Cool guest….
No reference to all the shit you took about your hair. I though you’d be all over that?

G,
Nice upgrade!
QOTD: Best deal I ever got was buying a mixed case of SLV from 1985, 1986, & 1987 for less than current release list price. Get this, every bottle was perfect, no bad corkso r improper storage. I wish I could go back and buy the Bordeaux he had for sale. At the time I did not know French wine!

Interesting guy and approach, similar to Oriel. Like Oriel, the wines seem very premium priced – guess you have a lot of overhead in projects like this? I’ll take a “wait and see” here …

QOTD: my brother and I splitting a case of 1998 Le Vieux Donjon CdP – for $19.99/bottle – only case in the store, tucked into a corner and seemed to have been forgotten. Still have 8 bottles left between the two of us … to me, that is what’s fun about wine – finding high QPRs before the crowd rushes in. New projects like Betts & Scholl / Oriel are innovative and interesting, but they seem to hit the market at high price points, rather than the other way around. Not sure the value is there to justify it – don’t want half of my $$ going to pay for the marketing.

Love Free Shipping when buying the low priced wines.

Otherwise, my 2 best deals were only about a month apart – each a few years ago – each was from a new seller on an auction site (Winecommune.com) that was selling wine on 2-day auction terms that ended on holidays.

One was for a 6-pack of 1986 Clerc Milon wih a reserve price of only $60. No other bidders showed up. My cost with shipping was $85 total. I finished my last one off last year. Each was perfect with fills into the neck and a definite 90/91 point wine.

The other deal was for a case of 1982 Dom Perignon – shipping included was only $78/bottle. My wife and I drank all those within the year as they were at peak and lovely.

Gary:
QOD: Best Deal ever:
1991 Navy Blue Honda Accord
that had a shifter that was as smooth as butter!
Very nice, 4 door, only one meticulous
owner who never allowed anyone else in the car!
Beautiful car for $11,000. Only had 19,000 miles on it when I bought it.
I was UPSET
when another driver caused an accident
and
it was gone!
But then again I can go
on and on about the
‘I was upset when another driver caused an accident and it was gone!’
Lost 3 nice Honda’s that way!
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
you could say I used to be an accident dummy for Honda!
Ha!
🙂

Great point mas (#53)

I tend to agree with that in a nut shell…And was thinking the same thing before I scrolled down to rtepy and read that. So….I’ll just talk football today.

THOMAS JONES – Done Deal. He is an experienced running back who has been productive with his talents on the field. Even though, I bet that Rhodes would come here.

What’s Next…I believe, with the release of Ramsey a QB is on the Horizon.

Gary – GREAT, EPIC episode. Great new look, worked great on my Mac laptop without any glitches…Aspen is a “totally”cool place, as is Little Nell for $1k/night!! I didn’t find Richard pretentious, but $60 bottles – WOW! I’ll wait for the WLTV discount.

QOTD – Best deal so far 4 cases of 2005 Bordeaux pre-sales with free shipping!! Thank you GV and WLTV! (BTW – I need more storage!!)

Way to go J-E-T-S!! You know as happy as you are, Gary, nobody is happier than Chad Pennington!!

Sorry but I can’t get this episoce to run, not a good upgrade for me, guess I will have to drink instead.

Great episode GV!!

Chicago bears = 16-0
jets = 0-16

Really enjoyed today’s show. Very interesting concept. Very cool because he’s not “tied down” so to speak.
QOD = The 1983 NFL draft the Dolphins get Marino and the Jets get Kenny O. (The dolphins picked after the Jets.)

By the way the Phins got Porter today tough guy!!!! Can’t wait to see that Defense. Zach Thomas, Jason Taylor and Joey Porter on the same team. Are you kidding me??

Richard Betts is so cool he should be illegal, or called Mr. Freeze. Way to keep it real G-Money, no dicing of the opinion, your my #$%^ing hero!

QOTD: 02′ Romanee St. Vivant Grand Cru mismarked at $12.75 a bottle, WS’s published MSRP: $225.00 a bottle. Now if only I could sell it to a rich collector.

Richard Betts is so cool he should be illegal, or called Mr. Freeze. Way to keep it real G-Money, no dicing of the opinion, your my #$%^ing hero!

QOTD: 02′ Romanee St. Vivant Grand Cru mismarked at $12.75 a bottle, WS’s published MSRP: $225.00 a bottle. Now if only I could sell it to a rich collector.

The most enjoyable episode to date. Makes sense too. If wine is all about friends, family and people, then watching
two knowledgable yet down-to-earth vino guys have a great time is better than watching one.

QOTD: Best deal was marrying my wife. I certainly got the better of it.

-Canuckchuk

I’m impressed that you could give a wine a less than glowing review of the wines while he was sitting there. You have nerves of steel. Cool episode, though. Sounds like a cool guy.

QOTD: WL free shipping, of course.

Great, Great episode. Richard seems like a great guy. It must have been hard to be honest about the 88 pt. wine. But enough about the Jets already.

QOTD: I’m not going to be a kiss-ass like these other guys and say WL free shipping. I got a bottle of 2001 Haut-Carles Fronsac a couple of weeks ago for $18. Opened it last week, and it was great. A real classic Bordeaux flavor profile, much better than I was expecting.

“wine is a grocery, not a luxury”. that’s not stuck up.

“i make wines for myself, not Robert Parker”. hmmm, confidence.

“i’m not an expert, i’m an enthusiast” aren’t we all? i thought that was the point of WLTV.

great guest.
great show.
thanks for the variety Gary!

Thanks to everyone that liked the upgrade and Viddler. Look for more between Viddler and WLTV soon!

looks like u lost some serious weight. you are going to wither away.

Great episode and great guest. The new format worked great for me.

Hey, Gary, great episode…totally!! QOD: Best deal I ever got…a beach house for a week in Carlsbad, Cali for FREE!!! Long story, all good…:}

I really want to try some of these wines.

Best deal….my wife.

Looks like Richard had a full day today. I Attended a blind tasting this evening hosted by him. It was a relatively small group (about 20 people) and not only was it informative but it was also most enjoyable. He was quick to get everybody actively involved. A very well-spent evening, even though none of the wines tasted like pickle juice. 😀

Gary-

You better step it up in the Vlog hot contest, you are losing to that loser.

Great new look

Hillarious as usual especially the live boar reference. The best wine deal I ever had was finding 2000 Duck Horn Decoy at Big Lots(formally Pic and Save and Mcfrugals) a couple of years ago for $4(it had no price tag but that was what the rest of their wines cost). Begrudgingly I was forced to go there on a Sunday with my wife and purchased one bottle after which I rushed home to try and soon as I smelled it I went back to purchase the rest.