QOTD: Less often, more expensive. This is assuming higher quality, although price may not dictate quality, I would pay for a bottle that had some age on it, which you will always pay for.

Don't know how I missed this one (being a browns fan and at the Learned owl), but nice show.

QTOD: High volume, low price

QOTD2: Is this really a debate? Ginger

hahahahahahaha "Paris Hilton's disgusting!!" Agreed, my man, agreed. Glad to see another Ohio wine bring it on the ice wine. It seems to me that for now their wines lie in whites/ice wines. Obviously there may be great reds out there but we'll see in the future. Great guest, even if she is a Browns fan ( boo! ) QOTD1: Id rather drink nicer wines less often. I dont think I could give up drinking the nice German reislings or top quality dessert wines. QOTD2: Mary Ann. She had heart. Gigner was all about herself.... boring.

Gary I'm into the stadium tour but I think it would have been OK if you skipped Cleveland. BTW, nice game Brownies. How many losses in a row to Steel Town? QOTD: 1-better wine less often 2- mary ann rocked it. Huge childhood crush.

Good show, and your prediction was spot on, Jets beat Browns!

QOTD - Fewer bottles, higher price/quality.

QOTD2 - ??

I could care less if it was expensive or cheap, I just want good wine.

Word.

More money better wine!
Surely that must be the sentiment of anyone who drinks wine for more than just the alcohol!

QOTD: I guess it's cheating to drink less expensive wine frequently while I'm waiting for the special opportunities to have the more expensive wine less frequently. I can do it all. As long as I can have wine.

AWESOME! BTW, I gave the Saint Joseph Pinot Noir an 87 a couple of years ago but it obviously was a different vintage. Marianne, I love you, Girl!

QOTD1: I'd rather drink more good wine and less not-so-good wine. According to my wife, this means I'd rather have fewer expensive (good) bottles than more cheap (not-so-good) bottles. Of course, that is a gross generalization.

QOTD2: Mary Ann!!!

Cheers guys

QOTD1 - if I had to choose A, but A+B=C is a good option
QOTD2 - ?

Andrew

We await you at Heinz Field! GO STEELERS!!

Perish that thought 25 years ago! Cleveland native and former avid Browns fan here. It's SO much more fun living in Steelers Country---we always have hope!

But Cleveland's still home in my heart, and I'm there all the time. LOVE Ferrante Winery (especially the restaurant). I am not a fan of dessert wines, but I guess I'll have to pick up a bottle next time I'm there to experience a THUNDER ice wine!

A good friend of ours is a Cleveland Wine School "grad." I'll have to send him this episode. Nice job, Marianne!

Hubby and I are stuck on uncovering GOOD, inexpensive wines on a rgular basis...but both of us would love to try more expensive wines of high repute more often. Perhaps we'll get to do that on the Thunder Cruise!

Good fun show - really liked.

QOTD1: Prefer more good reasonably priced wines more often with some more expensive, better/special wines, every now and then.

QOTD2: sorry .. non-USA - no relevance.

Very good show, sorry to be so late, have been away teaching.

QOTD#1 - At this point in my development I would drink more of the lesser costs to get a greater range of experiences.

QOTD #2 - Mary Ann

Awesome show. How many stadiums does that make it now?

QOTD #1: I would drink more expensive less often. Since I am a poor Graduate Student with a crap ton of debt, I define an expensive wine as one over $15. It has been my experience that the ore expensive wines bring thunder to my palate.

QOTD #2: Never really watched Gilligan's Island. Therefore, no preference.

QOTD: less wine more quality is what I am about

Fun show! Sorry you had to spend time in the Browns stadium GV.....Go Bengals!

Q1-Fewer bottles, better wine.
Q2-Ginger

QOTD: Both for sure which is probably cheating so I will go with cheaper wine at lower price. But that's why we have Gary, to help us find GrEAT Cheap WIne!!!!

Awesome show!

QOTD: Both
QOTD2: MaryAnne

interesting show....not sure of who was showing who up...or trying...

