What is with you people criticizing GV talking on his cell phone while driving? Who gives a crap!?!? If you can’t talk and drive at the same time, you shouldn’t have a license.

Another great episode Gary. I loved the Pat Benetar interlude…it was classic.

As far as wines I won’t buy…I just avoid the mass produced stuff…KJ, Woodbridge, Yellowtail, Santa Margherita, etc.

Gary, I can’t believe that people are bashing you for Pat Benetar, but letting the Lionel Richie thing go. Now that’s truely disturbing!!! Some advice, never ever admit that your into Lionel Richie! I like Neil Diamond but you’d never hear me admitting it. Oh shit did I just post that!?! (LOL).

Very funny episode Gary. One of the best.

Corte Riva is a bit too over-the-top for me. It is certainly well made but I prefer less saturation and more finesse and minerality in merlot.

I will never ever drink seyval blanc and marechal foch based wines again. Just terrible. I still have nightmares.

P. Breton

Gary, I’ve got to go along sith others on the Benatar thing. I liked her 20 years ago, but you might need to seek professional help. By the way, doesn’t New Jersey have laws regarding driving and talking on the cell phone? You might want to think about a headset for that phone. You don’t want to be thrown in jail there. The wine sucks in jail.

Take care.
Garybee

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Gary, don’t listen to what people are saying about every other headset out there!!!
I have been through EVERY one and this one is the best…Plantronics Voyager 510. It has a built in wind sock, and the ambient noise is totally wiped out so consideration for the folks on the other end is there. Also it has three different ear buds that are easily swapped for a perfect fit for any ear. I agree about not driving and talking at the same time without a headset so if you follow the advice of your followers then I highly recommend this route. Cheers.

MarcT – I am with you on the Plantronics. I can’t live without it.

Sort of Borg-like, though.

Gary V, I added the links.

Now I have to find time to catch up on the last two weeks of WLTV!

Cheers,

Dan (In Houston)

Lol. Loved the Sopranos intro GV. What a great episode!!!

Thanks for trying a trebbiano in this episode. I am a big fan of Italian white and red wines and Trebbiano is definitely overlooked in terms of whites.

Getting back to the episode, the Pat Benatar breakaway was hilarious. I love the fact that you have a sense of humor and can be goofy yet still deliver on wine recommendations. Great job. I will check out the Corte Riva. I dig huge Napa Merlots so I would probably like this one. My favorite Napa merlot to date was the 2002 Ehlers Estate Bottled Merlot which was awesome. Huge black fruit taste and an incredible smooth finish.

Disclaimer: I have caviar tastes but a mac & cheese budget. My Comment: The wine I cannot drink ever again is the two buck chuck shiraz/syrah. The current offering reeks of rotten eggs–which says to me: too much sulfite. Once I recognized it, I had to return the rest of the case. That said, I’m tired of all of the Charles Shaw line. It is a bargain at $2 (if you live on the west coast.. It’s over $3 on the east coast… but it is boring and not worth the $10+ dollars everyone who loves it claims it is.) There are so many other great $10 and under bargains that blow it away. Sorry to waste so much time on a $2-3 wine, but I had to get that off my chest. j

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Film at 11

Chin chin

Great Show!! The last comment says it for me. The two buck chuck. Bad, Bad wine. Keep the shows coming.

Great show! Again, like others – please never drive while talking on the phone. EVER. I agree that an interview with your dad would be relly interesting. I agree with comment #42 that bad white wine is always better than bad red, as I was in beer country in Scotland this summer and although my beer loving husband was in heaven, most places we went to were a wine drinker’s hell. Most of them were unidentified ‘house reds’ (the only choice), so I cannot bash them specifically. I suspect some of them were home made. Shudder…
Roxanne

Impressive division win by the Jets today. I didn’t think they had them in it.

We totally need to get a WLTV Fantasy Football league set up next year…

Roxanne, Homemade would have been too much work.

What the Scots were peddling was their eqivalent of Two Buck Chuck or worse.

Chin chin

I score the entertainment value of this episode 95 pts! After missing a few episodes, I was able to catch up on them tonight. Boy was I glad I got a chance to catch this one.

