Joanne From Rocket Boom Comes To Hang Out And Taste

Joanne From Rocket Boom Comes To Hang Out And Taste – Episode #388

January 17, 2008

Joanne Colan from Rocketboom comes to the WineLib and hangs with GV, Wine Library TV is looking forward to having more Web 2.0 Guests in 2008 and Joanne is our 1st guest! We picked 3 wines that we think might hit Joanne’s palate.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2004 Rousset Crozes HermitageCrozes Hermitage Rouge
2004 Finca SandovalOther Spanish Red Wine
2000 Legras St VincentFrench Brut Vintage

Links mentioned in todays episode.

Rocketboom Oct 23, 2007 Episode

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January 18, 2008

Michael
Great One!
January 18, 2008

Mike L
very entertaining show!

QOTD: Hulk Hogan vs Mr. T
January 18, 2008

Ben F
That was alot of fun GV Great Guest!!!
January 18, 2008

Mike
Fun episode. She showed me I am not the only one that has a blind palate.
January 18, 2008

Matt
Laugh out loud funny is right! Two witty people from different worlds coming together to share the experience of wine with the rest of us…forgive me folks but for me this is what this show is about! I am the expert of my own palate – I don’t need wine “experts” putting me to sleep.
Great show GV!
January 18, 2008

boegemann
Entertaining show, good wine choices, beautiful and witty guest. I suggest inviting her back so we can see how her palette develops.

QOTD: The highest price paid for any bottle has been 105,000 British Pounds ($157,000 US) for a 1787 Chateau Lafite claret sold to Christopher Forbes (USA) at Christie’s London on December 5, 1985. The price was affected insofar as the bottle was initialed by Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826), 3rd President of the United States! –Guiness Book of World Records
January 18, 2008

BobbyTiger
Geez Louise. What a great show. Rarely do I laugh out loud when watching (any) show, but caught myself on a couple of occasions. Very entertaining. The fact that Joanne isn’t much of a drinker didn’t, (for me), distract from the message. In fact, many people are not into wine, but they can still enjoy the experience, and some of her comments were apparently spot on. Top 20 stuff here.
January 18, 2008

jason
wuz up?
January 18, 2008

DavidB
OK, first off the show was great. There was some good information on the wines tasted along with some fun banter between the two. Why can WLTV not have a guest who does not have a load of wine experiance, it gives us a little more incite into what the avarege “joe” or “jolien” thinks about a wine and that can not be bad. Would those that did not like this ep prefer to have a load of stiffs on the show? Talk about freaking boring Speaking of Jolien, can you get the “Jolien” on the show?

QOTD: Me
January 18, 2008

Matt the Lurker
QOTD – Red. No, wait… 1984.
January 18, 2008

HuskerJamie
That was effing hilarious Gary.

QOTD: I have no idea what the question was or how to answer said question.
January 18, 2008

Lynette Sullivan
Great Show!
January 18, 2008

MARKSHARKY
I thought she brought a fresh funny perspective to WLTV and really enjoyed the episode. Wine is and should be fun when consumed life has too many serious sides to it. Drink wine and be happy..
January 18, 2008

Zinny
I am also in the minority that felt today’s guest wasn’t really that awesome. I won’t comment on her looks because I am above that.

Basically I felt that she was OK .. but she’s really not that into wine and her “style” – kind of wordy and understated – didn’t mesh well, in my opinion, with your more up-front, less subtle approach. I kind of felt myself wanting to fast forward through her very long descriptions of how it is in France.

Personally . .I would like to see you NOT get more Web 2.0 guests . . but instead get experts and guests from the wine world or at the very least guests who are famous for other things but at least like and drink wine.
January 18, 2008

MrJCG1
L,

I liked her for exactly the reasons you disliked her. There really was no need to point out her shortcomings. She represents a large portion of us who know very little about wines and are watching these vids to learn. Some of us are not yet as refined as you. Besides, Gary was there to counter-balance her. I think I would be bored watching Gary with another wine aficionado. She was fun, peppy, different, and pretty to boot. What’s there to complain about?
January 18, 2008

L
I’m obviously in the minority here, but i thought your guest was awful. She apparently never drinks wine, nor does she seem to enjoy it very much. More importantly, i have trouble understanding how anyone could be unable to ask a simple opinion generating question impromtu…. Wow, she said a wine smelled like catfood and everyone was blown away like this was the most imaginative and profound comment ever made. I guess that I fail to see how this was such a laudable accomplishment for a person equipted with a memory, olfactory senses, and a vocabulary. Maybe i’m being too negative, or perchance i sniffed a few too many glasses of wine and lost m’head!
January 18, 2008

Aron Kramer
What a show. Also, as a new fan, not sure if others felt this way as well, 230 some comments are a lot to read, I LOVED the rehash of the whole taste and smell thing and how you “see” all the different things in the wine once you get past the alcohol. Watching Joanne bring the thunder made me want to get out there and give the whole thing a try as well! Thanks a ton!
January 18, 2008

MrJCG1
First time poster, long time lurker here. Great episode. Beautiful lady and it really works when you have someone with a bit less of a defined palette than yourself. It gives us newbies someone to relate to. Kudos!!!
January 18, 2008

SteveW
Probably the funniest episode of WLTV ever!
Joanne Rocks, loved her British accent, speaking French, and the
cat food and bone marrow comments.
January 18, 2008

Lawrence Leichtman
Vote for WLTV for the Web 2.0 contest
January 18, 2008

Wade
GV, you should have done a food pairing episode with her, marmite and toast, Branston pickle and cheese sandwiches, or even stewed eel in a lunch pail, etc.

And GV, you’re becoming a dangerous man, promoting the daredevil life, exposing American Vayniacs to the rarefied child rearing practices of foreigners. Some poor naive Vanyiac is going to give his kid some spring water with a few drops of wine and before he knows it some other paterfamilias from the block will be calling in the incident to the authorities.
January 18, 2008

Kirk
I don’t think I have ever seen a show with so many sexual inuendos comming from one person…she was a fun, fun guest and certainly brought the laughter. Cat food and the guiness book of world records. Awsome….
QOTD: Confusing as hell….I’ll let somone else google it.
January 18, 2008

ArizonaBrian
Good fun show…I think I like the idea of an occasional Web2.0 guest…keep up the great work Gary!
January 18, 2008

Andrew H.
Gary, that was an awesome episode! Joanne was great and not to bad on the eye’s either. Does she have a younger sister?
January 18, 2008

Dean D.
I really enjoyed this episode! Very well done you two!