hopefully my wife is checking this board, she thinks I’m stalking you dude.

Hey I’m #2

Gary, thanks having an episode ready for today so we could all get our daily dose. Dougiefresh, lots of us are experiencing the same speculation.

Italian is gonna hate this episode!

SAWEEET…great job with the shirt Gary…Thank You Thank You Thank You
Got one for Denyce too!

VAYNERCLANK!…I think any wine that get’s a Vaynerclank should be 79 points or lower! 🙂

I once got on my Har Horse, but it was very Citle!

QOTD – 2005 Sebastiani Russian River Casa De Sonoma Un-Oaked – $13.99 after club discount! AWESOME

Great segment today in Atlanta Gary, your BLOWIN UP!

Italian is gonna hate this episode!

SAWEEET…great job with the shirt Gary…Thank You Thank You Thank You
Got one for Denyce too!

VAYNERCLANK!…I think any wine that get’s a Vaynerclank should be 79 points or lower! 🙂

I once got on my Har Horse, but it was very Citle!

QOTD – 2005 Sebastiani Russian River Casa De Sonoma Un-Oaked – $13.99 after club discount! AWESOME

Great segment today in Atlanta Gary, your BLOWIN UP!

slow day at the office. ; )

Just watched the Atlanta show, hilarious. The urinal comment was great. She did look freaked. Although I think that comment was in reference to a particular wine that smelled like a urinal at a carnival rather than tasted like one. haha!

Did a great job in Atlanta

Congrats

Nice show

QOD: Catena Alamos Chard

NIIIIIICE

Nice ep – loved the topic, although disapointed that there’s not a QPR homerun in the bunch…

QOTD: Merryvale Starmont Chardonnay

Wow, a former lurker…now top 10?
Great episode, I personally dislike Chard, my wife won’t drink it either.
QOTD A friend who likes chard gave me a bottle of Chateau St. Jean Sonoma that wasn’t bad so I’ll go with that, since I’ve hated everything else in that price range that I’ve tried.
Can’t wait to get the shirt
Also your mood greatly improved between episodes…must have been the Oak..I mean Grenache!

Wow, a former lurker…now top 10?
Great episode, I personally dislike Chard, my wife won’t drink it either.
QOTD A friend who likes chard gave me a bottle of Chateau St. Jean Sonoma that wasn’t bad so I’ll go with that, since I’ve hated everything else in that price range that I’ve tried.
Can’t wait to get the shirt
Also your mood greatly improved between episodes…must have been the Oak..I mean Grenache!

QOD: That’s an easy one, the Full Boat Chard. Great recommendation from one of the reps on the WL floor. never would have bought it from the lame label design. hey, you can’t judge a book… well you know.

Top end of the price range you mentioned, but Morgan makes great chards for $15 per. Both the regular and the metallico are excellent. The regular for oak fans and the metallico for the old world fans.

Top end of the price range you mentioned, but Morgan makes great chards for $15 per. Both the regular and the metallico are excellent. The regular for oak fans and the metallico for the old world fans.

Nice TV segment in ATL. I was hoping you were going to do a little tasting with her.

Before New Years, how about an episode on California (or maybe just US) Sparkling Wines?

Lastly…QOD…I like the Kim Crawford Chardonnay…and have also enjoyed MadFish…but haven’t had the most recent vintage.

Great episode Gary. I like the shirt.

A weekend kicking it with you?! Man…let me get the creative juices flowing.

QOTD: Travis Unfiltered Chardonnay

excellent show both here and ATL.

and GREAT idea about the t-shirt contest. That’s the way to get the internet 2.0 audience involved.

beware the “Oak Monster”.. another Vanyerquote.

Gary, think they loved you in Hot’lanta!

Good show.

Your right Brandon…..I said NIIIICE because there was a new episode, but I hate Chardonnay, so this wasn’t one of my favs.

I just watched the clip from the show in Atlanta. Good job Gary. I think being on camera for WLTV made you aware of where the camera was and you panned well from one to the other. They gave you a good amount of airtime, and you talked EXACTLY about the thing that has made me share your store and site with everyone I know–demystifying wine. Kudos!

BTW: I’m with Stallion about Chardonnay. Definitely not my favorite varietal, but I dislike it for the very reason Gary as pazzing on a few of these bottles…OVER OAKED. Yuk!

My favorite inexpensive Chardonnay is probably the Taft Street Sonoma County Chardonnay. It is only 25% oaked. Nice tropical fruit on the nose. It will not overpower your meal, so drink it and eat.

This is not to be confused with the Taft Street Russian River Chardonnay (also from Sonoma County) which is akin to drinking oak tincture. The wine maker told me that he thinks this wine can bring about world peace. I suspect it is much more likely to bring about global deforestation.

Cmon Guys…don’t fall into that “Wine Snob” rut. Overoaked CA Chardonnay is such a small part of the overall Chardonnay production. You have got to broaden those horizons!

QOTD: None. I prefer Sav Blancs

Bought a shirt–even though it has green in it. I hate green. Go Vikes!

Lars

Nice episode, Gary. Like to see you review the everyday plonk that we all drink too often.

As for your requests, I’m not sure when one’s lurker status is automatically converted to “Vaniac”, but I’ve been watching since episode #125 thanks to a link from Fermentation (fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation) on November 13th titled, “Embracing Your Inner Wine Geek”. I knew I had to click to see what was going on.

QOD Chardonnay: La Crema Sonoma Coast – I don’t drink much Chardonnay, but I remember this one being pretty decent.