Valpolicella Wines From Italy

Valpolicella Wines From Italy – Episode #365

December 6, 2007

Italian red wines are always among the most sought after however these wonderful efforts from the Venato go very unnoticed!

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Wines tasted in this episode:

Allegrini ValpolicellaValpolicella
2003 Mazzi Valpolicella PoiegaValpolicella
2005 Zardini Valpolicella SuperioreValpolicella

488 Responses

December 6, 2007

Kevin
What? First?!?!?
December 6, 2007

Eric S.
here we go!
December 6, 2007

jcprice
top 5 finally
December 6, 2007

Billr
####2 yipeee
December 6, 2007

waibeans
top 5
December 6, 2007

Dave Canada
2nd!!!
December 6, 2007

Chris Davis
top 10!
December 6, 2007

HawkeyeOeno
top 10, woo hoo, new i went home early cause of the snow for something.
December 6, 2007

wine-ot
top 10 ???
December 6, 2007

cma82
top 11??
December 6, 2007

Ryan M.
Top 12?
December 6, 2007

Fingerlaker
next contest.. hmm.. bringing the family/friends together showing the holiday spirit WLTV style…

(btw enjoyed seeing the love shown to foxfire )
December 6, 2007

Dominus
Happy 1st Birthday!

Hope these Valpos are worthy of this honor.
December 6, 2007

mbannon
Good show Gary. Except the end there, where you didn’t choose me. So sad. Ah well, such is life. Or at least my life.

QOD – Next contest winner joins you on your next WineLibrary buying trip.
December 6, 2007

Jeff
Viral marketing contest… Something wild (sane, but wild) and crazy (see first bracket) you do to advertise WLTV to people. Whether it’s putting a banner on your car, wearing a WLTV shirt to work on casual Fridays at work, etc. Photo required to PROVE it! My suggestion… think outside the bottle and the widgets! Keeping the widget-love out there GV, deserving. Happy H-days to you!

-Jeff
December 6, 2007

PhilB
Congrats to the winner!!
I’m so glad a fellow Canadian will be the co-host!!! Can’t wait to see that happen!!

QOTD: Man, this contest was already so cool…. But I say it’s one thing to have the winner flown in to NJ, but the next contest winner should be able to choose a spot anywhere on the planet and have GV to go with him or her to that spot to shoot the show!

Best wishes from Paris to all the fellow Vayniacs!

PhilB
December 6, 2007

Dave Canada
Yeah Canada!!! in the house!!!
QOTD – What about a vayniac t-shirt contest……get us all working on the next one
December 6, 2007

Jeff
QOTD: The winner receives some free wine from WLTV, since that $500 bottle of wine was such a big hit! Who wouldn’t want some free stuff!
December 6, 2007

sky
top twenty!
December 6, 2007

ike6116
QoTD – Gary will come to your house, bring the wine and tape WLTV there.
December 6, 2007

Mike T
I love this show!
December 6, 2007

JK from WV
Gee, I wish I’d have won!!! I was practicing the intro and everything. Oh well, life goes on.

QOTD: Next contest: A really kick ass bottle or two of bourdeaux. I’ll let you decide which ones and how high on the price ladder you’d like to climb but something that would let us ordinary poor people get a taste of the good stuff. How about a red and white set? Maybe something that’s aged well and ready to drink. Keep up the fun!
December 6, 2007

HuskerJamie
Gary, Thanks for the kind thoughts about Omaha, it’s been a tough day for everyone in the area.

QOTD: How about a wine and dinner package with the Mangenius? No cameras allowed.
December 6, 2007

mattlock
Great show as usual. Loved the contest even though I didn’t enter, it was still fun to watch.

QOTD: Maybe a photo contest of some type that involves wine and family.
December 6, 2007

waibeans
QOD: free tix/hotel to WL supertasting.. Or go to a wine producing area of choice with GV and do a tour.

keep the contest itself within about spreading the thundershow.. got to keep the movement growing
December 6, 2007

DHerbie
Congrats to the winners!

QOTD: Best holiday photo that incorporates WLTV. But I don’t like the voting situation so I say send a holiday photo in with WLTV somewheres and get in another drawing.

Great episode by the way, some of my grad school friends are from Valpolicella and they constantly talk about their region’s wine. I unfortunately have struck out each time I get a wine from that area.
Cheers
December 6, 2007

chris afzal
i know im new here, but seriously, i will take you out in pencil fighting. sorry.
December 6, 2007

Derek
What a great show…Hay Gary whats a Brew-HA-HA???

QOTD:What happened to the first question whats under the football?? I say it is a WLTV wrist band??

QOTD:UMMM I am not sure??? I have to think about this one???????
December 6, 2007

Daniel
QOTD: I think the contest should be a crazy wine-naming contest. That would rock my socks off.
December 6, 2007

Billr
CONGRATS both of you two on your wins….. Nice show….. Is there a iPod under the football?????

QOTD: What should be the contest….Hmmmmmm How about a treasure hunt in Cyberspace? Say you ask a easy question of a particular website each day at the end of your show for a week or two or three or four. Or maybe a question a week say on Wednesdays for a month of shows. Then, the answers to all of those questions would be sent together in an e-mail to MOTT (not MOM) and those people that have all the right answers would go into a spit bucket for a final drawing. This would keep the viewers going strong.
December 6, 2007

wine-ot
qod- photo of the hardest/best/random place to enjoy wine in the world!!!!! 10 cents
December 6, 2007

Billr
Is it keys to a vehicle?????????? :):):):):)
December 6, 2007

Billr
Maybe a Rolex…………
December 6, 2007

Dominus
I didn’t win, eh! Daggone Canadians! Congrats to the victor.

QOTD: Are there two? First off, under the football is . . . Jets tix?

Next contest winner gets to design the Vayniac Nation Cab wine label.

Cheers!

Go Colts!
December 6, 2007

Billr
A $1000 bones in free wine????????????
December 6, 2007

Derek
QOTD: How about flying to Bordeaux with you to taste barrel samples…are you going back???
December 6, 2007

Billr
Tickets to Crush Pad?????????????
December 6, 2007

Billr
A free wine cellar??????
December 6, 2007

Billr
I GIVE UP……………..
December 6, 2007

GregO
QOTD: Write a short essay on what you have done to change the wine world for the better.
December 6, 2007

Barry
QOTD: My best guess is that there is a paper football underneath it.
December 6, 2007

Taylor
Had me nervous with the first wine, but it turned around hardcore!!! The Zardini sounds awesome!
QOTD The next contest should be something along the lines of either send a clip of our own opening for the show or a contest to see who can come up with the most creative thing to put on the board.

PS there’s nothing under that jets football
December 6, 2007

amgryger
QOTD: There was a video contest, so maybe a “Changing the Wine World” essay/short fiction contest.
December 6, 2007

eightfifteen
The next contest could be a production of an intro.

By the way, what kind of wine pairs well with canuck?
December 6, 2007

Lukas B
Gary,
i’ll leave a better response to QOTD later, but here in the UK it’s 11:15pm, and i have to pick up my mom from the airport at 6am tomorrow morning. But…..
QOTD: what ever happened to the Vayniac Cab label contest?!?!?!
or who can put the biggest winelibrary logo on anything. eg, i could paint it on my truck, or someone could paint it on a wall.
i keep being told that size matters.
i’ll give a better response when i’m back from the airport tomorrow
love the show
December 6, 2007

GrapeStuff
Rats…oh well, next time.

QOTD: Sticking with the user-generated content idea 0- how about having people post 10 different tasting notes on ten different wines and then picking a winner at random.

Cheers, GV.
December 6, 2007

Jimmy S
it’s a smurf under the jets deal!

next contest – you create the ability for us to create our own widgets with our data. widgets could include “now drinking xyz wine”, “last wine drank”, “last 5 wines drank”, etc – with the ability to link to your site if you carry the bottle.
December 6, 2007

KVolk
QOTD(1): under the football is a Thundercat….
QOTD(2): The next contest should be how many referrals a vanyiac can get for sending people to watch the Thundershow with first place being a trip to a vinyard with the G man!!
December 6, 2007

Jprva
Since I love Amarone, I had to order three bottles of the Zardini. I hope it lives up to my expectations.
December 6, 2007

Kipp Bodnar
QOTD: I contest to make an intro song for WLTV
December 6, 2007

Daniel
Great show and congrats to the winners!

QOTD: How about winelibrary.tv video spoof contest, and i dont know how you could get any better than getting to co-host with you for the prize.
December 6, 2007

E
No you can’t, because 2008 is a leap year.

Speakin’ of the Obama shoutout, there’s a thought: what should I drink on caucus night? (After, mind you, not before).

I’ve had mixed results with Allegrini: loved the La Grola and the first bottle of ‘01 Palazzo della Torre, but the second was a little green, a little fruity, but not a lot of anything. A bottle full of meh.

Is that Vilm-O under the football?

QOD: well, someone’s got to do the label on that Vayniac cabernet, no?
December 6, 2007

Colin
GV – Under the pigskin? A thundercat. QOTD – A WLTV jingle.
December 6, 2007

Bryan Bell
A wine tasting contest with viewers home made wine.
December 6, 2007

Lindsay
I am relieved you didn’t like that Allegrini. I actually really enjoyed the 2005 and thought it was a great deal. The 2006, though, went down a little in price and a LOT in quality. I was super bummed.

QOTD: I would say host a tasting party with a Wine Library TV theme (like we did in Madison last week!) but I don’t have a blog so that would rule me out. Have everybody take a wine-related photo and put it on flickr. That’s free and relatively easy, and we could vote for a favorite and draw another name out of a hat.

I am apparently a member of the CKC. Didn’t know college kid vayniacs had a club!
December 6, 2007

ecola
Qotd: A great contest would be for WLTV to take a road trip to a Vayniac’s home and tape an episode.
December 6, 2007

angryphoton
Gary, congratulations on doing your 365th show. AT 28 minutes average per show, thats around 170+ work hours. That’s like 4.25 work weeks worth of time. Thanks for all the effort.

What’s under the football? My guess it a new Vanyiac Scwhag like a corkscrew.

QOTD: The new contest should be about making a new WLTV t-shirt. complete with a famous Gary quote and graphics.

AP
December 6, 2007

jcprice
great show, as always. one quick warning though, i’m in engineering school so I learned this the hard way…playing pencil break with structural engineers or physics nerds brings on a completely new dimension of the game. it becomes intense very quickly.

QOTD: Since you’re a family guy, how about a some sort of family oriented contest, with the holidays coming up most people will be near their families…maybe something like best photo with your family containing at least one WL related object in it, say a poster or wristband or anything. Also, I know it would be hard to put together, but something where the viewers can vote for it would be cool and help people who watch WLTV to get to know each other better. just my two cents…
December 6, 2007

sky
qotd next contest winner recieves……………………………………wine wine and more wine like a limited but insane amount of wine……..
December 6, 2007

BethB
Great show.. whats under the football…hmmm..a cork to one of the wines you drank tonight. As for the contest, it should be a label design contest for the Vayniac Cab that you are making.
December 6, 2007

sky
scratch that ….now i agree with ecola……a wltv ep. filmed at the winners house or cellar or favorite restaurant……
December 6, 2007

Leftcoast
Great show. I think there is a bottle of old balsamic vinegar under the football. (odd-I know)

QOTD- Contest should involve viewers sending in or e-mailing the name of a wine that Gary tastes blind to determine the best wine and therefore the winner. There would have to be a price cap etc. There would also have to be a qualifer round to limit it to a reasonable number of wines.
December 6, 2007

GrapeStuff
QOTD Part II: What is UNDER the FOOTBALL Question: A football player action figure.
December 6, 2007

monkuwino
QOTD: not clear if you mean what should the prize be or what to do to win the prize. But if it is what to do, here is my answer: best haiku wine review.
December 6, 2007

Christopher J
I remember pencil wars, you bring back an obscure memory from my childhood every day. I love it.

QOTD: Whoever can get the ‘tv.winelibrary.com’ link and logo on TV first. Like a sign at a football game, in the backgound of a morning talk show, etc. Could go on for a while, but it can be very fun. The winner would have to supply the visual evidence and the sign for proof. I am trying not to think of something somebody else thought of already, there are so many good ideas already, I have to get creative.
December 6, 2007

sky
fish!
December 6, 2007

sky
dung!
December 6, 2007

sky
pop rocks!
December 6, 2007

Kristen
Congrats to the winner!

QOTD: What about referring new people to the Thunder Show?

And I think it’s a paper football under the Jets football.
December 6, 2007

sky
a visit from elvis? you mentioned him in todays ep=…
December 6, 2007

Christopher J
Almost forgot, under the football: Free Shipping!!!
December 6, 2007

Kim
Next Contest: Invite viewers to video cast themselves doing a wine tasting in the Gary V style. Upload it to you-tube or simular video site and have Wine Library and fans vote on the best one.
December 6, 2007

Michelle R
Congrats to the Canadian!
QOTD (football):
I think it’s a new action figure character that you got, who’s been bad and is in hiding.
QOTD (contest):
idea #1 who can make the coolest, craziest, most awesome biggest WLTV fan website! maybe they’ll upload videos, pictures, etc. but it should all be devoted to YOU!
or
idea #2 who can sing/write the coolest, craziest, most awesome song highlighting WLTV!
December 6, 2007

BruceP
What’s under the football? Lionel the thundercat in the little Jets jersey.
QOTD: Best commercial for WLTV.
December 6, 2007

sky
those last four things were the answer to both
QOTD under the futbol and what the winner should win.l…..lol…;.%}%}
December 6, 2007

Adam Z
QOTD: My first thought was a Vayniac Cab Label design contest, but since a lot of others said the same thing, I’ll keep thinking.
December 6, 2007

KNode
QOTD: What about a WLTV trivia application on Facebook? I see people with movie, tv, and other various topic ones all the time (and how they’re doing shows up in the mini-feed). But it would require people to watch more episodes of WLTV to know the answers.
December 6, 2007

Tony Viviano
QOTD: 2 tix to the Superbowl baby!! –Guess I can’t legally say that. The BIG GAME baby!! Cowboys and Pats. Woo-Hoo!!
December 6, 2007

sky
how about a contest to see who can leave the most comments for a single episode of wltv??? whos in the running for that?
December 6, 2007

sky
he he he…………lol
December 6, 2007

Dr T from N. Carolina
QOTD 1 A paper football autographed by a Jets player

QOTD 2 Produce the Front label for the Vanyac Cab. WL staff pick the top three to five finalists (any info required by law for the label can be posted), then the Vanyacs pick the winner. The winner gets the grand prize. One person who voted for the winner is chosen at random to get a bottle of the Vanyac Cab (or pick until you get to one who can be shipped the bottle or who is willing to come pick it up). (Or two contests, for Front and back label!)

