strange is afoot at the winelibrary……………..
March 30, 2007

Fiorentina!
Hey Gary!
Fun episode. Ok, so what am I doing this weekend….well my family is looking to change up the face of our wine shop, so i’m looking into the costs of new wooden racks, the costs of re-tiling the bathroom, the costs of making a mini wine cellar for vintage wines (VERY Small), creating a new layout for the shop, and designing a new layout for our displays….yea…sounds like fun. I’m also working Saturday Night and Sunday. However, I’m going to dinner with my parents tonight and I’m going to find time to read the new Wine Enthusiast and catch up on my sleep.
March 30, 2007

joe
Gary:

thanks for tasting a 1995 Classed Bordeaux. Wine Spectator has suggested that ’95s are drinking well now (while ’96s are “drink now” – peaked). In your opinion how much life is left in the Ferriere? Is it at peak yet?

I would like to believe that Classed growth Bordeaux’s still have cellaring potential (in an age where few wines do).

thanks
Joe
March 30, 2007

stevo
GV – WTF???? You asked us to give you 350 comments for episode 203. The Vayniacs rocked it and delivered 547 to date. Not a word about it from you? WTF???

QOTD: To graduate law school I have to write a 35-50 page research paper. The topic: The Battle between James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in establishing the first bank of the United States. In case you’re curious or didn’t know – Hamilton wins the battle and President Washington signed the bank bill creating the first national bank of the US in 1791. I’m on page 11…24 to go.

Hey CW – I’m moving to Atlanta in a month and would be interested in joining the wine tasting group.
March 30, 2007

RPS
QOTD: Working, again! However, to ensure the weekends not a total loss, I’m planning to open a Vignetti di Marano Amarone Classico 1988 that I’ve had lying around.
March 30, 2007

John P
QOTD: Actually going from central Jersey to Maine…
Guess what’s in between..Yep..the Wine Library.
Some how, aliens takeover the car and they
go down I78 to 24, then to a littllle parking lot
where they stop. I sit in the car and they come
out with a boatload of bottles. The liquid in
these bottles is yummy……
March 30, 2007

Jaimelia
I am doing the Passport to Woodinville – just outside of Seattle. 24 different wineries to visit. Then dinner at Purple – excellent wine bar/to die for dinners. I know you’re jealous!
March 30, 2007

caleb
Burying myself in finance books for next weeks tests only to reemerge for a tasting on saturday…south africans mmmm.
March 30, 2007

waibeans
hey GV! Can I drop by the store to pick up some wristbands?! Looks like you’ve got a few extras there. QOD: I’m with you.. been working pretty much straight through all march, I finally get a weekend off and I’m gonna spend it with my wife making some vaca plans. Long deserved I think. Have a great weekend!
March 30, 2007

Lb in KS
…A bullfrog’s beating heart? Can’t wait for THAT episode.
QOTD..Watching a little bball….waiting for muh wristbands, and oh yeah…planting some grapes.
March 30, 2007

Matt W
You know what Gary, you should start a list of pretentious, hoity-toity wine myths, and then categorically start to debunk them and write the conclusions down. You know, just go Martin Luther style and write a “95 Theses” for the wine reformation. And I’m not just talking about things like “cork” vs. “screw top”, or “cut a circle in the foil” vs “yank the whole thing off”. Your comments yesterday about start of VdT Tuscans was really interesting. I’d love to hear more about that sort of stuff.
March 30, 2007

Susan
Gary-
Could
NOT
stop laughing!!!!
Very funny ep!!!!!!!
March 30, 2007

gordoyflaca
working all weekend. Overnight. No wine.
March 30, 2007

Neil
Weren’t the free wristbands the reward for the 350+ comments? Gary, your sister returned my email. She must adore you for all of the emails that popped into her in-box.

QOTD: Grilling and chilling with the family. Gotta love that!
March 30, 2007

Gman
Tonight: Single Malt Scotch Tasting. The rest of the weekend is going to church and getting ready for Holy Week. Busy, busy week if you, like me, work at a church. Then, I will plan my Easter dinner and enjoy some Brooklyn sun, oh, and make dinner for my wife. What red wine goes with Pork Tenderloin a la Bittman? Friends?
March 30, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
Comment #29 STEVO— I’m hearn’ buddy!… What did you win GV??? We haven’t heard D – - K about it and over 500 comments should have nearly doubled your winnings.
Like the new AVATAR???? huh? do ya?
March 30, 2007

Dave-from-Katonah
Hey stevo – you’re right!

