QOTD:
1. That Duke would suck it up last night and be the only major first round upset 🙂
Go VCU! (I’m with ya John W)

2. Peyton Manning would throw over 3 picks in the playoffs.

3. That I would become addicted to trying new wines long before I had the financial resources to do so!

4. And of course, that my alma mater Rutgers would defeat Louisville this past season.
– While we’re at it, here’s a new prediction – RU wins the big east in the 2007 season.

Wait, so, us (say, 90%) and a little bit of you (say, 10%) makes this “Change the Wine World” vino a blend?? 😀

When I was 25 I predicted that if I kept eating and drinking as much as I did that someday I would be a big fat whale…I must be psychic.

Gary,

Nice episode! Too bad you are not doing as good as you thought with the NCAA picks 🙂

QOTD: One of my greatest predictions happened in the last season of the NFL. We had a confidence pool going on in the office and I picked the Titans to beat the Colts and gave it 10 points, while most others were giving 12-14 points to Indy. I pointed my pick out to other people before the game too, telling them I was sure that the upset was going to come.

QOTD: being the rare upstate ny syracuse univ hater.. i predicted them losing to the Richmond Spiders (i think it was late 80s early 90s) in the first rd of the tourny. need less to say living less than 20 miles from SU i didnt have many friends at the time.

Gnarlyoak:

enough to build a nice collection of wonderful wine….and never have to drink an average wine again!

Take a break Gary. This is a great show and we want you to be
here for awhile. My wallet is getting thin but my cellar is
filling up and I love to come to the store on the way to the “city”.

QOTD: Gary will be on national TV doing a Wine “short” weekly.
I have been right before!!

My two best Predictions:

Maddona will never make it! Said in the Early 80’s after “Borderline” came out

The group Asia will be the next Beatles! Early 80’s

In 1966 I predicted Al Gore would invent the Internet. Since that time I have made billions on that prediction alone. Hah, I can’t even pick brackets in the NCAA or stocks. My only accurate predictions are medical and that is, for better or wrose, my job. These three wines for me were puzzling. I could not appreciate the structure in the Chardonnay that you could. I really can’t get a feel that the tannins will resolve in the Greek wine before the fruit disappears and the Syrah should develop but the price is too high to put away any of this wine when I can buy less expensive Syrahs I can drink over 5-7 years. I do put away a lot of wine but I’m getting older and buying a lot of wines that need to be held for 10-15 years at my age may not be good investments. I already have a stock of Dunn Howell Mountain that I may never really get to drink because the darn things age so slowly and putting away new Bordeaux wines in not even feasible. I’m looking for intemmediate agers 5-10 years is OK.

Dude, weak! Three fairly expensive wines only one of which we enjoyed. Tasting the hammond the day before threw off our blind tasting, plus, that Greek wine smelled exactly like cow manure. whew!!!

The syrah did come through at the end in a big way to save the night.

Episode 200 was outstanding and yes, you are still the man, but in the WLTV spirit of “keeping it real”, I gotta rate the taste along episode a 79. And at $150 bones!? I give it a major PAAASSSZZZZ. ; )

HELP….

MY BRACKETS ARE BLOWING UP!

Wines sounded interesting. Kinda sorry I didn’t play the WLTV Home Version along with you, but wasn’t prepared. (And wife would’ve skinned me for dropping $150 samolians on an experiment.)

But… I like the Greece inclusion. I’m not Greek. But I just like learning about niche stuff. Nice article recently in WS about Greece. Wonder if it’s a gestalt thing. Or if you read WS and then the thought rattles around in your mind for awhile.. Hmmm.. let’s do a Greek wine. If that’s how it works, then here’s another one: sake. Big sake article in the new WS, and my friends and I are doing a big sake tasting in a few weeks. Because of your job, I suspect you’ve tried A LOT more sake than I ever have, but it’s probably not an expertise. So I’m interested to see how you’d deal with those wines.

QOTD: I don’t know what my BEST prediction has been. But I’ll tell you one thing. When I watch “24”, I can predict every line with almost 85% certainty.

QOTD: I predicted Zidane would score a penalty kick in the final of the 2006 World Cup a week before the tournament even started. (Most people thought France wouldn’t even make it out of the group stage…) Didn’t predict how it would end though!

QOTD on predictions. From this month’s WIRED: “…It was while he was in his PhD program that [Palm Pilot & Treo inventor/entrepreneur Jeff] Hawkins stumbled upon the central premise of [his book] ‘On Intelligence’: that prediction is the fundamental component of intelligence. In a flash of insight he had while wondering how he would react if a blue coffee cup suddenly appeared on his desk, he realized that the brain is not only constantly absorbing and storing information about its surroundings – the objects in a room, its sounds, brightness, temperatature – but also making predictions about what it will encounter next.” [Maybe this quote belongs on Terroir Blog instead…I think Tom would enjoy it.]

So I guess the smarter we are, the better we can predict what a wine will smell/taste like. But half the fun of this is getting thrown for a loop with surprises. So maybe it’s better to be dumb and taste great wines, than be smart and taste average wines. Dunno..

Good show Gary…. as always.
QOTD – every night I predict I’ll wake up the next morning…. never been wrong!
I predict Sanjaya is toast next week. OMMMMM

aw, man. I felt left out. Hope you do this again.

QOTD: It’s not the greatest prediction but it’s funny. I was on campus and there was a guy skating with naked torso so that all the girls could see him. He was pretty good but I hated him because he was acting cool (and getting the attention from my girlfriend). Then I said: “wouldn’t it be funny if he fel down?”. And after a few seconds he was on the floor, and many people laughed at him (me too).

Have fun in Bordeaux!
Hope you relax and get some energy. We’ll miss you!
Atreyu

If anyone reading this comment is a fan of LOST, please do not follow the link below. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

QOTD: One of my greatest predictions was this. I didn’t document my prediction anywhere, but I had told a ton of friends last season.

Syracuse National Hoops Champs 1 game (1GAME!) into the season in 2002. I was laughed at.

I predicted my belly button.

I predicted Matt the Lurker’s belly button.

I also predicted that Marie Antoinette would win best costume at the Oscars. Not exciting, but there it is.

Scary how nerdy yet weird people are:

They have to be 1st to post a meaningless message.

GET A LIFE, GO TASTE SOME WINE !!!!

A bunch of GAVOONS !!

Salute !

I Predict that Gary isn’t going to take off within 5 hrs of his flight time!
G

QOD – about 10 years ago my cousin bill was 12 years old, and I predicted to my brother and parents that he would grow up to be 100% gay…he came out of the closet at age 20.

dont knock guys in pink shirts…I am rocking purple today