“T”
December 6, 2007

pomace
CONGRATS WINNERS! GV rocks again with the last minute bonus iphone?!

Q: Under the football is a paper football (triangle folded)?

QOTD: GOLDEN CORK WONKA HUNT!
1- Set a range of dates
2- Give us hints as to what the item is going to be.
3- “GOLDEN CORK” a few of said items.
4- Put secret item on sale (cheap, and with free shipping) for a limited time. 1-item max purchase.
5- Golden Cork winners get amazing prizes and love.
December 6, 2007

Craig MacDonald
QOTD #1: Under the football is a corkscrew with a WLTV logo…the next schwag.
QOTD #2: Contest: Pick three wines and predict how GV will rate them in a blind test. One entrant is drawn to choose the wines, and if that person predicts correctly, he/she wins! (Note: this contest could be entered by anyone who drinks vino, whether they’re tech/video/internet savvy or not.)
December 6, 2007

Sarah L
QOTD: I think the “butter bandit” is lurking under the footbal.
December 6, 2007

melissa vv
QOTD: Hmm… What if the winner of the next contest got to go on a wine buying/tasting trip to some major wine-producing region (either in the U.S. or overseas). I’m not sure how big you want to go with the next contest, but a trip to some place in France, Italy, Argentina, Australia, etc. would definitely be a pretty big deal for most people.
December 6, 2007

Shane
QOTD: World Pencil War Championship for pink slips! Or T-shirt Design Contest or Vayniac Cab Label Design Comp or Table Football Playoff to the death! Whatever.
December 6, 2007

Kirk
QOTD: I agree….host a tasting party. Video tape it…and send it in. It could be an alternate airing episode for WLTV when Gary has busy days….the prize? The winner should be flown on a 1 week (7 days 6 nights) trip to wine country travel of their choice. Burgundy, Germany, Spain, Australia, wherever!
December 6, 2007

kevin D
Gary, The contest should be to see how many people the vayniacs can reference to the show. Thanks for another freat show.
December 6, 2007

RDaneel
I like the idea of the contest being the label design for the Vayniac Cab – should be a fun project with (hopefully) an online vote from all the purchasers to pick the winner…
December 6, 2007

Snarf
QOTD: GaryV comes to a Vayniac’s residence (along with Anti the Mottster) and films a WLTV episode!
December 6, 2007

Corvette Tony
QOTD 1: Santa Claus

QOTD 2: Who Can Write the Best Theme Song (lyrics and/or music)
December 6, 2007

JoeD.
QOTD#1: Under Football = Vayniac/WLTV wristband

QOTD#2: Vayniac Nappa Valley Cab Label Contest
December 6, 2007

Social Project Brian
QOTD: Contest idea: I think people should send in pictures of themselves dressed as the Oak Monster or the Butter Bandit, and you pick the best one, or better yet, let the Vayniacs vote on the best one with their comments. (And you decide the prize – but everyone here loves great wine, hint hint.) Think of the photo montages you could do with all the runner ups in their best OM / BB poses…
December 6, 2007

Mojave Joe
Mott’s dirty socks.
December 6, 2007

CindyW
I’ve recently become addicted to valpolicella superiores, so my new task is to track down some of that zardini!

QOTD: how about a bottle-decorating contest? Or, it could be a contest for best one-sentence description of a wine. Oh, wait, that’s the contest, not a prize. Hmmmm, you know what I’d love to do? I’d love to visit a wine critic during a day of tasting, to see how the process works and to get a chance to watch a pro taste and spit. Another idea of a wine-geek type prize would be a weekend seminar or sommelier class.
December 6, 2007

chenrys
Another entertaining and educational show…we haven’t tried Valpolcello and we will have to soon. You use Firefox on a Mac, alright! Congrats to the winners,BTW!

QOTD: Next contest – are you asking about the prize or how you win?
For a prize, the wine of your choice, maybe. What about “What’s under the football”?
December 6, 2007

mrzitro
top 100
December 6, 2007

David Dickinson
What’s under the football? A newly designed WLTV wrist band.
December 6, 2007

Chris Pennell
QOTD:
Contest: See how many people you can get to watch the show. 1 Entry for every person you get to subscribe?
Prize: iPhone.
December 6, 2007

caleb
Whatever the contest is the prize should be Gary comes to your house and hosts a wine tasting for you and your friends.
December 6, 2007

Social Project Brian
I like the Vayniac Cabernet label design contest idea too. But…. I sorta think designing that label should be a privilege reserved for the Vayniac Cab family (the bottle buyers, the Crushpad members). Fence-sitters and WLTV lurkers who only surface for contests shouldn’t get to weigh in on such a momentous, historic development in the evolution of wine. But that’s just my $0.02. I could be wrong. I’m often wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong about something somewhere at this very minute.
December 6, 2007

PaVo
QOTD: I think under the football is a small Oak Monster Figurine

For the competition, how about a case of the Vayniac Cab, a $500 gift Cert to Wine Library TV and a trip out to the Crush in March (or whenever it’s going to be)
December 6, 2007

Robert Rittenhouse
QOTD: Whoever has the biggest WLTV viewing party!!!
Under the football: Vayniac Wristband
December 6, 2007

stevo
no ideas but I’m sure I’ll enter the next contest. I only recovered last week from the heartbreaking Veoh contest loss!!!! It took real courage to get back in the saddle and enter this contest. I’ll think about it and post later.
December 6, 2007

William Bedard
QOTD: How often are you wanting to do a contest? I think the co-hosting contest is a really great idea and you should definitely repeat it each year (at least…). If you want to go “contest-crazy” and have something almost always running, maybe you could consider inviting someone on a tour of a winery. I’m sure you could arrange it but whether you stuck with one in the US or opened it up to overseas would depend on how much work was involved (I betting quite a bit…)

G-V-N-C: Great show, Gary! I appreciate the props to those struggling with loss and I also appreciate you putting yourself on the line with the “varietal” shows. It’s a great way to help budding vino-philes expand their pallets.
December 6, 2007

Marc
QOTD: You should give away a unique experience to “Taste the Culture of 5,000 Years” by giving the winner a China Wine Tour experience from http://www.chinawinetours.com. Visit the cultural sites of China, and some of the wineries that will become well-known throughout the world within the next 5 to 10 years. (and there is no lead in the wine!)
December 6, 2007

Danny C
Congrats to Canada!

GV: Great show, I like how you roll, keeping promises, keeping things on a level playing ground! I dig it!

QOTD: Here’s the next contest…we (meaning the vayniacs) create a WLTV Mixtape. Everyone gets to send in one suggestion for a song to be placed on the mixtape. We send the song, and a reason why we think it would be appropriate. Be it about wine, about GV, about the show, about Mott, whatever. You select the best 15 tracks suggested and then those 15 peeps wine something. Or if you’d prefer, people can select all 15 songs and you pick the best mix (15 prizes might be a bit too much). I think we all need a soundtrack and this is an intereting way to bring people, music, and wine together for the big shabang! Let me know what you think either way. I got nothin’ but love!
December 6, 2007

Jusstin E
The oak monster is under the football!!!!!
QOTD: A great prize would be a case of 2005 Bordeaux!!!!
December 6, 2007

Robert Howells
The next contest should be a wine blending episode where the vayniacs decide which varietals to blend together and what percentage ratio of each to add. Gary would pick the winner in a blind tasting. The winner will receive a free seminar featuring GV.
December 6, 2007

Ant'ny
QOTD: Either a trip out to the CrushPad or 1 of every bottle of wine in the Wine Library! Contest to design the next WL schwag.

Under the football… Knicks tix!

Peace!
December 6, 2007

James Freiwirth
Good episode, some great values to be had with Valpolicella.

QOTD: New wristband?
December 6, 2007

Rich S
The next contest should be a stump GV in a blind tasting contest. Entrants choose 1 wine from WL, submit them to whoever will orchestrate the contest (obviously not Gary), and then that person will choose 3-5 wines that will be included in the blind tasting. Whoever’s wine stumps GV, wins. There could be multiple winners.
December 6, 2007

mikey lennon
QOTD: Each month the top 1 or 2 or 5 of the last month rated by Gary on Wine Library TV goes to the winners house for a year.
December 6, 2007

JC
A solid show Gary, good job! QOTD; I have no idea, my mind is oatmeal, tough week!
December 6, 2007

Kevin
Ah. Nice to see a Canadian take it.
Two Qotds? Football thinger guess: staple remover.
Contest idea: Flight and accom. out to the final shindig involving the Vayniac Cab?
December 6, 2007

Spinner
QOTD: Discount a cellar from Washington Valley Cellars? (hehe). They were awesome.

Under the football? A mini thundercat?
December 6, 2007

Mike L
Congrats to the winners. I’m really jealous of both! Great show, too. I keep on adding and adding and adding to my WL cart.

QOTD: 1. Paper Football. I also rocked at paper football and won 3 championships in my school. If I ever meet you, I’m challenging you, GV! That’s right, I’m dropping the gauntlet. That makes sense right? Also pencil fighting. It is on! I have a big A$$ Husky with your name all over it.

QOTD 2. Grab bag contest. Submitters have a choice of sending in pictures with your schwag, blogging about how WLTV has changed our individual wine worlds, or a 5 second clip of us saying whatever you need us to say to make some sort of montage, be it an opening bit, a closing bit, or whatever you want. All of these can help get the word out to more people and it allows you to use everyone’s material to better your show.

I know now why you have your show for 365 episodes and I don’t. I can give you a week of creativity tops!
December 6, 2007

Steven Wyatt
Ok here is the winning answer for the QOTD:

The next contest is to see who can do their own thundershow (posted on youtube, whatever) Difficulty: no wine, but rather other things that are worthy of the application of a sophisticated palate.

I call dibs on cream soda. Oh you dont think cream soda can be as variegated and urbane as wine? See, you clearly NEED my submission.

Also, Im going to go with an action figure under the football, and since that probably isnt specific enough, ill go with an action figure villain.
December 6, 2007

orion
Good show today.

QotD: Good contest would be a quiz of random facts including all the episodes of wltv with a limited amount of time to complete so new viewers couldn’t go back and watch them all (or maybe not, so that they can…)
December 6, 2007

KC
QOTD: Best 100 words describing your first wine experience.
December 6, 2007

Rajiv A
QOTD: The craziest wine-related experiment. People would put details of their experiments on their blogs, with links to WLTV. Examples: Peynaud’s distillation – separates tannins+acids from water+alcohol. Tasting wine under bizarre conditions – super hot. Actually I have a better idea – the craziest time/location for a wine tasting! Ex: Tasting Bordeauz at 13,000 ft! Or Tasting at night in the snow.

Under the Football: Robert Parker’s amputated million-dollar nose and palate. No seriously: a small carving of the Oak Monster.

I’m holding the first group tasting of the Princeton Tasters club tomorrow – Wish me luck!
December 6, 2007

Jon A.
I almost picked up a bottle of valpolicella today, I guess I should have. Congratulations to the winner of the contest, and good luck everybody in the next one (whatever that may be).

QoTD #1: I’m guessing a cork from a nice bottle of sparkling wine (play it regionally safe).

QoTD #2: It would be neat if for the next contest everybody mailed in a cork (favorite wine or otherwise) with their name on it and then Gary pulled the winner from a huge bucket of corks. Or maybe if we get enough he’d have to jump into a pit of corks, like those plastic ball pits they have at Chuck E Cheese, etc.
December 6, 2007

David Dadekian
Next contest: go to a Jets game with Gary and do an episode from there.
December 6, 2007

Neil
I agree with other posters – a new wristband is under the football.
December 6, 2007

Randy
QOTD: The one (and there can be only one) person who has the best forum post, best ask gary (both here and on facebook) question, friended up on all possible Web 2.0 lemming-ware sites, sends in the best intro and best fan video, able to answer by memory which episodes hold the most quotable Gary flavor profiles, and in all other ways the most gushing fan-boy (or fan-girl, we do keep it equal opportunity folks) of Gary and WLTV of all time. I’d just like to see the person explode on camera when they get to bask in Gary’s presence.
December 6, 2007

Paul M
QOTD: (Football) – under the football is a fake superbowl ring for you to keep on your desk as a goal until you can buy the Jets and get a real one

QOTD: (Contest) – Photo contest with best/funniest picture with a WLTV wristband … this way you will actually get people to finally send you picture with the wristbands
December 6, 2007

Fred Schechter
QOTD For the contest,, create a GaryVee and the gang series of thundercats.

Vote for Mott as Snarf!!! (Panthro?)

Come on,, you know you see it!!
December 6, 2007

Greg Ztolg
Great show. New wine for me. I bought some. Thanks, and I will let you know what I think.
December 6, 2007

tarheel17
QOTD: Contest idea…hmm….
Throw out a list of 10 wines you’ll taste on the show. Whoever guesses your favorite wine of the ten (when you taste them, a day or week after announcing the 10) wins. Or, rather, of the people who guessed your favorite, draw a name.

Who am I kidding, I just want to be in the running for the next contest. I’m sure someone else has a better contest idea…
December 6, 2007

DaveyDonut
Sweet… you know I love Valpolicella! I’ve had plenty of Mazzi, but not this particular one… generally very good! The Zardini sounds incredible! Too bad I’ve blown my wine budget this month ALREADY… but I’ll think about it.

