QOD: I have started to take notes on each new wine i drink or if i have not drunk it for a while. My pallet has improved 10 fold and i have started to decanter wines.

Happy Anniversary GV.

Unfortunately, I drink less wine today than I did a year ago. However, I am more educated and appreciate wine much more than I used to.

Tea, Cheese, Wine, are you going to knock off Zabar’s. Serious effort is appreciated and everyone at WLTV brings the effort. Thanks.

congrats to Gary, Erik, Chris and the WLTV team for a great year!

qotd: WLTV and possibly just as important, the WLTV forum has exposed me to a lot of wines that I normally wouldn’t have known about. Gary’s tastings have prompted me to learn how to taste wines (as opposed to merely drinking them). Along with watching and listening to Gary tasting wine every day, I have bought many books containing essays on winetasting as well as Jancis Robinson’s “How to Taste” which have been extremely informative.

BTW, tea and wine have an important element in common, they both contain tannin. In “How to Taste”, Jancis Robinson devotes a paragraph (p29) on “Tea and Tannin”.

Love Lapsang Souchong … it’s the Southern Rhone of black tea, no?

Can’t wait for the coffee episode. And since nobody’s said it yet, c днем Ñ?ождения!

QOTD: Willing to spend over $15 for a bottle of wine (and usually do), buying wine online, keeping more wine on hand than I could possibly binge in a weekend, planning to build a formal wine cellar this spring, and addicted to WLTV.

The biggest difference in my wine life from a year ago is you. I feel that I now have a personal wine taster. No longer do I buy wine ,put it down for 5-10 years and hope I made the right guess. Now I go into the wine room( 300+ )and talk to my new bottles (very important) about our future together. I only hope I live long enough to enjoy the wines I got from you this year. My son assures me that when I’m gone he will pour these on my grave;but only after passing thru his kidneys. Thanks for a great year. Jerry the 2THDR

QOTD-

Top 10 list of answers-

10) I now mispronounce many wine terms I used to say correctly
9) I sometimes eat cloves for that fun “numb your tongue” feeling
8) I strangely become hungry when walking by bags of potting soil
7) I have nightmares about being caught in the camel clutch
6) I taste different peoples’ dirty socks to experience their terroir
5) Whenever I say my name, I shout it and over-annunciate (with air quotes)
4) My wife got wine as a present for Valentine’s Day, X-mas & her birthday (and she doesn’t drink)
3) Skeletons in the closet, no I hide boxes in the basement!
2) I hate the Jets even more
1) Wine tastes better when it’s snowing, 15 degrees, my “nards” are freezing and my glass blows away like a kite!

Congrats Big G! Here’s to many more years of making wine fun!

How can I follow TheDumbPhase’s top 10 list (comment 107) – HILARIOUS!

Congratulations Gary!

Most of my friends are beer drinkers or worse yet, NON-drinkers! …so finding you and the WLTV community has been huge! I came in around ep 100, but I have gone back and watched most of the earlier ones. I have yet to order anything, but I will, I promise. Being a left-coaster I’m a little worried about getting a wet purple box on my doorstep, but I will test it out with some cheap stuff.

QOTD: Like many other Vayniacs have said today… you have raised my expectations of wine. Many of the wines that I used to drink you have slammed with some GV-75’s and GV-82’s… lot’s of Vayner-PAZZZZZZ’s. The Cambria Chardonnay comes to mind. I have been drinking Rioja’s and Viogner’s lately because of recent episodes. A year ago I had no idea what a Rioja was? It’s working Gary, you are changing the wine world.

Thanks man.

I gotta go order a couple shirts now!

Big congratulations on your one year of wine library TV!

QOTD – my palette has expanded, plain and simple. that’s huge!
and now i’m starting to prepare dinners based on the wine instead of the other way around.

thanks again.
i’ll try not to lurk so much in year 2.

good luck !!!

Big congratulations on your one year of wine library TV!

QOTD – my palette has expanded, plain and simple. that’s huge!
and now i’m starting to prepare dinners based on the wine instead of the other way around.

thanks again.
i’ll try not to lurk so much in year 2.

good luck !!!

Tea tasting for a calming, earthy, spice of life… Great Change of Pace, Gary. You are multi-dimensional and kindly validate other taster’s self esteem. When you describe beverages based on personal experience, preferences and encourage others to do the same, you are enhancing an appreciation of not only the world of wine, cheese and tea, but cultural world view. Hoooray for your one year anniversary. Thank Eric and Chris for all their talented efforts.
It will be exciting to see / hear the new technology you will bring back from your London trip.
QOTD: In the past year we have remodeled our basement wine storage are into a real 1000 btl “Wine Cellar” using “Uncorked” software to keep track of our odd assortment of wines, their value and recommendations for optimal drinking. It feels really great to be organized. WLTV and forums have helped us to consider and make purchases to ‘balance our cellar’ beverages for pairing with our diverse range of favorite foods and new adventures into the Wine and Food world. Thank you for your honesty, enthusiasm and empowerment.

