I don’t care about free shipping, TS. Add an emoticon with a raspberry!
However, since I can’t use free shipping, the equivalent value in wine will be acceptable, Gary.

Hey, aktormedic. You need to join us for a local tasting. I know you’re nearby, so try to get here. You never know what will show up on the table – especially when TampaSteve drops in.

Antonio…I am with your comment “everything goes in cycles”. That comment made me think of a statement I just recently read about desert wines from France…..”Although some of the wines are now among the most sought after and expensive in the world, this wasn’t always the case. Sweet wines went out of vogue in the 1960s and ’70s, leaving producers without the funds to properly maintain their vineyards. A fall in wine quality resulted.It wasn’t until the outstanding vintage of 1983 garnered critical praise and consumer attention that sales increased dramatically. Top producers haven’t looked back since and are again investing in their vineyards and making luscious sweet wines vintage after vintage.”

I made my first purchase from winelibrary with the last free ship deal. Would love to do it again!

Can’t do the b-ball anymore due to a bad knee.
How about a golf outing?????

QOTD: Since you can’t ship to Maryland, how ’bout free gas for the trip up to Wine Library?

[/quoteKAHUNA]QOTD- NO screw you all who cant go to the store- [/quote]

Screw me? Screw you!
Free shipping for us distance drinkers.
Free cardboard boxes for the Jer-mites to carry their wine home.

Okay, I’ll take you on. I CHALLENGE you to a marathon. Let’s do the one in Chicago because getting bibs for NYC is tough.

QOTD: Yes.

Okay, I’ll take you on. I CHALLENGE you to a marathon. Let’s do the one in Chicago because getting bibs for NYC is tough.

QOTD: Yes.

What are â??nards?â??

Comment 67: By Suzanne on February 15th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Yarbles.

QOD: sure, I still have some living room left …

Gary you don’t have a prayer against me @ B-Ball unless you’re sitting on Shaq’s shoulders. I will spank you like Wayne spanked Kevin on your favorite show. You’ll go down, down to China Town!

Free shipping, free shmipping.

Com QOTD: Yes 😉

Hey Gary Doing a 6 pack soon? I’m sure there’s more than one of us that want to taste with ya.
BTW I emailed you on this just in case you dont see this…

Thanks for the continued balance on new and old world wines. i’m drinking enough these days to start noticing the difference but if i didn’t want to purchase $50+ bottles in order to do a side by side, old world/new world cagematch for friends, are there under $30 bottles i can buy to do this with?

great QOTD. obvious answer: yep.

thanks again for another informative episode!

Come out to Chicagoland for the Midwest tour and you’ll get your bball game…what are you, 5’5″, 5’6″ tops? Everyone keeps commenting on the huge wine glass you use…to me, it looks just about to scale. Better start asking Dad for some more OT…

And the JT comment? Please…

GV – great episode…
as usual.

Come ON guys, we all know we’re going to buy more wine, free shipping or not.

Granted, twenty bucks less spent on shipping means twenty bucks more spent on wine – and I’m all for that.

Personally, I’m not big on the basketball, but the softball and golf outing are intriguing

QOTD: No, how about 1/2 price shipping and Eric gets 1/2. For the arithmetically challenged, if shipping was $20, you pay $10 and Eric gets $5.
I’d travel to NJ to play WLTV Soccer, but Soccer is not in ‘your face’ enough like B-ball.

I agree free shipping would be a great anniversary gift. And thanks Gary for throwing in the plug for Texas wines.

QOTDâ?¦.SHOULD GV GIVE US FREE SHIPPING FOR THE ONE YEAR WLTV ANNIVERSARY?

Comment 16: By TampaSteve on February 15th, 2007 at 5:11 pm

TampaSteve:
Yes – he should!
I NEED more free shipping!?!?!?
🙂

Gary-
Another fabulous ep!
Great job!
I hope that not all wines will start tasting alike:(
Variety is the spice of life!
🙂

QOTD: Yes, of course! I only need a tiny push to order more wine… Another great episode.

It’s not shocking to me that you’re athletic, but you appear to be a bit vertically challenged. Unless you can channel the talent of Steve Nash, I’m afraid your palate might get damaged with all the leather you be tastin’….you’ll be picking up brett in every sip, homestyle…bring it…peace out.

interesting variety of wines today gary…….so glad to hear your take on the mollydooker….i totally agree that such a wine should have a warning on it about it being a beverage other than wine…in fact, when i tasted it, my first thought was that they should have called it a port. i hate that much sugar and alc…..esp. when there’s nothing else going on but BIG. the le gay sounds more like my kind of wine. also interesting to point out the italian brunello attempt at mollydookerizing……and in addition, to show at least one reason why mollydookerizing is happening: lynch-bages sour grapes effort. nice complex show. i am all for wine makers to use the mininum amount of technology to make a tasty wine with varietal typicity. wines with character over wines that intentionally act like wines made from other grapes.

Alright..first off GV…gotta apologize…I have Procrastinated and do not have a shirt yet to take a pic…Your Jedi has let you down.

Secondly: Kahuna and Locals….Free shipping yes….and not to start a Blog war…but dougdell said it…you get to see the WL everyday you want….you get to see and smell the real GVs jock strap or whatever it is you locals do

Good show gary….about the athletics…I wrestled in school, but once you get older…something just doesn’t sound right about challenging another man to wrestle around on a mat in a tight suit:) How about some good old fashion rugby!

Got some bordeaux’s in the shopping cart, but wondered about the weather and shipping!

Being the true entrepenuer that you are I figured you would hand out free T’s for the 1 year…it works as free advertisement for you and keeps the vayniacs happy..but free shipping is a bonus!

Thanks for keeping it real GV!

Gary, follow the money trail. The wine world will follow the money trail the same way everything else does. Old world wines will gravitate to what the general population is drinking. Case in point the mass of fruit bombs from nowhere else but the country with the largest surplus of juice.. Australia. Not all bad, but a little disheartening to traditional wine lovers like us. Great for the uneducated public. That is why a lot of you, with a little bit of us need to keep changing the wine world. PLEASE keep up the GREAT work!!!
Al

QOD – yes.

Still watching everyday from Hong Kong.

QOTD: Yes, particularly if that includes the EU!!

T-Shirt question. 0

Though not the first, maybe the first answer from a European location? Does that count?

Way to go on the Pomerol! I’m dying to get my hands on some…