QOTD1: I think there’s a Vino-Seal glass “cork” under that Jets thing. Answer number two, and you KNOW I’m right, so I should win by default… I think the table cloth is under the Jets thing! You’d better not deny my prize…

QOTD2: The contest for the “bigger” prize… dang it, I can’t think of anything good right now and I have to head to dinner (one of those expense account dinners.. we’ll see what’s on the wine list!). I just wanted to comment to be sure I could compete. I’ll post again if I think of something good…

David
December 6, 2007

DaveyDonut
Dammit… I just watched your review of the Zardini and I had to buy four… couldn’t resist… I love Valpolicella… and this sounds awesome. That wasn’t a very long hold out.

David
December 6, 2007

Robert F
QOTD #1: Under the football is one of those wine magnets

QOTD: The next contest should have two finalists, then for the final prize they will have to battle it out in a double blind tasting on WLTV.
December 6, 2007

Michael
QOTD:
some kind of photo contest would be cool. it could be judged or you could just draw a name from all that participate. plus, you could make a great webpage of all the entries.
December 6, 2007

ryptide
QOTD1: It’s a smaller jets football. A football matryoshka! Or…. just to throw something out for all the physics/astronomy nerds out there… It’s just footballs all the way down.

QOTD2: Maybe an intro contest? Maybe a contest to create theme music? Wine tasting in the strangest places contest?

For the record, I would destroy you in pencil fighting. I owned my schools in pencil fighting. We also used to do this one where two people would spin quarters around, guess what it would land on and the winner got both quarters. I used to clean up in that one too.

OHH! Maybe the contest should be a pencil fighting or paper football tournament!
December 6, 2007

Joel Smith
QOTD: For the next contest have us do a video tasting our favorite wine or do a WLTV intro video!!
December 6, 2007

Cliff and Darcey
DAMN! Darcey and I really wanted to hang with you for a day!

QOTD: Contest idea: a little complex, but … brown-bag three (or more) wines similar, then have a show where you taste them, describe them, and rate them, but you only give us the names/vintages of the three wines and we are to match them up correctly. All who answer correctly are entered into a drawing. The prize? A trip for two with you for a week to the wine-tasting region of 1.France 2.Spain 3.Italy or 4.California (only one, of course, unless … ?).

Thanks G V-N-Ch for all you do!
Keep it up.
December 6, 2007

Cliff and Darcey
I forgot … under the football? Your new Vayniac wristband!!!
December 6, 2007

Justin
QOTD: Does this mean the question of what is under the football thing is going to be a question another day?

I think the next contest should be sending in pics of your wine collection, whether it is a cellar or just a few bottles. This would be a lot easier that the last contest but could be very neat or compare cellars or lack thereof.
December 6, 2007

MARSHALL
QOTD:You should take a tour of the entire country, starting in New York and ending in Southeren California with two or three lucky vayniacs. You should only go to local cult wineries, and try the “under the rader states” like Michigan and Colorado, etc. ANND!!! document it on video, like the great beer documentary “American Beer.” BRING MAHT.
December 6, 2007

Harley Stan
Congratulations to the winners of today’s contest!!!

QOTD- a WLTV trivia contest with some obscure questions like first appearence of Jet spit bucket, or which episode featured a Strawberry Shortcake bucket, make them hard so every one has to research all 365 episodes just to get into the drawing. You could make several versions of the test so not everyone has the same questions and send them out via the Forum personal message tool. Then on top of that everyone gets an additional entry for every episode the comment on from the start date forward. We get a chance at really cool schwag and you get a ton of hits to your website, more registered forum members, and lots of comments. I think it would really bring out the lurkers.
December 6, 2007

Mike Z
Good show today… Congrats to the winner in the Great White North (Canada); peace to all those who need it.

QOTD #1: Under the football is… keys to the store (Wine Library) for a private $500 shopping spree with Gary!
QOTD #2: Next contest- a limerick contest about the best wine you ever had. GV, Mr. Sasha V, and Mott can be the judges to pick the top 3 and the Vayniacs vote for the final winner…?
December 6, 2007

Chris
QOTD: The prize for the next contest should be a tasting tour with Gary of several vineyards in a region.

Attending a Jets game with GV is a good idea but the football season would most likely be finished by the time the next contest ends.
December 6, 2007

Cassie
Okay I’m thinking….the contest should be the best public service announcements for the Oak Monster. You know how they have PSA’s for like, smoking, etc? Like that. Its a kind of out there idea so I’ll try to think of something better.
December 6, 2007

Obama_Man
Gary,

1) Thanks for the HUUUUUGE SHOUT-OUT! we’re so pumped up right now!
2) For the contest:
You should delay delivering the score for one or two wines during an episode and leave it up to the viewers to guess what you scored the wine based solely off of facial expressions! You can even do it for numerous episodes and narrow it all down in the end. Of course, it will increase comments AND viewership!

Best,

Arthur
&
ObamaNYC!
December 6, 2007

Julava
QOTD: Two contest ideas.

1) Best cork sculpture, lego style. Of course, you would have to provide a topic/theme just in case anyone already has some sort of giant thing already made.

2) A scavenger hunt. Since everyone can’t be in one location, make it a virtual one. In other words, register a bunch of domains. The first clue forces you to unscramble something, put together the name of a second domain, that gives a different clue to go to the next, and so on.

What’s under the football? New wristband perhaps.
December 6, 2007

Cassie
Oh, ALSO! I think the winner should get to taste rocks with Gary. That’s my dream anyways.
December 6, 2007

Malphas
QotD: When are we going to start working on labels for the Vayniac Cabernet? That would be a contest I’d be thrilled to jump in on.
December 6, 2007

Yiannys
QOTD: contest should be like a scavenger hunt…..You put out the first clue during the show. Then you could use different aspects of different websites the clues could like add up to reveal like a wine. It would be hard work on your guys’ part but I think it would be a lot of fun…
And I got that Idea from watching The Totally Rad Show with Alex Albrecht. They did a thing on the Rocket Race….

Eagles Rule!!!
YD
December 6, 2007

OrionSlayer
Congratulations to the iPhone and Guest host with Gary winner!

QOTD: The next contest should be for we Vaniacs to send in short video clips of a group of people saying: “You, and a little bit of me, changing the wine world!”
December 6, 2007

Kelly In South Dakota
We all send Gary one bottle of wine and he picks the best for the winner.
December 6, 2007

RandyB
Another great show. I love these wines and the amorones.

QOTD 1: Figurine of Marcus Dell Gastineau

QOTD 2: It’s time for the homemade wine contest
December 6, 2007

Jason S.
QOTD: A trip with you to Bordeaux for barrel tasting.
December 6, 2007

BillyD
QOTD football: a million pesos

QOTD contest: make a video about your favorite wine related experience, winner is drawn at random, and WLTV will open with the best segments
December 6, 2007

djs
Contest should be guess want wine is in a brown bag (with a few clues from Gary). Under the football is a GV bobblehead.
December 6, 2007

Mike Diz
QOTD: Nothing is under there.
QOTD: Label contest. My brother will win!
December 6, 2007

familydoc
QOTD: A photography contest- one picture to summarize your relationship with the person you love the most- family/friend theme after the openning today. The prize should be that Gary and Mott come to the town where the winner lives to taste wine and maybe visit the local wine shop or winners favorite winery.

The other QOTD: Under the football is a picture of Gary’s wife.
December 6, 2007

AdamT
Trivia contest is the way to go.
December 6, 2007

Yankee Fan
Qotd 1: Paper football!!!!!!!
December 6, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
I think there is a cork under the football

The next contest…hmmmm…..Maybe the Forum poster that gets the biggest number of comments on their entry for the Month of January??? Obviously Kahuan, BrandenM, TimF, and many other regulars would have a leg up… but I would actually like to see these people on your show. They have been very supportive you and the show and think they should get a chance to get their 15 minutes of Vayniac Fame! think about it
December 6, 2007

Adam J
You keep upping the ante with all these contests.

QOTD 1: a snarf action figure is under the football.

QOTD 2: Submit a story or a video about how you would spend a perfect day.
December 6, 2007

TGatesman
QOTD#1: Lion-O is under that football sporting his ever popular Jets jersey.

QOTD#2: I don’t want to be that guy that copies someone else but I really like Jon A’s idea about sending it a cork. It would be awesome to see how many corks you would get from all those Vayniacs
December 6, 2007

prplhaze
QOTD #1: A newly designed WLTV wristband.

QOTD #2: The next contest is to fly out to pick up the very first official bottle of the Vayniac Cab, along with a week in San Fran.
December 6, 2007

Tommy Vernieri
Question of the Day: I bet you’ve got the next piece of WLTV schwag hidden under there.

The Other Question of the Day: The contest should be what I said last time around. Ask the Vayniacs to get their friends together and host tasting parties. The host and all of the friends post some sort of tasting note or blog entry about it and link back to WLTV. The host sends you some links to their friends’ tasting notes to enter the contest (it counts as long as there are at least two friends involved).

The prize should be that you fly out to the winner’s town and throw a big tasting party with them and their friends. Wine and cheese provided by Wine Library and Gourmet Library.

Oh, and I should get a few extra entries for the awesome idea.
December 6, 2007

Hamid Z
QOTD: A possible contest could be like a “Raising Wine Awareness” competition of some sort… not really sure on the details, but you’re a pretty creative guy.

Also, I have no Idea what is under the plastic football… not corks, that can’t contain the Iron Sheik either, and you’re wearing a wristband, so… I believe it is the counterpart to the BigAssGlass, the SmallAssGlass!
December 6, 2007

antony
Hey – just knowing that my name was in that lunch-box doubled my Thursday night excitement. The next contest:
Who can dress up their pet to look most like Gary. Nah… Most interesting use for an empty wine bottle… Erm… Best video of a wine inspired son, dance or variety routine. I could customise my escapology routine.

It’s late in the UK. I got to go to bed. Underneath the half plastic football there’s some red table cloth, a human hair… and maybe a sock worn by some football player I never heard of.

Thanks for all the fun,

a
December 6, 2007

Phocion
QOTD: Contestants have to make some sort of advertisement/commercial (video) for Wine Library.

Winners get to be on an episode AND an iPhone (or a phone with Google Android on it, depending on when this competition will be held).
December 6, 2007

FTBoomer
QOTD: Best spreadsheet of Gary’s scores
December 6, 2007

earl
the next contest should be the winner gets their pick of going to the country of their choice
to see first hand the wine region they love the most
December 6, 2007

K MAN
THEME SONG?
December 6, 2007

Dave
Under the football: Air (various gasses such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen). Send me my prize!
December 6, 2007

John P
Congrats to the winners, it was exciting….a great show !!
Gary, you got me started on Le Ragose Valpolicella and I loved it.
Now I’ll try these, except for maybe the first one. You know,
I would love to try the one you dumped, just to see how bad it was…
QOTD: A small bottle of Valpolicella
QOTH: I wish we could do a contest where you “Sniffy Sniff” the screen
and guess the wine. LOL
December 6, 2007

Kev and Ams
QOTD: Under the Jets ball is a gift certificate for Wine Library.

QOTD 2: The next contest should be for a shopping spree at WL and dinner with Gary and Mott.
December 6, 2007

Kev and Ams
QOTD 2: The next contest should revolve around being a 30 year old named Kevin and living in northern California. =)
December 6, 2007

Andre
QOTD1: There is a dime (i.e. 10 cents) under the football.
QOTD2: The contest should be something involving using past WL episodes. Perhaps who can create the best montage video using snippets of previous episodes? That could be really hilarious.
December 6, 2007

Araldite
Under the football – Thunder Cat

Contest prize – remember the old toy store contests? Five minutes, all you can grab (wine bottles only), at the Wine Library store. Or make it a minute, whatever. You could film it and then critique their selection.
December 6, 2007

Cliff
great show gary! qotd- grand prize doing a show with you at the vineyard of the Vayniac cab.
December 6, 2007

boegemann
Under the Football: a Cuban cigar (too many peeps saying T-cat!)

QOTD: A name is selected and Gary goes to the home of the winner, goes through his/her wine collection and makes some selections, sits down with them and does the show. Of course… WL re-stocks the person’s cellar afterwards.
December 6, 2007

Bobby B
QOTD: The Thundercat ring thing that you put in Liono’s back to make his eyes light up.
December 6, 2007

J Cray
QOTD: Yo, let’s have it like “The Apprentice” or “Hell’s Kitchen” where 5 contestants run the Wine Library floor for like 2 hours each. Whoever sells the most wine, or the most of a specific “try to sell these wines” wines will win like a cheeseburger. Or a bottle of their choice up to 3,000 dollars or something like that…YEAH! Shoot yeah, the winner will get a Wine Library shopping spree up to 3K and the camera will follow them around and it will be a whole episode of Wine Library TV. That’s hot! I’m sorry if someone already mentioned something like that but my idea is the best best best!
Hey, GV, when you say “leave a comment on today’s show” you give some extra time for us Vaynerheads overseas right?!
December 6, 2007

John S.
QOTD1: Under football a new wristband Or your having a little Vayniac and there is a picture of the ultrasound under it.

QOTD2: The new contest should be a Golden Ticket(s) have it where you have to get something off the site and randomly throw the ticket inside the box or have already placed it inside of a shirt or something else where is me a luck of the draw.
December 6, 2007

J Crazy
My name is J Crazy, though…not J Cray like I just put.
December 6, 2007

luvgrapsqeezins
Fun episode Gary. How about an Aglianico episode?
December 6, 2007

michelle
Congrats to my fellow Canadian! Can’t wait to see the show. Excellent show!

QOTD: I’m not very inventive, but I like the cork idea, a nice little contest for us technophobes who do not know what a widget is
December 6, 2007

NathanN
QOTD: I think you have another drawing from those that actually sent you a picture with the wrist band.
December 6, 2007

Phillip
QOTD 1: The cork designed for the Vayniac cab is under the football.