Hey Gary – why no shout out to all of us devoted ones who gave you exactly what you asked for?? A huge outpouring of Vayniac comments, well in excess of the 350 you asked for, deserves a little reciprocal love, don’t you think? G – you know we all love you, man. stevo is right, but I wouldn’t say WTF…

For those of us who watch the vlogs regularly, it’s almost like a soap opera. We tune in to see what happens next. Each episode feeds on the previous ones. So stevo is right, in a way… 547 comments should not go unrecognized.

I gotta go open a Bordeaux. Try to pull off the foil… Have a nice weekend everybody!
March 30, 2007

mikeyrad
QOD, going to Morimoto tonight. Can you say UNI? Sure you can. Tomorrow thru Monday preparing for passover seder. Sue cooks, I’ll clean. BTW, passover is the only holiday that I know of where drinking at least four glasses of wine is part of the religious text (haggadah).
March 30, 2007

Lil Luce
Lazy Fridays are lots of fun!

I am going to get a massage, enjoy the spring weather, and finish up my taxes (yuk).
March 30, 2007

mikeyrad
A bullfrogâ€™s beating heart? You got me thinking of two scenes in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

1) “Ah, dessert! Chilled monkey brains.”
2) The “heart-ripping” ceremony.
March 30, 2007

Kathleen
QOTD:
I’m busy at work all weekend with the NYS budget…
Kathleen
March 30, 2007

Fingerlaker
opening a bottle of 2004 Concannon Petite Sirah Limited Release
tonight and watching NY real hockey team (Sabres) put a whompin on
the islanders…
March 30, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
QOTD:
Taking the boys with me in the AM to help do a little community work and help cleanup and open up the Paul Bunyan Logging Camp. Then party with some friends tomorrow night, bringing a bottle of the Nora Albarino and the Verget chablis. Enjoyed the Arnot Roberts this week,, saving the other bottle for down the road.
See ya, wishn’ I could be ya!
March 30, 2007

Dave Canada
You should have been buried in those wristbands….they rock.
Your sister is cool. I didn’t think she’d actually email back. No wonder she is teacher of the year.
QOTD – Watching the final four, building a deck, looking after my sick son and drinking some wine. I hope you’ll be watching the final four too….maybe pick up some moves for out 1:1. BY the way…wear 50 of those things cause it ain’t gonna impune my game….still gonna dance on your head!
March 30, 2007

MaryS
#50???
March 30, 2007

SpaceJay
QOTD – Playing in a golf tournament on Saturday. Drafting my mixed team on Sunday. Had our NL draft last week (8 teams). If yours is 8 teams, I can send you our draft results. Picked 7th, got David Wright followed by Carlos Lee. Also playing with my band Saturday night.
March 30, 2007

C. Werneck
Great friday!
Happy birthday Susan!
QOTD:IÂ´m going to MaracanÃ£ Stadium (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) to see the great Botafogo against the dirty Vasco (soccer, does any one like soccer? I know itÂ´s not a favourite sport in US). Probably Romario, the great brazilian player, will make his 1000 goal. LetÂ´s see.
March 30, 2007

Pat Mc
QTOD – remaking some vacation plans. Was going to Indianapolis for big car show in June where you can drive your car on the big track. Shivers down the spine time. But work intervenes -must go to Lake Como Italy(not so bad). Now planning hot rod car show for Syracuse NY mid July which coincides With Watkins Glen Finger Lakes Wine Fest. 80 wineries. etc. However I loathe sweet wines. Can we prevail upon the grand Vaynerchuk to identify which wineries produce “decent” not sweet juice?
March 30, 2007

Michael Goldberg
Why to cut the foil: Because if you don’t cut it and rip the cork out forcibly, then a piece of tin might find its way into your wine. When you pour the wine, the piece finds itself in your glass! And then drink the wine, you taste it and chew it. Have you ever chewed on tin foil? It’s awful. Ruins the wine. And that’s just no good.

QofD: I am in the Law School Library finishing my Paper and NJ Bar Application. All weekend long.
March 30, 2007

TagWorld Brian
QOTD: Watching my Bruins (hopefully) chomp a gator tomorrow.

Nice mellow ep. today. Waiting to see Ciocco sit in for a session, on the WLTV tasting couch.
March 30, 2007

Lynne
The wrist bands sliding all over the place…very funny! Maybe you should make golf club covers out of them. They’d be on courses all over the country!

QOD: Lawn work, play some corn hole w/ the fam, listen to rock & roll on the deck, burn some burgers, drink some vino and most definitely,absolutely, positively watch the FINAL FOUR..gO bUCKS!!!!!!!
Just for the heck of it, I was checking out my brackets @ the WL group site…I went to the last page and couldn’t find myself. I kept searching from back to front and finally found me on page 1 and in the top ten. Blew me away. Enjoy the weekend, all.
March 30, 2007

luckybecky
Great ep as usual, Gary! Can’t wait for the thousands more to come.

