Fun guest and a good show. I want to keep pounding home how much I love guests and live shows, reguardless of the wines bringing the thunder or not. I adore it all. QOTD: I either grab some bread or water.

Gotta be careful of the wine woots, the cheap stuff they sell from mywinesdirect is definantly garbage. Much better to buy Gary's picks from WL.

That guy is pretty cool. Woot will be a website that will go into my daily website rotation. QOTD: I like the palate clense. Definitely when trying a bunch of similiar wines to diferentiate them. I go old school with the oyster cracker.

Is it just me or is the mic' on your camera getting less sensitive? - the sound quality is awful.

Good show though, even if I can't Woot.

QOTD - Typically none of he above, very occasionally a swirl & spit of water.

QOTD: I often don't cleanse my palate at tastings because there really isn't anything there to use. Water helps some for me. I think a mild bread or a unsalted soda cracker works best.

QOTD: I don't typically cleanse but if anything I might have a water cracker or some water.

I don't typically clense my pal, but if I do it is usually jsut water or crackers if they are out.

QOTD: Water is best but I often just wait between samples. Sometimes a SMALL amount of a neutral cracker or piece of bread - not too much butter or salt.
I think a bigger deal is what you rinse your glass with. I like that Gary rinses with the next wine. Too many wineries rinse with water and most don't give as generous a sample as Gary uses in his tastings. Therefore the wine gets significantly watered down (could be 10% or more!). When you do the "rinsy-rinse" please use wine and not water!

thefaamakesmedrink - I'm sorry you had a bad experience with woot. But thanks for giving me your password. Should come in handy someday.

I always like the shows with guests because the interaction is fun!
QOTD - I usually reach for something very neutral tasting, a saltine, a piece of bread (baguette), a cracker of some other sort.
I typically only do this between whites and reds, not as often for various styles of reds.

Great Show

QOTD: Beer or shots of Jack.

qotd: kissing your sweetie, duh!

wine.woot rocks, never a problem with any of my orders

saliva!!

great show! How can we get the Monkey?? :) Link it up please!

Gary,

Woot blows!

I ordered a three-pack of Ty Caton wines from Woot in January 2007. I paid $54.95 plus the $5 shipping. I mentioned when I placed the order that the temperatures in the midwest would be fifteen degrees or so below normal for the forseeable future and asked that the wine be shipped when it was safe to do so.

The Caton arrived later that week and, sure enough, all three bottles had popped their corks due to freezing. I e-mailed the folks at Woot and explained the problem. They e-mailed back that I had to send my complaint to a different e-mail address. (I guess the thought of just forwarding my original e-mail to the proper person was more thought than they were capable of.) I did as I was asked. This person tried passing the buck back to employee #1. And it went back and forth and on and on, nearly rivaling the McEnroe-Borg Wimbledon final of many years ago.

I eventually had to take pictures of the three exploded bottles (which I still have to remind me of being caught in the endless 'Woot Maze of Incompetence') and copies of all of my excruciating correspondence with these inbreds to my credit card company to get my sixty bucks back.

So pass along these three tidbits to Dave S. for me:

1. I wouldn't order wine from Woot if they were the last on-line wine retailer on Earth.

2. I use 'wootblows' for a few of my on-line wineshop passwords.

3. If I see someone from Woot, I will fight them.

Regards,

A Satisfied Customer

I've been abig fan of Woot for a while now, "Woot-Off's are fun! Keep an eye on wine.woot, sometimes they have Sake from an American producer and sometimes other gourmet products...and the writing is really funny.

QOTD: regular water and a piece of french bread

I love WOOT! what a great show, how about some wristbands in the next BOC ;)

Crackers or bread or cheese or water it depends on what my mouth needs which is a direct result of the kind of wines I am tasting. Usually like others I can taste 4 wines or so before needing something, but I do like to eat while I enjoy and think about wine.

Seems like a good dude. I will check out the woot thing. - never heard of them before.

This was a pretty good show, i really like zin's so i would be interested to see where this woot Cellars "Wannabe" goes..

QOTD: i have been trying out gary v's method lately and choosing E) NONE. however, in earlier years (before i considered myself a vayniac) i would wipe my palate clean often with a triscuit and a small slice of brie. By the way, i have no idea if this was at all a good idea, i just really liked triscuits and brie cheese at the time and had heard that cheese was good between wines..

I really like not quite cold, but chill sparkling water. Like the crystal geyser we had out at Crushpad for Episode 500.

Great show!

I like when I go to tastings and people wolf down the cheese cubes all at once. I feel like saying, HEY, those are for CLEANSING YOUR PALATE! But I just usually drink water, honestly. Esp. since you're supposed to drink 2 glasses of water for every glass of wine.

QOTD - I like to cleanse my palate with wine.

good stuff! episode was a little quiet though - anyone else experience this?

i heart woot!

QOTD:

Don't usually cleanse my pal. If I do it's crackers or biscuits or just water.

PS... I was cracking up when I heard Erik trying not to laugh in the background. HA!

Hi Gary!

I just LMAO when I saw that the monkey was in fact a kind of a catapult... Now I want one!

Just great show!

Keep up the good work!

QOTD. Anything I can get my hands on. Not particular favorite palate cleanser.

QOTD: unsalted crackers, something really bland

Q-Water if anything at all.

QOTD - A always use a little of the next wine I'm about to try with water added! Cleans your palate better than water alone and gets your mouth slightly accustomed to the next wine.

Loved that Woot monkey!

QOTD: Usually the next wine. But if I'm really trying to break things down I'll use bread or crackers.

QOTD: Cleanze me palate wit' da next Vino !!
Bull La Buuull Laaaa.....Bull La Buuull Laaaa........... :)

Awww, as one of the wine.wooters that trashed Gary during the book offering, now I feel bad.

This was a fun episode, since I was familiar with 2 of the wines, and I'm going to be all over that woot cellars offering.


QOTD: water.

like the insight on stemless glasses. i have a set for while im at school, and they work fine!!!

QOTD. Interesting question. Lately I haven't been cleansing my palate at tastings. (So many wines, so little time.) I just try to pause for a moment. When I do cleanse, maybe a little bread.

nice show.

qotd: I don't usually use anything unless I am tasting quite a few (maybe 15+) wines or have just had a wine with some residual sugar. Like many others, I do like bread, unflavored crackers, and/or sparkling water.

Awesome show...love finding new websites and he was wonderful!!

QOTD: I usually drink water in between if there are non-flavored crackers around those are good too.

Nice banter!

correction to previous remark! they do ship to GA.