Frickin awesome episode! LOVE the sweaty sock. Just great man.

You think Chris Stanisci can list everything you ate? I’d do it in a heartbeat…though that pepper would crush me. Anything to get better though.

AMAZING!!! Talk about taking one for the team!

I can’t thank you enough for doing this episode Gary. Many of us often ask about different flavor profiles, and you, in one episode, brought it all together. I had never thought about doing a flavor tasting like one would do a wine tasting. This is a GREAT concept for a wine tasting group to do. So…to answer you QOTD…I would definitely do this. You’ve inspired me, and undoubtedly many others.

KUDOS!!!

You’ve lost it Gary! Great episode, I will definitely carry out a pallete training sometime soon. There is your QOTD. I’ll even go so far as to have some grub then taste a wine that has those characteristics. That’s a good idea huh?

Gary, Just too good and this is really changing the wine world (can you see any publication doing this?) – I do hope the pepto worked!!
I really feel sorry for the wine sellers who called on you after the episode! Not sure what you’ll taste for the next few days!

Gary, I would definitely do a food tasting…I would actually eat dirt before the jalapeno pepper though….and we probably all tasted dirt and rocks when we were kids…

How about randomly picking some viewers to come to the store to be on a WLTV viewer panel!

Gary, that was hilarious. Reminded me of the guy that exploded in the Meaning of Life. Just missing the earthworms you have mentioned in the past. Can’t wait to see you do this same episode with Robert Parker. Sorry Lahrs, you missed the prediction. The Jets are still in the playoff picture with that win. Got my Vayniac teeshirt today and getting ready to make my video.

WOW…I am a first time watcher and that was “off-the-hook”… Guess I need to go back through the Archives and check out passed episodes. I am a Chef for a living and would like to see more wine and food pairings, it seems like now a days it’s “go with what you like” but as a Chef, there is a certain art to pairing Food and Wine. Don’t you think so Gary?

This is a test. This is just a test.

I think you should do an episode about your least faviorite wines…I loved this episode, although I would never taste a jalepano and then drink cristal…Freaking great…

Best ever!

QOTD: I will definitely try do this with my wino friends, if any have the kahunas.
I know you don’t ship to Michigan, so how can I get a case of used VAY-NER-CHUCK socks?

Definitely must hear from Lars again, soon. How about a T-wolves – Nets thing, or Wild vs. Devils??

(Ed from London, I think the answer to question #1 and #2 is the same)

over the top. the sports cliches gush. He gave it all.

OMG. That was 1 of the best WLTV episodes ever. Gary, your dedication to the craft is unreal. I can’t imagine anyone else doing this and that is just fine with me.

What a great idea to help all of us develop our palates. I will definitely try some of the things you tried, but may stop short of the socks, dirt and jalapeno. I don’t know how you made it through that!!!!

Thanks again for entertaining us and providing useful information at the same. Talk to you soon.
–Rich S

P.S. I picked up my 2 holiday gourmet baskets last week and 1 of the people I gave it to absolutely loved it!!!! The other one is for me………………… :o)

I’m on crowded train home, watching GV taste things, then all of sudden the show just gets ridiculous, I can hear Eric laughing and trying to control himself, GV trying to keep a straight face and continue his seriousness, and I just lose it! A lot of weird looks came my way, and all of a sudden the train seemed a little less crowded around me :-).

When I got home my wife was cooking and using thyme. I grabbed it and stuck my nose in it, then put a little on my tongue.

She was shocked and amazed

I am utterly humbled by this effort GV

The episode is PURE GENIUS. Even tops ep #69

QOD – We are DEFINITELY doing something like this!

Gary-

This episode got me to come out from the shadows. I cannot lurk when you sacrifice yourself to the tasting gods.
This is my all-time favorite episode!!!

However, how could you forget to taste GRAPES, RAISINS, HONEY, Hi-C and STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE???

Gary seems to need only 10 more posts to get to 200!!!

There have got to be 10 more people who haven’t posted yet.

Very, very funny! Sitting in the front of a corporate classroom where I am teaching a bunch of students…students quietly doing a lab…I’m watching this episode on low volume…I start laughing…video progresses ever more towards the dirt…I laugh more and more and more…students looking up from their lab work…what’s going on?

Gary,
I cant lurk anymore. It took me about 20 minutes to stop laughing. This is your greatest videoblog to date. Thanks

You forgot Asian Spice! What is Asian Spice? Otherwise, you are my hero. It was like Jeopardy where they give you the answer and you have to come up with the question. Frankly, I’d rather do it the other way around. I’m still laughing.

Dirt! Yeah! Rock! Yeah! This was an un-freaking-believeable episode! And, on a calmer note, I am inspired to try something like this at home – though about 100 times slower. 🙂

Gary it was good to see you in the store this afternoon, sorry I didn’t get to speak with you more, you were alittle busy and I couldn’t hang around. This was the best episode ever. Great info and really shows your personality. Funny as all hell! Hope you have a great holiday!

QOD hell yeah, I can’t wait to drink some tabasco, lick some tar and top it off with Asian spice, whatever that is. I’ll pass on the cat piss.

Very interesting and funny at the same time. Saw your ad in the LA TIMES and checked out your site. Very cool and informative – not in a stuffy way. Keep up the good work.

Very interesting. I would have been really impressed had you bit into a habanero pepper.

Hi Gary…as per your suggestion…just showed your dirt eating epic to my class…they were very humorously shocked and awed…great break for a corporate training class the week before XMas break…thanks for the eXtreme dedication to craft.

Eeww! That was hard to watch! Dirty socks, white pepper, jalapeno. How sick were you after that episode? The camera guy was good-loved his snickering in the background. Thanks for sharing, but EEWWW! (however educational it may have been).

A late congratulations for Lars and Da Man GV for bustin this out. Had to pause and get 2 pepcids in the middle before I could continue. Stunning work gents, really must hand it to you.