QOTD: tonight, I’m being lazy. Will probably open a bottle of something, but haven’t decided what yet. The rest of the weekend is going to be busy. Have to help my daughter shop for a prom dress — there goes the wine budget for the next couple of months! Yard work, boring stuff like that. Sunday, put some stuff up for sale on eBay.

Have a great weekend, Vayniacs!
March 30, 2007

newtuxedo
QOTD: Watching the Bruins trounce the Gators, placing my wine collection into the racks of my just completed wine cellar (finally), waiting by the mailbox for my WL wrist band, and popping the cork on a nice bottle to drink with tonight’s dinner cooked by the wife.
March 30, 2007

Daniel
TGIF….. Bring on the weekend
March 30, 2007

dublin
Sea Urchin baby! If you ever make it out to L.A. go to Hirozen Sushi, they have amazing sea urchin. QOTD, going to a Pinot Nior tasting in Brentwood, should be a good one with Kosta Browne on the menu. Cheers!
March 30, 2007

Dr. J. L. Sifuentes
What wines would one pair with Korean food? I’m like you Gary, I try everything.

QOTD: Watching Ohio State whip the Hoyas, watching my son-in-law Noah play in Jackson Center High’s annual alumni basketball program, going out to dinner with friends, and enjoying some nice wine.
March 30, 2007

Rita Ladany
Uni is the best so smooth and sweet! You should have it at the wine library with the wine tasting oh OK put it downstairs with the cheeses oh just add an addition just for wonderful foods!
Funny I was going to use my wrist band as a drip catcher on the wine bottles but I like your idea better. Please add a bunch more to my shipment
Oh and fro removing the foil I just screw right through them. I always get yelled at for that! BUT I still do it. But find myself pulling it off more often.
Oh as for the wrist band and you on the couch.
You should have taped a bunch to yourself so you didn`t have to so obviously prop them back on your crouch!
They did look like condoms. Can I say that?
As for the weekend is my busy time so I`m working!!!!!!!!
March 30, 2007

CindyW
I will be spoiling a sick husband, missing the Passport to Woodinville (darn!), and hoping to find a TV station that is actually playing the final game of the women’s NIT basketball tourney. Maybe I’ll even be able to see shots of my parents when they scan the crowd (mom and dad have been going 3 hours early to secure the best seats in the house). My hometown team, the actual COWGIRLS (see WLTV episode #203) will be playing in front of a sold-out crowd in Laramie, Wyoming. This is amazing for a few reasons, not the least of which is that the tickets sold out in just a few hours. . . in spite of a blizzard that snowed in the entire region.

C’mon, cheer for the underdog — a group of gals playing college ball in the least populated state in the country. Go Wyo!

Cindy
(once a Wyomingite, always a Wyomingite, even if I now live in Washington)
March 30, 2007

Canada Pete
Just coming out of the closet after 100 episodes or so…..
Love the show, love the passion for wine and life!
And Gotta get my hands on some more Bordeaux…..
cheers
March 30, 2007

mas
QOTD: Final Four & taking my daughter for a walk. Oh…and enter all that wine I bought at WL on Wednesday into my cellar software…
March 30, 2007

Susan
Great friday!
Happy birthday Susan!
QOTD:IÂ´m going to MaracanÃ£ Stadium (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) to see the great Botafogo against the dirty Vasco (soccer, does any one like soccer? I know itÂ´s not a favourite sport in US). Probably Romario, the great brazilian player, will make his 1000 goal. LetÂ´s see.

Comment 52: By C. Werneck on March 30th, 2007 at 6:50 pm

Thanks for the well wishes!!!!!
I also WISH I could go with you to Rio De Janeiro!!!
Sounds VERY cool!!!
March 30, 2007

yowens
You have many a wristband. QOTD: I’m mad busy in the hospital this weekend but catching an episode of WLTV tween admissions made my day. Thanks!
March 30, 2007

Badger Ann
QOTD: Cleaning the detritus out of my yard, now that the weather’s nice + watching the Final Four.

Uni – who in their right minds eats fluorescent orange paste? I almost got sick sitting at a sushi bar in Japan the first time I tried it. Now fugu – you must try if you dare!
March 30, 2007

dadobs
Quote: “They’re feeling the oak monster…they’re loving the oak monster….” Anyone else come away thinking they need a shower after watching this ep?

QOTD: Drinking WL wine and mowing my lawn, in that order. Watch out, toes….
March 30, 2007

Jennifer
You’re a subtle man, Gary.
QOTD: looking at a new apartment.
Taking laundry out, coffee with parents, watching Godfather II, and maybe Casino Royale if the mood strikes me.
What are you doing?
March 30, 2007

Kent I
Good to see questions come back. I missed the laid back Friday episodes.

