WOW!!!!! Please post a list. This is one wine party I have GOT to host. Hey… I put you over 200 today.

I am so glad I found your blog in the “LA Ttimes”! I am sure we’ll learn a lot from you…

I saw the ad in the LA Times… finally they are doing something right! I may just have to move back to Jersey to be closer to you and the shop!!! Or at least stop in to see you whenever I visit! I love the honesty and humor. After all, if wine is not fun and straightforward, what’s the point! Now all we need to do is win you over to the dark/other side of the Meadowlands! Go Giants!

Wow hahaha that was something else

love ya i know more now about taste of wine but the next time u eat hot peppers have some bread or milk handy they cut the oils ur a funny man

Gary – incredible show. Keep up the good work. I’ve just started getting into wine and have thorougly enjoyed the few episodes I have watched over the last couple of days. Thanks for your effort.

-Aamer

u rule

How often do you have to do this, and do you
have to taste everything the same day??

52 different flavors… $183.00
1 bottle of Cristal… $179.99
Gary, with a clove-numb tongue, white pepper in his eye, paprika on his lower lip and dirt-spit caked on his chin… Freaking Priceless!

Thank you so much for that one.
I will try this at home… please send me your other sock!

Absolute brilliance! The best episode yet. But I missed the barnyard and pineapple-dipped-in-gasoline tasting. And there were several deer along the road here in PA you could have used with your cherries.
The white pepper was bold, however, you were a complete wuss with the jalapeno. You definately need to train your palette more in that area.

the cristal is definitely the coup de gras

OMG!!!!

Dude, you’re freaking BRILLIANT!!!

I’m a newbie and I’m LOVING your videos!!!

Seriously… I about pissed myself watching you eat the Jalepano!!!!

I’m definitely going to have to stop by your shop in May (be out there shooting a wedding!)

Quality!!!

This was like…Watching someone do an Ironman and then climb K2!

Great info,Heeelarious, beautiful.

Thanks for that.

Go Bears!!

CLASSIC!!!!! That was the most amazing, hilarious episode ever!!!!!
I was seriously needing ozygen at the end to breathe because I was laughing so hard.

You are the man. I will even root for for the Colts now .. instead of Da Bears in honor of youe effort on this episode!!!!!

That was awesome! Hilarious! How’d you pronounce holly-peno pepper? You’re definitely not from Cali, Gary. But you’re welcome here, anytime. Here’s another taste for your profile that I don’t think I saw mentioned (I already saw tobacco, leather, baby diaper…). How about sucking on a quarter for a few seconds? Yep, metallic. It’s a nasty taste, and I hate when it comes through. Also, laundry detergent – I could have swore I was picking up a little Tide on the finish of a 2005 Atwater Vidal Blanc I opened yesterday during Superbowl. http://www.tagworld.com/brian1970/PostDetail.aspx?id=fc11bc1c-fe93-49f1-bc20-e883234d0dbd

Classic episode. Really great stuff.

Great,

Wines from the USA that wern’t from California.

Great episode. 99 Cristal only gets a 87? Come on serious? Anyways, keep up the good stuff. A little comedy here and there isn’t bad, wine isn’t meant to be serious, it’s meant to be fun. Enjoyed the episode all the way out here in Carlsbad, California.

First off, Gary, you’re a crazy bastard! That’s why I like you! You remind me of me(lol!). Secondly, I can’t believe I missed this episode until now. You had me rolling like a Sonafa-B. You nut!(lol!) p.s. Did you end up getting sick?

TAR! Where do I find a good source of TAR for a Palate training? And BTW it is PALATE not palette.
And what about burnt rubber?

That was unbelievably funny. What an education! I’ve got to have my wife watch some of these, maybe I’ll start with this one… I think my 9 year old would appreciate it. Glove Leather, cat pee, raisins, prunes and hazelnuts, yeast, charcoal, lichie nuts,sweet truffles, graphite, incense and violets. I’m going tomorrow to get some of this stuff.

burnt/carmalized sugar…like if you cook sugar with a torch…and cream or half and half… i notice this in some upper tier oregon pinot noir as well as syrah and cabernet from california….

THANK YOU, GARY, for letting me know I’m NOT crazy! I’ve been telling people for the last few years that the reason I can’t stand pinot noir is that it smells like people’s nasty, stinky feet that have been in their running shoes too long.

When you put that sock in your mouth, I yelled, “YES!”

I feel better now–I correctly identified a flavor I don’t like!
But I don’t drink wine to try to ID things…I drink it to enjoy flavors I LIKE…and try to ID those. This is why I also hate most merlots, because they taste like dirt to me (with the notable exception of Recanati Merlot from Galilee, Israel.)

Holy Cow! I am so inspired to do this with my friends now before we head out to California for out 10 day tasting trip! The ending was priceless…..I almost cried. lol

Long time Lurker…how I missed this I don’t know????

EPIC!!! inspired me to “leave a reply”