Thanks to the WLTV crew for making a very funny episode. I needed a good laugh today. Loved seeing TampaSteve family as well as BrandonM and Tony with significant others.

Gary, one thing you should be truly thankful for, as well as proud of, is that you started this thing — an entire community has come from your idea to start a wine video blog. You have touched many lives in a very positive way — that is a great gift that you gave us. I hope you see it as a gift to you too.

Worst Wine?

Thunderbird! Chugged it. Wow… bad.

Happy Birthday buddy. I am writing from my new mac. The worst wine I ever tasted was some beringer crap my wife made me try. Great episode guy. It was right up my wife’s ally. Where did you go for your birthday dinner tonight? Anywhere worth tryig?

Worse wine: tasted in the late 1970’s (and the taste lingers on) – Andre Rose from California. I bought it as a joke, but the joke was on me. We shared the bottle with the kitchen drain.

tampasteve & fam-just hilarious! priceless…tony & brandonm-great to see you guys too! thank you all so much for those great intros!!! hey rick ‘the model’ m-congrats on the new mac it’s about time you’re going to love it. your wife made me try that beringer (ah hem crap) a few too many times for my liking too! thank g-d we’ve moved on from that

LizV – Happy anniversary!
GV – Happy BDay!
Erik – Congrats!

I think a saw a new VaynerMove in the tasting… that would be a VaynerChu(c)kle, the little laugh in the middle of tasting the first white zin!

GO BEARS

You know, once in a while you have a well meaning guest stop by, who knows that you enjoy wine. I was gifted a bottle of Beringer W.Z. by such a guest rescently. Have yet to taste, will post notes later.

Gary, Have a good one. My Birthday is on Saturday, but I’m sure I won’t get the same line up of wines that you did.

Worst wine 2 buck chuch syrah……….

Once again i must point out man law. Jerome Bettis and Burt Reynolds both state, “a man should never drink white zin” and it was passed unanimously. Happy Birthday you motoring boat son of a bitch. Just watched wedding crashers….sorry.

A bottle of White Zin.. left out in my friends closet standing up for countless years, opened to a broken cork..

What do you expect we drank it anyways. We were in high school! We were forever scarred… UNTIL!.. WLTV!

seth

QOD: A chilean red wine that tasted like if you were licking an oak barrel and tannins/alcohol that tasted like turpentine in my university graduation party.

oh and I was going to taste another suspect red wine but when I opened the cork it split into a million pieces and when I poured it on my glass I wondered why it was brown, needless to say I dumped the bottle to the sink

Happy Birthday Gary!

QOBD: The most offensive bottle of wine I’ve ever drunk was a Yellow Tail Cabernet Sauvignon. I should have known I was in for trouble when I saw the light red color. It tasted as if they took a really bad Pinot and added artificial smoke flavoring to give it a bit more “depth”. My girlfriend had bought it because she wanted something a little less sweet than the Shiraz, but after one sip she refused to drink any more. I drank it. After all, it was wine, and starving college kids can’t afford to throw money away. Maybe I should’ve poured it into a beer bong. (Or, a bota bag)

Gary, you didnt decant the white zins…shame on you 🙂
There should be a jug wine face off as well…no?

QOD- never had a white zinfandel, worst wine in recent memory was a corked montepulciano d’abruzzo which had started to re-ferment and was carbonated. At first I tried to enjoy it thinking that this varietal was supposed to be this way, but it hurt my tongue so I stopped. I bought it in tuscany thinking it had something to do with montepulciano so it was a learning experience: buy tuscan wine in tuscany.

Gary, Happy birthday!

Seeing how much wine you taste a day (some of which you don’t spit out)…have you ever walked around the office and thought to yourself…”wow, i’m not feeling too sober”?

Nice to know that we share a birth date, Gary. Happy Birthday to you. I hope you had something better than the white zins with your birthday dinner. Worst wine I even had was from the Brotherhood Winery in upstae NY. Can’t even remember which varietal it was. We went their for a wine tasting and this one made me sick to my stomach.

All the best,
Tom L

Happy Birthday, Gary!

I’m sorry abouth the misspelling, Erik “with a K”.

QOD:Oh, man, there have been sooo many. Matues and Almaden, (we drank those to use the bottles for candle holders), Blue Nun Liebfraumilch, Riunite Lambrusco, Spanada. One good thing came from my consumption of these wines and that was the theory that surely these can’t be “as good as it gets”.

Enter the beer drinking years, because it was cheap….four kids (they weren’t cheap 😉 )….and years later, VOILA!!! Gary V and Winelibrary TV!! Thank you, Gary!! This has been a gift to me. I have gained a true appreciation for wines, thanks to you. And to think it all began when I Googled “white zinfandel”! 🙂

Happy B-Day! Great Show.

QOD: Spanada, August 27, 1973–drove the porcelein bus that night.

Who would have thunk it! Franzia?

Happy Birthday!

Worst wine… I had to go to a repast luncheon recenty at a NJ winery. Their Claret was the worst wine I have ever tasted…

Happy Birthday Sensei!!!!

Worst Wine and yes a White Zin at Holiday party at In-laws…Woodrbridge White Zin!!!

Hope you had a great time on your big day!

Grasshopper

Great straight faced acting. Happy B’Day

Happy birthday, Gary !!!!
Worst garbage I ever drank was bottled in recycled Orion beer bottles on Okinawa circa 1968.So bad there was little to differentiate the taste going down or coming back up.

Had a good(?) white Zin from Beringer a few years ago – bone dry and, oddly, drinkable. Had some intials on the label
Worst ‘wine’ – could be most anthing by Boone’s Farm or good old Mad Dog 20/20. Many a good buzz, many a painful morning after.

Gary- Happy Birthday a day late! In the Chicago edition of the NY Times, your full page ad is on page 9 of the “Dining In” section opposite the page 8 Eric Asimov “What goes with Turkey Again?” article. Great ad Gary, way to get it out.

QOD- I see I’m not the only person who drank bad wine in the ’70s. Bali Hai and Mad Dog 20/20 are a tie for me, although I recall that the MD at least had high alcohol. Any Boone’s Farm gets honorable mention.

Dan C.

Holy crap! Hands down one of the most enjoyable episodes on a purely comedic scale. It’s good to see the King of Tasting trying to hold down that Zin for more than a second or two. Can’t remember when I last had a White Zin, but recently my fiancee and I broke into a bottle of Rosemount Cab Sauv that had been lingering in my wine shelf after having been brought over for a party by a “friend.” After about half a glass each, we poured the rest of it down the drain. Needless to say, that “friend” is now on our s@#! list. Later,

NateDogg

Hey Gary….Happy Birthday again lol…..I have a question for you:

Does Wine Library offer gift cards? Because I can’t think of anything better to ask Santa for then a WL gift card.

Oh and I can’t remember the worst wine I’ve ever had….but Twenty Bench Cabernet is up there