Love the new format plays very well for me. loved the episode.QOTD free shiping on your highest rated wine in each episode.

Hey Gary!!!

Thanks for tasting the Viognier/chard. blend. It looks very interesting.

QOTD: Please do more live shows!!! And maybe taste a fan suggestion every friday or something fun for the Vayniacs.

BV (#72), You’re so right about my comment #71!!

Yes….need to add Lars and I forgot TimF as well.

I’m sure I’ve missed others as well.

Cheer up, Brandon M (Comment 24) and Shir-Az (Comment 27)!
I felt as you did, until I learned to Look on The Bright Side of Buffering!
In the first place, the buffering happens pretty quickly, from 0 to 90%, wouldn’t you agree? I mean, we’ve all had slower buffers, haven’t we?
Then, when you get into the rhythm of the buffering, it’s kind of like the pause that refreshes, no?
And as the show progresses, the buffering seems to tail off, and then it’s clear sailing all the way to the end, where there might be a little buffering flurry.
I can only speak for myself in saying that for me, the wine glass isn’t half-empty – it’s half-full — of buffering!

Bill V.

QOTD: Mud wrestling with James Laube and Robert Parker, Green Peace style militant protests against YellowTail and Almaden, Jorge Ordonez and Eric Solomon dueling it out in a no holds bar sword fight, monkeys, Paris Hilton, monkeys. Gosh Gary there’s so much you could do to make this show better. Think outside the box brotha man, maybe you should consult Rosie O’Donnell. She’s obnoxious, pitiful and full of good advice on how we can all live our lives to the fullest. Give it some thought G-Man. May the force be with you.

PS: I would love to see a series of shows on Hawaiian Pineapple wine. Cuz yah know what I say: Wine, its not just for grapes anymore.

REAL licorice? Do you mean licorice candy, licorice root, or some form of anise? Or maybe you’re talking about Jaagermeister, or “green death” NyQuil, or even ABSINTHE. Well, I love ALL of these (except for the absinthe, which I’ve never actually tried — though I definitely like it out of principle) because I’m CRAZY about licorice. Sadly, good licorice is hard to get these days. Even Panda isn’t what it used to be (though it’s still great if you buy it in Finland). The best licorice candy I’ve ever had was made by Bearitos. Various foods of theirs can be found in health food stores across the country, but I’m sorry to say that they don’t make the licorice anymore, which is a shame because there nothing else even remotely like it. And I remember the days when the American Licorice Company actually produced licorice that was worth eating. I used to buy at least a box a day. But one day in the mid-nineties my fresh new box of licorice tasted different, and it wasn’t a fluke. Soon every box on every shelf had been “Twizzler-ified” and the expensive Panda stuff became the only good option. IS LICORICE GOING OUT OF STYLE??? What the hell’s wrong with everybody?

QOD: Today, looking at your site, I noticed that you improved the vids by adding chapters and tags. I’m impressed, and I’m having a hard time coming up with any revolutionary ways of making the show better. I do wish, from time to time, that the listings for the wines on the site that have been featured in the show were directly hyperlinked to their entries in the spreadsheet.

Hey everyone! Great show Gary, I’ve already voted for you twice, and will continue to do so.

To everyone: About the buffering. Viddler and the WLTV crew are working together closely to work out these little kinks. Yesterday we had a hiccup in the encoding, today we almost went down thanks to the enthusiastic Vayniacs. Every day we continue to work out more kinks and we should be getting better and better as we go.

I really really really appreciate you commenting and letting us know exactly what your experiencing. It helps us figure these things out and as we move forward, I think you’ll begin to really enjoy the Viddler player. Tomorrow we’re going to through you a few new features for the show, so look forward to that.

Keep the feedback coming! Thanks for your understanding. We’ll get there!

Hey everyone! Great show Gary, I’ve already voted for you twice, and will continue to do so.

To everyone: About the buffering. Viddler and the WLTV crew are working together closely to work out these little kinks. Yesterday we had a hiccup in the encoding, today we almost went down thanks to the enthusiastic Vayniacs. Every day we continue to work out more kinks and we should be getting better and better as we go.

