Happy New Year, Gary!

Love screw caps, but is there any knowledge that they stand up to long term cellaring? From what I’ve read, cork allows air in and out of the bottle at incredibly small amounts over years which is what allows the wine to age. In theory, if a screw cap is a perfect closure, wouldn’t 2005 Bordeaux in 2020 taste just like it did in 2005? That might not be a bad thing either?

Hey man…IT’S FRIDAY–AND YOU HAVE JUST ONE WINE—WHY, OH WHY ARE YOU SPITTING???? OK, I got that off my chest. I started a Bears Beard, but cut that off after week one.

I love these laid back episodes (except the spitting…that makes it less laid back) AND I absolutely love the cheese pairing. I know nothing of cheese, except that I love it.

As for the QOD: My wife and I always hang out with her 2 sisters and their husbands, and all 6 of us watch some sort of trilogy marathon and base the food/wine (if possible) around it. Last year was the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. We had ring-shaped food. This year is The Godfather Trilogy and we’re having Italian food and I’ll bring the Italian wine. I have a Gaja I’ve been saving, but I’ll save that for last (if at all) cause everyone else isn’t as “all-about-wine” as I am.

Have a safe and happy new year’s Gary. But you need to tell us how you spent your New Year’s Eve.
See you later man,
T

GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!packsuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When did you say you will start growing that beard??

I agree with your opinion on the screwcaps. I can only hope my old Dominus is not corked.

QOD: The little woman and I are going to a new restaurant (an annual NY event) called Comus Inn in the foothills of Sugarloaf Mtn in western Maryland. I plan on having the wine tasting menu so I don’t know the selection of wines.

Of course, I will begin and end the night with a glass of champagne. Yum.

Happy New Year to All!

Cheers!
Dom

Happy New Year Gary

I bought a ton of Mumm Napa Blanc de Noir, why no Dom? Although I can afford it my taster will be shot by midnight so why waste it. The Mumm was like 12 bucks and I’m bringing a half case to the party I am attending. (plus a couple nice bottles for dinner but who cares about that wine snobbery). Remember wine is a beverage not a lifestyle. Keep up the good work

Nice ep. Gary. Gotta try some of that Beringer; always looked at it with a jaundiced eye. You know what I’m doing on New Years. Nice to see AJ.

Have a Happy New Year EVERYONE!

Gary,
Liking the playoff beard! I’m going to root for your Jets this weekend just to see the playoff beard make it another week (since the Pats are already in the playoffs)!

QOD: Heading down to NJ for the weekend to hang out with some friends! Hoping to fit in a stop at Wine Library to check it out!!

Happy New Year!

Going out with a couple to The Ahamnson Theater in LA to see the new Musical, “Edward Scissorhands” and then back in time for midnight at my place to celebrate with 1995 Pommery and 1995 Laurent-Perrier.

Happy New Year Gary – thanks for a great 2006!
Joe

By the way, the episode touched on two inter-related things, Screwcapping and aging. Gary, you made a sweeping blanket statement about Screw-capping for all. Gary, are you so convinced that wine will postively evolve with screwcap? I know that my Leoville Las Cases and Latours age gracefully and positively for 25 – 50 years in cork. Will they age similarly in screwcap? The cork allows for some oxygen breathing……..will our 2005 Leoville ever be ready to drink in Screwcap?

For the majority of American wine drinkers, who consume their wine within 5 years of purchase (I am sure most consume it within a year) screwing is fine. But for we few who purchase the top pedigrees, put them down to grow into magnificence, I cannot so willingly throw out the cork. Have you tasted a 15 to 20 year bordeaux in screwcap?
Joe

Bringing Pierre Morlet Grand Reserve (thank you, Jim Gorman) and 2001 Chateau Filhot Sauterne to party around the corner in Jersey City. Guests all live in walking distance so no one has to worry about driving. How thoughtful.

It’s been great getting to know you this year, Gary —
appreciating your down-to-earth Everyman appeal;
shaking hands across the Hunterdon/Warren County line;
winning an Official Vayniac T-Shirt.

May your TV empire experience exponential growth in 2007.

QOD: New Year’s Eve? Probably staying at home for a reflective, romantic evening of wine and cheese – sipping Lancer’s Sparkling Rose, of course – and on this special night, popping Laughing Cow Low-Fat Mini-Babybels.

Happy New Year, Gary!

Thanks for WLTV and a Happy and Safe NY to all the Vaynernation! QOD – spouse is out of town, so I’ll be going out for dinner and allowing the Drappier blanc de blanc to chill in anticipation of midnight EST.

Gary,

Happy New Year. I hope your beard gets longer.