QOTD 2: Each Vayniac has to do something to change the wine world. Pics / story / etc. to be legit. But something, and whoever is the most creative & makes a large impact, winzzz.
December 6, 2007

piercarlo
underneath the football there is clearly another smaller football.

the next contest should be an internet based choose your own adventure. contestants will have to use their knowledge of the jets/wine/new jersey/belarus etc. in order to choose the correct path from each web page. the winner is the first to get to the endpoint successfully.
December 6, 2007

Deano
Gary great show the last 2 wines sound great. Congrats to the winners of the contest i cant wait to see a co-host on the thunder show.

QOTD:
-A picture of the vaynerchuk family.
December 6, 2007

Dave lurk M
QOTD: Under the football, is a very small ass glass.
December 6, 2007

John Cabot
Qotd- who can come up with the coolest wine label
qotd 2- Hulk Hogan’s wife? ha!!
Another good one big G.
John Cabot
December 6, 2007

Jadielady
Heya Gary, just unlurking so I can look myself in the mirror when I brush my teeth
I’m asking my boyfriend for Earthworks Cabernet Sauvignon for Christmas. I liked the other wine that you likened to big league chew so I thought I’d give this a shot
December 6, 2007

Bill H
under the football is a paper football

next contest… pick out a few wines and put together something like the thanksgiving package (i.e. make it available @ WL), allow a certain amount of time, and have people taste and score the wines and send in their tasting notes first, then do an episode where you taste the wines yourself and draw from someone who sent in their comments

you said when you do episodes on styles of wines you like they tend to be disappointing… how about a pv episode, see if you can break the cycle
December 6, 2007

lenny
QOTD:

Whoever sends a bottle of wine for you to taste on the show, gets their name in the lunch box.
December 6, 2007

Cosmo108
QOTD #1: It’s a peanut under the football.

QOTD #2: The next contest, should be a wine t-shirt contest.
December 6, 2007

Carly
Great Episode, GV! I hope I can find that Zardini somewhere. You sure know how to sell a wine that’s out of my price range…

QOTD #1: Under the football is one of the champion paper footballs you used in your almost undefeated history of table football.

QOTD #2: Contest entrants must design their own spittoon/spit-bucket to reflect their personality, then take a photo of themselves spitting into it.

Thanks!
Carly
December 6, 2007

kadair
Hey Gary,

Compose a song dedicated to WLTV for the next contest.
December 6, 2007

pforty
QOTD: Anyone who gets 10 new viewers to watch WLTV and leave a comment with a shout out to who sent them gets their name in the lunch box. Winner gets a case of wine from WLTV not to exceed $2000!!!!!!

Oh and you have to pick me.
December 6, 2007

Jenny C
I think there is a wine stain under the football.

The next contest should be a photo contest. The picture has to have a wine theme. You could narrow down the pics and then have a vote off by us.
December 6, 2007

Trish da' Dish
OK, so now we’re all WLTV “badged up.” But, Gary wants more. More! More! So I’d like to answer his QOTD, “on the QT” ……
The next WLTV contest should require all of us to send Gary a picture with ourselves in it, and it should be required that we all include some sort of WLTV theme/tie-in in our pictures. BUT– each photo should be required to contain at LEAST one family member, or friend, in it. And these folks should also be ID’d in the e-mail that accompanies each picture. We all know that we all doshare Gary and WLTV with our family members and close friends already (I know that I’m always bragging about how much Gary has wine educated me to my friends n’ family , so why not? Gary’s job would be to combine all of our pics into a poster, or something, and create a compositesnapshot of just how big the “WLTV Family” really is….people could then buy mugs, a t-shirt, whatever, based on this group photo, in which all of us participants/WLTV family members are present (although we’d all be microscopically sized)!
December 6, 2007

Geoff
qotd: wltv video intro contest.
December 6, 2007

Geoff
actually, i came up wiht a better contest. have some wltv stickers made up and then have a contest of who can send in a picture of the sticker stuck to the best place.
December 6, 2007

scc
QOTD: I think having a trip with you to vineyard of your choice. Or maybe a “palate training” session for the winner and a friend (or some family). Something where a lucky vayniac can pick up some knowledge from you in person.
As far as how to pick that winner (was that what you were really asking??), I don’t really have suggestions for that one. Drawing names I guess works out to be the fairest.
December 6, 2007

grace
great show. looking forward to trying the wines.

wristband is under the football

contest – a photoessay
December 6, 2007

Steven Wyatt
Oh Oh Oh I have to post again because I have another idea:

Gary, you offer a bottle of wine at cost (with a coupon code you give on the show), we buy it, and the best video review of it wins?

The prize is one bottle each of your top ten favorites…
December 6, 2007

CyberTLH
GV,

Here’s to Richard Perry. My wife and I have bought a case of Syrah from the last three vintages since tasting it out in Napa a few years ago. RP had passion for the land, grapes, and wine that really showed in the final product. He will be missed…
December 6, 2007

AmandaM
QOTD: Winner gets to take a trip to a tasting of the Vayniac Cab with you and learn about tasting young wines, as well as tasting some other fantastic stuff along the way.

Under the football – some corks.
December 6, 2007

Jaded Knight
QOTD 1 Football: Tickets to something special
QOTD 2 Contest: Come up with the most creative/effective use of Web 2.0 technology to spread the WLTV word.
December 6, 2007

Ray and Joanne
Since the Jets are going nowhere,two tickets to a Jets game are under the sliced football.
December 6, 2007

JonE
QOTD1: Under the football is a paper football

QOTD2: Your gonna hate me. The ultimate contest would be accompanying you on the next barrel tasting in Bordeaux. That’s huge.
December 6, 2007

Joel M
Contest is simple. Guess the two teams that make it to the superbowl and the final score.
December 6, 2007

caleb
QOTD-Contest on who can post the most TN’s in What are you drinking to beef up the TNs in there….im sure this will produce a few alcoholics!

Under the football…..wristband.
December 6, 2007

Golfer Gary
I know others have mentioned this, but a photo contest with wine in the photo would be great.
December 6, 2007

CellarDweller
QOTD #1: I think that under Gary’s football there rests a snow globe with a picture of Gary and his family inside.

QOTD #2: Website scavenger huntâ€¦ like garyissorry.com, but with a big ol’ prize at the end. Not trying to break the bank, but how ’bout free run of Wine Library (the store) for five minutes? Whatever the winner can carry out, the winner gets to keepâ€¦ and the rest of us get some great entertainment watching it all happen.

Congrats to today’s winners, and props to Gary, as always, for all the hard work making WLTV happen. You give us so muchâ€¦
December 6, 2007

old/new world guy
good work gary….the zardini sounds excellent and i would have been afraid to try the allegrini at that price point (tho i love their palazzo el torre at the next price level). by the way, in the wine world, we also lost erich salomon (not the importer eric salomon) another austrian winemaker….see terry thiese’s page . i agree with you one hundred percent that these losses are reminders to not take anyone in our lives for granted. all the best to you and yours – onwg ps – sports related stuff. next contest? hmmmmm…..
December 6, 2007

ChadD.
I didn’t win?!! So sad…Hey, I went to a wedding this past weekend and they were serving a Valpolicella, and on the nose, was BARNYARD! Old world all the way-and went great with the food. I forget the label though…the party got a little crazy.
QOTD: the next winner gets to come to WL and pick out a bottle-ANY bottle that you have in stock.
December 6, 2007

DrWMD
QOTD #1: a mini-vayniac.

QOTD #2: Pictures of vayniacs dressed up like their favorite wines…
December 6, 2007

Mike S.
QOTD – There is new schwag under the football. A newly designed wristband?

Great show today. Can’t wait to try the Zardini.
December 6, 2007

laposte
QOTD Football: Easy, the gift you picked out for my bride and me for out 32 wedding anniversary we are celebrating today.

QOTD: Have a drawing for every one who left a comment on their anniversary. Prise: trip to Wine Library and tickets to The Met Opera, as long as we’re close may as well get some culture….right?
December 6, 2007

Kevin Grove
QOTD: My idea comes from the wine pack that you sent out over Thanksgiving, which seemed really popular. You set up another 3 wine pack that people can buy. The contest is that they have to make a video tasting the three wines and send you a link to where its uploaded. Anyone who does it gets entered to come on your show and taste the same three wines with you. Plus after the contest is over you can link up all your favorite ones for all of vaynernation to see. You could set some limits that it has to be between 5-10 or 10-15 minutes and has to involve at least a sniffy-sniff and tasty-taste of each wine.
December 6, 2007

Mason
Awesome show, Gary! I tried my first Valpolicella about 2 weeks ago, and I liked it. I think I am a bit partial to Italian wines anyway, but thanks for giving me a couple more to hunt for.

QOTD: I think that the next contest should be something to do with facebook and your ask Gary V application! I post in there every now and then, so why not? It will get a lot more people to join up. If not FB, then perhaps something to do with a photograph of a Vayniac in a some public place doing something significant wearing the wristband. I think that would be radool….
December 6, 2007

GaryP
QOTD – Content to name the Vayniac Wine.
December 6, 2007

H-Why
QOTD: Next contest should involve the Cork’d site in some way, perhaps to add bottles to the database and review bottles. Great way to launch the new features that you guys are developing for Cork’d.
December 6, 2007

Moselman
Q1: GV’s prediction for Heisman trophy is under the football

Q2: Next contest is creating a vlog hotter than JenniferS’s, wine/WLTV related (takes me out of the running, tho’ – but ‘twould be too much for back-to-back Canuck winners anyway)
Prize: First – Jay comes to winner’s house and builds a wine cellar + no trip to Joisey
Second: Shopping cart full of wines from WLTV, selected on a sponsored trip to Joisey, + tix to a Devils game.
December 6, 2007

The Fanjestic
Never until today have I wanted to be Canadian.

Qotd #1 – I think it’s a WLTV Wristband. (I wore mine with pride in Cancun – photo is in my wife’s camera – I promise to e-mail.)

Qotd #2 – Best WLTV Theme Song (Intro Song)!

And the winner gets $10,000 of free wine – or maybe just free shipping for life! Either one of those and people will never miss another episode or not post again!

Good episode, and family is #1.
December 6, 2007

Robin C
QOTD: A wine quiz: 10 questions that you have answered on the show during the past year. Random drawing among the ones with the most correct answers.
What’s under the football? A new t-shirt with some kind of logo you were excited about the other day. I can’t put my finger on it though.
December 6, 2007

Saftig
QOTD: The chance to work at Winelibrary for a day if you submit best new WLTV salutation
We’ll keep the “you with a little bit of me, changing the wine world” but just for the contest a new tag line. Whatever. I’m beat. Brain not even engaged. Reffed 7 high school soccer(football) matches this week and my dogs are tired. What’s my name?
December 6, 2007

Jesse (PatsFan) G.
QOTD: How about one of those wine cellars from yesterdays show as a giveaway prize! Ching

RADOOL
December 6, 2007

Moselman
JenniferP?
December 6, 2007

Ernest_G
QOTD: Challenge the Vaniacs to create a signature/icon/wallpaper of WLTV content or of you GV.

What is under the football?: Snarf
December 6, 2007

Scott
Gary,
You were right on Nightline when you said this show isn’t about wine, its about life. You always keep things in perspective and I appreciate how uplifting watching your show can be. Two nights ago my wife and I were discussing when we would take our three month old daughter to the mall to get her picture taken with Santa. Luckily we didn’t decide on yesterday because we would have taken her a mile down the street to the westroads mall were Santa’s village is set up right in front of the von maur. It was a tough day for many of us here in Omaha as we shared similar stories about having just been there or our plans to go there soon and how it could have just as easily been us or someone we loved. Watching WLTV has been especially enjoyable the last two days as a break from the non-stop local coverage of this horrible event. After watching this episode I went up to my daughter’s room, pulled her out of her crib and just held her and stared at her in the dark for half an hour. I can’t recall the last time I was as overwhelmed by love as I was tonight.
From my family to yours (and all the vayniacs)…cheers.
December 6, 2007

The Fanjestic
Actually I think a job offer at WL as your assistant, learning the ropes of the industry would be a pretty awesome prize – of course I’m not sure how realistic that is.

Maybe just a few personal wine lessons.
December 6, 2007

Fevernova
QOTD #1: Under the football, new wristband.

QOTD #2: First person to guess a number you pick from 1 to 10,000. Better yet, everyone sends in a picture wearing their WLTV shirt in an interesting place, the most interesting photo wins.
December 6, 2007

jonomck
QOTD #1: It’s a thundercat.

QOTD#2: Trivia contest from past episodes. Prize- as much wine you can get in your cart!
December 6, 2007

Phil G
QOTD – I think there is a wine screw cap under the football
QOTD2 – Did you mean what should the contest be? Maybe it could be a contest to design the butter bandit t-shirt.
December 6, 2007

AndrewB
QOTD: rap snacks
December 6, 2007

nougat
Under the football – the infamous Clef du Vin (”Age your wine one year in a second!”).

Contest – Fill an oak barrel at Crushpad with corks and the prize goes to whoever gets closest to the total.

I love Valpo, just haven’t tried any lately. You can be damn sure I’m gonna get me some of that Zardini. I love that you did Valpo today. Some other ideas for episodes… Mosel Saar Ruwer Kabinetts vs. Australian Reisling; Finger Lake or Long Island Cab Franc versus Loire; Savenierres – I’ve never had one but would love to hear your take on a couple of them.
December 6, 2007

AlanH
Good show Gary! You sure make that Zardini sound tempting, but I already ran past my wine budget red light without slowing down, and I don’t want to lose my license. Maybe next month.

QOTD: Winner of the come-up-with-a-contest question wins the contest!
December 6, 2007

HuskerJamie
Under the football? The Knicks chances of making the playoffs, very, very, small.
December 6, 2007

Jaybird
next contest should be designing the next WLTV shirt!
December 7, 2007

ktw
QOTD: best word or phrase to put on the chalkboard behind GV to replace radool
December 7, 2007

flippy
QOTD #1: the foil caps from the wines tasted today.

