Gary, As you know, I’m slowly but surely watching back-episodes for the SPREADSHEET. I have one SUGGESTION. In the end of those early episodes, you would always take a 20-30 seconds to provide a little re-cap saying, “OK, Let’s rank ’em up”. You would proceed to rank the wines lining them up from our right to left..going over your scores again. I really like that approach at the end.

By the way, this “ranking” portion is where price and QPR WILL matter(i.e. if you’ve scored 2 wines as 91’s, but one is $25 and the other is $40, you would likely rank the $15 bottle higher overall).

Sta-KNEE-see

To All WLTVer’s,

By the way, the reason I was in the store today was to buy wine. I brought a copy of the SPREADSHEET which made it soo easy to buy VERY GOOD wine. Gary did the choosing for me…I just read.

I think that most of you (especially novice’s like me) will get great value from this once it is up and running (hopefully early next week).

Fell off my chair when GV gave the silent treatment to the Sylvaner (definitely pronounced with emphasis on the “Vane”, nice work Julius)!

Here is a Sylvaner that makes the grade… this is how it is recorded in Cellartracker (very confused about the region/appelation in this part of Italy, but anyway)… 2004 Garlider Sylvaner Valle Isarco / Eisacktaler (Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Alto Adige, Valle Isarco / Eisacktaler)

And to follow up on Patty O’s comment, I have had the Red Flyer (not awful) and the back of the bottle tells a great story about how a winemaking village in France made flying saucers illegal!

QOD – Time to go political, midterms are but weeks away… how bout a wine called “My Pet Goat du Rhone”?

gary great show today
how about an episode on rhone wines?

I would name my winery… “St. Rollox Adieu”

Gary, great show as all ways, so so wines, none of them actually gave you some nice explosive reaction, but it is good to know the diferent regions of the world.
Hey there’s nothing wrong in playing some Pat Benatar, I’m an 80’s kid so I am hooked with that kinf of music. Lionel Richie have some great songs also at least it is better that the Macarena the worst song af all time. Weird music I have heard: Carly Simon, she has a great voice, but I am a 80’s rock guy, so it is a little strange but I like it a lot.But almost everybody goes to strange music at diferent points on there lives.
For the QOD my name would be “Casa San Rafael” Casa=House, San= Saint, Rafael= My late father’s name, mine as well and so is my son’s. It is a no brainer for me.

Hey GV

Im out this sunday morning picking grapes for a local vineyard here in the uk……i know i guess you didnt think we made wine here.The grapes are very ripe as we have had a good sunny dry summer for a change.The types of grapes are typical northern european with mainly white but some rondo….pinot noir…reds.
The wine made is called Pebblebed after the terrior of the land the vines are on.
Thought this might have been of interest on the forum.

Cheers
Nige….Apprentice Wine Geek

Just heard Pat Benatar on the radio. Almost forgot right now Im OD’ing on Judas Priest (like usual) and trying to like Iron Maidens new album.

Who the hell is this Pat Benatar everyone is talking about?

I just looked up Pat B on Wiki and saw all the songs she did.

I thought that all those songs were just made up by some guy so people had the option to yell during karaoke.

Cool Brandon, you need a partner;)

Only “old guys” can well remember Pat Benetar in the 80s when she was H-O-T, HOT-HOT-HOT and rockin’ people’s asses off! Then she went weird somewhere along the way… But I digress. I can leave the whites, sometimes a Gewurtz is called for, BUT, my wine would be called “Snarf’s Pleasure”. Snarf is my college (after still sticking in some circles) nickname. It would be a HUGE kick ass syrah or a mostly syrah blend that would leave people talking positively for a long time.

I was saddened to read about the passing of Henri Jayer. I think it would fitting to do a tribute episode.