QOTD: No plans yet. Hopefully I’ll be over my cold by then.
March 30, 2007

t_moderne
it’s the berries. Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, gooseberries, loganberries, cranberries, billberies, boysenberries, strawberries, huckleberries, mulberries, olallberries, elderberries, goji berries, and juniper berries. It’s the berries and it’s in the wine.
Salud!
March 30, 2007

Koenraad
I love lazy friday’s :’(

qotd: Studying pharmacology :’(

I am a medical bird
March 30, 2007

flavasauce
QOTD: FLying back to SF tomorrow after visiting my family in ct. It was my Dad’s birthday and he was recovering from a pretty major operation to remove cancerous growth inside his mouth. Amazingly they got it all and at the moment he’s all clear thank god! On sunday it’s my girlfriends b-day and I’m gonna do my best to cheer her up as her dog is dying of cancer. It’s been a crazy month. As Gary says it’s all about friends and family.
March 30, 2007

Joe Po
I loved watching the wristbands slide off the leather couch! And no, that is not what i’ll be doing this weekend. On Saturday, a surprise B-day party at a home where good wine will be found AND on Sunday another surprise B-day Party at a local restaurant. Not sure of the beverage selections there. So this will be a first with back-to-back surprise fiestas!
Gary, i’m leaving for Argentina on April 12 for 2 weeks and was wondering if you have been there, and if so, other than eating the outrageous beef and consuming copious amounts of Malbec, what else should I be doing? Any suggestions from the Vaniac Nation would be appreciated. Muchas Gracias.
March 30, 2007

thescrewcap
I started my weekend right – cut out of work early and went to WL! Bought some decent stuff, too! I hope I don’t drink it all this weekend though.

ps I had a Gary sighting but he looked busy and I got that feeling like that time I saw Julia Roberts in line at a movie theatre and after weighing options a) stalking her or b) letting her buy her popcorn in peace, I chose b.
March 30, 2007

Jon B.
Nice to relax on a friday. Looks like there will soon be free wristbands with every order… qotd two tastings one on friday one on sat.Work on saturday morning and mowing the lawn on sunday. great episode as usual.
March 30, 2007

Koenraad
lol the wristbands, falling from the couch

it is surreal ^^
March 30, 2007

CampingLisaB
Great Episode Gary!!! QOD: Going to my youngest daughter’s musical…Schoolhouse Rock. Grading papers… Having family over for dinner… Drinking some Wine and trying to plan a day trip to WL in the upcoming months!
March 30, 2007

Portland Guy
Enjoyed the episode. QOTD – eating all the junk food in the house, paired with a cheap red, and taking in the final four. With a sushi din on the line, i’ll be pulling for the gators(who I actually loathe)to take it all. Pulling for the hoyas (who I also loathe) in other bracket to pad my point total. Just to keep the record clean, I also loathe the bruins and buckeyes. So, I will enjoy sat and mon sittin, munchin and sippin in front of the screen, loathing 4 teams shootin’ some hoops – good times, good times.
March 30, 2007

Dmjperc
QOTD: I will be chasing tornadoes all weekend in Oklahoma. For tornado chase..I recommend a spicy 2002 Gustavo Thrace red zin.
March 30, 2007

OttawaB
Just hanging out with my kids playing some ping pong (son 11, daughter 9). Also some yard work. Watching some hockey, and of course drinking some good wine. I am dying to try a 1993 Erbacher Schlossberg Riesling Auslese by Schloss Reinhartshausen (Rheingau) on Saturday night. Cooking up some salmon on the BBQ (both my kids love salmon, even more then a great steak). Sunday, we will take out a lunch and hike the trails behind my house to see where they go. Its always a good weekend when I have the kids.
March 30, 2007

Harley Stan
Gary,
Great Friday episode, Friday being the day I can enjoy WLTV with a glass of wine( a 2004 Malbec)
QOTD- Taxes! and then the monthly dinner. Each month we get together with two other couples for a dinner. We take turns hosting and entree while the two visting couples bring appetizer and dessert. We are dessert this month. My wife is making Tres Leches and I have picked out an Australian Shiraz to bring along. It is always alot of fun and we kill about 4 bottles of wine in the process.
March 30, 2007

Dom
QOTD: Well. I started off my friday with a couple glasses of the Segal Cab which was delivered today. Man oh Manischewitz, a really nice wine.

Tomorrow, a few errands like Starbucks in the morning, shopping at Harris-Teeter and then the wife and my mother-in-law will be celebrating our Seder dinner at a nice restaurant overlooking Sugarloaf Mtn. (It’s hard to get the family together on a Monday)

I, too, will also be drafting two espn fantasy ML teams and, of course, watching some B-ball whenever I can.