I really really really appreciate you commenting and letting us know exactly what your experiencing. It helps us figure these things out and as we move forward, I think you’ll begin to really enjoy the Viddler player. Tomorrow we’re going to through you a few new features for the show, so look forward to that.

Keep the feedback coming! Thanks for your understanding. We’ll get there!

I love the older clarendon hills….I just had the 1998 pigott Range syrah and it rocked!
QOTD – Bring a Vayniac to NJ and have them come on the show with you. Better yet bring your most loyal Canadian Vayniac!

Colin, I haven’t had ANY issues. Nice work!!!

Love the TAGS (chapters)….especially helpful for me with my SS duties.

SS Chris: Glad you’re enjoying the timed tags. We’ll have more integration for this feature tomorrow.

Hell GV, You do even 20% of what these Vayniacs have suggested, you’ll have 4-5 more years of material to work with,,,by then we’ll be enjoying your episodes via the holideck! WITH Smellavision!

Man, after being a naysayer yesterday, I have to say that these new tags are awesome, and I’m now a total convert!

love the new look but i’m still d/l so that i can watch the ep’s on my ipod. I carry Gary with me at all times 🙂

QOD: More blind tasting.

Great show. I have been enjoying my 1998 Aussie wines (Shiraz, Cabs, and GSM’s) for over a year now (consumed about 2-3 cases of them so far). Outstanding (they do lose that fruit bomb aspect). If anyone has a chance to get some 1998’s, do so. Unfortuneately I only have 3-4 bottles left of the 1998’s.
Clarendon Hills is a great winery, tends to be expensive on the upper end. I’d love to try one from 1998.
QOD ; wishing we could order from you up here in Canada. But unfortuneatly there this little thing called the international border and our government run monopoly wine stores. Free the people GV!!

Hey, Gary. Love the episode, as always. I have had real licorice, somewhere from Scandanavia, I think, and it was booyah!!! QOD: I love the episodes the way they are. Think about it Gary…look how popular you’ve become…BECAUSE the episodes are the way they are…

I like the new format….keep doing what you are doing ….I am learning so much and trying wines that I would not have tried if not for your program….keep up the good work and thanks!

I like the new format….keep doing what you are doing ….I am learning so much and trying wines that I would not have tried if not for your program….keep up the good work and thanks!

The new WLTV format is working great…kudos…QOD…come up to my neck of the woods, we could do a tasting right on the river at my friends restaurant !

QOTD: Don’t go changin’….really. I mean it. I think most people’s comments about content (blind tastings, Vayniac guests, on site/live shows) all speak to your “anything goes” atmosphere that is already present in the show. Throwing a few more of those events in here and there would be great, but it is just more of what you are already doing. In particular, I like SS Chris’ suggestion in comment #71. If the banter present on the boards is any indication, I think those could be really fun episodes!

In response to Colin, comment #83, I like the new format. The first time I tried to view (around 6:30pm est) I was having buffering issues, but it is just fine now.

Hey VChuk the glass is as bigg as you are 🙂

Gary-
“Hurry Springtime”!!
You read my mind!
I can’t wait!
Great ep!
Were those carrots you had sitting in front of the spit bucket?
Shall we call you Bugs?
🙂

Gary-
QOD:
1. Blind Tastings
2. Blind Tastings
3. Blind Tastings
Is anyone seeing a pattern here?
🙂

Great episode. Is it me or is there a Viognier blend trend ? Seems I’ve had more in the past year than I can recall…and they must know what they are doing as it’s definitely chipping away at my red bias where Chardonnay and Sauv Blan didn’t….2003 Treana a few days ago chipped a few more away.

I had no problems with the viewer and I love the tags for indexing. How cool is that ?

QOTD: More region specific episodes to learn more about the specific region characteristics as well as the wine: e.g. Willamette Valley, Paso Robles, Burgundy etc. (or maybe I just need to watch more older episodes)

thanks for the option to click for a quicktime.
i tend to save it the epissodes to my desktop to watch full screen.

bought three bottles of the Clarendon Merlot. very intrigued by the tasting notes.

QOTD : yep… blind tastings
’cause looking with your mouth closed would… be… boooring!