QOTD:1 I want to drink great wine as much as I can but that does not necessarily mean it neeeds to be more expensive! The goal would be for it not to be a lot of bones!

Easy, Mary Ann

QOTD #1 I love the less expensive wines from the younger/newer more passionate vintners. Anybody can buy an expensive wine, but hunting for
that new, less well known is always a coup
QOTD #2 Mary Ann is from the Midwest, but she's smart and knows how to get
the the Ginger level of glamour when she needs to and not get all
breathie. Can Ginger get to the Mary Ann level...don't think so.

I am informed that my initial comment is "awaiting moderation." Why? Just because I picked Ginger over May Ann? Haha. Oh well....

definitely better quality more often.

Mary Ann. Ginger was busted.

QOTD #1: I agree with everyone who said more wines with good QPR.
QTD #2: Mary Ann when I was a kid, but definitely Ginger now.

Cute show. thanks for the heads up on the desert wine, Chateau Le Paws was at the Rosenblum tasting room in Healdsburg and I didn't like it there. Ginger for me. Better quality and less wine as well.

Nancy - Gary already did Ohio whites and Ohio reds before he came to Cleveland. So while we tasted two Ohio wines - the other two were simply Dog Pound Wines in honor of Browns fans...they had nothing to do with Ohio wines.

QOTD. I think it has already been said price is not the same as quality. So I'll take some more high quality low price wines from the Old World, thank you!

More wine. There are some real good less expensive wines out there and besides,it is part of my meals.

I am a little confused on who the chick with Gary is. Did I miss her introduction on the show?

I have a hard time with the local wine shows. I'm from Texas and I cringe when Gary has reviewed Texas wine.

Love the stadium show venues... keep it up.

QOTD 1 - more wine, better quality, price will work its way out.
QOTD 2 - definitely Mary Ann

Nancy, I agree. Gary should have done one of the Ohio wine tastings in the stadium of the mistake by the lake. I gave Kindead Ridge its just due in a comment in after the Ohio wine tastings. You guys are the only Ohio wines that I have tasted that are solid.

Did I miss something here? Are all these wines made from Ohio grapes? If not? Why bother to review them? I thought the show was supposed to be about Ohio wines! Any wine maker can make wines from out of state fruit. It wasn't clear to me why we are reviewing wines made from out of state fruit,

Looking forward to the show from Heinz Field.

1) More wine - good, bad, who cares.

2) Marianne

I just wish I had more of Karl Spengler's wine from the Valley City Wine Club!

Wow. Thanks for the noise. How much fun was this? I really enjoyed reading the comments on this site and loved working with Gary. While not all comments were correct (i.e. Dominus had his opinion but not his facts) they all made me LOL. Anyone intersted in learning about wine education programs in the USA - lemme know. I have been in wine education in Cleveland, NYC and Chicago for years and would love to share any and all info I have about programs around the country. The more you know about wine the more you know you nothing about wine and thats the cool part...in some strange fashion.

Qotd: fewer bottles of better quality, ginger

GV: Exciting show with a different location.
QOTD: I like to think of the QPR... If I can find a good wine for a good price.. I roll with it! I trust my PAL to lead the way!

Hey Gary-

Awesome meeting you at the stadium. It was a great show- Go CLEVELAND! To bad the lighting wasn't better. You and Marianne were great together- soo much energy!!! You must come back and check out the 2009 Cleveland International Wine Show.

Cheers!

FYI- I'm still thinking the "scratch and sniff" sniffy sniff wristband is the way to go!

PS. QOTD#1- whatever I'm in the mood for--
QOTD #2- neither, give me skipper! LOL

Good show. Ohio finally had a winner. I thought your guest did a fine job.

QOTD1: I would always want better wines less often. But as many have said, price does not always equal quality.

QOTD2: Always Mary Ann.

QOTD: The best quality I can find, as often as I can afford it.

Fewer bottles, getting tired of cheap and less interesting wine. Also, Ginger!!! Ken

QOTD #1: I would drink less expensive wines, more often.

QOTD #2: Mary Ann, Totally!

Great Show.