Have a great weekend.

Cheers!

P.S. Good call on the Segal Cab.
March 30, 2007

Alos Diallo
I will try an ketch up on some research and do a lot of partying since I have not been able to do a lot of that lately
March 30, 2007

Len C
dude have you ever had uni with a quail egg on top???? try it, you will love it!
March 30, 2007

Malarkey
watched WLTV with a glass of Winner’s Tank Shiraz.

then packing, packing and more packing, as I’m moving next weekend. *sigh*
March 30, 2007

tarheel17
QOTD: Scuba-diving to get my last collection of fish EVER. Soon, very soon, I’ll be done with graduate school. yay!
Question for you (or anyone): what color is tempranillo when it’s made into a varietal wine? I bought a bottle because I’ve never had just Tempranillo before, and it looks like a spritzer it’s so light! The label says to ’serve chiled.’ Is this some sort of fufu drink masquerading as wine? I didn’t spend that much $ on it, so perhaps I deserve it. . .
March 30, 2007

Darlene O.
Gary, great episode. Gave me a few laughs. Thanks. Firstly, you can keep your uni. I love ya, Gary, but the uni and me…well…no go. QOD: I’m thinking maybe a little wine tasting, maybe some beach action in Laguna Beach. The weather is ridonculous, and the beach is calling to me. Have a great weekend!
March 30, 2007

Wino
Stand tall all fellow Foil Wrippers!!!!!! Rip away……….

QOTD- I am going to see the Allman Brothers tomorrow in NYC! Tonight I drank a Trimbach Gewirtztraminer with some General Tso!!!! Yum…….
March 30, 2007

Jack2112
Good episode, nice to see laid back making a come-back.
QOTD – taking care of kids while wife is away and getting pumped for baseball season to start!!!
March 30, 2007

Dave-from-Katonah
Hey great idea, Lynne. Gary – you could make Vayniac golf headcovers available for more Vayniac Schwag!
I bet they sell like hotcakes!
March 30, 2007

ChadD
QOTD: Doing yard work-it is in the freaking 80’s here in ohio!! I’ve already switched from reds to whites.
I love lazy friday-and a 95er for 50 bones-what a steal!
The wrist bands have taken over your office!!!
March 30, 2007

ChrisR
QOTD: Going to the dentist, exercising and watching the Final Four!
(and in between all of that I hope to drink some great wine)
March 30, 2007

Hank
I can’t believe Gary has all those wristbands and he won’t let us have any.
March 31, 2007

BV
Enjoyed watching the wristbands move around the couch like a lava flow.

Also enjoyed the wristband as a wine cozy.

QOTD: Saturday – chores. Sunday – wide open & my wife’s outta town. That could spell trouble!

Have a great one, Gar’!

Bill V.
March 31, 2007

Autumnfox
I saw my band taped over your left shoulder…not the one your were sitting on.
Awesome show, relaxed and sassy. My cup of joe, shot of jack, glass of vino, etc.

Uni? funny, seriously just got done eating uni (along with salmon, tuna, unagi, yellowtail…) YUM is right!
QOTD: Teaching, then headin out to AZ for the week. Compared to WI….ahahahahhaha! Can’t wait!
March 31, 2007

Caren
That bordeaux looks/sounds luscious. QOTD-Hanging out w/friends, sippin some ‘ritas by the pool…shopping w/my son’s new girlfriend…hubby at golf tornament….out 2 dinner for my dad’s 73rd b’day…I want oysters! …..dreading monday
March 31, 2007

JoeSwirl
Good to see you got the wine vibe going strong.
March 31, 2007

wine whore
you have to admit that the beating bullfrog’s heart line was top ten all time great vaynerchuk lines. friggin classic. QOTD: i am going to eat a beating bullfrog’s heart.
March 31, 2007

cyrock1
QOTD: Pull weeds, play with son, have lunch with wife and son, go to work, conduct blind tasting on customers, sell lots of wine, come home and drink some wine, surf WLTV forums ’till 2am, sleep, wake up, do more yard work, play with son, wife goes to work, son watches TV, I surf more of the forum and catch up on back episodes, play with son, eat, play guitar, go to sleep, wake up, got to work, order more wine.
March 31, 2007

Jerry
Gary, you are amazing for going back through Ask WLTV and answering some lingering questions. I’m sure you have tons of email and WLTV comments to read through, so kudos to you for your efforts. And in the process, you’ve given us new catch phrases! By the way, I agree with you about over-oak flavors even in my very limited wine experience.

QOTD: basketball, church, catching up on sleep

PS: The wristbands were hilarious. You’ve convinced me to sign up for one.
March 31, 2007

gnagle
Great episode today Gary, and thanks for answering my question!
March 31, 2007

YoungDave
TOP…103?
Great lazt Friday EP, Big G.- thanks for the relaxed style.