QOTD #2: Vayniac Cab label contest.

Canada represent on the winner’s list!
December 7, 2007

descriptacon
Gary I love that you “shoot from the hip” but you simply cannot call the three major grapes in a Valpo or Amarone Corey-vino, Ron-dee-nah nah and mole-ah-something. Are you even trying? Wiki it or something, jeez.

R
December 7, 2007

SmokeyUST
Fricken Canadians!!

QOTD: A wine tasting in France with GV at Rothschild!!!
December 7, 2007

Greg B
Big G, I’m in it to win it my friend. There is a Jawa figure under your Jets football.

QOTD: A video contest. Where the Vayniacs have to shoot and edit a commercial for WLTV. The one voted the best, by the staff of WLTV wins.
December 7, 2007

Cindy P
Ok,Ok, I have been a lurker!!! You have enticed me to respond. I think it should have something to do with the Vayner-Cab. Private tasting?
December 7, 2007

Cameron Ghazzagh
QOTD: Do what the Diggnation guys did.

AWESOME show Gary. Your show is my American Idol.
December 7, 2007

Tom Cameron
Next contest- Why not give away a bottle from the Gary V picks? I know you don’t want people blindly trusting what you say, but there are a lot of wines and whatnot on that list.
December 7, 2007

tnfdude
QOTD #1: i’m going with cork/screwcap

QOTD #2: since gary’s all about ‘community’, how ’bout a contest that requires vayniac-vayniac collaboration? the only rule would be that it has to involve someone you didn’t know prior to WLTV. and the ‘prize’ could be making gary travel to wherever the winner is, this time…
December 7, 2007

peamor
QOTD – Next contest is to host a special edition of the Thunder Show on site at a Jets tailgate…with both Gary *and* his dad.
December 7, 2007

t_moderne
What’s wrong with Bolla Valpolicella? or Bolla Bardolino. Remember everyone called Italian white wine Soave Bolla as if it were its own varietal.

QOTD: Allow the winner to go into the wine library cellar and (1) pick one wine to keep and (2) taste a wine with GV (yes, you, GV).

That would be fun.
December 7, 2007

Serge
The next contest should be the person who could drink more wine then Gary! And under the football is a pair of jets tickets!!!
December 7, 2007

wmole
Another great show Gary. Thanks for remembering those who have passed.

Is the Guennol Lioness under that football?

Best prize? Wine Library franchise in Ventura.

Can’t wait for Snow Day ep and a big ass glass save.
December 7, 2007

Oz
QOTD: the next contest should be to travel with the WL crew to an industry tasting to watch and learn about the interaction between the wine producing and retailing businesses. What can I say GV I am a college student studying business. Gotta love a mix of two of my favorite things.

BTW, Gary could you do a show with a complete tour of the WL? I know you kind of did little ones here and there throughout earlier episodes, but a complete tour would be awesome. Some of us don’t live in NYC or NJ.

Oz
December 7, 2007

Sky M
QOTD: Contest should be who can submit the best video introduction to the show, as voted on by the vayniacs!

Cheers and congratulations to Mr. Canada
December 7, 2007

Douglas
Here’s a contest idea: In 100 words or less, (preferably less), what would you change at Wine Library if you could run the entire joint for one week?

Douglas aka demilove
December 7, 2007

The Original Marc
QOTD: I think it’s already been done, but now that the viewing audience is so much larger, how about contest for whomever can get the most new people on WLTV, using comments as witness.
December 7, 2007

Fiorentina!
Hey Gary-
Thank you for doing a Valpolicella show….This is a wint hat I absolutely love, but nobody from where I am agrees….weird.
QotD – What’s under the football? I really would like to say a eye of thundera toy, but I’m going to go with a little boring….like a random cork.
QotD – The new contest should be either basic like 1) “The Thunder Show Intro.” where we have to make the intro to your show or something random like 2) “greatest wine invention/accessory” where we have to make something that benefits wine or the wine experience somehow. Here anything goes, however, someone that invents something original would benefit wine/the wine experience more than someone who takes a corkscrew and puts glitter all over it…..unless, of course, you like that sort of thing.
December 7, 2007

cpd
That was one shiny lunch box….
December 7, 2007

Jai
Underneath the football? No idea. Maybe a WLTV bottle opener? Keys to the Wine Library? I like that idea.

QOTD: I haven’t read many of the other comments under me so I apologize if I’m repeating a previous idea, but here’s mine anyway. I actually have two, both simple. First, I just want to note after reading some of the ideas – I don’t think the contest should limit entry. Let’s not discourage devoted Vayniacs and/or passionate wine lovers by making the contest too cleaver or challenging.

Contest idea one: Make it to comment and maybe mention a “secret” word in your comment. Have the contest open say a week or two. Then you pick a day from that period of episodes and everyone who commented that day goes into the bucket. That way everyone has to comment daily and you get the lurkers into the habit of commenting regularly.

Contest idea two: Everyone who doesn’t already have a Cork’d account, signs up, then the contest is for everyone to review a wine, or vintage, that wasn’t already on the site. They email you a link to their review or something. That way we all benefit in sharing our thoughts on new wines and help grow the database of Cork’d.

Winner: Flies out to the Wine Library to do some sorta shopping spree, their selections are then shipped to their home. Also, they could spend the day with you (if they could stand that LOL) checking out what a “typical” day is like at The Wine Library. Maybe even make an appearance on the show.

Or an even crazier idea, you could fly out to them and do an episode of WLTV from their home, work or whatever.
December 7, 2007

Alos
God Bless all of our families and friends! Cheers
December 7, 2007

Mike Miller
QOTD: The contest should be an online scavenger hunt.

Under the Football: The new WLTV foil cutter.
December 7, 2007

onemore
QOTD: Corked (Cork’d?) creations contest. Each viewer creates something out of a cork (or 2, or more) and sends you a photo of his/her creation. Folks could vote on the winner, or a random winner could be drawn from a… um… lunch box. Anyone looking at these creative works of art must be able to tell that they were made from corks–no deconstructing a cork so much that no one can tell what it was in its former life.

Or maybe a chalkboard contest. Each viewer writes/draws on a chalkboard similar to the one on the wall behind you (or on a small area of a larger chalkboard, since I suspect some folks have access to big ol’ schoolroom chalkboards instead of personal boards). The chalkboard message/design has to convey a specific theme. I don’t know what the theme should be, but there ya’ go.

Or I dunno, make us record our own wine tasting videos. (I’ll be shocked if that hasn’t been tried as a contest before.)

Under the football: A… wine cork? I’m sure others have guessed that, but that’s the first thing that comes to mind. And not just any wine cork. A special wine cork. I don’t know how special… maybe one of your favorite wines. Maybe corks from 2 or 3 of your favorite wines. Or maybe it’s some fancy shmancy gizmo that I’ve never seen before. Hmm.

Valpolicella: I don’t think I’ve ever had one before. But I will, and soon–if I can find a few at wine shops.

Congrats to the widget contest winners!

And “be at peace” to the departed.
December 7, 2007

LeeInSC
Great show as always!

QOTD: The next contest prize should be:

A top-notch wine tasting event in the winner’s home (or hometown) paid for by WLTV and hosted by Gary Vaynerchuk!
December 7, 2007

LeeInSC
OOPS! forgot the contest:

Simply have a secret word every day for a month and everyone has to email the 20-or-so words in to WLTV to win.

Then the names of the folks with correct answers are drawn on the show.

Lee
December 7, 2007

Jang-Woo Park
QOTD#1:wrist band… I guess.

QOTD#2:Burgandy trip with GV.

Congratulations to the winner!!!
December 7, 2007

Large Format Fever
How about a virtual fantasy wine collection. Lets see who does the best like a fake market… After all, for those who like to save and reep the benifits, it could be interesting!!!!
December 7, 2007

StÃ©phane
Under the Jets football? A smaller Jets football?

QOTD: I’d love something a bit more graphic. We’ve done video contests, web contests. How about the label for the Vayniac Cab or a new T-shirt design?
December 7, 2007

CIA grad
Bring out the missionaries! Who can convert the most people to WLTV…and get them to leave comments. I know there is probably no way to tell who is commenting on who’s behalf. I just want there to be a way to be rewarded for what I’m already doing – converting the masses into Vayniacs.
December 7, 2007

Lare B
qotd….i think the prize should be a $5,000.00 dollar shopping spree in wine library….and if they are from a diffrent state…you should fly us over, in first class and take care of our hotel and let us go buck wild at wine library….
December 7, 2007

noah
Whoa! Pencil wars! Thanks for the memories. Those pencil wars were fun … and I was pretty good in the 5th grade.
December 7, 2007

ERP
QOTD1: A key
QOTD2: A scavenger hunt for objects in past episodes. Winner gets a mixed case of Gary V personally selected wines
December 7, 2007

Garrett
QOTD 1: Jets tickets

QOTD 2: hmmm…blind tasting anything–is it possible?
December 7, 2007

Nathan H
I guess Jets tickets.

QOTD: Best GV impersonation.
December 7, 2007

C-Fiddy
Great Show!
QotD: Under the football? How about a usb flash key with all the contestant’s emails which Mott just printed the slips from.
QotD: I think next time you fly yourself and the winner to the winery of their choice to taste their favorite wine together. That would make a fun episode!
Peace!
December 7, 2007

MagnumGourmet
QOTD #1 – Either a cork from a special bottle, or the new version of the wristband.

QOTD #2 – Make it a WLTV riddle. Pose a question that is answered in a historical blog so that people have to go back a revisit old episodes.
December 7, 2007

Mark Grapengater
BAH! I didn’t win.

QTOD: The contest: Film your own version of the WLTV Thundershow. The Prize: 12 months of wine, hand-picked by the man himself, plus a spot on the show, tasting the 12 months of wine– or some of them– no, screw that, all of them!
December 7, 2007

Jensen
QOTD: Have a wine memory contest, have people submit a short story about a memory they had that involved wine and pick the top 2 or 3
December 7, 2007

Mark T.
Winner winner chicken dinner!!!
December 7, 2007

medo
Gary is leaving the space! Great great show!

QOTD#1: Its the Vayniac Cab cork! (under the football)

QOTD#2: A free-hand paint of Mott! That would be great! (the contest)
December 7, 2007

aheadwithwings
QotD: T-Shirt Design Contest. Or best Video based on Wine.
December 7, 2007

Ferrigno
HAHA I LOVE HOW YOU ALWAYS HAVE TROUBLE WITH RONDINELLA AND MOLINARA PRONOUNCIATION!
QOTD: Football (or as you say, soccer) penalty shootout contest!!!!!!
December 7, 2007

Ferrigno
OH OH and under the american football is obviously a toe nail
December 7, 2007

Tom L
QOTD: No great ideas for the contest, because I’m not into all the electronic stuff. But I thought the wine cellar episode was great and I think any of the viewers would love winning a collector’s bottle of wine.

BTY: We don’t all work for GV. Most employers won’t allow access to sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. and since I spend my entire life in the office I can’t participate in most of those things. So whatever the contest, make it accessable to everyone.

Don’t forget – - Sauvignon Blanc vs. Albarino taste off. Coming up soon I hope!
December 7, 2007

Josh in Burgundy
QOTD: Have everyone submit wines for tasting (could be a specific region/varietal etc) under a certain price point and you taste them and the one/two that score the highest or that you like the most would be the winner(s).
Under the jets football is a WLTV wristband
December 7, 2007

Justin
A foil cutter
December 7, 2007

Teresa
QOTD…. I like the contests in general. The prize is not important, we all enjoy winning, no matter what the prize is.

I think that there is a WLVT wrist band under the football

Thanks for a Great show….

tk
December 7, 2007

salvatore
My idea for the next Great contest issssssssssssssssssssssss. “Design a wine label”

Best design wins a 5 minute shopping spree at WLTV to scoff as many bottles of wine as possible.
December 7, 2007

Lynne
Great show, Gary, as usual. My condolences to your friends’ families. Even if we all took more time with our families and friends, it still wouldn’t be enough. You can never get enough of something you love.
I couldn’t leave a comment yesterday OR watch the show for that matter as the weather here put out our satellite connection. So your contest rule STINKS!
Therefore, My great idea for a contest will just have to wait until next time.
December 7, 2007

Sharon
QOTD1: Under the football are Jets tickets.
QOTD2: The next contest could be for Vayniacs to submit the funnest or most entertaining or educational wine-related story. Winner is taken on a Napa Valley wine tour or producer visits or even better, Tuscany or Bourgogne wine tour .
December 7, 2007

SS Chris
QOTD #1: Under the Football: One of your BobbleHeads fell over and the head broke off…so either a Dwight Schrute or Gary Vaynerchuk broken BobbleHead head.

QOTD #2: It seems many people are confused on this…..providing you with what the prize should be rather than what the contest should be. I believe you’re looking for the latter. I like the idea about some kind of WLTV/Gary/Vayniac Trivia Contest. Could be fun having us scour for obscure WLTV details

Another idea, outside of the contest question….lets call it a new WLTV Feature….I think the time has come for a “Vayniac Hall of Fame” if you will. Not sure how often…perhaps once a quarter you would induct someone into the Vayniac HOF….decided on jointly by you and Mott…and then, moving forward, perhaps previous HOF inductees would get a vote too. There would be some kind of prize for this. While it makes sense to keep the contests open to as many people as possible, this would be a nice way to honor your long time & loyal Vayniacs. You gotta admit…that’s a pretty good friggin’ idea!!! What say you Mr. Vaynerchuk??
December 7, 2007

Ryan D
Congrats to the winner!! At least someone gets airfare, if I’d've won it would have been just a car sent to my house, hehe.