Congrats on 100! WLTV is one of my daily joys and moments of relaxation, so keep up the great work. QOD: WLTV has increased not only my passion for wine and desire to do ever more research on the subject, but from a more business standpoint, it has expanded my ideas of what can be done with video blogging and modern marketing.

Gary… What can I say, man? But…
No, no, NO! Thank YOU!!!
And to your crew, and all my new friends on the forums… Thank YOU!!!
(which leads to the…)
QOTD: A year ago today? I had NO “wine life” to speak of!
A few months ago, I bought a wine rack.
A couple months ago, I started poking around the Wine Spectator website.
Several weeks ago, I found WLTV… and, BAM!
WINE LIFE!!!

Hey, Gary, it’s also a huge thank you from us to you I think. So: applause!
For me the difference: the big difference, that’s also a big difference for us (OFO): to know that there are other people who think the same about wine as we do: unprejudiced, uncrippled by wine discourse and completely nuts on every bottle they come across. Most valuable difference: the impulse to try eveything unknown, that’s what I like so much. So thx again and go on for some more 80 years, ok 😉 ?

Gary, A cask of wine works more miracles than a room full of teetotallers. Here’s to the miracle of WLTV.

A year ago I was in the Hunter Valley in Australia where my son lives, happy to taste Semillon but not knowing really what I was doing. I started to learn.

Much later (I think December 2006) my wine studies got me to stumble into (isn’t that how web sites get found) WLTV. You, Gary, have gotten me to think. I don’t take everything you say chapter and verse, but you’re a damn smart dude.

Being of Russian background myself (and since I drink about six cups a day) I really appreciated the tea tasting. It would be nice to see something like this every few months or so, kind of a cross training for the palate.

Keep up the good work, and keep nagging those lurkers.

QOD:
Biggest Difference in my wine life?
I used to only drink wine
from one winery.
Now, I am trying new varietals
and
learning new, amazing things about wine
and
going to my new local wine shop for tastings
and
enjoying WLTV Get Togethers
and
most of ALL
enjoying WLTV and the forum!
🙂

First off Congrats!!!
QOTD: A year ago the only time I never would have gone into a store and bought wine that I hadn’t tried. Let alone anything that wasn’t from Cali, or Washington. Now I have more wine at home, and a more diverse selection. WLTV and the forums has made me more curious about different wine I never would have tried.

Great episode, and congrats!
I’d say in the past year I’ve tried so many more varietals. I’ve learned more from every bottle and learned how to choose wines better. I’ve spent a lot more $$ on wine, but I know that I will be rewarded in a few years with some nicely aged selections. And wine has turned from a beverage to a hobby!

GARY!!!! Congrats on the Year. I have been loving the show from the first day i stumbled upon it. It has been fun. I have learned a lot about wine that i didnt know before watching the show. I will have to grab another t shirt for the fiance too lol.

QOTD: I have learned to be open minded about all wines and try different ones. To not just stick to a thin line and drink what i like. Thank you for your dedication GARY.

GARY!!!! Congrats on the Year. I have been loving the show from the first day i stumbled upon it. It has been fun. I have learned a lot about wine that i didnt know before watching the show. I will have to grab another t shirt for the fiance too lol.

QOTD: I have learned to be open minded about all wines and try different ones. To not just stick to a thin line and drink what i like. Thank you for your dedication GARY.

Congrats WLTV!!!

QOTD: What’s different for me today is that I have (and continue to) expand my wine horizons — trying many different varietals that I wouldn’t have normally tried.

QOTD: Before WLTV I had never tried Quik and Coca Cola in the blender before. It get quite foamy you know. Also I have less money and time, but certainly not against my (s)will.

Congratulations Gary and everyone at wine Library TV. My day is not complete if I don’t catch the newest episode..and anyone who likes the thundercats has got have good “taste”! Best of luck with the second year!

For the 123rd time, congratulations and thank you. Gary, you’ve got at least one guy with Belarusian heritage watching every day. Just keep it real guys as you get bigger and bigger. No sell outs! I have faith…

QOTD: Not only have you expanded my wine knowledge and palatte, but now i take the same approach with everything I eat and drink. I taste foods instead of inhaling them. And I savor them. And I end up eating so much better because of it. great approach to everything in life. thanks again.