QOTD: The restaurant business beckons as usual, so I will be working. HOWEVER- I have an Alsacian Gewertz that I plan to pop tomorrow after my shift, and hope to share it with the room mates. Good luck with the WL fantasy baseball team.
March 31, 2007

KenP
QOTD: Bike ride, hanging with my daughter, traveling with my boy to a big DownHill race of his, working on a script, and writing some GV publicity for his most excellent SF visit. Oh, and whispering sweet nothings into my wife’s ear.
March 31, 2007

wildebeest
QOTD: Drinking to my little bro, who got an acceptance letter from STANFORD last night! I popped a bottle of the Chat Lamartine Cahors Cuvee Particuliere 2003. It a baby, but I’ve got one more bottle. Maybe I’ll bring that one to his graduation.
March 31, 2007

Jon K
QOTD: Normally I’d be getting geared up for a big family seder, too – but this year I’ll be out of town so I’ll be packing a jar of Gefilte fish, the particle board of the seas.

Jon
March 31, 2007

tony vincent
tasting at Union Square Wines (NYC)…
anyone going?
http://www.unionsquarewines.com/calendar/event?eventid=7518&category=&page_title=&id=bL6N36ju&mv_pc=170
March 31, 2007

JavaMonkey
I’m driving down to NJ to visit my sick mother this weekend.
March 31, 2007

glenn
thank goodness you tear the foil off! what is up with that anyway? you hvae to showcase aged Bordeaux huh?
March 31, 2007

Bobinnati
QOTD – drink some wine, yard work, practice some music for Holy Week, church, golf, drink some wine (oh, I already mentioned that), do my GTD weekly review and all of the assorted honey-do’s and family stuff that comes up.

Nice episode. I am open to eating most things, but I draw the line at monkey brains and bullfrog hearts……….
March 31, 2007

flavasauce
oh yeah about the foil….I have found that there is a practical use for leaving the foil on. when you grip it while screwing in the cork screw it makes it easier cuz the foil is loose and spins around the bottle while your grip stays in place. It’s easier than having to regrip the neck as you go. Just a thought.
March 31, 2007

Rick "The Model" M
QOD – going to wine library to buy some vino, and I too am drafting my fantasy baseball team tomorrow.
March 31, 2007

Justin S
Glad to see you drinking some wine.

QOTD: I’ll be working in my garden and relaxing on the couch.
March 31, 2007

MaryS
QOD: Easter egg hunt with the kids, neighbor get together, church, etc, etc, etc….
March 31, 2007

Jen
QOTD: Plotting my revenge….. regarding a SUCKY wine tasting that could have been better if I had been given the reigns. (she lifts an eyebrow…)
March 31, 2007

jbailey
QOTD: Sat – 4 hour test, followed by a wine tasting party tonight of Red South African wines.
Sun – Recovering.
March 31, 2007

Les
SPRING BREAK!!!! I’m a teacher, okay! Off to wine country tomorrow! Personally, the fine circular cut of the foil gives me a sense of ritual, of peace and harmony…did I say SPRING BREAK?
March 31, 2007

mike m
Coming home tomorrow from Sitka,Ak.Building a house with a friend.Will be at Quilceda Creek in the afternoon,oh and rip the foil!!
March 31, 2007

Matthew L
Gary…I always appreciate you taking questions. This time, though, I couldn’t decide whether you were clowning me or not. I started my question because of the issue you addressed in Episode 162 about wine labels. You said, in that episode or another one, that you wanted to debunk the myth that a great label indicates good wine. I was just following along with that. Secondly, were you serious about Lebanese wine labels or were you just yanking my chain?

Thanks for the reinforcements for those of use who pull the foil off the bottle.

Thanks for reviewing the 1995 Chat Ferriere. I’ve been looking to purchase a bottle of 1995. My son was born in ‘95, and I want to buy a good bottle to reserve for his 21st birthday. Would the Chat Ferriere hold up? (He’s 12 this year.) Any other suggestions for a 1995 vintage? — maybe a Champagne/sparkling?

QOTD: Friday night I hung out with a buddy of mine that just moved to the city and got a phat job at a pharmaceutical company new Summitt Hills. I recommended he come by and see you. The rest of the weekend is going to be fulled with yard work and NCAA tourament viewing. My wife is out of town for a couple of weeks, so I want to surprise her with some nice spring curb appeal when she gets back.
March 31, 2007

Matthew L
I just realized that I asked about a 1995 vintage and said my son will be 12 this year. Duh! Sorry about that.
March 31, 2007

Deano
Hey Gary cool episode it looks like you could send me a couple more wristbands LOL. That wine sounds tasty. Your sis and the birthday boy emailed me back i am sure they had a lot of emails lol.