QotD: Got a few ideas here. 1. A WineLibrary Shopping Spree. 2. A “five-finger discount” tour of Gary’s personal cellar [the discount comes in with the couple cases of wine you walk out with]. 3. Gary flies to your hometown and fully caters a top-shelf wine tasting.
December 7, 2007

Richard LeBlanc
Great show…congrats to the fellow Canadian who won the guest host contest. QotD: Possible contest: how about you reverse the guest host contest? You and Mott pick a name, you go to wherever the winner is from, you go wine shopping together and you taste the results. Everyone likes a road show every once and a while.
December 7, 2007

hugh
Next contest….a one week paid stint as a wine consultant at Wine Library, culminating in a “retirement” dinner with choice of any bottle in the store
December 7, 2007

Alex
QOTD: Best Video Parody of WLTV’s very own GV. You & Mott can narrow it down to the top 10, and then open up voting for a week or so. Prize: Gotta go with shopping spree at WL, or even better: A case of a fantastically difficult to find wine (that might get absurdly expensive though).
December 7, 2007

Pardus
QOTD1: Nothing
QOTD2: I don’t have an idea that I don’t already see in the gazillion replies already.
December 7, 2007

brooklyni
just getting my comment in so i’m eligible!
December 7, 2007

ciaobarbara
Next contest…a bingo board – who fills it out first based on a certain amount of episodes – they need to try one of the wines that you have reviewed and save the recipt. Mail it in and win! Something like that – it will make people actually drink more wine rather than just watch you.
December 7, 2007

pawncop
Great show. Thanks for the information regarding the valpolicella wines.

QOTD – a private wine tasting for 10 of your closest friends.
December 7, 2007

Kale Knowles
QoTD #1 Under the football is a glass
Q0TD #2 A) Contest winner gets to hang out with Gary while he analyzes wines he is purchasing for Wine Library B) Tour a wine region with Gary, maybe Walla Walla?
December 7, 2007

Linda Blakely
QOTD: I think the prize should be a bottle of each of the wines you’ve rated as the best from all of your shows!
December 7, 2007

MB Dallas
Gary – my contest idea: It should be something that makes people taste wine, as the main goal is to get us to develop our palate & try new things. How about taste 2 wines you’ve never tasted before (preferably varietals you’ve never tasted), post tasting notes on Cork’d, and submit them to you.
December 7, 2007

davidB
Great show and way to go Cananda – hey they need some love now and then…
QOTD = big ? so it needs to be thought on for a bit..
December 7, 2007

davidB
forgot the football – a cork!
December 7, 2007

Grasshopper
Sensei, fun episode and I will definately try a Valpolicella!

QOTD – Since you put such high importance on freinds and family (Love you for that!) I think the contest should be about the person who can do a family/friends Holiday video and get as many members of their family involved as possible. The person who submits the best video showing members of their family enjoying wine at the Holdays wins $500 – $1000 worth of WL wine to host their next family gathering. Would tie in Family, friends and the Holidays and could be run now through the Holidays.

Take care,

Hopper
December 7, 2007

Grasshopper
Oh – forgot to make my guess on the football….

#1 – chunk of cheese
#2 – WL Snow Globe
#3 – A smaller Jets football
December 7, 2007

Iron Man
GV, thanks for the heads-up on Zardini!! will be checking it out!

QOTD: hmmm….what would a wine lover like as a prize??? Wine? maybe? Winner gets not 1, not 2 but 3 picks (that is 3 bottles) of wine from Gary’s own wine cellar…..ok, maybe just 1, just 1 pick.
December 7, 2007

Whipple
QOTD: It’s a piece of yay! toast.
December 7, 2007

italianwinelover
Great show as usual. The Valpolicella is one of my favorites!!! Congrats to the winner–lucky guy!!! Can’t wait to meet him and hear his take on things!!!

QOTD: What ever you choose is always fun and exciting! A private wine tasting with you and your dad!!

OOTD2: Under the football – Your triangle for the challenge shootout!
December 7, 2007

Robertico the singer
QOTD:
OK, let me think, how about free shipping for a year. Not fair to the Jersey people I know, then how about a bottle or a few bottles of your favorite wine.

Cheers
December 7, 2007

DW
Wisconsin sucks! Arg.
I bought wine before and now I cant. Boooo Wisconsin.
And for the contest I think you should just pick me.
Thanks!
December 7, 2007

Tom T.
awesome episode, and congrats to the winners!
December 7, 2007

Whipple
Oh! Congrats to the Canuck!
And the contest: Name one varietal for each letter of the alphabet (or as close as possible).
December 7, 2007

habeen
I just read through the preceding ideas. You are set for contest ideas for some time. My suggestions are already there, but with the holiday season here it seems like a natural to have folks send in pictures of family or holiday parties. Maybe prominently display a wristband, or a WLTV sign, or a picture of GV in the setting.

I also like the cork idea, could make quite a pile.

Prize?

I think having GV travel to one of our homes and host a wine tasting party is a great idea.

My favorite wine shop in Minneapolis celebrated 75 years this year and gave away 75 bottles of wine. Needless to say there were a lot of entries, many from me. Unfortunately I have to continue buying my wine this year. You could give a mixed or solid case of ?? Just figure some way to be able to get it to Minnesota.

A vineyard tour with Gary – nice idea, pretty pricey for travel.

I think less expensive prizes can be done more often and involve more people. At some point down the road here, if it isn’t going on already, some channel is going to initiate talks with GV to host a show, and then there can be all kinds of drawings, contests, and prizes. GV can then do tasting in a different location every day.
December 7, 2007

DW
habeen-

Which wine shop do you go to? I travel to Minneapolis all the time!
December 7, 2007

Matt
Contest idea: Have people hold a wine tasting of their own with more than 4 people. Take a picture, send it in. Do a drawing of the entries.
December 7, 2007

habeen
Surdyk’s
303 East Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Easily the best wine shop in Mpls. Best prices, best sales, best cheese shop, and the most low-key, knowledgeable staff.
December 7, 2007

DW
Thanks!
December 7, 2007

RB
GV,
QOTD: ?
Contest: My wife and I love to have wine tasting parties and every time we have had one…it is a huge success. Not to mention, we purchase a ton of wine prior to the event. Next Contest: Road Show: The winner of next contest would receive an all expense wine tasting with you as the guest…and your wife. Food parings, protocol and Thunder! To win, each contestant would have to describe their best idea of what the night would “look” like…that way, WL would have the opportunity to choose which one best fits what you would like to do. So…contestants get to dream about a wine tasting event, you get to choose where you would go, then, Mott could film the event and post on a future episode of WL TV.
I think it has “legs”!
December 7, 2007

hasbeen
I have had a few wine tasting parties at my house, bringing in a sommelier to educate the crowd. I would certainly do that again and send a picture for a contest.

hey, how did my user name change before? Had to add another comment to make sure I am elgible.
December 7, 2007

Larry The Wine Guy
Idea For Contest…..Who can go out and promote more people in one week to e-mail gary by visiting WLTV’s website. The body of the e-mail would have to contain the Name And E-Mail address of the person who referred them to the website to E-Mail GaryV. The Prize….Gary arranges the winner and 1 guest to be invited to Pinot Boot Camp In Oregon by getting an Oregon Winery To Invite That Winner and Gary picks up the airfare and accomodations for the week. I think like the widget contest my idea offers a great prize but also draws more attention and support to WLTV and The Wine Library. I know I would be personally knocking on every door in my neighborhood and to every person I spoke to to get them to E-mail Gary and to mention my name!!
December 7, 2007

Smith MBA
QOTD: Ok – this is the small is the new big Seth Godin inspired contest.

The sneezer contest. You get two people to post on Wine Library everyday for a week who have not yet posted, separate IP address or whatever to confirm they are actually others. So the winner is you the person who refers the two newbies and your two buds.

So for each person over two who lists you as a reference and posts each day for a week in the comment section you get an entry. Maybe a little complicated to sort out.

I don’t know about the prize because they are usually better than what I even think of.

Also, under the Jets Football is Erik Kastner’s kid.
December 7, 2007

spaetm
Next Contest –
I like some of the ideas I’ve read from the other comments. Having you come by for a tasting party would be great. I also like some of the ideas about tasting new wines for the entry to the contest. Although I think it should be more about tasting objects with the wines, like what you did on Conan or Ellen. Gary, make the masses eat dirt and bacon.

I’m not sure you could beat me in paper football by the way

Maybe you could incorporate that into the contest. How can you have a paper football tournament over the internet?

Thanks for all the fun.

How many posts do you have to have to not be a lurker?
December 7, 2007

Shadowbird
QOTD1: Screw cap from a wine bottle?
QOTD2: Next contest? How about a WLTV rap contest? (Video option…I no has l33t video editing skillz.)
December 7, 2007

JohnL
QOTD – Theres nothing under the football. You just wanted to show that you get more comments ?
December 7, 2007

Nathan Valchar
I think liono is under the half-football
December 7, 2007

Lb in KS
Under the football? a whatchamacallit?
December 7, 2007

Lb in KS
Under the football? The moldy cork from yesterdays cellar episode?
December 7, 2007

Lawrence Leichtman
My contest idea should not involve blogs or adding badges to websites. My site is professional as is my blog and putting anything about wine on it would have negative repercussions. I would suggest the best descriptor of a wine that you can feature but one you already know rather than a crapshoot.
This was a sad week for Austrian wines as Alois Kracher was one of the best, died way too young of pancreatic cancer (not a good way to go) and still has youngish children, and there is no one in his family to my knowledge who can carry on his tradition.
The Valpolicellas in this episode especially the Zardini will go in my collection. Thanks
December 7, 2007

Lawrence Leichtman
Also under the football is a new wristband.
December 7, 2007

Nathan Valchar
QOTD: It should be a creation of a short, very short intro (not everyone likes intros) for the thundershow.
December 7, 2007

Lb in KS
Under the football? A screw top cap?
Contest…. a referal contest.. must refer at least one new viewer. Prize… complimentary Vayniac Cab share.
Oh…. and btw… I’m done guessing what’s under the football.
December 7, 2007

Soldaddy
great show….QOTD…small triangle paper football…FYI…I would throw a smackdown on you in table top football….was gonna go pro with that…..

Contest winner should get to go on a wine trip to bordeaux with you for 2006 tastings…

Contest should be who can make the best 1 minute WLTV video….
December 7, 2007

jesseeley
QOTD: Did anyone ever design something for the Butter Bandit? Next contest! I like the shopping spree idea at WLTV, that would be hilarious to watch!

Under the football…tickets to the superbowl!
December 7, 2007

Big Nick
Great ep Gary. Nice to see you back to form, and being quite generous as I might add.

First QOTD: If it were a little earlier in the season I would have to guess a christmas ornament with some sort of WLTV schwagg on it. What a great gift to get or give to that Vayniak.

Second QOTD: Not sure what the contest should be, but I am sure some the ideas mentioned already would make great contests.
December 7, 2007

Juicy Jesse
A WINE LIMERICK CONTEST….beginning with “A man from New Jersey named Gary….” You’ve convinced me – I’ll have to try that Zardini.
December 7, 2007

joel delon
Poor valpolicella !
QOTD : a special wine tasting with YOU within a stainless steel tank !
QOTD’ : a piece of mahogany ?
congrats canada
December 7, 2007

Senor Sangria
Fun show… OK… so 2 questions:

QOTD #1 (Under the football): Your Jets season tickets for next year! HA!

QOTD #2 (New Contest): Refer a friend contest. Give people a 3 days to see how many people they can refer. You can use the WLTV forum to validated if they have signed up since it checks your email to be valid. The person with the most referals gets a prize. Examples of prizes can be 2 of your favorite wines, free tickets to the Jets game, etc…

The thing i like about this contest is that it would promote WLTV and also get those luckers out in the open.

Cheers!
- Rick
December 7, 2007

Billr
Under the football, tickets to the Superbowl with you.
December 7, 2007

Billr
QOTD: Who has brought the most bottles of wine over the last say 3 months at the lowest price per bottle. This QOTD has me a going….. Like, you would have to have the highest bottle count brought with the lowest average price. You would have to have both to win. Talk about marketing………. NO NO NO, you would piss off a lot of Vayniacs with that idea…..forget it….:):):):):):)

Good idea though!!!!!!!
December 7, 2007

B Vanaski
QOTD: Under the football, a shopping spree to WLTV

QOTD2: Contest, 15 second show intro’s.
December 7, 2007

crank
QOTD: Next contest – Who can order the most wine from winelibrary.com. I think that might be good for business…
December 7, 2007

JeffC
Oh Canada, congrads on the super win!

Under the football?? New wristband design, to be sent out to all Vayniac fans.

Next contest: Best impersonation of GV and a Wine Library TV show.
December 7, 2007

David James
QOTD: See who can make the most publicity about drinking wine, or who can introduce the most new people to wine, something like that. That way we can all change the wine world!

Oh and congrats to the winner of the compo. I would have entered but I’m only 18 so if I flew to the US I wouldn’t have been able to drink the wine! Damn I wish I could have won that though. I’ve never even visted the US
December 7, 2007

Dan H
For the next contest, you should go, with the winner, to somewhere like Piedmont, Burgundy, etc. and shoot an episode of WLTV from there tasting wines from that region.

Dan
December 7, 2007

Susan
Gary- Which football team do you cheer for???????? wink wink !!!
December 7, 2007

Glen
Hi Gary,

Under the football….. An action figure…!!!

The contest……… you have one bottle of wine over a certain period of time and at a certian price range… $30-$40 for example or any bottle over $50…etc. which will have a gold sticker under the lead foil cap which you have made special for the contest and “only you” will know where it is and when it is sold etc….. and you can restrict it to Internet sales only…… or in store purchases or both.

The prize……. a First Class weekend trip to the final party for the Vayniac Cab at Crush Pad in San Francisco and a special wine dinner at Gary Danko with you the night before.
December 7, 2007

BiggMakk
I think the next contest should be for lurkers only! OH WAIT, THAT WOULD DISQUALIFY ME BECAUSE I’M NO LONGER A LURKER! BUT IF I DIDN’T POST HERE I WOULDN’T BE QUALIFIED! Darn, a Catch 22 contest.
December 7, 2007

john witherspoon (J DUB)
Hey Gary
Great episode – I am going to have some Valipolicella tonight actually.

I will try and think up a good contest for ya.

