What Would Gary Recommend To You If You Stopped By

What Would Gary Recommend To You If You Stopped By – Episode #492

June 24, 2008

Today Gary gets visited by Vaun, one of the 1st winners of a contest on WLTV, the 1st widget contest back in December. Heâ€™s here and here we go. Letâ€™s taste some wine.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2006 Valli Waitaki Pinot NoirNew Zealand Pinot Noir
2006 Alamos Seleccion MalbecArgentine Malbec
2004 Killibinbin Cabernet/shiraz Cellar Release The Blend #2Australian Red Meritage
2004 Robert Karl Cabernet SauvignonWashington Cabernet Sauvignon

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189 Responses

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June 25, 2008

jay
QOTD: I have gotten many people hooked on wine by having them taste Saracco Moscato Di Asti. After that I have them move on to whites then reds. Works everytime.
June 25, 2008

SoCal
QOTD: Stags Leap Cellars SLV
QOTD: Soul Patch
June 25, 2008

JeffC
QOTD: Maybe start out with Riesling or Pinot Grisio. G-Man with a “mullet and lamb chops.” oh-yes, serious thunder road look.

Great show.
June 25, 2008

rachael s
QOTD: I have no idea because I’m one of these unconverted of which you speak. So glad you asked this question. I have been taking note of the responses … seems like rieslings are showing up a lot.
Just started watching the show earlier this week. awesome stuff even though I don’t get a lot of it.
June 25, 2008

Edward Colcord
Outstanding.
QOTD 1: NYS Reisling

QOTD 2: “Hair is there.”
June 25, 2008

LauraG
QOTD # 1 – How about a Francois Villard Condrieu?

QOTD # 2 – Go the whole 9 yards and rock the ZZ Top!
June 25, 2008

Clinton
Excellent show. I was curious when the contest winner would make an appearance.

QOTD 1: I would go with a late harvest Riesling as it preserves the wine experience without adulterating it with bubbles.

QOTD 2: Ask your daughters…
June 25, 2008

MacNPhish
Great show! Thanks for the birthday shout outs for my daughters!

QOTD: I’d say a Riesling to start. Although I got my wife to start drinking wine based on the atmosphere and ambiance. We were in Venice, Italy, sitting alongside a canal having dinner and she had her first Red wine. She might have drank a little too much but ever since then she LOVES red wine.

QOTD: Rock the goatee, had one for a LONNNNNG time, the wife won’t let me shave it. Except now its half grey.
June 25, 2008

ATLIENS
show us the tattoo!
June 25, 2008

Chippewamike
Awesome show! Love when guests are on–they bring a different and interesting perspective. . .

QOTD 1: I think Pinot Grigio would change alot of non-wine drinkers over. Not too over the top and fruity enough for alot of people.

QOTD 2: Gary needs to shake it up with some facial hair. Either a soul patch or the Brett Farve beard. . . just for about a week.
June 25, 2008

geoffroy
another absurd dividing line between 89 and 90 (Alamos Malbec) ! Gary, a wine is GOOD at 75..! (that means 15/20 — no mean achievement) why not use the 100 scale to its full, and rich, potential? Otherwise, still a pleasure to discover your wine world
salut
June 25, 2008

CBone
QOTD: I think any Zinfandel blend by Ridge. They are sublime.
June 25, 2008

jason
QOTD 1 – whites would be a vouvray, demi sec with a few years on it or a voignier
reds would maybe a 1990 chateau beaucastel or a 1990 pichon baron

QOTD 2 – gary needs a uni-brow like bert
June 25, 2008

ChrisV
Great episode!

QOTD1: Depends a lot on the person. I think most often a really big shiraz bomb.

QOTD2: If GV gets a goatee I may be unable to distinguish him from Joe Hachem: http://www.tourneyblog.com/images/TN3726_EPT-Monte-Carlo-Hachem-2.jpg I also think he might look a bit like he’s in the Mafia.
June 25, 2008

ex-lurkdawg
qotd1: I’ve been trying to convert a friend of mine for a while now, and the one category that he really likes is dessert wine. I think it was a Niagara Peninsula icewine that really turned him on to wine at all. I hate to say this, but I also think Andre brut sparkling wine (I wish they would take the C-word off of the label) could be another candidate. It’s just so darned fruity and cheap.

qotd2: I agree; a soul patch or goatee might work for him.
June 25, 2008

Harry
I work with a lot of new wine drinkers, whose intro is Moscato or other sweet wines, so I’m inclined to see either Lambrusco or perhaps Beaujolais as good intros due to their lower tannins an juicy fruits as good bridges to more serious (especially red wines). For Red wine drinkers who don’t drink white, I like to give them a good Viognier, with nice lime fruits and chalk on a hot day to show them the Thunder whites can bring.
And I’m all for the handlebars – ride them hard.
June 25, 2008

Lawrence Leichtman
I don’t think that there is one wine that could please everyone’s pals. Beer drinkers might like a really dense Malbec. White Zindfandels drinkers may like a really well made Rosato. A well made white Burgundy will convert many people to wine drinking. Can’t see GV with a full beard. He might look like a muskrat. A soul patch would go well.
June 25, 2008

M
QOTD1: White: Verdejo…Casamaro Blanco, Rueda
Red: Amisfield Pinot Noir (Central Otago) or Saintsbury Pinot Noir (Carneros). or maybe a yummy Rhone blend, Domaine Jaume, Vinsobres.

QOTD2: Meh
June 25, 2008

RichG
Great show…cool guest “You hoser!”

QOTD #1: A fruity Rose would be a good starting wine for the virgin vayniac.
QOTD #2: Rock the flavor saver……
June 25, 2008

Adam
QOTD1: Muscat D’asti from Italy. The slight frizzanti action will appleal to everyone.

QOTD2: Lamb chop sideburns.

Great show, love the score differential.
June 25, 2008

Mike Z in SD
QOTD #1: I think that a Williams-Selyem pinot noir would bring an outsider in to the wine world. There is a lot of flavor but no excessive weight or dryness. People always like that stuff.
QOTD #2: I agree that a soul patch (aka ‘flavor saver’) would be a good look for GV.
Good show.
June 25, 2008

Johnny C. a.k.a SmokinActuary
QOTD 1 – Trevor Jones Boots Grenache for a red and Shannon Ridge Viognier for a white

QOTD 2 – Keep the wife happy (You don’t want to chafe )
June 25, 2008

Johnny C. a.k.a SmokinActuary
QOTD 1 – Trevor Jones Boots Grenache for a red and Shannon Ridge Viognier for a white

QOTD 2 – Keep the wife happy (You don’t want to chaf )
June 25, 2008

SaraMHCRU
Like the new intro.
qotd1: for a white, i’m big on verdejo these days, which seems to usually have some tropical fruit going on, and I think that’d win some people over. for red, maybe cline cashmere, only because the last time I brought it somewhere the person I shared it with started buying it by the case.
qotd2: hmm, that might be up to the wife.
June 25, 2008

wannaBconnoisseur
Q-Perhaps a sparkling wine, one that’s not crazy dry and has plenty of fruit. Prosecco would work.

Q2-NO.