QOTD:
Going up to Napa to see the future in-laws and party hardie!!!!!!! My fiance is having her wedding shower so i am sure she will have a good time.
March 31, 2007

Ben Morris
I’m in the top 150! YEAH!

And I’m doing your mom this weekend.

P.S. Great shows. Keep up the good work.
April 1, 2007

Vinacull
Very good EP. Happy birthday to Vayniac Susan (two days late). Love your alternate use of the Vayniac wristband Gary – it also works for catching the runs down the bottle so the label stays intact for us label junkies! Loved your comments on the foil. The foil cutter is one of those devices that has sat eternally un-used in my kitchen drawer. Foil “rippers” UNITE! QOTD: Looking in my schedule for the opportunity to pick up my order from WL! What else would I be doing??
April 1, 2007

Atreyu
This weekend is not great, I am working on a presentation that is very important to me.
The only good thing is that I drank some wine, which however was not great
Next days will be better
Hope you have a good weekend!
April 1, 2007

Karen Lorentz
Visiting Wine Library, of course!!
April 1, 2007

brooklyni
QOTD. considering it’s sunday already (crap!) i had fun hanging out with friends in the city. It’s crappy weather outside, so I think I’ll drink some petite sirah.
April 1, 2007

dealbhadair
Hmmm… Question for you, G… Were you in a fraternity in college? Watching this episode, I just had an epiphany. I had always thought that fraternities were a big, idiotic waste of time, and an excuse for stupid jocks to get wasted as often as possible. But I just realized something! The hazing rituals do serve one very important, educational purpose… They prepare people for some of the freakish, absolutely disgusting, ‘delicacies’ that society has to offer out in the ‘big boy’ world! Some examples: Caviar (fish eggs), Escargot (snails), Uni (sea urchin), and what??? A bullfrog’s beating heart with chopsticks??? Crimeny!!! That’s a new one on me!!! *shudder* What the heck is wrong with you people???

QOTD: Absolutely nothing!
April 1, 2007

dealbhadair
Holy of holies!!! My gravatar is working!!! Deleting my account and creating a new one worked!!!
April 1, 2007

different lobster
QOTD – in Africa at the moment, taking anti-malarials. Anti-malarials that make me have really weird dreams. Now I’m bound to have a semi-dirty one about a bikini-clad oakmonster…. thanks Gary
April 1, 2007

SS Chris
QOTD: We brought CJ for a return visit to Georgetown Univ. Great weekend in Georgetown /DC…standing at the top of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at night w/ the monument reflecting across the “Forrest Gump” pool is one of my favorite places in the world.
April 1, 2007

Billy C
Hilarious. I totally watch for the dumb stuff that you do.

QOTD: Hanging out with my family.
April 1, 2007

The Smartest Girl in San Francisco
The Scotch tape is my favorite thing in this entire episode.

The chair looks like the crapâ€™s ass, mentioned previously in the week.

QOTD: Anderson Valley, with an unfortunate detour through the Alexander Valley. Finally smelled pickle juice.
April 1, 2007

GottaGoDrink
Susan- Happy Birthday!

Flava- Best to you and your family. Trying times, hope all will be well.
April 1, 2007

Drewine
QOTD
Friday: Changed the wine world a little bit by hosting Wine Night with friends and serving the four Rieslings you featured a month or two ago. Paired with good Chinese. Great stuff.

Saturday: Worked out, attended U of Texas spring football game, went to friend’s three year old’s birthday party which was mostly watching basketball and playing washers, saw The Bottle Rockets (great Missouri rock band).

Sunday: Slept in, shopped for lawnmower, watched this episode.
April 2, 2007

Justmarsh
What about getting some Vayner-wallets Gary? I’m sure I speak for many Vayniacs when I say my wallet has taken some abuse after watching WLTV. In a good way that is!
April 2, 2007

Terrance
As a half-Japanese American living in Japan I was psyched to hear Gary mention his love for the uni. Uni (sea urchin) rocks the house. If seafood/sushi ain’t your thing cool, but if you’re a sushi fiend and you haven’t had uni then you’re missing out. It’s not for all, but that leaves more for the rest of us. Just the word is funky awesome… uni uni uni.
April 2, 2007

PB
Oakmonster v. Iron Shiek in a “no holds barred”……who wins???

Keep up the comedy, and try the veal!
April 2, 2007

Les Sebay
Gary
Uni is great, beating hearts hmmm but am willing to try it. I’m Hawaiian – so if its slower than me, I’ll usually eat it! My local sushi chef treated me to sea slug and eel. I paired that with a nice guvertz. What a match, but I wonder if a pinot blanc would have been more stupendous. I always rip the foil off and not ashamed to do it.
April 2, 2007

Lawrence Leichtman
Working saturday and playing golf Sunday and yardwork. Nothing exciting. The oak monster lives at my house and I keep trying to kick him out but my wife drags him in by the heels and perches him at the dinner table. Can this thing be killed?