J DUB
December 7, 2007

SteveW
Great Episode!!!
QOTD: How about a video intro to WLTV
December 7, 2007

JasonA.
Great episode Gary. COngrats to the winners!!!!!!!

I think I have had a glass of valipolicella in my wine drinking infancy. I remember really liking it, but not being able to remember what it was called!! Hope it wasnt the bolla

QOTD #1. THe thudner cat with the Jets jersey on???

QOTD #2. I like the idea I heard above about being there for the final party for the Vayniac Cab at Crush Pad. WIth maybe a 1st runner up getting a case of the wine??

jason
December 7, 2007

Alex
Under the football- Car keys?

Next contest: How about entering everyone who posts a wine tasting note on the forums or corkd and taking the winner to any wine region for a tasting?
December 7, 2007

KW
Under the football – a Thundercat
Next Contest – Best food & wine pairing combination – cooked by the submitter (no help from spouses or friends or vendors)… winner has to put / cook the pairing together live!
December 7, 2007

MtnCharlie
Adding Valpolicella to the shopping list.

QOTD (under football): a picture of the pope
QOTD (next contest): Wine tour vacation with Gary & Liz
December 7, 2007

akellner
QOTD1: Under the Football: Corkscrew?
QOTD2: Contest: New T-Shirt Ideas

Great episode. Valpolicella was one of my late Dad’s favorite food wines. It brought back nice memories of when we went out as a family. Thanks.
December 7, 2007

Sam
Under the football: Fun size Whatchamacallit. If it’s not then whatever it is, it isn’t the greatest candy bar in the history of the world.
December 7, 2007

Ray
Under the football, Gary’s old table football from grade school.

Next contest: whats your favorite Winelibrary wine. Winner gets to put it on sale with their name as the free shipping code.
December 7, 2007

Caren
QOTD: contest to design the label for the Vayniac Cabernet
December 7, 2007

salvatore
Thanks a lot Gary—– Spent half my day trying to find Zardini Valpolicella here in ole Taxachusetts…

My tongue is hanging out wanting to find it; as usual no can find.

Maybe next time you could add a comment about availablility.
December 7, 2007

Jake Hathaway
I think there is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle under the football. As for the question of the day: I think the contest should be who can get the law passed that Tennessee residents can have wine shipped to them via mail the fastest?
December 7, 2007

Matthew L
Congrats to the winners. I am truly jealous!

QOTD: I like the iPhone giveaway, but, at the risk of being boring or redundant. I think the next contest should be the same. The idea of co-hosting the show is a great experience. Just visiting the store is fun, in itself. The opportunity to hang out with Gary, Sasha, Mott and other WL staff is a trip. To sit next to Gary and try to find Skittles in a bottle is classic.

Gary…thanks for keeping the show so fun, informative, entertaining, and a “can’t miss” part of my day.
December 7, 2007

mrzitro
Under the Football: keys to your cellar

QOTD: Recruit-A-Vayniac.
December 7, 2007

Jon B Lodi
QOTD: I like the idea of best label design for the VaynerCab.

How about a contest of who can make the most posts to cork’d? Or perhaps to qualify for a drawing, you’d got to make at least 10 posts to cork’d?

That would drive traffic to the site and your IT guys should be able to give you a list of names of those with the required number of posts.
December 7, 2007

American in France
Next contest……????? How about a wine tasting tour of Languedoc-Roussillon.
Under the football, all my tears collected in a screw cap, because I didn’t win
December 7, 2007

wayno da wino
YOOO GeeVee !
Got me cravin’ for somma dat Zardini Valpolicella!!
NOOO SLACK for da Allegrini, as it bites da dust
(bein’ poured) into da Spit-Bucket!!

QOTD: A gnarly Thunder Cat
December 7, 2007

Chris G
under the football: how about a star wars figure
new contest: wo can ceteate the most new vaniacs gets to $1000 to spend on wine in your store (clever as you GET THE MONEY BACK!) or how about guess the total ratings for a week..or a month. Same prize.
December 7, 2007

Chris G
having trouble with my typing in that last post and I haven’t had any wine yet. That must be the problem!
December 7, 2007

rmgroves
How about you visiting the winner at his favorite wine hangout and sampling some vino (or better yet you and the winner fly out to Napa (or Sonoma or whereever) and sampling some of the fare at his favorite winery.
December 7, 2007

Dancing French Man
Next Contest..A Dance Contest……. after drinking “beaucoup” cheap French wine.
Under the football….. Some Cheap (half bottle) French wine?
December 7, 2007

JerseyGirl turned CNY vayniac
Glad you poured that wine out if it stunk! And Gary, you totally have the same computer as me! sweet! gotta love Macs!

QOTD: I think the next contest should be a contest to win a trip to go on a wine tour anywhere you want in the world!… and you should come along Gary!
December 7, 2007

yui
Next Contest : Best Claymation (wine Theme)

Under the football: GV’s 100pt wine cork.
December 7, 2007

BobM
Okay, Gary-

First of all, thanks for reminding us of Valpolicellas, a wine I’ve totally neglected. One of the reasons I value your show is that you constantly remind of the great, big, wonderful wine world that awaits us.

Under the football? Hmmm. New wristband sounds like a pretty good guess. I’ll have to go with that.

New contest: I like the idea of some sort of drawing, where everyone has an equal chance. Or you could do a hybrid, where you have one of those “25 words or less” contests for people to qualify, and then draw from the best responses. The prize? Oh, hell I’m greedy. Let’s say accompanying you on a wine-buying to Europe. Maybe a little unrealistic. How about a dinner for two with you at a top restaurant that has a great wine list.
December 7, 2007

Dusty
next contest should be like the publishers clearing house. have a drawing from the people that post in the forums or that leave replies to the show(maybe have the QOTD your address (if that’s legal)) and then suprise them and show up at their house and film an episode of wltv live from their house or work.
December 7, 2007

Kruszcontrol
QOTD: I think that the next contest should be a video-intro contest. That way you get tons of the intros you want. Nifty, huh?
December 7, 2007

Shug
The next contest – a where in the world is Gary Vaynerchuk contest. Under the football – a cork.
December 7, 2007

WineFellow
I will rock your pig-snout-lovin’ arse at Pencil Wars.

Next time you are in the city by the bay, I will snap your yellow #2 like LT snapped Theisman’s femur.

QOTD: (under the football) A football tee
QOTD: (next contest) Make a wine with the winner
December 7, 2007

Sassodoro
QOTD. Contest should be to answer questions about past episodes of WLTV. (For example, in which episode did Gary first say sniffy-sniff? What was the wine that Gary described as smelling like road kill deer cut open with the knife you carry with you and covered with cherries? That sort of thing.)
December 7, 2007

Loweeel
Contest — Label art for Vayniac Cab.

As for what’s under the football… sample or draft of the cork for the Vayniac Cab.
December 7, 2007

VinoVixen
I like Valpolicella-thanks for the show.
Under the Football-keys to your wine celler
QOTD: design the vaynaic label. Winner-gets a case and a weekend in CA with GV
December 7, 2007

Withnail
QOTD: Next contest should be to see who can get/refer the most people to subscribe/register with WLTV.
December 7, 2007

Tinhorn1
Gary,
Corks are under the football.
December 7, 2007

sfgiants55
New contest should be Cork’d base.. like most wines inputed.
December 7, 2007

Dominick Mack
QOTD – Contest to see who could beat Gary in a paper football contest. He can’t be that good, right?
December 7, 2007

Fred
Under the football – Picture of family…relatives

Next contest…. Pairing of wines….the best pairing of wine with a particular food…

Lets Get Lizzie on the show….Xmas show? Perfect….
December 7, 2007

Alex
QOTD: trip to europe!
December 7, 2007

Tom (vtjones)
QOTD: I want a contest to have you film live at the winners place. Or maybe win one of those wine cellars.
December 7, 2007

CaseTheLurker
QOTD: I agree with the label making or homemade wine tasting. Under the football is one of those mini NFL football helmets they used to give away in cereal…or fast food..i can remember…a JETS helmet of course.
December 7, 2007

Jose
Next contest should be that you send a bottle of each of the wines you taste on the show to the winner for a year, or a month. Then at the end of the month the winner gets to go on your show and argue with you about 4-5 wines that he felt you over/under-rated.
December 7, 2007

winelover4ever
The contest: Pick one winner among all vayniacs who gess the new Superball champion.
The price: A trip to Napa with the master GARY V.

P.S please also include whoever guess the contest and the price.
December 7, 2007

Trevor Mauch
… wonder what’s under the football… huh… I have no clue.

Hey, here’s an idea for the next contest:

You know that chalk board behind you? You should pick some vinyard or winery around the world… and everyday, you have a different clue on the chalkboard that gives a small hint to what winery it is that you picked.

Or… heck… even a better way to get people to watch everyday is to simply say the clue during the episode so people have to watch to get the clue.

Only 1 clue a day… the first clues are impossibly hard… and they get a bit easier as we go… but not too easy.

But, the first person to guess it right… gets to fly there with you to do a bit of sniffy sniff on some of their wine and film an episode or two at the winery.

It would be pretty cool and would get people involved and watching everyday.

So… that’s my idea Gar… what do ya think???
December 7, 2007

Tom N.
Great show, Gary. I love valopolicellas and they are the Italian wine I drink the most of. As a matter of fact I had a Zenato valopicella tonight for dinner with Italian food – pasta and meatballs. My favorite valopicellas are ripassos, which I call poor man’s amarones.
Tom N. from Canada
December 7, 2007

James Roscoe
QOTD – Dinner with your Dad. D’uh!
December 7, 2007

Lurker4Life
QOTD: Prize – Bordeaux tasting w/GV @ First Growths
Under the Football: Another smaller football
December 7, 2007

Skol
How about the most original wine tasting note?
December 7, 2007

steve
I think the contest should not have to do with blogs or my space but how often the person watches and buys from wine library.com
December 7, 2007

DARREL LAS VEGAS
QOTD: DARREL LAS VEGAS TV! YOU CAN BE MY FIRST GUEST.
P.S. Richard R.I.P your wines are and will always be AMAZING!
December 7, 2007

East Aurora Reilly
Contest: Based on versitility, name the top ten wines you couldn’t live without, that you must always have on hand. Gary picks his favorite list, and the winner gets a bottle of each selection on their list.

Under the football: 187.5ml of Sauternes
December 8, 2007

Jonathan Phaneuf
Let’s go CANADA!!! I honestly didn’t believe that a canadian would win!!! Whooohhoooo!!!! We are all CANUCKS right!
December 8, 2007

David Ziemba
QOTD: A $1000 gift certificate…or just a $1000 cellar starter kit picked out by GV himself.

Under the football…The other half of the football?!?!
December 8, 2007

Denis Malin
Gary, sorry to say, I have a low opinion valpolicellas. When I was in Italy last, I had some truly awful valpolicellas. There are some really nice Rossa table wines in Italy though.
December 8, 2007

jason
dude!! i swear i watched this the other day and i had to attend to the wild, so i could not leave a comment.
qotd: a drawing is cool. this show is about wine. wwF is cool , but maybe a mixed case of 2005…. from those sweet spots in france.
December 8, 2007

Barbara
QOTD: The next contest should be a scavenger hunt among all your previous video casts.
December 8, 2007

Panoca
QOTD: Contest should be about who designs the most original Vayniac logo.
Prize?: free shipping for life!!
December 8, 2007

vinsant
Qotd: bring the crew and some kick ass wines to the winners house for a taping or a week in Burgundy with Gary!!!
December 8, 2007

xibjou
Should you be allowing a kanuk to sit in when are so close to going to war with Canada
December 8, 2007

John
QOTD1: Action Figure

QOTD2: Drawing. A shopping spree does sound like fun.
December 8, 2007

DolFan Jon
QOTD: wine tasting in Walla Walla
December 8, 2007

Sara L.
The next contest should be a “name those flavors” contest. We taste, you taste. We predict what you’d say about the wine, what flavors it has, what’s on the nose, etc. Whoever comes closest, wins.

Prizes should be
a) $1000 shopping spree at Wine Library
or
b) you fly out to do a tasting for us and 12 friends.

sounds fun to me!
December 8, 2007

Karl Laczko
What’s under the football? – Tickets to the next Jets home game?

QOTD (new contest) – You blind taste a wine, give your best descriptions, then let us guess the Vintage, Varietal/Blend, Country & Region. Closest wins. Just make sure it’s not Californian!
December 8, 2007

NicoleE
Lots of good suggestions for contests and prizes already. I like a WL shopping spree, you flying out for a tasting, and dinner with your dad (okay, I guess you can come, too)! I’m so bummed that I lost this contest as I was looking forward to you paying my airfare from Turkey on a couple of days’ notice!
December 8, 2007

YoungDave
QOTD 1: Under the football? A new Thunder Cat to add to the collection?

QOTD 2: What about a free ticket to attend a major wine tasting event (New York, San Francisco, etc.) with Gary in the upcoming months for the best contribution to the wine world…clearly I need to work on the competition qualifications…I’ll think about it a little bit more, but I’ll stick to the prize.
December 8, 2007

tai-ke
QOTD: I’d guess a cork under the football. For the next contest? A week in Bordeaux.
December 8, 2007

Diggles
Next content: offer another mystery pack, but none of the bottles have labels. Anyone who orders a pack and guesses the types of wine that were included is eligible for a drawing.

Under the football: A cork
December 8, 2007

Adam
How about best tasting note submitted by video?
December 8, 2007

Kathy HUghes
For your next contest…..how about….Having a kind of “American Idol” contest…only not have it be exclusive to America…..so this contest is a search for the best amateur wine taster/afficionado/critic…..i.e. amateur Gary Vaynerchuk wannabes …the contestants could send videos displaying their “talent” Let the search begin…..Naples Kathy
December 8, 2007

Craig
Next contest… Prize: (that’s most important right?) a case of wine that YOU choose for a tasting party with my friends. How about, you draw out 4 names – each person gets to submit a wine that they think you will love (put a price limit on it.) Do a taste off, and the wine you like the best wins the prize.