Thanks for testing the Los Vascos a few days ago. I dissapointed it did not show well. Try the ’02.

How’s that construction on Rt.78 treating you???

And I second one of the above sincerely – go hands free brother. I prefer the speaker phone option, just don’t like crap in my ear. That Lex has to have the option – look into it! I did for my wife & I and I am glad I spent the money.

GV all this Pat B. – are you leading up to the 100th episode – if Pat B. enters that episode, I am going to have you committed!

QOD: I don’t know if I have a definite, but lastr night I had the Bogle Petit Syrah and I know I will never try it again!

P.S. – enjoy your Jets victory today, as I will curse Seattle for beating my Giants.

Gary,

You seem like a good kid. You have good intentions, and I really like your work. But, if you’re going to grow your program and your sphere of influence, it’s time to consider incorporating the talents of an editor into your effort. You know I mean this in the best way possible.

(Realize this is coming from one of the few that genuinely likes Pat Bentar.)

: )

Just got back into town…Sunday Night.
I can’t say that I won’t ever drink it again, but I won’t ever buy it again….SILVER OAK
I have been so dissapointed after a lot of great early nineties cab. They suckered me in to higher prices and then made so many cases they couldn’t keep quality up. The grocery stores EVERY where started carrying it.

Gary…classic beginning to today’s episode.

BTW…NOMAAAAAAAAAAR DEEEEEEEEEP…Grand Slam, bottom of the ninth!

B

To Roxanne…

Scotland is beer country? Boy, you really missed the boat while you were there. Hope you didn’t miss the golf, too.

Yellow Tail shiraz left an aftertaste of perfume. I’ll never buy YT again… I’ve learned better. I buy something new from somwhere new every time.

About that opening…

Did you hear from Tony’s lawyers yet?

Actually, Tony doesn’t send lawyers!

Very supprised on drinking something from Hungary…

Very last bottle I opened – Very first bottle in my life that I have ever DUMPED DOWN THE DRAIN.

EGERVIN – EGRI BIKAVER (BULLS BLOOD) $5.49

I have had before many years ago and it was decent and worth the $5-6 bones. This bottle smelled like 8th grade science experiment, and tasted like ACID. Like taking Chlorine and HCL / mixing up with Welches and throwing it in a bottle. I took one small whiff, and small drink, then another drink to confirm, spit and dumped….

NEVER AGAIN!!!!

Gary:
Excellent marketing. For those of us lurkers tempted to “take a drive to Springfield” the intro is better than a dashboard GPS map.
Comment about your practice of using a single glass for tasting – OK for Bordeaux and merlot – but white wines and Pinot? I’m convinced glassware influences the tactile qualities of wine – Do you agree?

Gary,
Great great great episode. I guess emulating Tony Soprano made it OK to break two (not one, but two!)laws during the filming: cell phone of course, and making that illegal left turn into your parking lot! Well, that’s actually not as bad as getting stuck trying to leave your place when someone is trying to make the illegal left OUT of the lot. Ha! Love the store, love the show. I’ll never drink highly oaked chard again if I can help it. Maybe one day my palate will evolve enough to appreciate it.

Have to second the comments on the cell phone as it is one of my pet peeves and studies show it is worse than driving drunk that I’m sure you don’t recommend. Other than that, this episode was cleverly done. Can’t find the Corte Riva and would like to.

I was very early turned off to anything from Iron Horse or Far Niente but I have to say almost any Cal Chardonnay turns me off.

Gary,
Fantastic episode! I’m probably one of the few in America who doesn’t watch Sopranos, but I loved the opening clip just the same. The tribute to your father and family was touching. When my father came to America through Ellis Island in 1949, he was nine years old and his family had only a few dollars to their name. So I follow you completely when you say the things you accomplish pale in comparison. My hat is off to you Gary. As for Pat Benetar, your cutaway to the video vixen reminded me of the wine steward we learned from in Oregon who often used references to female characters or characteristics to describe Pinot Noir — all in good fun of course. As long as you’re running with the shadows of the night, make sure you give props to Blondie and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders as well! 🙂 QOTD: Had occasion to try Fat Bastard Shiraz one time. Undrinkable IMO.