Gary, have you seen the show on the travel channel where the guy goes all around the world eating wierd stuff? What wine would you drink with grubs? suspect a Sancerre but that would just be my preference. Actually am not a fan of Uni, tastes like slimy coffee to me.

One thing that would be interesting would be to film you doing tastings for the store when you decide what wines to carry. Talk about thousands of wine! And in that vein, when are you going to show your Bordeaux footage?
April 2, 2007

AlanL
Whenever possible now I pull the foil right off the bottle.

QOTD: This weekend I consumed far too much wine with my wife and neighbors on Friday night, Saturday the same neighbor and I traded off helping one another with some house jobs, then Sunday had a family dinner (where I brought the wine) with my wife’s family for Passover. Next weekend its my family for Easter and I supply with the wine for that one too
April 2, 2007

TR
GV, Thank you for offering and reviewing the 95 Ferriere. I have read about good things about this wine but it has very limited availablity in the USA. I beleive the greedy ‘Roast Beefs’ drink them all. As usual you also have a great price so I’m looking forward to my order.
My female dog likes to steal the corks of the bottles I’m drinking and chomp them down. You should see one of those once they’re uncork’d at the other end. Not to worry I won’t send you any pictures.
I’m a Bartender and I always pull the foil sleeves off wine bottles except the heavy foil ones you can cut your hand up pretty bad trying to force one of them off. How can I request some wristbands with my wine orders? Cheers.
April 2, 2007

Svenpup
Working on the bottom of my boat…sailing season is approaching fast.
April 2, 2007

Formally Known as Big man
Well i am already back from the weekend but i went to Steamboat and went snowboarding it was amazing.
April 3, 2007

NY Pete
Just back from an extended VT weekend… had to catch up with WLTV… Browning Nagle, are you kidding me… wasn’t he like 5′8…
April 3, 2007

chito
Great show. Just saw it. What if the wine starts out smelling bad but tastes ok? And you are right..there are thousands of shows left to do so get busy!!! This weekend I spent delivering the paintings I sold last weekend. I sold out the show…38 originals in all. The proceeds go towards my parents memorial fund which provides scholarships to kids at my old parish school. Poor neighborhood but a good Catholic school. I paint to relax from doing surgery during the day. Keep up the great work.
April 3, 2007

Like 'em Rounded and Aged
Thanks for the heads up on this wine. I seldom trust WS scores on Bordeauxs.
April 4, 2007

hANS bOLLI
QOTD: long time watcher, first post with a late answer: I go skiing on the weekends, I’m swiss and live near the snow capped alps, great sport, good to be outdoors, and the snow conditions this spring are way better than at the beginning of the winter. one more week of snow skiing and the winter season ends.
thank you for all your shows and episodes. fun to watch and very educating. not only in wine knowledge, but also you are a great english professors for us foreigners to learn an even better english.
i like a lot of your episodes. i want to mention one: the german rieslings. what i liked so much is the low alcohol content. less than 10%! low alcoholic wines is the future(or is it: low alcoholic wines are the future?) the germans should promote it a lot more, especially among the women.
thank you
hANS bOLLI
April 9, 2007

TR
Geez. Woe be to any Bullfrog who dares taking a dump in Gary’s garden.
April 11, 2007

TSchampaert
QOTD: what did I do that weekend? Went on a weekend stay with my fanfare band (rehearsal weekend) and played two concerts on Sunday. Not really a fanfare/brassband lke you might know. It’s something typical of Netherlands and Flanders, resembles a British Brass Band, but were twice as large and have different instruments (only brass and saxophones). Were not marching, but more of an orchestra. Just have look at our site: http://www.kfwerkmanszonen.be/ .
C ya.
April 30, 2007

Charleen
I still want a wristband (or 2)1!!!

Gary you should do an episode about bad wines!! I can give you a few names. Little Penguin White Shiraz (tastes like over fermented grape fanta and a really bad vodka cramberry!); Jepson Chardonnay from CA (tastes like day old popcorn, green ale, beer, brandy and apple cider together, truly awful and it smells like rancid butter!) Yuck!
January 28, 2008

Adam Z
Just watched ep 34. What does it have to do with “7-10″?
September 10, 2009

ulu ulu ulu ulu
Chess tournament. Gary – you’re Russian, ever play chess???
November 8, 2009

John J.
qotd learning about Austrian wine.

A vin jaune episode would be fun Gary

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