Under the football? Thundercat.
December 8, 2007

Kdawg
for the next contest, let’s kick it old skool with having WLTV intros again, and have them be for registered forum members as of x date.

and for the winner, a big ole 05 bordeaux tasting over a couple of days so they can try some of the big guns
December 8, 2007

Stu
QOTD: Video entry wine tasting party. No more than a couple minutes. It is all about friends and family together.

My 6 yr. old daughter says “Merry Christmas to the funny wine guy.”
December 8, 2007

Dan
QOTD: a shopping spree at wine library, nickelodeon style!
December 8, 2007

Dan
Oh, under the football is a NEW wristband
December 8, 2007

Teddy Roberts
I have never found a great Italian or French wine under 20 bones!
You the man dude.

Slushpuppy
December 8, 2007

zach migliozzi
I’m really curious as to how the Bolla matched up against that Allegrini.

QOTD: Some kind of action figure. I’m going to have to go with a thundercat.
December 8, 2007

yowens
Thanks for the episode, I dont think I’ve had a valpolicella in a couple years, it will be on my list. QOTD: I guess I’m fairly unoriginal, but I really like the idea of cohost occasionally.
December 8, 2007

Todd S
It may have to do with the WLTV Cab.
I like the idea if WL gift cards.
December 8, 2007

Brian
How about a shopping spree at the WL?
December 8, 2007

dano
qotd: create a 2 min commercial for the wltv show. Include “typical Gary” moments and funny skits aimed at wine lovers but bringing other viewers that may not have normally downloaded this type of podcast.

Under the jets ball? Cheetara?
December 8, 2007

avanagee
congrats to the fellow Canadian! next contest: trivia (gotta watch WLTV to answer the questions!). next prize: free wine. um, what is a pencil war?!
December 8, 2007

Chad
Next contest… how about the most oddly descriptive tasting notes… something further out there than dirty sweat socks. And as a prize, I think a tour (and tasting) of some of the cellars from yesterday’s episode with you, Jay, Sasha and Mott would be awesome.
Under the football, I’m guessing a cork.
December 8, 2007

Peter
Awesome Gary, Next contest, You, Me, Leer Jet to any vineyard in the world. Best Wine, Food , Friends, that would be a blast!
December 8, 2007

Todd Smith
Next contest – Just make everyone leave comments for every episode during a given week. Then do a drawing. No more lurkers!

Under the football – cork.
December 8, 2007

Toke-Dawg
Next Contest: Get a video of a celebrity (or impersonator) talking about WLTV.
December 8, 2007

Ken
QOTD: Although I do like the current show format (I like Gary’s enthusiasm), since the subject has come up, perhaps the contest should involve creating some sort of new intro to the show. It would be fun to see what comes in. I like Barbara’s WLTV show scavenger hunt as well.
December 8, 2007

Bob
QOTD: Installation of a customized wine cellar by the guy a couple of shows ago!
December 9, 2007

Tristan
QOTD: A shopping spree at WLTV!!!
December 9, 2007

Michael
qotd – shopping spree at wl.
December 9, 2007

Derek Jensen
QOTD: The Mac product of your choice from apple.com
December 9, 2007

spyder47
Good show. Have not had many Italian wines other than Chianti … will have to try this type. Sorry to see the Zardini sold out already. Congrats to the winners of the contest!

QOTD: Contest = create new WLTV t-shirt design. First Place = All expenses paid trip to Napa w/ Gary. Second = Free WL shopping spree ($1500 max)
December 9, 2007

damon aka unknownwine
I already missed one contest after being away. Please don’t let me miss 2. I was doing very important family business.

Under the ball… I’ll say a new thunder cat.
December 9, 2007

Fred Liu
oh my god…Whatever, nice Valpolicella~
December 9, 2007

Elliot Essman
Next contest: contestants suggest a list of five most critical questions facing the wine world today.
December 9, 2007

Trevor
The next contest could be for the ability to choose a featured wine for WL. Goes on the homepage and is prominently displayed in the store.
December 9, 2007

Grapedigger
Congrats to the Canadian winner… Next contest could be about sending in a little video where you describe the oddest wine experience that you’ve had (could be positive or negative)…or just put together something highlighting what wine means to you…
December 10, 2007

downtnmark
QOTD: How about a prize like joining Gary at the 2007 futures barrel tasting in Washington DC? That’s kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing for most of us Vaniacs.

Under the football? A cork maybe?
December 10, 2007

Andy D.
QOTD: A contest based on comments will flush out the lurkers…like it did last time. I wouldn’t mind the contest having something to do with writing about wine. Or maybe just putting together the best WLTV parody (video).
December 10, 2007

paul
Next contest: the next wristband!

Under the football: An old wristband.
December 10, 2007

raffi
next contest: trip to Napa/Sonoma with the G-man.
December 10, 2007

Chargers Rule
QOTD: a trip to Harlan Estate and Bond or a barrell tasting with John Kongsgaard, oh wait, I have done all that, but not with GV!

Under the ball – 2008 Yankee World Series Ring? Doubtful. Hahahaa
December 10, 2007

Valerie
QOTD: Contest for best video blog of a vayniac wine tasting that will get posted to WLTV.

Under the football is an action figure.
December 10, 2007

Marcus Pape
Love the lunch box GV! Pour out a little wine for time, family, and friends.

Who doesnâ€™t love a good 49 cent wine?!?! WOW, 63 pointsâ€¦brining the noise!

Next contestâ€¦ Iâ€™m a big proponent of the â€œwine experienceâ€. Wine is so much more than just fermented grape juice. How you react to a wine is all about where you are and who your with. So, I propose a â€œwine experienceâ€ contest where viewers are asked to describe the best experience theyâ€™ve ever had at a winery (anywhere in the U.S.). Blog about it, mentioning the Wine Library TV contest (no major widgets or banner ads necessary), and the winner goes with Gary to the winery and films an episode of Wine Library TV. It would be a great experience for the winner and great promotion for the winery.
December 10, 2007

wannaBconnoisseur
Great Show! Love the Veneto!
December 10, 2007

Jayhitek
QOTD: Thundercat action figure? A cork? A Patriots shot glass?
December 10, 2007

Russ J
So the QOTD was “what should the next WLTV contest be?”, I think. I suggest a creative writing assignment, a theme if you will (like that will EVER happen when a guy who terms himself “not the biggest education man” is involved!). Think of your sister, dude. She could grade them! Yes, I can hear the huge groundswell of support from the Vayniacs……anyone? anyone? Buehler?
December 10, 2007

eyedoc
Next contest should be best video impersonation of Gary doing a tasting/ episode/ 120
December 10, 2007

Porter
QOTD: Winner gets to pick ONE bottle from WineLibrary.
December 10, 2007

Ben
I am sure someone already suggested it but, I would love a tour and a shopping spree at the wine library. Would also love if Gary himself helped to pick out the wines….
December 10, 2007

Elisha
come up with a theme song and/or original opening for the thunder show.
December 11, 2007

David
contest: design the label for the vanyiac cab
December 11, 2007

Alex Haag
qotd: I think the contest should be a random drawing. Designing a shirt or wristband or whatever eliminates those of us who aren’t exactly “artistically inclined” *cough* me *cough* I say you should make the prize a free bottle of wine once a month for a year. Although it’s not that big of a prize, it’s definitely something that will encourage people to expand their horizons. Plus I wouldn’t mind a free bottle of wine every month…
December 11, 2007

K.M.
QOTD: For a contest, I would like something objective (drawing) rather than subjective (design a webpage / shirt / wristband). Perhaps some sort of time limited trivia quiz about WLTV based on all 360+ episodes that have occurred? You could ask questions about obscure things that were said on old shows. Announce the contests, give us like a month to review the old footage, then give a trivia quiz with someone like 24 hours to respond (long enough to compose an answer, not long enough to watch all the old episodes).
December 11, 2007

Cuse Wino
Congrats to Drive Guy. Can’t wait to see it.

QOTD- Next contest should be spend day in the life of Gary V. Be there for tastings, shoot the show, go to dinner, live the Gary V life.
December 11, 2007

ryan
QOTD: GV impersonation contest
December 11, 2007

Henning
Suggested contest: send in a radool recipe with wine.

Suggested price for next wltv-contest: Oversea-Wine-Tasting Overseas (fly there, taste, fly back…). I’d love to drink some Australian Shiraz in Australia or some Chilean Carbanet-Sauv. in Chile.
December 11, 2007

mike landucci
want to make sure im elgible for next one. will buy wines from this episode am sick of all the high rated stuff being gone before i can get it though..
December 11, 2007

Agnes
is it too late?
December 11, 2007

malliemcg
Next contest – should have multiple winners 5 or so –

GV + The Mott should travel to each of the winners and do a show in their house.

2x GV selected wines.
2x Winner selected wines.
December 11, 2007

Mr.Ambassador
I agree with the “Wine Library TV knowledge” idea submitted previously. It would be fun to gather knowledge, fun-facts and trivia from past episodes. Too bad there can’t be a WLTV Fantasy Baseball challenge; that would be great.

Had to make sire I’d be eligible for the next contest anyway!
December 11, 2007

Daniel O
YAY CANADA!!! I hope this means there will be more Canadian wines on WLTV in the near future!

QOTD: I think the contest should be related to Cork’d, which seems to have fallen along the wayside lately. Maybe writing reviews and adding tasting notes to Cork’d, along with keeping an up-to-date cellar list. We really need to up the number of wines and bottles on record on that site, otherwise it will just be another “me too” site trying to be like Cellar Tracker.
December 12, 2007

Andrew
Hey Gary

QOTD: A contest about wine would be cool – describing it, favourite wine, favourite experience, favourite wine style, most unusual food match, favourite wine experience etc …
December 12, 2007

Lindsey
QOTD: IÂ´m with Daniel O – something CorkÂ´d-related would be cool. As for prizes (note the plural), how about a trip to have a private visit/tasting (with Gary V of course) at one of your favorite wineries?
December 12, 2007

wlburk
QOTD: I like the theme song idea….and the prize would be out of the US.

Maybe a trip to EU or AU and a chance to taste at wineries over there.

or maybe you should come out to where the winner lives, go out to a few of the best restaurants there and then tape a wine show at their place.
December 12, 2007

JayZee
QOTD: Hmmm. Let’s see… It has to be a contest that I have a chance at winning…
I guess that means it has to be a random drawing! Ha! How about a “Where in the world is Jason Hicks?” contest?!
December 12, 2007

John Farrin
QOTD: Give us low techies a chance. Perhaps a jingle or a catchphrase for a WL OR WLTV promotion.
Prize could be free shipping for a year or two.
December 12, 2007

Natalie Pilon
QOTD: a contest for the best WLTV cheer.
December 13, 2007

JoeyB
QOTD: Either a Vayniac wine label or theme song. Something that doesn’t require a high-tech mind to do.
December 13, 2007

pete c
QOTD- masked tasters from WL all tasting the same wines and giving their masked interpretations. Could be interesting.
December 14, 2007

Darold
QOTD: Easy. What do you want that you aren’t getting? Video submissions. Make it something easy, something fun. People have to send in a video clip of themselves “training their palate” with a good handful of dirt as part of a 1-3 minute introduction to the THUNDERSHOW. Expect my submission soon.
December 14, 2007

SoCal
Catching up from 2 weeks of working my A** off…….
QOTD: Intro for the WLTV
December 17, 2007

Ryan R
QOTD: Free wine for life!!??
December 18, 2007

Jason R.
I’ll go with Free SHipping for Life or a chance to buy 2005 Bordeaux Futures again at original prices
December 20, 2007

MannyPants
QOTD: I think the Vayniac Wine Label design contest would be a good one. That or a t-shirt design contest.
March 24, 2008

Shane B.
Just got around to watching this on my iPod today (3/25/08), and wanna be eligible for the contest.

Idea: come up with a sensible rating system that forgoes numbers. Instead, something like: burn it, cook with it, give it to people you don’t like and exes, give it to people you love, pop-n-pour, store it, buy or die.
March 26, 2008

Thomas
I have tastes the Amarone Classico of “Fratelli Vogadori” and it is a very good wine. I’m trying to find other bottle but i think their produtions is veri limited!!!
June 24, 2008

What Would Gary Recommend To You If You Stopped By - Episode #492
[...] The widget drawing episode [...]
October 31, 2008

Gerry Mantovani
Please! It’s pronounce ah- mah- rone- ay!
November 28, 2008

Cliff and Darcey
A whole year later and even though I didn’t win the awesome prize of going to New York to see you and be on the show, I want you to know there are no hard feelings and I still keep your links up on my site! Damn!
January 1, 2009

Dessert Wine Nerd
Congrats to the winners. QOTD: Maybe a episode where fans pick wines for gary to taste ( maybe 12 wines over 3 episodes ) blind, and all the ones he cant guess ( by either region or type ) move on to a final round and try to stump him again to be the champ.
March 10, 2009

caseylee
still have this wine. i havent opened it yet. maybe i should have gotten more bottles hahaha
thanks gary ! !
VV
May 6, 2009

CaseyLee
fnailly popped it and wow !
July 3, 2009

Adrian aka AnGkEr
What’s the difference between Amarone and Valpolicella?
July 11, 2009

Fredly
Adrian aka AnGkEr:
Amarone is made from the same grape varieties as Valpolicella, and it is grown in the same geographic area. But the winemaking technique is very different. For Amarone, the grapes are parially dried before the grapes are crushed. This concentrates the sugars and acids, causes chemical changes to occur in the tannins, produces a darker, denser wine with a raisiny character in the aroma and a slight bitterness on the palate. But the drying process also takes time effort and significantly reduces the amount of juice, which is why Amarone usually costs 3x as much as regular Valpolicella.
There is also an in-between style called Ripasso, where a regular Valpolicella wine is passed over the pomace (the left-over skins and seeds) from an Amarone so that it will pick up some of the raisiny character without all the weight (and extra cost) of an Amarone.