Thanks for the shout-out, Gary! This week I attended a talk by Roy Danis from WJ Detusch & Sons, which produces Yellow Tail, and it was a total eye-opener to hear about how they accomplished a marketing coup. I personally wasn’t into the wines he brought for tasting, but I can see why they’re great at making wines accessible. He mentioned the copyright infringement suits they’re involved with over their labelling style, design, etc. So, if I wanted to make a wine that sold masses, I’d take a Spanish monastrell blend and get Marc Jacobs to design the label, and then I’d do a godello, and get Tom Ford to design the label. If I had my own vineyard, it would be called QWERTY, and I’d do biodynamic and organic wines from all over the world made with some lesser known varietals, and the labels would be all in old-fashioned type faces (no animals!).

HEy Brandon M….thanks for the good words…..I mean come on, think about it….”Two buck, Vaynerchuck” is the Perfect name for Gary’s wine. It’s hilarious.

Gary, you should market this wine, it could be a cabernet…then make a merlot called “The Vaynernod”

Stallion

So you’re not wild about Alsatian Pinot … how about Austrian reds, Blaufrankisch and such?

Another good one! Thanks a lot for addressing my comment regarding white Bordeaux.

QOTD:

I have several label designs in mind. Actually I developed a concept for several wines and I would like to share one of them with you. One day â?¦

The name of the wine is â??Brooklyn Bridgeâ? that would be depicted on the front label.
The back label would have a nice story, some kind of romantic crap as well as explanation of the varietals composition.

The wine itself would be a nice red blend with retail price around $12-$15 and it would go great with all kind of food from pizzas and pastas to stakes. This wine would be easily recognizable on the wine list or in the store-the peopleâ??s wine.

Eugene © 2006

BTW, if you really do want to make your own wine, check this out: http://www.crushpadwine.com/

Gary,
I horked my drink out my nose when you did the silent passsss on the Barmes-buecher — hilarious! Absolutely LOVED the tribute to TING. In an earlier EP when you asked viewers about their favorite non-alcoholic drink I noted along with Susan that Ting is one of the best. During the years I worked on St. Kitts, we would get bottles direct from the plant there, and I swear it tasted even better than what you get in the stores here in U.S. Don’t forget to try it with a splash of bitters over ice, if you haven’t already. QOTD – Without over-thinking it, I’d probably call the wine something that tries to give back the passion that keeps enthusiasts coming back for more: “Rapture”

Vinacull — Any drink with sugar usually tastes better overseas than in the US. In the US we use high fructose corn syrup rather than sucrose in almost all soft drinks. That’s because the US sugar lobby works with Congress to get our sugar prices to about 2x to 3x the average world price. It’s a total scam…

I forgot to mention that I have Pat Benetar’s greatest hits. She is/was great. I think you definitely appreciate her more if you’re mid-30s and over.

TimF…Good Point on the sugar thing…What a rip. Now go and download a few Pat B songs and wallow in the goodness. I was young but remember the HOT stage.
BrandonM, what is up with chalk lines? Also…it sounds like you have a similar company to me…I have two. I’m a Network Administrator by day (like you maybe) and a Personal Chef by night and weekend (when my clients don’t need me for computer work that is). So what do you do that keeps you in front of a computer all day watching old WLTV episodes and posting so damn much? I’m into watching everything but I don’t post like you!!! Keep it up.
Tony, Thanks for the advice on my trip to San Fran. WL has hooked me up too. I’m looking forward to the awesome weather and the Red Bull Air Race as well.

My winery would be named “Runs Redd”.

I’m a fish biologist, so since trout and salmon have ‘runs’ and spawn in ‘redds’, I’d name each wine for a fish:
Bull Trout redd would be a cab,
Coho redd would be a syrah,
Steelhead Trout redd would be a malbec,
Cutthroat Trout redd would be a merlot,
Sockeye redd would be a Tempranillo,
Brook Trout redd would be a Pinot,
Chum redd would be a cab franc,
Rainbow Trout redd would be a Meritage.

GaryV — Isn’t Karen McNeil visiting the Wine Library soon? She always does this thing where says what movie star a wine is like. You should ask her the other way around – what wine is like Pat Benatar? I predict she says Cab Sauv: an iron fist inside a velvet glove…

Oh, I forgot the 80’s music support group:

Hi, my name is Sean, and every group that’s been mentioned here is on my iPod.

Julia,

Thanks for the link!