QOTD: I havn’t quite decided what wines I’ll drink on New Years Eve, but it will be a champagne (maybe one of your family winery recommendations), a Pinot Noir (Sanford?? – I got the Sideways DVD for Christmas), and for a white — I’ve been rediscovering
Gruner Veltliners this Fall, so maybe one of those.

Thanks for a great year of wine tasting videos. I’ve got my Vaniak Tee-Shirt so I’m all set to watch your 2007 efforts.

Changing the wine world . . .

Good review on the 02′ Beringer Napa, but for my money the 01′ Beringer Knights Valley Cab was far superior. But then again it was drank with a dynamite rib-eye, and who can really concentrate when faced with a good steak. All the saem the Knights Valley is still lurking around some places and is well worth the green.

And bravo on the screwcaps (or should we get into that whole Stelvin enclosure system thing). Australia’s putting us all to same as Kay Brothers, Marquis Phillips-( and just about everything Chris Ringland is involved with),and so many other quality producers take a stand for non-tainted bottles.

QOTD: Friends party. Vall Llach Embruix maybe, Green & Red Chiles Mil Zin probably, and to toast Cava, since i have to share. Happy New Year Everybody.

Love it Gary….I’d love to take you on in some old school Nintendo…a little Double Dragon.
I’ll be at home with my fam drinking some Deutz NV

DAve

Gary,

I just bought The 2002 Beringer Private Reserve Cab.
Gary, you shoud do an episode on both the Reserve and Napa, side by side.
I am staying home with my wife on New Years Eve.
We are having rib eye steaks and a bottle of Sterling 1994 Diamond Mountain Ranch with dinner.
At midnight we will open a bottle of 1996 Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin. It will be a lot of fun.
Don’t know if I like screw caps but we will see what happens with that.
Happy New Year, see you in 07.

Ben

When your VaynerSON wakes up?! Very impressive use of the VaynACULAR, Gary!

Good health and good wishes to you and your family in 2007!

My best,
Denise

Gary-
Thanks for the shout – looking fwd to seeing those Eastern European wines on WLTV…
QOTD – New Years’s beverages: 1996 Chateau laTour Pomerol and 1996 Lenoble Blanc de Blanc Grand Cru.
Sending off the year with wines from the last decade…too bad there won’t be a screw cap!
Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year to you and to all the Vaynerchuks and to all the Vayniacs,
Dave-from-Katonah

Not a big fan of the Шампанское, I am guessing.

QOD: hopefully upstairs with the neighbors (ain’t those 12/31 birthdays convenient?), so instead of having to drive home I can run downstairs for anything I might need (Moncuit, extra Gruet and Cava if there’s a crowd, and probably something from the ‘cellar’) … now if I could only remember which box my saber’s in …

Been on hiatus. My Fins let me down against the Jets on Christmas day but I’ll recover. Good episode. I really want to find some good American Cabernet’s so this helped. Cabs are my favorite without a doubt but I am partial to American grown (that ole red, white and blue thing) but they seem to be hard to find. A South African or Australian good cab seems much more accessible than the same made in the States.

QotD: Drinking at my friend’s apartment here in Chicago– what we’ll be drinking will have nothing to do with wine, though we may want to spit it. Jager just lacks the appeal once you’ve started paying attention to wine, I’m tellin’ ya.

If you do play the Bears in the playoffs, you’ll need to post a mailing address. There’s a Schick Quatro with your name on it, here in the Chi.

QOD: Since the little ones came along we just hang out at home. Probably some filet mignons along with my favorite BWZ! Then a decent bottle of the bubbly at midnight. Hope to stop in to the WL tomorrow to pick one out. Will you be there for advice Gary??? 🙂

Gonna have some friends over and do a tasting. Haven’t nailed it down yet, but probably a variety of German reisling, Canadian Icewine, and maybe a port or tawny. See ya next year!

Happy new year to all of you here at Wine Library TV. I am going to Scottsdale, AZ with my family for the new year, one of my favorites places on earth. Gary I wish you also a great 2007 and that all of your wine and football wishes come true. The only thing that I don’t understand is how are going the jets beat the Cowboys on the Super Bowl. Sorry you are going to have to wait another year.

Agree with TimF, Michelle Roland would be a treat.

Also, the question after about the fruit disappearing after the tasting. It happened to me once when I was tasting some of the heavier and more intense wines at the end and it actually minimized some of the taste from the first wine when I went back. Now, the first wine that I had was mellow and didn’t “punch me in the face” when I first tassted it. I would go with Gary’s explaination first, but if that isn’t right, perhaps it is because the later wines?